Publication in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Bailey, R., Longhurst, J.W.S., Hayes, E.T., Hudson, L., Ragnarsdottir, K.V., and Thumim, J. (2012) Exploring a city’s potential low carbon futures using Delphi methods: some preliminary findings. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (In Press.)

Rose’s paper is now available online, at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09640568.2011.635192

The paper discusses the results from the first round of Delphi questionnaire survey that Rose undertook with a large expert group, to create scenarios for a low carbon 2050 Bristol region.

More information about Rose's research can be found on her webpage here.

Ozone Contract - Inception Meeting

On Thursday 16^th February Tim  represented UWE along with other colleagues from the EU AQDD Review consortium to present the inception report for the review of ozone contract to the European Commission.

TfL Olympics Travel Behaviour Legacy

 

On Wedesday 22^nd February, Tim has been invited to attend a TfL workshop on how to maximise the legacy of the Olympics in terms of improvements in travel behaviour.  He will be representing the Disruption project www.disruptionproject.net

UWE awarded the Carbon Trust Standard

UWE has been officially recertified and awarded the Carbon Trust Standard which shows we have taken real action on climate change by reducing our carbon emissions by 3.9% relatively since the footprint year.  This is a great recognition of our achievements in carbon reduction and demonstrates our commitment to reducing carbon emissions year on year.

 

The Carbon Trust Standard indicates which organisations can be trusted to have genuinely acted on climate change and committed to ongoing emission reductions.  It also shows that we are taking personal responsibility as a University to reducing the carbon emissions that we are directly responsible for rather than just paying to off-set our emissions.

Some of the projects that have enabled us to get the Carbon Trust Standard include investment in LED street lighting, improved insulation, motion sensitive lighting and lighting improvements, air handling unit optimisation, the Student Switch Off campaign and many more.

The Carbon Trust Standard requires us to recertify every two years, which means we will continue to keep working to cut our carbon emissions.

View our Sustainability pages to learn more about how UWE is tackling climate change and reducing our environmental impact.

AQMRC PhD research update

• David Williams recently  joined AQMRC as an EPSRC funded PhD student as part of the Disruption  project. His director of studies is Dr Tim Chatterton. Welcome David.
• Simon Baldwin has been awarded his PhD subject to minor corrections. His thesis was examined by Professor Bernard Fisher, Environment Agency, and Dr Tim Chatterton. Congratulations to Simon.
• Mofoluso Fagbeja has submitted his PhD thesis and will be examined in March by Dr Sarah Lindley, Manchester University, and Dr Enda Hayes.
• Rose Bailey will submit her thesis in March and she will be examined by Professor David Gibbs, Hull University, and Dr Tim Chatterton.
• Ross Hunter will submit his thesis in the Spring.
• Jo Barnes submitted her outline thesis this year and following a  successful  viva chaired by  Dr Enda Hayes has now progressed to the final stage of her research. Well done Jo.
• AQMRC staff have been active in examining PhD candidates. Jim Longhurst has recently examined theses from the University  Putra Malaysia and Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow India, and acted as internal examiner for a UWE PhD candidate. Dr Enda Hayes has examined a PhD thesis from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Tim goes back to Whitehall......

Tim has been successful in receiving an ESRC ‘Follow-On Fund’ award linked to his recent 12-month Fellowship in DECC. The award will allow him to spend 5-months over the next year extending the learning on Energy Behaviours from his original Fellowship with DECC, Defra, DfT and DCLG. The work will help to develop and implement ‘multi-model’ approaches to climate and energy behaviours within government (see Chatterton, 2011 http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/about/ec_social_res/sr_cus_insight/sr_cus_insight.aspx and Wilson and Chatterton, 2011 http://www.envplan.com/epa/editorials/a44404.pdf).

In addition to this, the opportunity to work simultaneously with 4 of the main climate change Departments will be used to help identify areas of weakness in terms of cross-departmental policies, and encourage more co-ordinated working.