galvinImage2Dr Ray Galvin Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Personal details:

Full Name: Raymond James Galvin

Nationality: United Kingdom and New Zealand

Addresses: Friedrichstr 77, 52070 Aachen, Germany;

and 34 Linden Close, Cambridge CB4 3JU, UK

Phone: 004924195780172; 0044 7758 832415

Email: ray.galvin@gmx.de

 

Profile:

I have an interdisciplinary background in engineering, social sciences and policy studies. My recent research is in energy saving in buildings, including the influences of policy, the physical properties of buildings, and consumer behaviour. I am especially interested in how certain combinations of targeted thermal retrofit measures and household behaviour change can maximise heating fuel savings in homes, and how government policies need to be developed to support these. Forthcoming research also includes analysing households’ post-retrofit consumption behaviour; households as energy ‘producer-consumers’; and future possibilities of heat pumps in Europe.

 

Fields of activity

 

Energy consumption in Buildings:

Technical and behavioural issues in reducing energy consumption in buildings; economics of thermal retrofits; rebound effects; German thermal retrofit policy.

 

Energy policy:

German, UK and UE-wide policy on energy and climate change; renewable energy and energy efficiency measures.

Scientific realism as a conceptual basis for interdisciplinary studies on science-policy interfaces.

 

Social theory:

Narrative psychology, social practice theory, and socio- technical systems theory as a conceptual basis for consumer studies.

 

Publications

Publications in academic journals:

Galvin R (2013) Making the ‘rebound effect’ more useful for performance evaluation of thermal retrofits of existing homes: defining the ‘energy savings deficit’ and the ‘energy performance gap’. Energy and Buildings (in press – accepted for publication October 2013)

Galvin R (2013) Targeting ‘behavers’ rather than behaviours: A ‘subject-oriented’ approach for reducing space heating rebound effects in low energy dwellings. Energy and Buildings 67: 596-607

Galvin R (2013) Impediments to energy-efficient ventilation of German dwellings: a case study in Aachen, Energy and Buildings 56: 32-40.

Galvin R and Sunikka-Blank M (2013) Economic viability in thermal retrofit policies: Learning from ten years of experience in Germany, Energy Policy 54: 343-351

Rosenow J and Galvin R (2013) Evaluating the evaluations: evidence from energy efficiency programmes in Germany and the UK, Energy and Buildings 62: 450-458

Galvin R (2012) German Federal policy on thermal renovation of existing homes: a policy evaluation, Sustainable Cities and Society 4: 58-66.

Galvin R and Sunikka-Blank M (2012) Including fuel price elasticity of demand in net present value and payback time calculations of thermal retrofits: case study of German dwellings, Energy and Buildings 50: 219-228.

Sunikka-Blank M and Galvin R (2012) Introducing the prebound effect: the gap between performance and actual energy consumption, Building Research & Information, 40(3), 1–14.

Galvin R (2010) Thermal upgrades of existing homes in Germany: The building code, subsidies, and economic efficiency, Energy and Buildings, 42(6) 834-844.

Galvin R (2010) Solving mould and condensation problems: A dehumidifier trial in a suburban house in Britain, Energy and Buildings, 42(11): 2118-2123.

 

Publications in peer-reviewed university working paper series:

Galvin R (2010) ‘Environmental Policy Discourse and its Material Objects: Bridging the Gap with ‘Modest Realism,’ CSERGE Working Paper 2011-2, University of East Anglia. Available at: http://www.cserge.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2011-02.pdf

Galvin R (2009) Developing a critical model to evaluate the appropriateness of local body climate protection policies,’ CSERGE Working Paper EDM-2009-09, University of East Anglia.  Available at: edm_2009_09.pdf (144.78 KB)

Galvin R (2009) ‘Modifying Actor-network thoery to analyse the German project of photovoltaic energy generation,’ CSERGE Working Paper EDM-2009-02, University of East Anglia.  Available at: edm_2009_02.pdf (172.51 KB)

 

Dissertations

Galvin R (2011) Discourse and Materiality in Environmental Policy: the Case of German Federal Policy on Thermal Renovation of Existing Homes, Doctoral Thesis, University of East Anglia. Available at: http://justsolutions.eu/Resources/PhDGalvinFinal.pdf

Galvin R (2008) Learning from Freiburg’s Climate Protection Endeavours, Masters Thesis, University of East Anglia. Available at http://justsolutions.eu/Resources/FreiburgProjectGalvin.pdf

 

Expert Review and Marking work:

Peer-Reviewer for academic journals:

Energy and Buildings; Energy Efficiency; Building Research and Information; Energies; Science of the Total Environment.

Academic Marking (University of Cambridge):

Masters theses on sustainability management topics; Masters and Postgraduate Diploma essays and project papers on sustainability and industry.

 

Recent book:

(2013) A Critical Analysis of German Thermal Retrofit Policy: Turning Down the Heat. London & New York: Springer Publications.

 

Educational Qualifications:

Doctor of Philosophy (in Environmental Science and Politics)

   University of East Anglia, 2011

Master of Science (in Climate Change Science and Policy) with Distinction

University of East Anglia, 2008

Master of Education (Counselling/Psychotherapy) with First Class Honours

University of Auckland, 1996

Bachelor of Divinity

University of Otago, 1975; postgraduate work at Cambridge University

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) with 2:1 Honours

    University of Auckland, 1971

Graduate Diploma in Teacher Education (Secondary)

Auckland Institute of Technology, 1998

Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom (Diploma in German Language)

Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, 1990

Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults

Cambridge University, 1998

Supplementary University Qualifications in Computer Programming, Database Management, German, Spanish, Philosophy, English, Hebrew.

 

Recent Vocational Record:

Researcher, Energy Research Centre (Future Consumer Needs and Behaviour Unit), RWTH-Aachen University, Germany (current)

Tutor and Researcher, Cambridge University Sustainability Management Programme (as from July 2011) and Faculty of Architecture (September, 2011 – November, 2012)

Doctoral Student and Staff Member, University of East Anglia, October 2008 – April 2011

Masters Student, University of East Anglia, October 2007-August 2008

Mathematics and Computer Science Teacher, Impington Village College, Cambridge, January 2002 – April 2007

Mathematics Teacher, Long Bay College, Auckland, February 1999 – December 2001

Presbyterian Minister, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand: January 1975 – August 1997.

 

Languages:

English native speaker.

Fluent in German;

Rough knowledge of Maori, Spanish, French and Italian