Yr Athro Karen Henwood

BSc, PhD (Bristol)

2026

• Thomas, G. H. and Henwood, K. 2026. Double unseeing or glimpses of recognition? Expert and community visions for hydrogen megaprojects. Geo: Geography and Environment 13 (2) e70101. (10.1002/geo2.70101)
• Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2026. It takes time to make good: Reflections on ERW-D social science research and engagement - 4 blog posts. [Online].University of Sheffield. Available at: https://sheffield.ac.uk/uk-enhanced-weathering/news/new-social-science-blog-series-it-takes-time-make-good-some-reflections-erw-d-social-science.
• Shirani, F. et al. 2026. “I can’t imagine living anywhere else”: A qualitative longitudinal view of low carbon home residence. Housing, Theory and Society 43 (3), pp.279-295. (10.1080/14036096.2025.2559106)
• Groves, C. et al., 2026. Opening reflexive spaces: Maps as an anticipatory tool in expert interviews. Qualitative Research (10.1177/14687941251406038)
• O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2026. Understanding residents’ experiences of home, health, and wellbeing in new and novel low carbon homes. Housing Studies 41 (1), pp.234-254. (10.1080/02673037.2025.2453015)

2025

• Waller, L. et al., 2025. Responsible research and innovation of carbon removal: strategies for field trials. Frontiers in Climate 7 1658453. (10.3389/fclim.2025.1658453)
• Stephanides, P. et al., 2025. Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures. Energy Research & Social Science 127 104251. (10.1016/j.erss.2025.104251)
• O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2025. Who pays for carbon dioxide removal? Public perceptions of risk and fairness of enhanced rock weathering in the UK.. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 12 1010. (10.1057/s41599-025-05384-9)
• Smith, H. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2025. The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement. Energy Research & Social Science 120 103874. (10.1016/j.erss.2024.103874)
• Hale, R. et al. 2025. ‘It's Nice to Have a Bit of Fresh Air’: Residents’ and Housing Professionals’ Interpretations of Air Regimes in Active Homes. Energy and Buildings
• Shirani, F. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2025. Resident experiences of active homes: Implications for current and future developments. Project Report.N/A.

2024

• Shirani, F. et al. 2024. Going backwards? A temporal perspective of what constitutes improvement in domestic heating transitions. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 20 (1) 2347075. (10.1080/15487733.2024.2347075)
• Roberts, E. et al., 2024. Using creative mapping methods to analyse multimodal data. In: Kara, H. , Mannay, D. and Roy, A. eds. The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis. Policy Press. , pp.285-298. (10.51952/9781447369592.ch020)
• Roberts, E. et al. 2024. Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres: currents of air, discourse and time in a steel town. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 49 (3) e12631. (10.1111/tran.12631)
• O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2024. The role of Active Buildings in Smart Energy Imaginaries: Implications of living well in low carbon homes and neighbourhoods. In: Golubchikov, O. and Yenneti, K. eds. Smart Cities, Energy and Climate: Governing Cities for a Low‐Carbon Future. Wiley. , pp.93-110. (10.1002/9781118641156.ch6)
• Thomas, G. H. et al. 2024. A relational approach to characterizing householder perceptions of disruption in heat transitions. Nature Energy 9 , pp.570-576. (10.1038/s41560-024-01506-w)
• Groves, C. et al. 2024. Where is ‘the local’ in localization? Exploring socio-technical and spatial visions of energy system decarbonization in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science 107 103330. (10.1016/j.erss.2023.103330)
• Thomas, G. and Henwood, K. 2024. HI-ACT synthesis report: Interpreting and deliberating hydrogen visions.

