Hydrogen Hub Futures

R&D Focus Areas:
Local communities, Socio-technical risks

Lead Organisation:
Monash University

Partners:
Not applicable

Status:
Active

Start date:
January 2025

Completion date:
December 2027

Key contacts:
Dr Kari Dahlgren: kari.dahlgren@monash.edu

Funding:
AUD$508,377 – Australian Research Council (ARC)

Project total cost:
To be completed.

Project summary description:
This project aims to assist Australia’s developing hydrogen industry by critically examining the hydrogen hub model and its impact on regional communities. This project expects to generate new knowledge by being the first ethnographic study of Australia’s emerging hydrogen industry. Expected outcomes of this project include enhanced understanding of the consequences of the hydrogen hub model and its impacts for regional communities, theoretical development in the social sciences of industrial decarbonisation, a documentary film for research dissemination, and policy recommendations for hydrogen development planning that take into account community concerns and desires.

Related publications and key links:
Grant – Grants Data Portal

Higher degree studies supported:
One PhD student is supported.

 

January 2025