Torran Semple PhD MEng

Dr Torran Semple is a multi-disciplinary researcher who specialises in the analysis of various social and energy-related issues, including fuel poverty, the equity of energy transitions and the promotion of sustainable transport.

He joined the the University of Oxford in October 2025 and is a member of the EDGE research group, who work on a number of ongoing projects, including EDOL, SENSE and JED-AI.

Prior to this, he received his PhD ("The Modern Problematisation of Fuel Poverty in England: Quantification, Obfuscation and Energy Transitions") from the University of Nottingham.

• The conceptualisation and quantification of fuel poverty
• The implications of energy transitions for fuel poverty (e.g., the fairness of heat decarbonisation)
• The distributional effects of demand-side flexibility programmes
• The decarbonisation of transport

EDOL: Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory. EPSRC project collecting detailed longitudinal data on household energy use and explanatory socio-technical variables.

JedAI: Justice, Energy, Demand flexibility and AI for Sustainability seeks to help household take advantage of new flexible use patterns and avoid disadvantaging those less able.

SENSE: Data for good. Providing a range of data sources for wider use in research and development.