2023

• Thomas, G. , Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2023. Hydrogen, a less disruptive pathway for domestic heat? Exploratory findings from public perceptions research. Cleaner Production Letters 5 100047. (10.1016/j.clpl.2023.100047)
• Henwood, K. and Shirani, F. 2023. Researching the temporal. In: Cooper, H. ed. APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology: 2nd Edition. Vol. 2, APA Handbooks in Psychology American Psychological Association
• O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2023. Identity, place narrative and biophilic urban development: Connecting the past, present and future for sustainable liveable cities. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 5 1139029. (10.3389/frsc.2023.1139029)
• Groves, C. et al. 2023. Putting visions in their place: Responsible research and innovation for energy system decarbonization. Journal of Responsible Innovation 10 (1) 2149954. (10.1080/23299460.2022.2149954)
• Henwood, K. et al. 2023. Living well in low carbon homes project report. Project Report.Self-publish.
• Smith, H. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2023. Will industrial decarbonisation produce resilient communities?. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2022

• Shirani, F. et al. 2022. From active houses to active homes: understanding resident experiences of transformational design and social innovation. Energies 15 (19) 7441. (10.3390/en15197441)
• Shirani, F. et al. 2022. Transformational innovation in home energy: How developers imagine and engage with future residents of low carbon homes in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 91 102743.
• Shirani, F. et al. 2022. Living in an active home: household dynamics and unintended consequences. Buildings and Cities 3 (1), pp.589–604. (10.5334/bc.216)
• Thomas, G. et al. 2022. “It’s not a very certain future”: Emotion and infrastructure change in an industrial town. Geoforum 132 , pp.81-91. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.04.003)
• Thomas, M. et al. 2022. 'This funny place': uncovering the ambiguity of saltmarshes using a multimodal approach. People and Nature 4 (3), pp.804-815. (10.1002/pan3.10318)
• Cherry, C. et al. 2022. A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios: findings and methodological insights. Energy Research and Social Science 87 102455. (10.1016/j.erss.2021.102455)
• O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2022. Why active buildings? Realising the potentials of energy networked homes: a social scientific perspective. In: Vahidinasab, V. and Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, eds. Active Building Energy Systems. Green Energy and Technology , pp.25-49. (10.1007/978-3-030-79742-3_2)
• Henwood, K. 2022. Commentary: interpretive risk ethnography as a means of understanding risk problems: encounters with the ordinary-extraordinary and what comes after?. In: Świtek, B. , Abramson, A. and Swee, H. eds. Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.297–327. (10.1007/978-3-030-83962-8_12)

2021

• Roberts, E. et al. 2021. Valuing nature for wellbeing: narratives of socio-ecological change in dynamic intertidal landscapes. Environmental Values 30 (4), pp.501-523. (10.3197/096327120X15916910310635)
• Groves, C. et al. 2021. The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation. Futures 130 102753. (10.1016/j.futures.2021.102753)
• Shirani, F. et al. 2021. ‘Who cares about valley people?’ – lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales valleys. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 29 (1), pp.103-120. (10.1332/175982720X16074511160827)
• Thomas, M. et al. 2021. Using photographs in coastal research and engagement: reflections on two case studies. In: Gustavsson, M. et al., Researching People and the Sea: Methodologies and Traditions. Basingstoke: Palgrave. , pp.181-208.
• Groves, C. et al. 2021. A missing link? Capabilities, the ethics of care, and the relational context of energy justice. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 22 (2), pp.249-269. (10.1080/19452829.2021.1887105)
• Pidgeon, N. et al. 2021. ‘A little self-sufficient town close to the beach’: local energy system transformation through the lens of place and public things. In: Webb, J. , Wade, F. and Tingey, M. eds. Research Handbook on Energy and Society. Edward Elgar. , pp.299-316.
• Shirani, F. et al. 2021. Mine water heating in Caerau: Thoughts from local residents. 2020 Report. Project Report.FLEXIS.

