Dr. Christine Milchram
- Scientific staff
- Research group “Philosophy of Engineering, Technology Assessment, and Science”
- Room: 210 in Douglasstr. 24
- Phone: +49 721 608-26488
- christine milchram ∂ kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Current positions
- Member of scientific staff at the research group “Philosophy of Engineering, Technology Assessment, and Science”
Fields of work
- Sustainability transition, focusing on energy and mobility systems
- Energy justice
- Transport justice
- Energy ethics
- Capability approach
- Mixed-methods research
Professional background
since 2020 | Member of scientific staff at ITAS |
2016 - 2020 | Member of scientific staff and PhD researcher, Faculty Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Dissertation: “Just Energy? Designing for Ethical Acceptability in Smart Grids” |
2013 - 2016 | Strategy consultant at Accenture Strategy & Sustainability |
2008 - 2012 | M.Sc., International Business, University of Vienna, Austria |
2005 - 2008 | B.A., International Business Relations, University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Austria |
Selected publications
2020. Designing for justice in electricity systems: A comparison of smart grid experiments in the Netherlands.
Milchram, C., Künneke, R., Doorn, N., Kaa, G. Van De, & Hillerbrand, R.
Energy Policy, 147(October), 111720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111720
2020. Synthesizing value sensitive design, responsible research and innovation, and energy justice: A conceptual review.
Jenkins, K. E. H., Spruit, S., Milchram, C., Höffken, J., & Taebi, B. Energy Research & Social Science, 69, 101727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101727
2019. The Capability Approach as a normative framework for technology assessment.
Hillerbrand, R., Milchram, C., & Schippl, J.. TATuP, 28(1), 52–57. https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.28.1.52
2019. Understanding the role of values in institutional change: the case of the energy transition.
Milchram, C., Märker, C., Schlör, H., Künneke, R., & van de Kaa, G.. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 9(46), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-019-0235-y
2018. Energy Justice and Smart Grid Systems: Evidence from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Milchram, C., Hillerbrand, R., van de Kaa, G., Doorn, N., & Künneke, R. Applied Energy, 229(September 2017), 1244–1259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.08.053
Publications
Exploring the geopolitical impacts of energy justice: an interdisciplinary research agenda
2023. Handbook on the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition, 232–246, Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781800370432.00019
Designing for Care
2023. Science and Engineering Ethics, 29 (3), 16. doi:10.1007/s11948-023-00434-4
Leaders and laggards in the pursuit of an EU just transition
2023. Ecological Economics, 205, Art.-Nr.: 107699. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107699
Technology assessment to support a sustainable energy transition – an attempt of squaring the circle?
2023. Helmholtz Energy Conference (2023), Koblenz, Germany, June 12–13, 2023
Current Issues in the Emerging Field of Normative Energy Ethics
2023. Helmholtz Energy Conference (2023), Koblenz, Germany, June 12–13, 2023
A review and critical analysis of proposals to monitor the European “just transition”
2023. Earth Systems Governance Conference (2023), Nijmegen, Netherlands, October 24–27, 2023
Partizipation und Forschungsorganisationen: Impact Messung und Integration von Ergebnissen
2023, November 24. 2nd PartWiss23: Tagung zur Vernetzung und Stärkung von Partzipaton in der Wissenschat (PartWiss 2023), Chemnitz, Germany, November 22–24, 2023
An Ethical Assessment of Digital Mobility Transitions: Perspectives from Care Ethics
2022. 5th European Technology Assessment Conference (ETAC5 2022), Karlsruhe, Germany, July 25–27, 2022
Wide Reflective Equilibrium meets social science: an approach to exploring stakeholder’s conceptions of justice in smart energy systems
2022. Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Research Conference (PIRC 2022), Leuven, Belgium, December 15–16, 2022
Using the Capability Approach as a normative perspective on energy justice: Insights from two case studies on digitalisation in the energy sector
2021. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 22 (2), 336–359. doi:10.1080/19452829.2021.1901672
Keeping it in the community
2021. Nature energy, 6, 777–778. doi:10.1038/s41560-021-00885-8
Interspecies Energy Justice: Bringing the Nonhuman World into the Energy Transition Debate
2021. 4S Annual Meeting, Toronto, Kanada (2021), Online, October 6–9, 2021
Framing transport justice through the eyes of fare-free public transport activism
2021. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (2021), Online, August 31–September 2, 2021
Designing for justice in electricity systems: A comparison of smart grid experiments in the Netherlands
2020. Energy policy, 147, Art.-Nr.: 111720. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111720
The capability approach as a normative framework for technology assessment
2019. TATuP: Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 28 (1), 52–57. doi:10.14512/tatup.28.1.52
Energy Justice and Smart Grid Systems: Evidence from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
2018. Applied energy, 229, 1244–1259. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.08.053