Kari Dahlgren
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Research
Industrial decarbonisation and contested energy futures.
2025–2029
Hydrogen Hub Futures
How the hydrogen hub model for industrial decarbonisation in Australia is imagined, contested, and lived.
ARC DECRA Fellowship
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2025–2028
Embedding Net Zero Carbon Emissions in Northern Australia
An ethnography of the professionals working in carbon emissions generation, mediation and mitigation in the Northern Territory.
ARC Discovery Project
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2014–2019
Precarious futures in Australian coal mining towns
Studying those whose lives are entangled in the coal industry, and the everyday making of the climate crisis.
Doctoral research, LSE
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2024–2027
Scenarios for Future Living: Putting People at the Centre of the Energy Transition
Ensuring households, everyday practices and social justice are embedded in energy transition forecasting and planning.
RACE for 2030 CRC
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2021–2023
Future Home Demand
Anticipating energy and everyday life trends across three Victorian electricity networks.
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy
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2019–2023
Digital Energy Futures
How digital technologies and changing home life will shape future household energy demand.
ARC Linkage Project
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2024–2025
Digital Future Schools: AI and Energy Curriculum for Future Learning
Working with school students to imagine how AI and energy will shape the schools of the future.
Monash Data Futures Institute
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2024
Household Energy Glossary
Improving communication within the energy sector, and between the sector and everyday people.
Monash Faculty of IT
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2020–2021
Victoria's retail energy market reforms
Qualitative research into consumer outcomes following energy market reforms in Victoria.
Consumer Policy Research Centre
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2020
Visual Sensing Language
Experiences and perspectives of urban sensing technologies in Melbourne.
City of Melbourne
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