2020

• Groves, C. et al. 2020. ‘The bills are a brick wall’: narratives of energy vulnerability, poverty and adaptation in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science 70 101777. (10.1016/j.erss.2020.101777)
• O'Sullivan, K. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. Active buildings in the changing policy landscape: conceptual challenges and social scientific perspectives. Project Report.Cardiff University.
• Shirani, F. et al. 2020. 'I'm the smart meter': Perceptions and experiences of smart technology amongst vulnerable consumers.. Energy Policy 144 111637. (10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111637)
• Henwood, K. , Shirani, F. and Finn, M. 2020. ‘So you think we’ve moved, changed, the representation got more what?’: methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the men-as-fathers study. In: Reavey, P. ed. A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research 2nd Edition. Routledge. , pp.555-571. (10.4324/9781351032063-3732)
• Shirani, F. et al. 2020. What counts as success? Wider implications of achieving planning permission in a low-impact ecovillage. Environmental Values 29 (3), pp.339-359. (10.3197/096327119X15579936382536)

2019

• Henwood, K. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2019. Qualitative research in reflexive mode: The participatory turn and interpretive social science. Qualitative Research 19 (3), pp.241-246. (10.1177/1468794119844103)
• Groves, C. et al. 2019. Better energy futures: Developing a framework for addressing fuel poverty poverty. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Henwood, K. 2019. Investigating risk – methodological insights from interpretive social science and sustainable energy transitions research. In: Olofsson, A. and Zinn, J. O. eds. Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. , pp.129-152.
• Roberts, E. and Henwood, K. 2019. “It’s an old house and that’s how it works”: Living sufficiently well in inefficient homes. Housing, Theory and Society 36 (4), pp.469-488. (10.1080/14036096.2019.1568296)

2018

• Roberts, E. and Henwood, K. 2018. Exploring the everyday energyscapes of rural dwellers in Wales: putting relational space to work in research on everyday energy use. Energy Research and Social Science 36 , pp.44-51. (10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.023)
• Shirani, F. et al. 2018. UK smart living demonstrator (better energy futures) – research report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2017

• Henwood, K. , Shirani, F. and Groves, C. 2017. Using photographs in interviews: When we lack the words to say what practice means. In: Flick, U. ed. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection. SAGE Publications. , pp.599-614.
• Housley, W. et al. 2017. Qualitative methods and data in digital societies. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.607-609. (10.1177/1468794117730936)
• Thomas, G. et al. 2017. Texturing waste: attachment and identity in every-day consumption and waste practices. Environmental Values 26 (6), pp.733-755. 23. (10.3197/096327117X15046905490362)
• Shirani, F. et al. 2017. Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies. Geoforum 86 , pp.86-92. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.006)
• Groves, C. et al. 2017. Why mundane energy use matters: Energy biographies, attachment and identity. Energy Research and Social Science 30 , pp.71-81. (10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.016)

2016

• Henwood, K. , Groves, C. and Shirani, F. 2016. Relationality, entangled practices, and psychosocial exploration of intergenerational dynamics in sustainable energy studies. Families, Relationships and Societies 5 (3), pp.393-410. (10.1332/204674316X147584383416945)
• Shirani, F. et al. 2016. Living in the future: environmental concerns, parenting, and low-impact lifestyles. In: Ansell, N. , Klocker, N. and Skelton, T. eds. Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. Vol. 8, Geographies of Children and Young People Singapore: Springer. , pp.1-20. (10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_4-1)
• Shirani, F. et al. 2016. Asking about the future: methodological insights from energy biographies. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 19 (4), pp.429-444. (10.1080/13645579.2015.1029208)
• Groves, C. et al. 2016. Invested in unsustainability? On the psychosocial patterning of engagement in practices. Environmental Values 25 (3), pp.309-328. (10.3197/096327116X14598445991466)
• Henwood, K. L. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2016. Editorial. Qualitative Research 16 (3), pp.257. (10.1177/1468794116638982)
• Groves, C. et al. 2016. Energy biographies: narrative genres, lifecourse transitions and practice change. Science, Technology, and Human Values 41 (3), pp.483-508. (10.1177/0162243915609116)
• Groves, C. et al. 2016. The grit in the oyster: using energy biographies to question socio-technical imaginaries of 'smartness'. Journal of Responsible Innovation 3 (1), pp.4-25. (10.1080/23299460.2016.1178897)
• Henwood, K. et al. 2016. Energy Biographies Research Report. Project Report.Cardiff: .Energy Biographies.

