IDEAL - Smarter home energy systems (2013-2019)
This large, EPSRC-funded project explored the potential of enhanced sensor systems and Machine Learning methods to improve energy feedback displays in homes. My work evaluated the impacts of these systems on occupant energy awareness and attitudes, as well as changes in energy using activities and actual energy use. Read more about IDEAL.

BIGSMALL - Measuring (un)sustainable practices (2015-2018)
This EPSRC-funded project developed novel machine learning methods for inferring household energy using practices based on the 'traces' they leave in signals from a variety of sensors in the home (electricity and gas use, temperature and humidity). The project helped determine the extent to which the performance of everyday energy using activities can be inferred based on smart meter data and other data sources. My work evaluated the potential for these inferences to a) help us better understand the relationships between energy-using activities, their impacts, and the factors which shape them; and b) provide enhanced feedback to householders.

Much of my earlier research focused on how changes in our domestic practices can enable us to lead less resource (energy and water) intensive, whilst possibly more fulfilling, lifestyles. I have a background in understanding how patterns of work (Pullinger, 2011, 2013) and everyday practices (Pullinger, Anderson, Browne, & Medd, 2013) influence carbon footprints, energy and water use in the home, as well as wellbeing, and how options for changing individual practices are shaped and constrained by wider policy and socio-technical systems (Pullinger 2011, 2013, 2014; Pullinger, Lovell and Webb, 2014; Browne, Medd, Pullinger, & Anderson, 2014). I have contributed to the development of new quantitative and mixed methods approaches to measuring and tracking practices, their influences and their impacts (Browne, Pullinger, Medd, & Anderson, 2014).

• EPSRC ARCC-Water project (www.arcc-water.org.uk), University of Lancaster, 2012-13. Investigating the daily water using practices, habits and routines which contribute to household water use. I contributed to the development of new quantitative and mixed methods approaches to researching these topics.
• ESRC-funded PhD, University of Edinburgh 2006-11. Investigating the potential of policies which allow individuals to voluntarily reduce paid work, and hence levels of income and consumption, to reduce their carbon footprints.
• Scottish Government, 2009. Investigating the role of product ecodesign in contributing to waste reduction in Scotland, producing a discussion paper for their 2009 Zero Waste strategy consultation.