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212:. She started her doctoral research in 1983, completing it in 1988 and thereafter worked as a consultant from home through her network of contacts until 1991. Her research brought together information from physics, building engineering, human physiology, economics and sociology for a novel broad view of fuel poverty. The major conclusion was that energy-inefficient housing stock was the fundamental reason for
248:. It involved the ratio of energy cost to household income to achieve a satisfactory household heating regime, which she termed 'affordable warmth'. This equation was used by the UK government to inform policy for over 20 years until revised by the Hills Review for use in England, although it continued to be used by governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for at least another decade.
271:. In 1993 she began the first of several DECADE (Domestic Equipment and Carbon Dioxide Emissions]) projects funded by industry, the UK government and the European Commission, developing a model for energy use by the UK's domestic appliances. The outcomes were adopted into UK government policy and have been developed further subsequently. The
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Boardman was not able to go to university immediately after she left school because of a misunderstanding about the date of one A-level examination, resulting in her not taking it. Instead, she took a secretarial course. This enabled her to work while she travelled around the world in the 1960s. She
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is one of the outcomes. For some time her research, therefore, moved away from fuel poverty and into the efficiency of appliances. She eventually became head of the Lower Carbon
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and fuel poverty in her book as a further reason for needing to have energy-efficient homes. Cold houses use energy inefficiently and thus cause unnecessary carbon dioxide emissions. This link continued to be another theme in her work.
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Boardman was especially interested in fuel poverty and how energy is used in low-income homes. She developed the first technical definition of fuel poverty during her doctoral research and it was presented in 1991 in her book
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