2015

• Capstick, S. B. , Pidgeon, N. F. and Henwood, K. 2015. Stability and change in British public discourses about climate change between 1997 and 2010. Environmental Values 24 (6), pp.725-753. (10.3197/096327115X14420732702617)
• Parkhill, K. et al., 2015. "We are a community but that takes a certain amount of energy": Exploring shared visions, social action and resilience in place-based community-led initiatives. Environmental Science & Policy 53 (A), pp.60-69. (10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.014)
• Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2015. Gender, ethical voices and UK energy policy in the post-Fukushima Era. In: Tahbi, B. and Roeser, S. eds. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.67-84.
• Housley, W. et al. 2015. Editorial. Qualitative Research 15 (1), pp.3-3. (10.1177/1468794114567381)
• Shirani, F. et al. 2015. I’m not a tree hugger, I’m just like you’: changing perceptions of sustainable lifestyles. Environmental Politics 24 (1), pp.57-74. (10.1080/09644016.2014.959247)

2014

• Butler, C. et al., 2014. Examining the dynamics of energy demand through a biographical lens. Nature and Culture 9 (2), pp.164-182. (10.3167/nc.2014.090204)

2013

• Shirani, F. J. et al. 2013. Disconnected futures: exploring notions of ethical responsibility in energy practices. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 18 (4), pp.455-468. (10.1080/13549839.2013.779236)

2012

• Shirani, F. J. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2012. Meeting the challenges of intensive parenting culture: gender, risk management and the moral parent. Sociology 46 (1), pp.25-40. (10.1177/0038038511416169)
• Shirani, F. J. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2012. "Why aren't you at work?": negotiating economic models of fathering identity. Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers 10 (3), pp.274-290. (10.3149/fth.1003.274)
• Venables, D. et al. 2012. Living with nuclear power: Sense of place, proximity, and risk perceptions in local host communities. Journal of Environmental Psychology 32 (4), pp.371-383. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.06.003)

2011

• Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Finn, M. 2011. “So you think we've moved, changed, the representation got more what?” Methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the Men as Fathers study. In: Reavey, P. ed. Visual methods in psychology: using and interpreting images in qualitative research. Hove: Psychology Press. , pp.330-345.
• Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Procter, J. K. N. 2011. On delayed fatherhood: the social and subjective “logics” at work in men’s lives (a UK study). In: Beets, G. , Schippers, J. J. and te Velde, E. R. eds. The future of motherhood in western societies: late fertility and its consequences. Dordrecht: Springer. , pp.159-176. (10.1007/978-90-481-8969-4_11)
• Parkhill, K. et al. 2011. Laughing it off? Humour, affect and emotion work in communities living with nuclear risk. British Journal of Sociology 62 (2), pp.324-346. (10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01367.x)
• Shirani, F. J. and Henwood, K. L. 2011. Continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study of fatherhood: relevance without responsibility. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 14 (1), pp.17-29. (10.1080/13645571003690876)
• Shirani, F. J. and Henwood, K. L. 2011. Taking one day at a time: temporal experiences in the context of unexpected life course transitions. Time & Society 20 (1), pp.49-68. (10.1177/0961463X10374906)

