Professor Andy Moffat

Offering Expertise in:

• Land reclamation
• Green infrastructure
• Urban/community forestry
• Sustainable ecosystems
• Monitoring and evaluation

Andy has worked in forestry and environmental research in both the rural and urban environments.?He has written government guidance on land reclamation, soil protection and waste recycling. He is now heads the Forestry Commission’s Centre for Forestry and Climate Change. His research interests include climate change, fire-setting, monitoring systems and communication across the science/policy interface.

Contact Andy by email, phone (01420 526202) or at Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey, GU10 4LH.

For more information on Professor Moffat, click here and to learn more about his relevant research see here.

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Dr Angela Druckman

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainable production and consumption strategies
• Carbon accounting
• Energy lifestyle mapping

Angela's current research interest focuses on investigating the linkages between lifestyles, resource use and emissions. She joined the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey as a Research Fellow in 2005 and is now a member of the ESRC Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE). Angela is a Chartered Engineer who has had a wide variety of experience, including lecturing in electronics, designing speech synthesis systems, developing a highly successful IT company, and campaigning on climate change issues.

Contact Angela by email, phone (+44 (0) 1483 686679) or at Centre for Environmental Strategy,University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK.

For more information on Dr. Druckman click here.

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Professor Angela hull

Offering Expertise in:

• Spatial planning and governance
• Sustainable urban management (transport, energy, housing growth)
• Evaluation and monitoring

Angela has led research on each of these areas for local authorities, private sector, UK and EU governments, and research councils. She worked as a land use planner for seven years in local authority and private practice before entering academia.

Contact Angela by email or phone (+44 (0)131 451 4407) .

For more information on Professor Hull, click here and to learn more about her relevant research see here.

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dr anil namdeo

Offering Expertise in:

• Modelling of traffic emission and air pollution
• Environmental assessment of land use and transport options
• Air quality and health impact assessment
• Carbon footprint and life cycle analysis

Anil is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. He is also a Chartered Environmentalist and a Senior Lecturer in Transport and Sustainability with special interest in traffic emissions, air quality and health. He has been involved in environmental assessment of many land-use and transport policies (including road user charging). He has developed a suite of models to facilitate modelling and mapping of traffic emissions (CO2, other gaseous pollutants and particles) and air quality. He has developed software for multi-criteria decision analysis of transport scenarios producing strategic environmental and health assessments.

Contact Anil by email, phone (0191 2228486) or at the Transport Operations Research Group (TORG), Newcastle University, Cassie Building, Claremont Road, Newcastle NE1 7RU.

For more information on Dr Namdeo, click here and to learn more about his relevant research see SOLUTIONS and TORG.

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Professor chris rogers

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainable urban regeneration
• Utility service provision
• Trenchless technologies
• Buried infrastructure and underground space
• Sustainable geotechnical engineering
• Alternative urban futures

Chris is a Geotechnical Engineer with research interests in the structural performance of buried pipelines, trenchless technologies for installation and on-line replacement of pipelines, road foundations, the chemical treatment of clay soils and collapsing soils. He currently leads research consortia focussing on sustainable urban regeneration and buried utility location and mapping.

Contact Chris by email, phone (0121 414 5066) or at School of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT.

For more information on Professor Rogers click here. For information on relevant projects, see Birmngham Eastside,Urban Futures and Mapping the Underworld.

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Professor David Butler

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainable urban water management
• Water efficiency, conservation and recycling
• Urban water system models and decision support tools
• Operational management of urban drainage
• Urban flooding

David has worked in consultancy and is currently in higher education. He continues to consult, and advise government bodies, the Environment Agency plus international agencies such as UNESCO on aspects of water management, especially in the urban context. He is best known for taking a wide and integrated view of water systems and developing the concept of urban water management.

Contact David by email, phone (01392 264064) or at the Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF.

For more information on Professor Butler, click here and to learn more about his relevant research see here.

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Professor Eckart Lange

Offering Expertise in:

• Landscape design and planning
• Environmental planning, EIA
• 3D-Visualisation and modelling
• Visual resource management
• Communication, participation

Eckart has done a range of work in these areas for the public and the private sector in Germany, Switzerland and the UK. He advises Research Councils and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency.

His research focuses on how landscape and environmental planning can influence and direct anthropogenic landscape change, while developing innovative methodologies of how advanced virtual landscape visualizations and modelling can be used to explore human reaction to these changes.

Contact Eckart by email, phone (0114 2220605) or at The University of Sheffield, Department of Landscape, Crookesmoor Building, Conduit Road, Sheffield S10 1FL.

For more information on Professor Lange click here.

