CESI's 2019 conference had an overarching theme of Collaboration Across CESI, crossing boundaries between institutions and disciplines. The conference will bring together researchers and academics funded through our Flexible Research Fund in addition to the CESI academic consortium, providing the opportunity for dissemination and collaboration through presentations, expert talks and poster sessions to inspire future research.

The event was open to the Centre's researchers and academics including those funded through our Flexible Research Fund, and invited representatives of other organisations.

Abstracts

We invited abstracts of 250-500 words for oral and poster presentations on:

• existing collaborations between disciplines or universities
• multi-vector energy systems demonstrators
• collaboration between CESI, government and non-governmental organisations
• the need for new interdisciplinary collaborations based on existing research

Conference Programme

The programme for the day comprised of 4 sessions. The full CESI Research Conference 2019 programme is available to download:
CESI Research Conference 2019 Programme (PDF 0.6MB)

Session 1: Collaboration - CESI and beyond

Chair: Professor Phil Taylor, CESI Director and Head of School of Engineering Newcastle University
Keynote: Professor Keith Bell, University of Strathclyde, Member of the Committee on Climate Change and Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre
Talk title: What is the perspective of the Committee on Climate Change on ESI?

Session 2: Collaboration on Energy Systems Demonstrators

Chair: Dr Sara Walker, CESI Deputy Director and Director of Expertise for Infrastructure Research, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
Keynote: Professor Stephen McArthur, University of Strathclyde, Director of the Energy Revolution Research Consortium (EnergyREV)
Talk title: EnergyREV and its support of the Prospering from the Energy Revolution (PFER) Programme

Session 3: Collaboration - CESI, Government, regulators and industry

Chair: Professor Gordon MacKerron, CESI Associate Director and Interim Director of SPRU, University of Sussex Business School
Keynote: Emma Pinchbeck, RenewableUK, Deputy Chief Executive
Talk title: Wind as a multi-vector energy source

Session 4: Collaboration opportunities across energy consortia

Chair: Professor Phil Taylor, CESI Director and Head of School of Engineering, Newcastle University
Discussion session, with invited representatives from UK energy research consortia

Book of abstracts

The CESI Research Conference book of abstracts is available to download: cesi research conference 2019_book of abstracts