2010

• Henwood, K. L. and Finn, M. 2010. Researching masculine and paternal subjects in times of change: Insights from a Qualitative Longitudinal (QLL) and psychosocial case study. In: Thomson, R. et al., Intensity and Insight: Qualitative Longitudinal Methods as a Route to the Psycho-Social. Timescapes Working Paper Series Vol. 3.Leeds: University of Leeds. , pp.34-45.
• Henwood, K. L. et al. 2010. Researching risk: Narrative, biography, subjectivity. FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research - Sozialforschung 11 (1) 20.
• Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Coltart, C. 2010. Fathers and financial risk-taking during the economic downturn: insights from a QLL study of men's identities-in-the-making. 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences 5 (2), pp.137-147. (10.1080/17450141003783355)
• Parkhill, K. et al. 2010. From the familiar to the extraordinary: local residents’ perceptions of risk when living with nuclear power in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 (1), pp.39-58. (10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00364.x)

2009

• Finn, M. and Henwood, K. L. 2009. Exploring masculinities within men’s identificatory imaginings of first time fatherhood. British Journal of Social Psychology 48 (3), pp.547-562. (10.1348/014466608X386099)
• Shirani, F. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2009. Men’s experiences of antenatal services: findings from the ‘Men as Fathers’ Study. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/research/researchprojects/menasfathers/publications/antenatalreport.pdf.
• Venables, D. et al. 2009. Living with nuclear power: a Q-Method study of local community perceptions. Risk Analysis 29 (8), pp.1089-1104. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01259.x)

2008

• Henwood, K. L. , Finn, M. and Shirani, F. J. 2008. Use of visual methods to explore paternal identities in historical time and social change: reflections from the ‘men-as-fathers’ project. Qualitative Researcher 9 , pp.2-5.
• Henwood, K. L. 2008. Qualitative research, reflexivity and living with risk: valuing and practicing epistemic reflexivity and centering marginality. Qualitative Research in Psychology 5 (1), pp.45-55. (10.1080/14780880701863575)
• Henwood, K. L. , Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Science, technology and risk perception: from gender differences to the effects made by gender. Equal Opportunities International 27 (8), pp.662-676. (10.1108/02610150810916730)
• Pidgeon, N. F. et al. 2008. The ethics of socio-cultural risk research. Health, Risk & Society 10 (4), pp.321-329. (10.1080/13698570802334526)

2007

• Salter, C. et al., 2007. "I haven't even phoned my doctor yet".  The advice giving role of the pharmacist during consultations for medication review with patients aged 80 or more: qualitative discourse analysis. British Medical Journal 334 , pp.1101-1104. (10.1136/bmj.39171.577106.55)
• Charmaz, K. and Henwood, K. L. 2007. Grounded theory. In: Willig, C. and Stainton-Rogers, W. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. London: Sage. , pp.240-260.

2003

• Henwood, K. L. and Procter, J. 2003. The 'good father': reading men's accounts of paternal involvement during the transition to first time fatherhood. British Journal of Social Psychology 42 (3), pp.337-356. (10.1348/014466603322438198)
• Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2003. Grounded theory in psychological research. In: Camic, P. M. , Rhodes, J. E. and Yardley, L. eds. Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design. Washington, DC: APA Publications. , pp.131-155.

2002

• Henwood, K. L. and McQueen, C. 2002. Young men in 'crisis': Attending to the language of teenage boys' distress. Social Science & Medicine 55 (9), pp.1493-1509. (10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00186-1)

2001

• Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2001. Talk about woods and trees: threat of urbanization, stability, and biodiversity. Journal of Environmental Psychology 21 (2), pp.125-147. (10.1006/jevp.2000.0196)

1999

• Pidgeon, N. F. , Henwood, K. L. and Horlick-Jones, T. E. 1999. Risk communication: new challenges for European health policy. Eurohealth 5 (2), pp.12-14.

1995

• Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1995. Grounded theory and psychological research. The Psychologist 8 (3), pp.115-118.
• Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1995. Remaking the link: qualitative research and feminist standpoint theory. Feminism and Psychology 5 (1), pp.7-30. (10.1177/0959353595051003)