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Professor Glenn Lyons

Offering Expertise in:

• Intelligent transport systems
• Telecommunications-transport interactions
• Attitudes and travel behaviour
• Demand management
• Teleworking
• Travel time use and value
• Traveller information systems

Contact Glenn by email or phone (07748 768404) or at the Centre for Transport & Society, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, BRISTOL BS16 1QY.

For more information on Professor Lyons, click here and to learn more about his relevant research see here.

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Professor Graeme Evans

Offering Expertise in:

• Urban design and planning
• Accessible transport
• Amenity and social infrastructure
• Economic and cluster development
• Urban regeneration

Graeme has worked in project management in industry (property, energy, transport), and in government, voluntary/community sectors and in academia/research. He advises ministries, regional and international agencies (OECD, UNESCO) on sustainable and creative cities. His interests include quality of life, urban regeneration, public transport, social/cultural infrastructure and urban design.

Contact Graeme by email, phone (020 7133 50333 ) or at Ladbroke House, 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD.

For more information on Professor Evans click here, and for major sustainable urban environment projects see AUNTSUE, VIVACITY and INSITU .

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Joe Doak

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainability strategies and appraisals
• Sustainability and spatial planning
• Sustainability and real estate
• Brownfield regeneration
• Community involvement

Joe is interested in approaching sustainability issues using ideas and frameworks drawn from complexity theory, actor-network theory and socio-technical systems. He has applied these perspectives to the study of brownfield redevelopment and changing real estate and planning practice.

Contact Joe by email, phone (0118 378 6420) or at School of Real Estate and Planning, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AW.

For more information on Joe Doak and his work click here.

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Mr John Barton

Offering Expertise in solid waste management covering the following aspects:

• Environmental impact / Life cycle assessment of waste management systems
• Design and performance assessment of recycling, recover, residual treatment and disposal systems
• Assessing Industrial, commercial and municipal waste arisings with a view to resource recovery

John worked in Government Research at Warren Spring Laboratory for 18 years and ran the Materials Recovery Division before joining Leeds University in 1994. He has extensive experience in providing research and consultancy services to EC bodies, government departments, Local Authorities and the Private Sector. He was appointed Specialist Advisor to House of Lords select committee on packaging waste (2002 and 2004). He is currently leading the waste management work package in ReVisions (SUE2 project).

Contact John by email, phone (0113 343 2278) or at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Woodhouse lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire. LS2 9JT.

For more information on John Barton click here.

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Dr John Forrester

Offering Expertise in:

• All aspects of stakeholder engagement
• Science communication
• Evidence-informed policy and decision making
• Social network analysis

John’s work is related to all aspects of human engagement with the science behind environmental issues and his research focuses on how different stakeholders such as citizens, policy actors, and scientists perceive environmental social and ecological research science, and how it is communicated between them.

Contact John by email, phone (01904 432893) or at SEI, University of York, UK, YO10 5DD.

For more information on Dr Forrester and his work click here and see VIVACITY and INSITU .

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Professor Keith Jones

Offering Expertise in:

• Facilities Management
• Performance of buildings in use (commercial and domestic)
• Community resilience to climate change
• Climate change induced building and infra-structure obsolescence
• Sustainability of social housing
• Maintenance of social housing
• Modern methods of construction

Keith has worked maintenance and facilities management for over 15 years. He has been involved in interpreting the sustainability agenda to existing built assets and has developed a number of approaches to assessing the performance of buildings/infra-structure in-use. He acts as a consultant to industry and the public sector.

Contact Keith by email or phone (0208 331 9260) or at the School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, Avery Hill Campus, mansion Site, Bexley Road, Eltham, London SE9 2PQ .

For more information on Professor Jones click here.

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Professor Malcolm Horner

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainability assessment tools
• Life cycle analysis
• Whole life costing
• Full cost accounting
• Asset management

Malcolm is Chairman of a spin-out company from the University of Dundee (Whole Life Consultants Ltd|) set up specifically to commercialise the outputs from his research group. In addition to the topics above, he has expertise in labour productivity and project management and control systems.

Contact Malcolm by email, phone (01382 384350) or at the Division of Civil Engineering, the University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN.

For more information on Professor Horner, click here. For more information about his work on sustainable urban environments, click here and for more information on the work of his company, click here.

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Professor Malcolm Eames, Research Chair - Low Carbon Research Institute

Malcolm is an experienced research leader and PI of the recently completed Citizens Science for Sustainability project. He has a track record of successfully developing and managing innovative interdisciplinary research activities and teams in the field of environment, energy and sustainability. His current research interests span: hydrogen energy and the transition to a low carbon economy; energy and innovation policy; foresight and low carbon futures; socio-technical change, innovation and sustainability; participatory technology assessment; environmental justice; deliberative decision-making; and sustainable development research policy.

