Who We Are

The Energy Poverty Research initiative was founded in August 2017 as an independent research and lobbying organisation working on energy poverty and energy policy more widely. 

In 2018 we established a strategic partnership with the Scottish 'think and do' tank, Common Weal, resulting in the establishment of its Energy Working Group, and this website now partly serves to host additional EWG content not hosted on their main website.  

In 2019 we were formally recognised as an independent spin-out from the Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University.

EPRi is funded entirely by its members. We are not constituted and receive no income or donations from external sources. 

Dr Keith Baker FRSA is a Co-Founder of EPRi, a Research Fellow in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy at the Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University, a Board Member of Common Weal and Convenor of their Energy Working Group, a Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility, and a Director of Pattiesmuir Ltd. He specialises in fuel poverty and energy policy, with a particular focus on renewable heat, and has a background in environmental science, science policy, and the environmental impact of technology. His activities also include regular articles and appearances in the media, where he has been described by James Whale of talkRADIO UK, as “the acceptable face of climate change”. 🐦@Stumpysheep

Dr Ron Mould FRSA is a Co-founder of EPRi, a Zero Carbon Manager at Bield, a member of Common Weal’s Energy Working Group, an Associate of the BEAM Centre at GCU, and a Co-founder of EPRi. He has a PhD from Glasgow Caledonian University on district heating and fuel poverty, which drew on his extensive professional experience, including managing teams of energy advocates at Renfrewshire Council. This study illustrated the impacts of fuel poverty across the urban / rural divide and the relationships between fuel poverty and vulnerability, and underpins EPRi’s reconceptualisation of fuel poverty as a complex social problem that needs ‘folk first’ solutions. 🐦@ron_mould 

Scott Restrick is a Co-founder of EPRi and is based at Link HA. He was previously the Technical & Training Manager at Energy Action Scotland since June 1999, where he led on the organisation’s training service delivery and development and also the provision of domestic energy consultancy services for a range of housing providers and EAS members. He is a graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University with a PG DIP in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Scott has worked extensively with the Scottish Government and with organisations tackling fuel poverty across Scotland and beyond. 🐦@dougalcubed

Dr Geoff Wood is a Senior Lecturer in International Energy Law and Policy at Stirling University, an Associate of the BEAM Centre at GCU, and Series Editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Energy Transitions series. An energy, environmental law, policy and regulatory specialist, his work focuses on the development of legal and governance frameworks for sustainable energy transitions to optimise policy delivery in terms of environmental, social, economic, political and technological outcomes. 🐦@Gcw25Wood

Helen Melone is based at Scottish Reenewables, having previously been Energy Action Scotland's Research, Information and Project Officer. She completed an MRes at Glasgow Caledonian University, for which she was awarded a distinction for her research on gender and fuel poverty. 🐦@hmelone

Dr Bill Sheldrick is the legendary founder of Alembic Research. He holds a PhD in Local Authority Involvement with energy Conservation in the UK from the University of Leeds and was a member of the Watt Committee’s Domestic Energy and Fuel Poverty Working group and a member of the Building Research Establishment working group on the BREDEM methodology for Scotland. Bill was an assessor, trainer and examiner for the National Home Energy Rating scheme and received a NHER lifetime achievement award in 2000. 🐦@AlembicResearch