LISIS - Bruno Turnheim

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Bruno Turnheim, PhD, MSc, MSc Ing.
Chargé de Recherche (CRCN), INRAE Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés (UMR LISIS)
Chercheur associé, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Université de Manchester

Bruno Turnheim est Chargé de Recherche (CRCN), à l’INRAE et membre du Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés (UMR LISIS). Il est également chercheur associé au Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) de l’Université de Manchester. Ses recherches portent sur la gouvernance des transitions socio-techniques, avec une attention particulière pour la déstabilisation et l’abandon des systèmes établis, ainsi que pour les enjeux politiques des transitions vers la durabilité. Ses travaux couvrent les secteurs de l’énergie, de la mobilité et de l’agroalimentaire, et sont reconnus pour leur approche interdisciplinaire, à la croisée des études sur les transitions, des études sur l’innovation, des sciences et technologies studies (STS) et des politiques environnementales.

Formation

Doctorat en Politique des Sciences et de la Technologie, SPRU, Université de Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Master en Écologie Industrielle, Université de Technologie de Chalmers, Suède
Diplôme d’ingénieur (Sciences de l’Environnement et Chimie), École des Mines de Douai, France

Domaines de recherche

Transitions socio-techniques et gouvernance
Déstabilisation, abandon progressif et déclin des régimes établis
Transitions vers la durabilité dans les secteurs de l’énergie, de la mobilité et de l’agroalimentaire
Agroécologie et patrimoine agroécologique
Méthodologies de recherche interdisciplinaires et comparatives
Interface science-politique pour les transformations systémiques

Expérience professionnelle

Chargé de Recherche (CRCN), INRAE, UMR LISIS (depuis 2021)
Honorary Research Fellow, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), University of Manchester (depuis 2018)
Experienced Researcher, INRAE, UMR LISIS (2020–2021)
Research Fellow, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), University of Manchester (2017–2020)
Research Fellow, Department of Geography, King’s College London (2016–2017)
Marie Curie Fellow, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Rome (2013–2016)
Research Assistant, SPRU, University of Sussex (2008–2012)
Research Assistant, IES, Vrije Univeristeit Brussel (2007)
Research Assistant, Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg (2006)

Responsabilités éditoriales et d’animation

Co-lead, Thematic Group ‘Innovation and Transitions’, LISIS (2021–present)
Editor, Edward Elgar series on ‘Destabilisation, Discontinuation and Decline as Horizons for Transformation’ (2023–present)
Coordinating Lead Author, UNEP GEO7 Report, Chapter on System Transformations (2022–present)
Elected Steering Group Member, Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) (2016–present)

Sélection de Publications

Ouvrages et direction d’ouvrages

Koretsky, Z., Stegmaier, P., Turnheim, B., van Lente, H. (Eds.) (2023). Technologies in Decline: Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation, Routledge.

Geels, F.W., Turnheim, B. (2022). The Great Reconfiguration: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Low-Carbon Transitions in UK Electricity, Heat, and Mobility Systems, Cambridge University Press.

Turnheim, B., Kivimaa, P., Berkhout, F. (Eds.) (2018). Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments, Cambridge University Press.

Articles à comité de lecture

Gaillard, B., Turnheim, B., Belmin, R., Loconto, A.M. (2025). Socio-technical lock-in as alignment process: tracing the joint development of pesticide dependency and vegetable production in Senegal (1900–2024), Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 56, 100997.

Turnheim, B. (2023). The historical dismantling of tramways as a case of destabilisation and phase-out of established system, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, 47.

Rinscheid, A., Rosenbloom, D., Markard, J., Turnheim, B. (2021). From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

Sovacool, B.K., Turnheim, B., Hook, A., Brock, A., Martiskainen, M. (2021). Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways, World Development, 137, 105116.

Sengers, F., Turnheim, B., Berkhout, F. (2020). Beyond Experiments: Embedding Outcomes in Climate Governance, Environment and Planning C.

Sovacool, B.K., Turnheim, B., Martiskainen, M., Brown, D., Kivimaa, P. (2020). Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era, Energy Research & Social Science.

Sovacool, B.K., Hook, A., Martiskainen, M., Brock, A., Turnheim, B. (2020). The decarbonisation divide: Contextualizing landscapes of low-carbon exploitation and toxicity in Africa, Global Environmental Change, 60, 102028.

Sovacool, B.K., Hess, D.J., et al., Turnheim, B. (2020). Sociotechnical agendas: reviewing future directions for energy and climate research, Energy Research & Social Science.

Turnheim, B., Asquith, M., Geels, F.W. (2020). Making sustainability transitions research policy-relevant: Challenges at the science-policy interface, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 116–120.

Turnheim, B., Sovacool, B.K. (2020). Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 37, 267–289.

Turnheim, B., Sovacool, B.K. (2020). Forever stuck in old ways? Pluralising incumbencies in sustainability transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 35, 180–184.

van Sluisveld, M.A.E., Hof, A.F., van Vuuren, D.P., Carrara, S., Geels, F.W., Turnheim, B., Nilsson, M., Rogge, K. (2020). Aligning Integrated Assessment Modelling with Socio-Technical Transition insights: an application to low-carbon energy scenario analysis in Europe, Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

Turnheim, B., Geels, F.W. (2019). Incumbent actors, guided search paths, and landmark projects in infra-system transitions: Re-thinking Strategic Niche Management with a case study of French tramway diffusion (1971–2016), Research Policy, 48, 1412–1428.