Contact Malcolm by email or phone (+44 029 20874753).

For more information on Professor Eames, click here. For more information about about the Citizens Science for Sustainability (SuScit), click here and for more information on the work of the Low Carbon Research Institute, click here.

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Professor Marcial Echenique

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainability in urban and regional planning
• Transport and urban design
• Integration of land use and transportation models
• Development and transport options for the Cambridge region
• Spatial implications of innovation, productivity and efficiency in cities

Marcial is an international expert in urban and regional planning and has been involved in the development of cities across the world. He is particularly interested in the role of transport and pioneered the integration of land use and transport models. He has acted as a consultant to numerous governments and international bodies, including the World Bank and the United Nations. He is Professorial Fellow of Churchill College, Principal Investigator of the EPSRC-funded SOLUTIONS and ReVISIONS research programmes and the Director of Cambridge Futures Study.

Contact Marcial by email, phone (+44 (0) 1223 332959) or at The Martin Centre, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX.

For more information on Professor Echenique click here. For current and recent projects, click Cambridge Futures, REVISIONS and SOLUTIONS .

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Professor Mike Kagioglou

Offering Expertise in:

• Health and Care Infrastructures
• Process Management and Improvement
• Performance Management
• Project and Construction Management
• Operations and Knowledge Management
• Benefits Realisation

Mike’s main areas of research include process and performance management and issues relating to service delivery through infrastructure development. His work is at the nexus of service and building design and operations with knowledge and performance management. A main focus of his work currently includes the issue of ‘Benefits Realisation’ through Health and Care infrastructure development.

Contact Mike by email, phone (0161 295 3855) or at University of Salford, School of the Built Environment (SOBE), 4th Floor, Maxwell Building, Salford M5 4WT

For more information on Professor Kagioglou, click here and here, and see HaCIRIC.

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Professor Mike McDonald

Offering Expertise in:

• Traffic Management and Control
• Intelligent Transport Systems
• Impact Evaluation of Sustainable Transport
• Urban Futures

Mike has substantial research contracts in the areas of traffic management and control, the application of new technology to transport, safety and transport foresight. He has experience of working on transport projects throughout the developing world as a Director of Roughton and Partners. He was a founder member of ITS UK and is Vice Chair of the European Road Research Advisory Council.

Contact Mike by email, phone (023 8059 2192) Transportation Research Group, School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ.

For more information on Professor MacDonald click here.

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Neil Paulley

Offering Expertise in:

• Transport policy
• Demand forecasting
• Demand management
• Land-use/transport interaction
• Modelling

Neil has worked extensively for the DfT and for the HA on a range of issues and has led multi-institutional research teams in the UK and in Europe. His wider interests include the underlying causes of observed travel patterns, behavioural responses to investment initiatives and local authority decision making processes. At TRL he is responsible for formulating and delivering longer-term research programmes and for ensuring technical quality.

Contact Neil by email or phone (01344 770171) or at Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne House, Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 3GA.

For more information on Neil Paulley, click here and to learn more about his SUE research see DISTILLATE.

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Dr nicola dempsey

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainable urban development
• Quality of the urban environment and green space
• Measuring the urban environment and green space
• The relationship between the (design of the) urban environment and social cohesion, quality of life and wellbeing.

Nicola has worked in academia/ research and in the public and voluntary/ community sectors. Her broad research interest focuses on how the physical environment (e.g. urban density, proximity to green space) influences the everyday lives of residents in different urban contexts at a range of scales including the city, neighbourhood and street.

Contact Nicola by email, phone (0114 2227121) or at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield, Floor 3, ICOSS, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP.

Nicola is currently working on the EU INTERREG funded project, MP4: Making Places Profitable, which focuses on 'place-making' and 'place-keeping' in open spaces. www.mp4-interreg.eu

To learn more about her past project work click CITYFORM and I'DGO.

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Professor Paul Jowitt

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainability strategies and policies
• Sustainability assessments
• Triple bottom line reporting
• Water resources systems modelling
• Carbon accounting

Paul has undertaken a range of work in these areas for industry, the public sector, higher education and professional institutions. His wider research interests include sustainable development and risk, and the development of systems-level solutions within civil engineering and the built environment. Paul is currently Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London.

Contact Paul by email, phone (0131 451 8162) or at SISTech, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS.

For more information about Professor Jowitt click here and to find out more about his work see SISTech.

