All Outputs (18)

Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems (2023)
Journal Article

The UK’s abundant municipal water supply has resulted in slow progress with the uptake of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems within the home. Research has indicated that exploring public preferences for domestic RWH are necessary for increasing deman... Read More about Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems.

Rebuffing the ‘hard to reach’ narrative: How to engage diverse groups in participation for resilience (2023)
Journal Article

Across three years (2017–2020), the ESRC Seminar series, “Civil Agency, Society and Climate Adaptation to Weather Extremes” (CASCADE-NET) critically examined the changing role of civil society in extreme weather adaptation. One full-day seminar explo... Read More about Rebuffing the ‘hard to reach’ narrative: How to engage diverse groups in participation for resilience.

Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning (2023)
Journal Article

Climate change-related extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, requiring urgent action to effectively plan for them. While disabled women are one group likely to be disproportionately and negatively affected by disasters, they a... Read More about Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning.

Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article

Few studies have focused on value structures, experiences, and cultural diversity as it relates to bioswale planning and implementation. We used ‘Point of Opportunity Interactions’ to understand previously undocumented views of the Cantonese-speaking... Read More about Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure.

Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own — Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around blue-green infrastructure in dense urban communities (2023)
Journal Article

Introduction: There is increasing acceptance of the desirability of involving communities in stewardship activities around urban blue-green infrastructure (BGI) to generate acceptance, reduce vandalism and decrease the maintenance burden on authoriti... Read More about Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own — Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around blue-green infrastructure in dense urban communities.

Developing a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) community engagement framework template (2021)
Journal Article

There is growing recognition that Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) (parklands, swales, ponds and green roofs, etc.) can reduce flood-risk and also benefit public health and improve environmental quality (air/water quality, biodiversity, etc.). Communi... Read More about Developing a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) community engagement framework template.

Developing the implicit association test to uncover hidden preferences for sustainable drainage systems (2020)
Journal Article

Understanding public perceptions of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) is critical for addressing barriers to their implementation. Perceptions are typically evaluated using explicit measures (e.g. questionnaires) that are subject to biases and may... Read More about Developing the implicit association test to uncover hidden preferences for sustainable drainage systems.

The blue-green path to urban flood resilience (2019)
Journal Article

Achieving urban flood resilience at local, regional and national levels requires a transformative change in planning, design and implementation of urban water systems. Flood risk, wastewater and stormwater management should be re-envisaged and transf... Read More about The blue-green path to urban flood resilience.

Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is an approach to urban flood resilience, recognised globally and in international literature, that capitalises on the benefits of working with urban green-spaces and naturalised water-flows. Literature reveals... Read More about Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship.

Green roof perceptions: Newcastle, UK CBD owners/occupiers (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, Glyn Everett and Jessica Lamond. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of green roofs for commercial real estate building owners/occupiers in a UK city and consider how these might af... Read More about Green roof perceptions: Newcastle, UK CBD owners/occupiers.

‘The open typology’: Towards socially sustainable architectural and care types (2019)
Journal Article

One aspect that characterises the twenty-first century is its accomplishments such as better health-care systems, improved economies, a reduction in infant mortality and a growing number of adults living longer. However, these accomplishments can hav... Read More about ‘The open typology’: Towards socially sustainable architectural and care types.

Initiating and continuing participation in citizen science for natural history (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Everett and Geoghegan. Background: Natural history has a long tradition in the UK, dating back to before Charles Darwin. Developing from a principally amateur pursuit, natural history continues to attract both amateur and professional involvem... Read More about Initiating and continuing participation in citizen science for natural history.

Sustainable drainage systems: Helping people live with water (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Thomas Telford Services Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Sustainable drainage systems or ‘Suds’ are increasingly accepted as an effective means of ‘making space for water’, adapting to possible climate change and helping communities become more floo... Read More about Sustainable drainage systems: Helping people live with water.

Delivering green streets: An exploration of changing perceptions and behaviours over time around bioswales in Portland, Oregon (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 The Authors. Journal of Flood Risk Management published by The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Green Infrastructure (GI) is an increasingly popular means of dealing with flooding and wat... Read More about Delivering green streets: An exploration of changing perceptions and behaviours over time around bioswales in Portland, Oregon.

Post-graduation reflections on the value of a degree (2009)
Journal Article

This article investigates the impact of a changing higher education system on young adults' priorities and motivations. A considerable number of studies have explored the impact of recent changes on patterns of participation within higher education.... Read More about Post-graduation reflections on the value of a degree.

New european learners? An analysis of the 'trendsetter' thesis (2008)
Journal Article

The prevalence of 'life planning': Evidence from UK graduates (2008)
Journal Article

At a time when 'personal development planning' is being rolled out across the UK higher education sector, this paper explores young adults' inclinations to plan for the future in relation to work, relationships and other aspects of life. Although Gid... Read More about The prevalence of 'life planning': Evidence from UK graduates.

The predominance of work-based training in young graduates' learning (2008)
Journal Article

This article draws upon results from an ESRC-funded research project exploring young graduates' attitudes to, and experiences of, further education or learning postgraduation. Respondents' narratives indicated a strong emphasis upon job-based learnin... Read More about The predominance of work-based training in young graduates' learning.