{"id":284,"date":"2019-05-15T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclearsocieties\/?page_id=284"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:48:26","slug":"prof-patrick-devine-wright-professor-in-human-geography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/prof-patrick-devine-wright-professor-in-human-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Patrick Devine-Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Professor in Human Geography<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Patrick Devine-Wright is an environmental social scientist who draws from disciplines such as Human Geography and Environmental Psychology, at the University of Exeter. He\u00a0specialises in researching significant, policy-relevant environmental problems using an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that is theoretically informed and has clear pathways to impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His broad research specialisms include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>understanding the symbolic and affective dimensions of people-place relations, particularly concepts of place attachment and place identity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>investigating social and psychological aspects of siting new energy infrastructure such as wind farms and power lines, including &#8216;NIMBYism\u2019 and public engagement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>understanding the motivation for pro-environmental and pro-social actions, particularly conceptions of citizenship applied to energy and environmental problems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/Leigh-Farmer-Photography-Patrick-Devine-Wright-28-e1689002652249-1536x1385-1-edited-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-905\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:250px;height:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/Leigh-Farmer-Photography-Patrick-Devine-Wright-28-e1689002652249-1536x1385-1-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/Leigh-Farmer-Photography-Patrick-Devine-Wright-28-e1689002652249-1536x1385-1-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/Leigh-Farmer-Photography-Patrick-Devine-Wright-28-e1689002652249-1536x1385-1-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/Leigh-Farmer-Photography-Patrick-Devine-Wright-28-e1689002652249-1536x1385-1-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2026\/05\/Leigh-Farmer-Photography-Patrick-Devine-Wright-28-e1689002652249-1536x1385-1-edited.jpg 1385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/experts.exeter.ac.uk\/3339-patrick-devinewright\">Staff Profile<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a Lead Author for the IPCC Working Group III in the 6th Assessment Round contributing to a chapter on &#8216;Demand, Services and Social Aspects of Mitigation&#8217;. He contributes the International Energy Agency&#8217;s Task 28 on Social Acceptance of Wind Energy and has been a member of the&nbsp;National Advisory Group for&nbsp;EirGrid (the Irish electricity grid operator) since 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a member of the Peer Review Group for the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy; and was formerly a member of the Social Science Expert Panel advising Defra and DECC. He was an invited member of the&nbsp;National Advisory Group steering&nbsp;the UK Community Renewables Initiatives between 2001 and 2006; and acted as Lead Expert to the Office of Science and Technology\u2019s Foresight Project on Sustainable Energy and the Built Environment (2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He sits on the board of several academic journals including Global Environmental Change,&nbsp;Energy Research and&nbsp;Social Science, Journal of Environmental Psychology and Environment and Behavior. He edited a book on \u2018Public Engagement with Renewable Energy: From NIMBY to Participation&#8217; published by Earthscan in 2011.&nbsp;A book on &#8216;Place Attachment&#8217;, co-edited with Dr. Lynne Manzo (University of Washington), was published by Routledge in 2013, for which we received the annual 2014 Achievement Award from the US Environmental Design Research Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Devine-Wright is the Leader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/geography.exeter.ac.uk\/research\/groups\/envirosus\/\">Environment and Sustainability Research Group<\/a> at the University of Exeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor in Human Geography Patrick Devine-Wright is an environmental social scientist who draws from disciplines such as Human Geography and Environmental Psychology, at the University of Exeter. 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