Our strategic approach

Innovate

We identify the important energy issues that we can address, and we bring together the people with the best knowledge and expertise to make energy systems clean and just.

We will:

• Be at the forefront of energy research across disciplines
• generate increasing research activity and income, making research opportunities and producing world-class results
• innovate by working across boundaries and considering needs
• consolidate and expand our networks and partnerships to enable creative approaches to energy research and practice

Impact

Our research changes people’s worlds, by making opportunities for people to be part of the change. We do this through working in partnership and through cooperation.  

We will:

• demonstrate the value of our research in practice
• change people’s lives for the better by both practical interventions and policy advice
• reach wider audiences, in industry, government, communities, locally and globally

Influence

DEI inspires people to think creatively and work cooperatively for a shared goal: clean and just energy systems.

We will:

• communicate our findings in accessible and attractive ways
• enable researchers to reach policy audiences, and feed directly into energy policies
• offer broad education about energy issues from basic to specialist levels, through outreach, degree programmes, and CPD/Exec Education
• be present on national and international stages

Include

DEI is different by attitude, not by topic. We recognise the value of the broadest interdisciplinary approaches, bringing different approaches together towards our goals. We recognise the diversity of human and planetary life, and know that we must strive continually to understand how changing energy systems affect different groups. 

We will:

• leave no-one behind
• promote inclusion, equity and diversity, leading by example
• nurture emerging researchers and practitioners within our ethos of inclusive, interdisciplinary, people and planet-centred energy research.

Our strategic research pillars