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Stephen Peake

Professional Associations and Experience

Stephen is a Fellow of the Judge Business School where he teaches courses on sustainable development and Climate Leadership

As well as an enthusiastic teacher and media communicator, Dr Peake is a professional consultant, facilitator and media advisor. Recent projects include:

Faculty member of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership's Climate Leadership Programme
Climate change (global construction engineering sector)
Health (for the UK NHS on innovative technologies and processes to tackle infectious diseases, health inequality indicators)
UK Government Office Network (advice on organisational change processes)
Investment banking (advice on managing risks around climate change and sustainable development)
Academic consultant for the 2006 OU-BBC climate change season.

Stephen has regularly served as an expert advisor to the Advertising Standards Authority (recent cases have involved disputes over wind energy, carbon offsetting, and advanced automotive fuels).

He has given evidence to various national governments and international organisations including: the Fuel Economy Panel of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association in Detroit, USA; the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment; the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's 1994 transport and environment study and the European Union's 1995 State of the Environment Report - The Dobríš Assessment.

Previous Appointments

Originally trained as a physicist, Stephen gained a PhD in Engineering and Management from the University of Cambridge, where he also worked as Research Associate in corporate environmental management and auditing. From 1993-1995 he was Research Fellow in the Energy and Environmental Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, during which time he was seconded for several months to group planning at Shell International Petroleum Company in London.

From 1995-2000, Stephen served as international civil servant at the International Energy Agency at the OECD in Paris and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), based in Bonn, Germany. At the International Energy Agency in Paris he led the Energy and Environment Division's work on the transport sector. At the UN, Stephen managed various inter-governmental projects and processes, including in 1998, an international panel to identify options for coastal adaptation technologies.

Research Interests

Climate change and sustainable development. Policy design, modelling and complexity theory

Selected Publications

Peake, S (2010). Turbulence in the climate regime. Current History, 109(730), pp. 349–354.

Peake, S (2010). Policymaking as design in complex systems — the international climate change regime. Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 12(2), pp. 15–22.

Hetherington, R; Laney, R and Peake, S (2010). Zero and low carbon buildings: A driver for change in working practices and the use of computer modelling and visualization. In: 14th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 27-29 July 2010, London South Bank University, London, UK.

Hetherington, R; Laney, R. C. and Peake, S (2010). Software engineering challenges: Achieving zero carbon buildings by 2019. In: ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010, 13-16 April 2010, Edinburgh University.

Peake, S. and Smith, J. (2009) Climate change: from science to citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aczel, J.C., Peake, S.R. and Hardy, P. (2008) "Designing capacity-building in e-learning expertise: challenges and strategies." Computers and Education, 50(2): 499–510

Peake, S. (2007) "Carbon trading: opportunities and issues." In: Elliott, D. (ed.) Sustainable energy: opportunities and limitations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.190–211.

Peake, S. (2005) "Epistemologies of climate change: science, stories and scepticism." Organization and Environment, 18(4): 1-5

Peake, S., Aczel, J. and Hardy, P. (2005) Strengthening human and institutional capacity in developing countries: report for the United Nations Institute of Training and Research.

Ison, S., Peake, S. and Wall, S. (2002) Environmental issues and policies. Harlow: Prentice Hall.

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Teaching

At the Open University:

U216 Environment: Change, Contest and Response Course team member and unit author

U316 The Environmental Web Co-Chair of Block 3 on climate change as part of the production team and active member of presentation team.

T307 Innovation: designing for a sustainable future (first presented 2006). Critical reader and co-designer of T307 Project and related course materials.

T189 Digital photography: creating and sharing better images. Chair

At the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge:

Climate Leadership (MBA elective course)

Contact Information

Email: s.r.peake@open.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1908 659992
Fax: +44 (0)1908 654052
Room: N2001, Venables building

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