STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Yolande Strengers
Position:
Adjunct Principal Research Fellow
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
Phone:
+61399251916
Campus:
City Campus
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Research supervision
- Our Grid: Concepts, strategies and relationships to engage energy consumers towards the Future Grid. Funded by: Energy Consumers Australia Grant 2018 onwards from (2018 to 2019)
- Electricity pricing and managing heatwaves at home: mitigating health and financial risks for heat-vulnerable household consumers. Funded by: Energy Consumers Australia Grant 2016 Round 1 from (2016 to 2018)
- Smart home control: exploring the potential for enabling technologies in vulnerable and disengaged households. Funded by: Energy Consumers Australia Grant 2015 from (2016 to 2017)
- Automating the smart home: an investigation of automated cooling practices. Funded by: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2014 from (2015 to 2018)
- Changing demand: the flexibility of energy practices in larger households with dependent children. Funded by: Consumer Advocacy Panel Grant pre-2014 from (2014 to 2015)
2 PhD Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions
Social practice theory; climate change; sustainability; smart meters; smart grids; science and technology studies; technology-human relations; social change
- Middha, B.,Strengers, Y.,Lewis, T.,Horne, R. (2021). Spatio-temporalities of convenience eating for sustainability outcomes at an inner-urban university In: Geographical Research, 59, 407 - 423
- Strengers, Y.,Kennedy, J. (2020). The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot, MIT Press, United Kingdom
- Nicholls, L.,Strengers, Y. (2019). Robotic vacuum cleaners save energy? Raising cleanliness conventions and energy demand in Australian households with smart home technologies In: Energy Research and Social Science, 50, 73 - 81
- Strengers, Y.,Pink, S.,Nicholls, L. (2019). Smart energy futures and social practice imaginaries: Forecasting scenarios for pet care in Australian homes In: Energy Research and Social Science, 48, 108 - 115
- Strengers, Y.,Kennedy, J.,Arcari, P.,Nicholls, L.,Gregg, M. (2019). Protection, Productivity and Pleasure in the Smart Home: Emerging Expectations and Gendered Insights from Australian Early Adopters In: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 4-9 May 2019
- Glover, A.,Lewis, T.,Strengers, Y. (2019). Overcoming remoteness: the necessity of air travel in Australian universities In: Australian Geographer, 50, 453 - 471
- Oppermann, E.,Strengers, Y.,Maller, C.,Rickards, L.,Brearley, M. (2018). Beyond Threshold Approaches to Extreme Heat: Repositioning Adaptation as Everyday Practice In: Weather, Climate and Society, 10, 885 - 898
- Strengers, Y.,Kennedy, J.,Nicholls, L.,Arcari, P. (2018). The 3Ps: Protection, Productivity & Pleasure for Australian smart home early adopters In: Intel Corporation Melbourne, Australia
- Jensen, R.,Strengers, Y.,Kjeldskov, J.,Nicholls, L.,Skov, M. (2018). Designing the Desirable Smart Home: A Study of Household Experiences and Energy Consumption Impacts In: CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 21-26 April 2018
- Jensen, R.,Strengers, Y.,Raptis, D.,Nicholls, L.,Kjeldskov, J.,Skov, M. (2018). Exploring Hygge as a Desirable Design Vision for the Sustainable Smart Home In: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Hong Kong, 09-13 June 2018