The Energy Café is an informal, open and inclusive space where people across University of St Andrews, from undergraduates to Professors Emeriti, can come together for an hour to share ideas about the energy research they are working on. It is intended to encourage collaborations, expand research horizons, and inspire new ideas and questions about issues of energy.
Hosted by the Centre for Energy Ethics, the Energy Café is not limited to one discipline, one department or one school – it is open to everyone.
Fostering collaboration and interdisciplinarity are at the heart of the Centre’s ethos and the motivation for the Café. By openly exchanging ideas with others and working across disciplines, the Energy Café offers a unique venue that celebrates the diversity of roles and contributions individuals make to energy research and research culture.
For 2025/26, the Energy Café series will be held online only. You will find the schedule of upcoming Cafés below.
If you have an idea for a Café or any questions, please get in touch. We would love to hear from you. Email us at: [email protected]. We hope you will join us, contribute, share and discuss.
You can check out the recordings of some of our past cafes on our YouTube playlist.
Hosted by Claire Haigh Climate breakdown has begun. The 10 hottest years in history have all occurred in the last decade. Seven out of nine planetary boundaries have been breached. However, at a very time that the world needs to step up its efforts to tackle the escalating climate and nature crises we are witnessing […] ...
Climate and Bonds: The Impact of Drought on US Corporate Bond Yields Hosted by Bert Scholtens In this Cafe, Bert will speak to a recent analysis of the relationship between drought and bond yield spreads of US companies. The analysis reveals that yield spreads significantly increase for companies exposed to a worsening drought trend. Furthermore, […] ...
Hosted by Dr Patrick Adamson Associate Lecturer, Film Studies, University of St Andrews Today best known for being an important early documentary and the first collaboration between Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, Paramount’s Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925) is an ethnographic film that follows the Bakhtiari people of Iran on an […] ...
Hosted by Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes As the 2010s began fossil fuels were the source of all the electricity that flowed through Barbados’ grid. The small West Indian nation’s most significant fuel source was Bunker C. This heavy fuel oil has the consistency of tar and is more normally associated with the maritime sector. Yet, as the […] ...
Enough of Ethics – Operationalizing Energy Sufficiency in Municipal Energy Planning Hosted by Simon Onnerd & Erin Rizzato The Energy Café is an informal, open and inclusive space where people across our network, from undergraduates to Professors Emeriti, can come together for an hour to share ideas about the energy research they are working on. […] ...
The Energy Café is primarily, but not exclusively, open to researchers at St Andrews, across all levels from undergraduate studies to professorial level. If you would like to attend an Energy Café, you can register by emailing [email protected]