As well as being a Lecturer based in SPRU, I co-convene – with David Ockwell – the Energy and Climate Change Domain of the STEPS Centre (a collaborative research initiative between SPRU and IDS). I have also been a Coordinator (for Sussex and Southampton Universities) of the Energy and Emissions Theme of theTyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and continue to be affiliated to Tyndall. I am also on the committee for the recently-formed Sussex Africa Centre, which was officially launched in 2014.
Ockwell, David and Byrne, Robert (2013) Building pathways of pro-poor energy access: PV-powered electricity services in Kenya. In: PEGNet Conference: How to Shape Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Economies in the Developing World – Global, Regional, and Local Solutions, October 17-18, 2013, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen.
Watson, Jim, Byrne, Robert, Morgan Jones, Molly, Tsang, Flavia, Opazo, Jose, Fry, Caroline and Castle-Clarke, Sophie(2012) What are the major barriers to increased use of modern energy services among the world’s poorest people, and are interventions to overcome these effective? Project Report. Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, Bangor.
Byrne, Robert, Schoots, Koen, Watson, Jim, Ockwell, David, de Coninck, Heleen, Gallagher, Kelly and Sagar, Ambuj (2012)Innovation systems in developing countries. Climate Strategies, Cambridge.