Turnheim, B., Nykvist, B. (2019). Opening up the feasibility of sustainability transitions pathways (STPs): Representations, potentials, and conditions, Research Policy, 48, 775–788.

Turnheim, B., Sovacool, B.K. (2019). Forever stuck in old ways? Pluralising incumbencies in sustainability transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 0–1.

Köhler, J., et al., Turnheim, B. (2019). An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 31, 1–32.

Köhler, J., Turnheim, B., Hodson, M. (2018). Low Carbon Transitions Pathways in Mobility: applying the MLP in a combined case study and simulation bridging analysis, Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

Roberts, C., Geels, F.W., Lockwood, M., Newell, P., Schmitz, H., Turnheim, B., Jordan, A. (2018). The Politics of Low-Carbon Transitions: Towards a New Research Agenda, Energy Research & Social Science, 44, 304–311.

Turnheim, B., Berkhout, F., Geels, F.W., Hof, A., McMeekin, A., Nykvist, B., van Vuuren, D. (2015). Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges, Global Environmental Change, 35, 239–253.

Turnheim, B., Geels, F.W. (2013). The destabilisation of existing regimes in socio-technical transitions: Confronting a multi-dimensional framework with a case study of the British coal industry (1913–1967), Research Policy, 42, 1759–1767.

Turnheim, B., Geels, F.W. (2012). Regime destabilisation as the flipside of energy transitions: Lessons from the history of the British coal industry (1913–1997), Energy Policy, 50, 35–49.

Tezcan, M., Turnheim, B. (2010). Complex Governance to Cope with Global Environmental Risk: An assessment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Science and Engineering Ethics, 16(3), 517–533.

Sterner, T., Turnheim, B. (2008). Innovation and Diffusion of Environmental Technology: Industrial NOx Abatement in Sweden under Refunded Emission Payments, Ecological Economics, 68(12), 2996–3006.

Rapports et contributions aux politiques publiques

Lead Author, European Environment Agency (2019). Sustainability transitions: policy and practice.
Coordinating Lead Author, UNEP GEO7 Report, Chapter on System Transformations (2025).

Presence en ligne

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0395-2501
Google Scholar: Bruno Turnheim

VERSION EN ANGLAIS

Bruno Turnheim, PhD, MSc, MSc Eng.
Permanent Researcher (CRCN), INRAE Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (UMR LISIS)
Honorary Research Fellow, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), University of Manchester

Bruno Turnheim is a Permanent Researcher (CRCN) at INRAE and a member of the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS). He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), University of Manchester. His research focuses on the governance of socio-technical transitions, with a particular emphasis on the destabilisation and phase-out of established systems, and the politics of sustainability transitions. His work spans energy, mobility, and agri-food sectors, and is recognized for its interdisciplinary approach, bridging transitions studies, innovation studies, science and technology studies (STS), and environmental policy.

Education

PhD in Science and Technology Policy Research, SPRU, University of Sussex, UK
MSc in Industrial Ecology, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
MSc in Engineering (Environmental Science and Chemistry), École des Mines de Douai, France

Research Interests

Socio-technical transitions and governance
Destabilisation, phase-out, and decline of established regimes
Sustainability transitions in energy, mobility, and agri-food
Agroecology and agroecological heritage
Interdisciplinary and comparative research methodologies
Science-policy interface for system transformations

Professional Experience

Permanent Researcher (CRCN), INRAE, UMR LISIS (2021–present)
Honorary Research Fellow, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), University of Manchester (2018–present)
Experienced Researcher, INRAE, UMR LISIS (2020–2021)
Research Fellow, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), University of Manchester (2017–2020)
Research Fellow, Department of Geography, King’s College London (2016–2017)
Marie Curie Fellow, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Rome (2013–2016)
Research Assistant, SPRU, University of Sussex (2008–2012)
Research Assistant, IES, Vrije Univeristeit Brussel (2007)
Research Assistant, Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg (2006)

Leadership and Editorial Roles

Co-lead, Thematic Group ‘Innovation and Transitions’, LISIS (2021–present)
Editor, Edward Elgar series on ‘Destabilisation, Discontinuation and Decline as Horizons for Transformation’ (2023–present)
Coordinating Lead Author, UNEP GEO7 Report, Chapter on System Transformations (2022–present)
Elected Steering Group Member, Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) (2016–present)

Selected Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Koretsky, Z., Stegmaier, P., Turnheim, B., van Lente, H. (Eds.) (2023). Technologies in Decline: Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation, Routledge.

Geels, F.W., Turnheim, B. (2022). The Great Reconfiguration: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Low-Carbon Transitions in UK Electricity, Heat, and Mobility Systems, Cambridge University Press.

Turnheim, B., Kivimaa, P., Berkhout, F. (Eds.) (2018). Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments, Cambridge University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles