Inclusive Energy Transitions: Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches to Climate Justice, 14 November 2025, 10:00-12:00
Inclusive Energy Transitions: Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches to Climate Justice, 14 November 2025, 10:00-12:00
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This session will explore how transdisciplinary frameworks can address inequalities and advance climate justice through the development of an intersectional framework. It will focus on how researchers can apply intersectional methods in climate research and examine how the framework can be adapted to other sectors, research domains, and geographical contexts.
The session will include a case study from the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme which introduces a framework that was developed to assess and monitor gender equity and social inclusion in modern energy cooking services. Participants will gain insights into the framework’s development, application, and adaptability, supported by real-world case studies.
Workshop highlights:
- Overview of climate justice and inequalities, and the role of research in enabling a just transition.
- How transdisciplinary frameworks address sustainability challenges and climate change.
- Developing and applying an intersectional framework, with insights from the Modern Energy Cooking Services case study.
- Applying and adapting a framework to other sectors, research domains and geographies.
Leaning outcomes:
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of climate justice principles and how intersectional factors (e.g., gender, people with disability, age, ethnicity, geography) shape energy access and experiences of climate impacts.
- Understand the development and structure of a new framework for assessing gender equity and social inclusion.
- Apply the framework to real-world contexts, including global clean cooking challenges.
- Adapt the framework for use across sectors, domains, and regions.
- Integrate gender equity and social inclusion into energy interventions and policy design.
Speaker biography
Dr Yesmeen Khalifa is a Research Associate for the Modern Energy Cooking Services programme (MECS), Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment and Resilience (STEER), Loughborough University, UK.
Yesmeen’s research interests fall in the field of sustainability science and using transdisciplinary approaches to explore and drive sustainability transformation at the interface of technology, policy and society.
She holds a PhD in Environment and Sustainability from Keele University, UK, which focused on exploring opportunities and challenges of sustainable resource management in developing countries, MSc in Environmental Engineering, Ain Shams University and BSc in Architecture Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, Egypt.