This document summarizes three research projects conducted by Professor Karen Henwood and her team exploring sustainable energy and environmental risk through social science methods and public engagement. The projects include: 1) Making Sense of Sustainability which used arts and social science to facilitate environmental discussions; 2) Energy Biographies which examined energy use through biographical stories and participant photography; and 3) Flexis which looks at potential social impacts of energy system transitions through "stories of change". The document then discusses the team's interpretivist and socio-cultural approach which investigates meaning-making through methods like interviews, text analysis, and participatory techniques involving arts to explore complex subjectivity, reflexivity, conviviality, and obliquity.