Staff profile

Dr Kat Lovell is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Management in the Department of Engineering, Durham University. Building on her undergraduate training in Engineering, completing an M.Eng at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Kat has gone on to research social science of engineering within the fields of Innovation Studies and Sustainability Transitions. Following her PhD in Innovation Studies (Imperial College Business School), she has spent 10 years as a researcher in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU, University of Sussex). Her research focuses on innovation and transformations for sustainability in engineering-intensive industries.

Journal Article

• Governance in multi-system transitions: A new methodological approach for actor involvement in policy making processes
  
  Ateş, A., Rogge, K. S., & Lovell, K. (2024). Governance in multi-system transitions: A new methodological approach for actor involvement in policy making processes. Energy Policy, 195, Article 114313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114313
• Operationalising branching points for transition: Mapping policy and pathways for heat decarbonisation in the United Kingdom
  
  Lovell, K., & Foxon, T. J. (2023). Operationalising branching points for transition: Mapping policy and pathways for heat decarbonisation in the United Kingdom. Energy Research & Social Science, 97, Article 102960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102960
• Infrastructure decision-making: Opening up governance futures within techno-economic modelling
  
  Lovell, K., Watson, J., & Hiteva, R. (2022). Infrastructure decision-making: Opening up governance futures within techno-economic modelling. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 174, Article 121208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121208
• Framing branching points for transition: Policy and pathways for UK heat decarbonisation
  
  Lovell, K., & Foxon, T. J. (2021). Framing branching points for transition: Policy and pathways for UK heat decarbonisation. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 40, 147-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.06.007
• Reconfiguration, Contestation, and Decline: Conceptualizing Mature Large Technical Systems
  
  Sovacool, B. K., Lovell, K., & Ting, M. B. (2018). Reconfiguration, Contestation, and Decline: Conceptualizing Mature Large Technical Systems. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 43(6), 1066-1097. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918768074
• Business models in rail infrastructure: explaining innovation
  
  Lovell, K., & Nightingale, P. (2016). Business models in rail infrastructure: explaining innovation. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport, 169(5), 262-271. https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.16.00024