Torik Holmes

Social science researcher, interested in cities, infrastructures, resource consumption and supply.

[Sociological Research Online @SocresOnline]

@TorikHolmes and @DrHEHolmes conceptualise and explore the ‘disposal work’ undertaken by households.

Read their article below now.
https://t.co/HJ6WayQlcZ

[ManchesterSCI @ManchesterSCI]

📢New article📢

@DrDJWelch & @UEhgartner have a new paper out in Futures journal on 'Exploring Cultural Futures'

Have a read via https://t.co/eptRCF8E1O

[ManchesterSCI @ManchesterSCI]

📓We have a new blog post by @TorikHolmes of the SCI and @picken_mix of the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub @RoyceInstitute

Spectres of the plastics consumer and the need to challenge problematic demands

Read the full blog here👉https://t.co/AUOwLXzkFc

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

… that focusing on work and connected domains of labour removes the blinkers, revealing connected roles, responsibilities and opportunities for systematic change. (3/3) @MCRSociology @ManchesterSCI.

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

New paper out in @SocresOnline by @DrHEHolmes and me on household plastics recycling - https://t.co/nP3Qacqj0u. Drawing on @OneBinUoM research, we argue… (1/3)

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

… that the blame commonly attributed to households for poor-quality recycling reflects a blinkered problem framing and an oversimplified view of responsibility. And… (2/3)

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

More broadly, capacity deserves greater conceptual, methodological and empirical attention in social science-based transitions & sustainability research. This paper was long in the making. @DEMAND_CENTRE & @ManchesterSCI colleagues were pivotal (3/3).

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

New paper out! https://t.co/NUG0bHnWNG. It’s taken as given that we need more network capacity. Less is said about why we get it, the purposes served, and what the details suggest about energy transitions. Spoiler alert… (1/3)

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

Investment in capacity is contingent. Multiple socio-technical geographies and histories of demand refract through infrastructure, rendering change inherently incremental and uneven. Case-by-case critique is key to considering whether investments serve sustainable ends (2/3).

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

If the below takes your fancy - check out the @OneBinUoM outputs: https://t.co/Wyfa5uoHWR. These explain why consistency is so important for plastics recycling and what it will take to get it across the board. @UoMPolicy @MCRSociology @ManchesterSCI @DrHEHolmes

[Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social @MCRSociology]

'What you need is consistent policy so it's clear what goes in what bin, how it will be treated, & how it should be prepared,' @TorikHolmes on whether tethered bottle caps will improve plastic recycling. @uomsoss @UoMSust @ManchesterSCI @DrHEHolmes
https://t.co/J5eTOkziiW

[ManchesterSCI @ManchesterSCI]

We have another blog post out this week 📗

@NoelFCass wrote a blog following an interesting seminar he gave to the @ManchesterSCI on energy consumption behaviour change and e-bikes 🚲

Have a read here 👉https://t.co/eyvhGyiol0

[_Micromobility_ @_Micromobility_]

@NoelFCass's blog piece written about this talk, is below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ .. check it out if you couldn't attend his talk with @OfficialUoM

https://t.co/5uPkRNHX6Z

@ITSLeeds @CREDS_UK

[Noel Cass @NoelFCass]

New publication! Focuses on two changed practices (online shopping/deliveries and Working From Home) to think through how 'crises' mainly have permanent effects when they are pushing on an open door of already occurring social/practice change. https://t.co/o1Ma1DIKwA

[Dr K Ellsworth-Krebs 🍉 @Ellsworth_Krebs]

The mermaid, the witch, and climate change?

Fun to see our climate fairy tales and arguments about systemic #sustainability solutions getting picked up in different places! @CarolynneLord @TorikHolmes #ERSS #storytelling #climatestories #acwri https://t.co/2KPmuFeCyS

[Kristoffer Kortsen @KrisKortsen]

📝Plastics waste management and the UN plastics treaty 📝
Check out our latest #policybrief in support of an environmentally sound #wastemanagement and #recycling system for all plastics via the DOI below! @ScientistsCoa #plasticstreaty #INC3 #UN
https://t.co/Ht0EU2MMfQ

[ManchesterSCI @ManchesterSCI]

🌍One week to go until the @SustainableUoM September seminar presented by @TorikHolmes & @KrisKortsen on the @OneBinUoM project🗑️

Tickets below 👇

https://t.co/7IREcKS69W

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

Excellent. Looking forward to reading this one.

[Dr Rebecca Windemer @RebeccaWindemer]

Delighted to be ending a busy week with the publication of a paper from my doctoral research. I'll record a video summary of it next week. It's about how onshore wind farm sites change over time. Time-limited consents and repowering 1/2
https://t.co/wXGnjXCf7R

[ManchesterSCI @ManchesterSCI]

Exciting new opportunity to join the @ManchesterSCI with @MatPaterson on a 16-month Postdoc Research Associate position for the project 'Green energy transitions and global disruption: The (un)just transition to Net Zero'

Details below 👇
https://t.co/XS6FRAzQnY

[Siddharth Sareen @sidsareen]

As the weekend glides in, here is some compelling literature: https://t.co/9SjZTcUvjw - in this first SYNTHESIS paper from the JPI Climate ROLES project (@forskningsradet @ESRC MIUR), learn about the social implications of energy infrastructure digitalisation and decarbonisation!

[Torik Holmes @TorikHolmes]

Looking forward to this. Come and hear about what the interdisciplinary @OneBinUoM team have been doing to make sense of plastics recycling and improve matters, both social and material...