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Professor Peter Guthrie

Offering Expertise in:

• Decision making towards sustainable development
• waste and waste in construction
• large scale infrastructure projects
• energy policy in built environment
• planning for development

Contact Peter by email, phone (+44 (0)1223 765627) or at the Engineering Department, University of Cambrisge, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ.

For more information about Professor Guthrie click here or here to find out more about his work see ISSUES.

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Professor rachel cooper

Offering Expertise in:

• Design management and policy
• Design and construction processes
• Sustainable urban design decision-making
• Design against crime
• Wellbeing and the physical environment

Rachel’s expertise in design thinking means she works with public and private organisations across a number of sectors, construction, health, manufacturing, local and central government, addressing products, place process design. She heads ImaginationLancaster a Lab that enables people and organisations to come together to tackle critical, complex and contemporary questions in an interdisciplinary environment.

Contact Rachel by email or by phone (01524593119).

For more information about Professor Cooper's work see VivaCity2020, Urban Futures and Imagination Lancaster.

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Professor Roger Mackett

Offering Expertise in:

• Transport policy analysis
• Land use and transport modelling
• Travel behaviour
• Children’s travel behaviour and physical activity
• Social exclusion

Roger has carried out research into the influence of car use on children’s physical activity and car dependency and how children interact with the local environment, including walking and playing. He is currently involved in research into ways of making transport policies more socially inclusive in the AUNT SUE programme, where the software tool AMELIA is being developed. This is building on his earlier experience in developing integrated land use and transport models.

Contact Roger by email, phone (020 7679 1554) or at Centre for Transport Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.

For more information on Professor Mackett, click here. For details of his work see CAPABLE and AUNT-SUE .

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dr russell marshall

Offering Expertise in:

• Inclusive and Accessible design and transport
• Design Ergonomics
• Digital Human Modelling
• Anthropometry

Russell’s research interests cover a broad range of topics within Product, Industrial and Engineering Design including: Digital Human Modelling and tools and techniques for facilitating and empowering designers in human-centred design practice; Ergonomics and Human Factors in design, Modular product design, and drawing and visualisation.

Contact Russell by email, phone (01509 222669) or at the Department of Design and Technology, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU.

For more information about Dr Marshall click here and to find out more about his work at AUNTSUE see AUNTSUE.

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Steve Shaw

Steve Shaw is Director of the TRaC Research Centre at Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University. Following a previous career in urban planning, has led a number of ‘action research’ programmes to support practitioners who are working to make public spaces more accessible, safe and welcoming to more people.

Contact Steve by email, phone (020 7 133 3023) or at TRaC Research Centre, London Metropolitan University, Stapleton House, 277/281 Holloway Road, London N7 8HN.

For more information on Steve Shaw's work see Cities Institute, INSITU and AUNTSUE.

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Professor Tadj Oreszczyn

Offering Expertise in:

• Energy and buildings
• Health in buildings
• Moisture related problems in buildings

Tadj is Professor of Energy and Environment, Head of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London and Director of the UCL Energy Institute. A physicist by background he has been involved in researching energy efficient buildings since 1979. He has directed many large multi-disciplinary research projects into energy and health, socio-technical issues in energy efficiency and moisture related problems in buildings

Contact Tadj by email or phone (020 7679 5906) or at UCL Energy Institute North Cloister, Wilkins Building Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.

For more information on Professor Oreszczyn, click here. For more information on his research see major energy projects, sustainability energy and health and other built environmnet projects.

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Professor tim dixon

Offering Expertise in:

• Sustainable property & real estate
• Climate change and the built environment
• Sustainable urban development and brownfield issues
• The valuation/appraisal of contaminated land
• The role of private sector investment and development in urban regeneration
• The impact of new technologies on commercial property and real estate markets

In connection with this research agenda, Tim has carried out funded research for a variety of organisations, including EPSRC, Office of Deputy Prime Minister (and DTLR); Joseph Rowntree Foundation; British Property Federation; RICS; Foundation for Built Environment; British Council of Shopping Centres, British Council for Offices, as well as the private sector.

Contact Tim by email, phone (; 01865 8731130 or at Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Department of Real Estate and Construction, School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP.

For more information on Professor Dixon click here, and to learn more about the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development click here.

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dr Tony Hargreaves

Offering Expertise in:

• Transport planning
• Land use and transport interactions
• Sustainability of spatial planning for city regions

Tony has project managed multidisciplinary projects on land use and transport planning at the city-region scale. He previously advised government organisations on the planning and design of transport and large mixed-use development sites. His interests include developing models to integrate planning and design across the building, energy, transport, water and waste sectors.

Contact Tony by email, phone (01223 760128) or at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX.

For more information on Professor Hargeaves work see REVISIONS and SOLUTIONS.

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