CfSD Researchers

CfSD

Dr Karen Lucas (lucask1@wmin.ac.uk)
Senior Research Fellow, Transport Studies Group; Centre for Sustainable Development Research Director

Research interests: Policy interfaces between transport, regeneration, sustainability and social exclusion; transport impact evaluation; developing qualitative methodologies in transport research

Related research activities include: Advisor to the Sustainable Development Research Network (Sustainable Development Unit, DETR); LA21 - When is it a model for joined-up community based activity? (Joseph Rowntree Foundation); Civilising Cities (RAC Foundation/DETR); Mind the Gap: transport the environment and social exclusion (Joseph Rowntree Foundation); Sustainable Property Development (Rees Jeffreys Road Fund); Making the links between polices for social exclusion and sustainable development (UOW).

Sara Fuller (s.fuller@westminster.ac.uk)

Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Development

Research interests: sustainable development policy and practice; interface between social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development;  environmental inequalities and environmental justice; environmental politics and participation; EU and UK policy making.

Related research activities include: Links between the social and environmental pillars of sustainable development (European Commission); Environmental justice, democracy and NGOs in the EU (University of Sheffield PhD studentship); Prioritising local environmental concerns within LSPs (Joseph Rowntree Foundation); What’s in a name? Local Agenda 21, community planning and neighbourhood renewal (Joseph Rowntree Foundation).

Wider CfSD Research Network

The following is an alphabetical list of researchers and academics who are members of the wider CfSD research network. Click on email addresses to contact the researchers.

Judith Allen (allenj1@wmin.ac.uk)
Principal Lecturer in Housing, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Research interests: Sustainability and social exclusion/cohesion and quality of life in neighbourhoods, minority ethnic issues, governance and neighbourhoods across Europe

Related research activities include: Scientific manager and English team leader for two EU funded cross-European research projects (Neighbourhood Housing Models for Cities of Tomorrow programme and Neighbourhoods and Governance for the Targeted Social and Economic Research programme)

Julian Allen (allenj@wmin.ac.uk)
Researcher, Transport Studies Group

Research interests: Freight logistics and sustainable distribution

Nick Bailey (baileyn@wmin.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer and Post-graduate Research Co-ordinator, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Research interests: Sustainable regeneration; community capacity building; public participation; teaching and learning strategies.

Related research activities include: Social capital and innovative forms of public participation; urban regeneration; trends in built environment labour markets.

Professor Mike Browne (brownem@wmin.ac.uk)
Exel Professor of Logistics

Research interests: logistics/distribution in cities and role of sustainability; e-commerce/home delivery (including environmental impacts)

Robin Crompton (cromptr@wmin.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Tim Edmundson (edmundt@wmin.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Research interests: Public participation in environmental planning; environmental planning for leisure, recreation, tourism and retailing; planning policy implementation - process and outcomes (development control); planning and transport.

Related research activities include: Planning for leisure and tourism (DETR); public participation in environmental planning (Brighton & Hove Unitary Council); community groups and planning (Planning Aid for London); quality of outcomes in the development control process (Sevenoaks District Council); retail planning and development (UOW); transport assessment of development plans (RTPI).

Paul Ekins (p.ekins@psi.org.uk)
Research Director, Environment Group at the Policy Studies Institute

Related research activities include: Advisor to the Sustainable Development Research Network (Sustainable Development Unit, DETR)

Dr Adam Eldridge (a.c.eldridge@wmin.ac.uk)

Senior Research Fellow, The Central Cities Institute

Research interests: Gender/sexuality and public space, the 24 hour city, identity and belonging, travel writing, and the relationship between geography, emotion and affect.

Related research activities: Research into the night-time economy, perceptions of public urination, and hen parties.

Bill Erikson (ericksb@wmin.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Catalina Gandelsonas (gandelc@wmin.ac.uk)
Researcher/Lecturer, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Research interests: Urban design analytical tools; space and behaviour; gender and urban design process; sustainable planning and management in developing countries; communication and development.

Related research activities include: Communication in development, communication and culture; urban design process and gender.

Bunny Hoover (hooverb@wmin.ac.uk)

Research interests: integrating health and sustainable development (especially within higher education)

Tony Lloyd-Jones (lloydjt@wmin.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer/Researcher, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Research interests: International development; urban design and development.

Related research activities include: Partnership approaches and cross-subsidisation of low-income urban development in core areas to Third World megacities (DfID).

Dr Graham Miller (g.miller01@wmin.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Research interests: indicators of sustainable tourism; corporate responsibility; social exclusion and tourism (people with disabilities)

Dr Marion Roberts (robertm@wmin.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer/Researcher, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Research interests: Urban design, especially cultural regeneration, gender relations and future city structure.

Related research activities include: Investigation of urban dynamics in the Bankside Cultural Quarter, London; exploration of connections between gender relations and future city structure.

Bill Smith-Bowers (smithbw@wmin.ac.uk)
Lecturer, Department of Urban Development and Regeneration

Research interests: Housing Policy and Finance, with particular reference to sustainable and affordable social housing.

Related research activities: Recent research contracts included: work on housing finance and sustainable social housing in London, SRB project Finsbury Park Partnership on the private rented sector, rent arrears and housing association finance, and authorship of the London Housing Federation's 'Temporary Housing Contribution to affordable Housing in London'.

Sam Sumar (sumars@wmin.ac.uk)
Department of Food Nutrition and Public Health

Howard Tyers (tyersh@wmin.ac.uk)

Field manager and Strategic Advisor for International Development Programmes providing support for International Partnerships Projects in International Education

Research interests: Strategies for sustainable poverty alleviation; international development assistance to developing countries; the growth of the private education in Africa; the contribution of the African higher education to development.

Related activities include: health of school children; sustainable development programmes and research; public sector reform programmes/research; and examples of good practice/equity programmes

Professor Peter White (whitep1@wmin.ac.uk)