Emilia uses her platform to amplify stories of community energy sector success and international efforts towards energy democracy. She has extensive experience of public speaking for expert and non-expert audiences, including academic conferences, business presentations, and community events.
Shift Bristol – pratical sustainability course
Emilia is the energy and climate change tutor on the Shift Bristol Practical Sustainability course. This includes days in the classroom and a field trip day visiting local renewable energy projects with a variety of governance and ownership structures, as well as coordinating a practical teaching day.
” Emilia has the knack of matching her considerable knowledge and practical experience with innovative approaches to communicating ideas and concepts. This makes her a powerful and enthusiastic teacher and facilitator.”
Trevor Houghton former Energy and Climate Change Tutor, Shift – Practical Sustainability Course
” Lush spaceholding and emotionally sensitive facilitation”
“Very informative, pedagogic, good balance between facts/information and more interactive learning.”
“I liked how the day was (almost) balanced between problems and solutions”
Shift Bristol student feedback
University teaching
Emilia regularly teaches at the University of Surrey Sustainable Development MSc since 2015. This includes teaching on the community energy sector in the UK and the movement for energy democracy in the Transitions to a Low Carbon Economy module, and teaching on theories and practice of commons governance in the Ecological Economics module.
She has also taught at UWE, bringing a practical case study to a course on the ethics of technology.
Public speaking
“Emilia Melville is an experienced and clear communicator who is very knowledgeable about all things community energy. She is passionate about energy democracy and has a knack of tailoring her talks to wide ranging audiences, bringing people with her to learn and explore complex subjects.”
Jodie Giles, Regen
Emilia’s experience of speaking on energy democracy includes: community energy events organised by Regen, including considering a community role in flexibility markets, and the future of the community energy sector; at the Quaker New Economy programme; at events organised by Carbon Co-op and academic conferences.
Workshops
Commons: Workshops on commons governance, including the politics of commoning and practical tips for governing commons, are available. These are 1.5 or 2 hours in duration, and suitable for groups of 8 to 30 people.
Energy: Emilia is one of the creators of the Energy Game, based on David MacKay’s book Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air. This is a workshop tool for participants to achieve group consensus on an energy plan that adds up. The original national version has been developed, in collaboration with colleagues at BuroHappold Engineering, to create local West of England and Cornwall versions.
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