With a background in psychology, design, and social science, Joe largely looks at pro-social research methods to help urban neighborhoods achieve climate goals. He has experience in pro-environmental behavior change, neighborhood food initiatives, and energy communities. He now works with the Senseable Amsterdam Lab to develop community sensors within the City in areas like the Jordaan and Zuidoost. Joe is currently researching energy poverty, which is characterized by a lack of income, low energy efficiency, and high consumption costs. While energy poverty is increasingly prevalent in both the Netherlands and Amsterdam, there is still a need for granular data, understanding, and policy surrounding it. Mixed methods research is required to better understand how diverse homes experience energy poverty so that we can then design interventions to alleviate it.
In his spare time, he runs neighborhood food initiatives in Amsterdam, looking after food donations, cooking new meals with volunteers, and redistributing this to homes experiencing food insecurity.
“At AMS Institute I get to work closely with the city, its citizens and other colleagues that genuinely care about both.”
Joe Llewellyn
Research Fellow
