prof.dr. J.S. Clancy (Joy)

Joy Clancy is the Emeritus Professor of Energy and Gender. Since joining the UT, her research has examined the influence of socio-economic, environmental, cultural and institutional factors on the transfer of energy technology to a particular society, with its North-South dimensions and the consequences of this process for societal actors. Biofuels and bioenergy have been particular areas of focus. Specific attention is given to gender issues, including the processes which govern whether women and men are included or excluded from access to and delivering energy services in the context of the Global South. More recently she has focused on energy poverty and gender in the European Union. Joy has a physical science background (PhD in Engineering from Reading University, UK, and BSc in Chemistry from QMC, University of London) which helps provide insights into the technical challenges faced in the energy transition, while her social science interests are able to places these challenges in context.

Currently, Joy is the joint lead for one of the three Subtasks (Understanding systematic inertias causing gender blind decision-making in energy policy) which form a research programme under the IEA UsersTCP (User-Centred Energy Systems). Linked to this programme, Joy was an expert advisor to a research programme (Gender, Race & Social Inclusion – Net Zero Transitions) led by the Carbon Trust for the UK Ministry of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). She is currently a member of the Just Transitions Task Force: Powering Past Coal Alliance, the EU-level Task Force ‘Fair Energy Transition for All’ coordinated by the European Policy Centre and the Netherlands Energy Compact which aims to accelerate SDG7 action in low and middle income countries.

Joy has considerable experience in research and advisory work including: Principal Investigator to ENERGIA’s five year £4.5 million research project Gender and Energy Research Programme (funded by UK DfID): Building the Evidence Base for Improving Energy Investments Effectiveness by Taking a Gendered Approach (http://energia.org/research/)(2014-2019). Technical advisor on gender and energy to the World Bank AFREA Programme (2009 to 2013). Senior consultant to ENERGIA team advising Norad on integration of gender and equality in their clean energy and petroleum development cooperation; member knowledge panel of on sustainability, climate and energy; appeared as expert witness before the Development Committee of the Bundestag (26 October 2011); technical advisor Minister for Development Cooperation (DGIS), Netherlands Government for Impact Evaluation of Energy for Development Programmes supported by the Netherlands Government. Senior consultant to AFREA Gender and Energy Program Gender mainstreaming, ESMAP, The World Bank; member knowledge panel of Minister for Development Cooperation, Netherlands Government on sustainability, climate and energy (2009-11) ; Lead researcher Gender mainstreaming in the rural electrification sector Bangladesh. (Netherlands Embassy, 2003-4); ENPOGEN Project, ASTAE, The World Bank. Member of Quality Assurance Group (2001-2); Tanzania (1998) Gender and energy expert attached to mission using participatory rural appraisal methodologies to identify options for SIDA Support to Improvement of the Rural Energy Situation in Tanzania. (1997) Team leader Identification Mission, on behalf of Ministry of Energy, Tanzania and UNDP, for the development of an SPPD on Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation in Tanzania. Zimbabwe (1996), Pre-feasibility study of briquetting sawdust residue, ITDG-Zimbabwe. Mozambique and Tanzania (1991) Resource Person attached to Formulation Mission on behalf of TAU-SADC & The Netherlands Government: Training needs in the SADC region for Energy Planning and the Environment. Tanzania, Swaziland, Botswana and Zimbabwe (1990) Member Identification Mission on behalf of TAU-SADC & The Netherlands Government: Training needs in the SADC region for Energy Planning and the Environment; member Institute of Energy International Committee (1988 - 89); member the Advisory Council on Energy Conservation to the Secretary of State for Energy, HMG of the United Kingdom (Oct 1974 - Sept 1977).

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Biofuel
# Energy
# Gender
# Policy
# Poverty
# Woman

Social Sciences

# Energy
# Gender

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM)

My research provides an analysis of the dichotomy between policy and implementation to provide insights and a better understanding of implementation factors and the processes linking policy, in particular social goals, to outcomes in the energy sector. I use the biofuels value chain as a framework for analysis extending this to include a vertical analysis of users and smallholder producers embedded in a context specific network of social relations. Specific attention is given to gender issues, including the processes which govern whether women and men are included or excluded from access to and delivering energy services. I am using the approach of feminist political ecology which provides insights in human-environmental interactions as well as a global production networks framework to structure the analysis. I have been working on the conceptualisation of energy poverty (a phenomenon not confined to developing countries) and energy security at the micro-level (household/community level).

Kooijman, A. , Clancy, J., & Cloke, J. (2023). Extending energy access assessment: The added value of taking a gender perspective. Energy Research and Social Science, 96, [102923]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102923

Aukes, E. J. , & Clancy, J. S. (2023). Socio-Technical Energy Systems: Configurations That Work Better for Some. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gender Research (Vol. 6) https://doi.org/10.34190/icgr.6.1.1165

Frenova, S. (2022). Understanding policy and institutional strategies to support the participation of women and women organisations within UNFCCC-led climate change governance. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553391

Feenstra, M. H. (2021). Gender just energy policy: engendering the energy transition in Europe. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036551960

Granados Herrera, J. (2021). The thousand headed monster: Interrogating the competing voices in México's PES programme. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036551663

Clancy, J. (2020). Urban ecological footprints: The city region and the wider world. In The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology (2nd ed., pp. 512-521). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429506758-44

Clancy, J. S. (2020). Gender and Energy Poverty. UK Urban Ecology Forum.

B P Resurreccion, & R Elmhirst (2020). Strategic Reflexivity in Linking Gender Equality with Sustainable Energy: An Engineer in the Gender Profession. In B. P. Resurrección, & R. Elmhirst (Eds.), Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development: Voices from Feminist Political Ecology (pp. 27-41). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351175180-3

Clancy, J. , Özerol, G. , Mohlakoana, N. , Feenstra, M., & Sol Cueva, L. (2020). Engendering the Energy Transition: Setting the Scene. In Engendering the Energy Transition (pp. 3-9). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43513-4_1

Clancy, J. S. (2020). Reflection on Engendering the Energy Transition. In J. Clancy, G. Özerol, N. Mohlakoana, M. Feenstra, & L. Sol Cueva (Eds.), Engendering the Energy Transition (pp. 283-300). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43513-4_21

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Joy Clancy contributes to the Masters in Environmental and Energy Management (MEEM) and Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET). She also supervises students for the bachelor and master programmes of Public Administration, European Studies, and (International) Business Administration. She joined the UT to run two international professional courses in energy: Energy Management in Small and Medium Sized Companies (EMSI) and Formulating Project Proposals for Low Carbon Climate Resilient Development (ICREP). She has been involved in supporting student study tours.