EVALOC is an exciting, novel and collaborative three-year Research Councils UK funded research project which brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from building science and social science disciplines based in the Low Carbon Building Group of Oxford Brookes University and the Environmental Change Institute of University of Oxford. EVALOC has been awarded funding of £1.14 million (Grant reference: RES-628-25-0012) from RCUK/ESRC as part of the Energy and Communities programme.