New UK Centre on Energy Demand announced

Tim is Co-Investigator on a new £19.5 million research centre funded by the EPSRC and ESRC that has been announced today.

The  UK Centre for Research on Energy Demand (UKCRED) brings together a world-leading and multi-disciplinary group of over 40 academics at 13 institutions across the UK, and will be led by the RCUK Energy Demand Research Champion, Professor Nick Eyre, at the University of Oxford.

 

The centre will develop and deliver internationally leading research, focusing on energy demand from a systemic, socio-technical perspective.

 

https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newukcentreforresearchonenergydemandannouncedbyepsrcandesrc/

 

 

 

Tim gives kick-off plenary presentation at Air Quality 2018 Conference

On Monday 12^th March, Tim gave the introductory plenary presentation at the 2018 Air Quality: Science and Application conference in Barcelona.  The talk, “Putting People at the Heart of Air Quality Management”, based around the work of the ClairCity (www.ClairCity.eu), MOT (www.MoOTproject.net) and Disruption (www.DisruptionProject.net/ www.fleximobility.solutions) posed challenges to the scientific air pollution community to work view air pollution as a social problem as well as ether an environmental one.

 

A copy of the one-page abstract and slides is available from the link below:

Chatterton, T., Hayes, E., Barnes, J., De Vito, L., Boushel, C., Husby, T., Ivanova, O., Csobod, E., Szuppinger, P. and Heves, G. (2018) Putting people at the heart of air quality management. In: Air Quality 2018: Science and Application, Barcelona, Spain, 12-16 March 2018. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35484

Tim Gives Masterclass on Planning and Air Quality

On 20^th January, Tim presented at a Developer Masterclass on “Air quality and its impact on planning and development”.

The event was hosted by TLT and Peter Brett Associates and held at the TLT offices in Bristol.  Tim presented alongside Graham Harker, the Air Quality Team Leader at PBA.