After 8 years in Bristol, first as a PhD student and then as a Research Fellow, AQMRC has bid farewell to Dr Nurul Leksmono. Nurul has returned to her home city of Jakarta, Indonesia to work for the environmental consultancy ERM. We wish Nurul well in this the next part of her career and we look forward to the opportunity for collaborating on some interesting and challenging new projects.
Nurul first joined AQMRC in 2001 to study for a PhD funded by the Environment Agency. Her PhD 'Sustainable, proportionate and cost-effective action plans to deliver air quality objectives within AQMAs' explored the relationship between the LAQM and the IPPC regimes and focused on the application of the above principles within the development of air quality action plans. Her PhD was supervised by Jimi Irwin, Katy Ling and Jim Longhurst.
Following the award of her PhD Nurul worked on a range of AQMRC projects including the ESRC 'Science in Society' project 'Consultation as Science Communication' (see http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/esrc/), the ESRC Impact project 'Mediating Consultation: Private Sector Consultancies Engagement in Local Air Quality Management Consultation' (see http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/Mediating_Consultation.html) as well as providing technical and policy support for AQMRC activities including the Defra Review and Assessment contract and a wide range of LAQM projects.
Everyone in AQMRC will miss Nurul greatly, and wish her all the best.
