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The Research Impact teams supporting the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences are delighted to announce the launch of INTERCHANGE, a community of practice series designed to nurture a collegial approach to impact, as well as foster inter- and multi-disciplinary impact opportunities.

Each session will focus on a different topic or aspect of research impact, and will host speakers with experience in that area who will share an overview of their work and the insights they have gained. This will be followed by a Q&A, as well as a chance to further discuss the topic, network, and for the audience to share any experience and reflections they might have, too.

• Interchange is open to all researchers at any career stage. Doctoral students are also welcome.
• Lunch will be provided – please make sure to register your attendance so that we can cater accordingly.

Please find details of the first session below – we look forward to seeing you!

Growing demand for electrical energy storage is producing new transnational economies of battery production, as firms, states and other actors cooperate and compete to capture value from electrical energy storage. The boom in ‘gigafactory’ construction is well known, but what about the wider geographies that battery production sets in motion? What worlds are being formed through the rise of energy storage in electric vehicles and stationary applications?

In this talk Professor Bridge will unpack some of the emergent geographies of lithium-ion battery manufacturing, from raw material production through to recycling, using a global production networks approach. This will highlight a fundamental tension between globalising supply chains to reduce costs and the strategy of states (like the UK) to ‘onshore’ battery supply as part of industrial strategy. He further demonstrates how organisational strategies of vertical integration, and the growing integration of batteries with automobile manufacturing and grid storage, are creating new geographies of battery production all along the value chain. The talk draws on collaborative work as part of UKERC-funded research on the .