Outputs (64)

Building a sustainable future: A critical review of the UK’s timber in construction roadmap 2025 (2025)
Journal Article

This paper evaluates the Timber in Construction Roadmap 2025, which outlines a strategic framework for increasing the use of sustainable timber in the UK’s built environment. Recognising timber as a low-carbon, renewable material, the roadmap aligns... Read More about Building a sustainable future: A critical review of the UK’s timber in construction roadmap 2025.

Written evidence (Northern Ireland Affairs Committee): Economic growth in Northern Ireland new and emerging sectors (2025)
Report

This submission focuses on five key themes essential to Northern Ireland’s economic future:

1. Strategic opportunities in emerging and high-growth sectors
2. Skills development and talent pipelines
3. Innovation and research translation capacity... Read More about Written evidence (Northern Ireland Affairs Committee): Economic growth in Northern Ireland new and emerging sectors.

Pramod K. Nayar. 2024. Vulnerable Earth: The Literature of Climate Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, x + 295pp., £ 90.00. (2025)
Journal Article

Rivermaids: Participatory pedagogies, potencia and polyphonic voices in applied theatre practice (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract:
Rivermaids (UWE, Bristol, 2024), emerged from a cross-college pilot research collaboration within the University of the West of England (UWE: Geography, Drama and Climate Science), acta community theatre (Bristol) and the Roses Theatre (Te... Read More about Rivermaids: Participatory pedagogies, potencia and polyphonic voices in applied theatre practice.

Trends in Climate Legislation in the Carribean (2025)
Journal Article

This report provides a mapping review of climate legislation in the Caribbean region. We identified 78 climate laws across 16 Caribbean states, along with two constitutional provisions related to climate change. Six of the 16 countries considered in... Read More about Trends in Climate Legislation in the Carribean.

Doubling down on climate action in highways and transportation (2025)
Report

CLIMATES (Changing Landscapes for Infrastructure and Mobility: Assessing Transport and Environment Scenarios) is a 2024-25 initiative from the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (sponsored by Mott MacDonald and Ringway).

With eng... Read More about Doubling down on climate action in highways and transportation.

Are we all in it together? Constructions of responsible leadership through speechmaking at COP26 (2025)
Journal Article

The need for an alternative understanding of leadership that can address grand societal challenges, like the climate crisis, has inspired a rich research field under the umbrella of responsible leadership (RL). This paper explores how alternative mea... Read More about Are we all in it together? Constructions of responsible leadership through speechmaking at COP26.

Written evidence: Building support for the energy transition (Parliament Inquiry) (2025)
Report

This written evidence, submitted by Dr Tariq Umar, addresses key challenges and opportunities in the UK’s energy transition, with a focus on improving public understanding, financial clarity, and citizen engagement. It argues that while the UK Govern... Read More about Written evidence: Building support for the energy transition (Parliament Inquiry).

Co-developing participatory drama-based methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Creating healthy and sustainable cities (2025)
Digital Artefact

This short article summarises the major themes that will be addressed at the European Urban Research Association (EURA) Conference to be held in Bristol in June 2025. Contributors will share perspectives on how to create healthy and sustainable citi... Read More about Creating healthy and sustainable cities.

On-site identification of black soil thickness based on drill-core imaging and deep learning (2025)
Journal Article

Accurate identification of the black soil thickness from soil profiling is usually time-consuming and labor-intensive, while the on-site identification of black soil thickness by experts is challenging due to the notable transitional layer in the thi... Read More about On-site identification of black soil thickness based on drill-core imaging and deep learning.

Evaluation of four gridded climate products in streamflow and drought simulations in the Kelantan River Basin, Malaysia (2025)
Journal Article

The availability of meteorological stations is generally limited and sparsely dispersed in many regions. Gridded climate products (GCPs) are commonly utilized in hydro-climatic modelling due to their wide spatial and temporal coverage. This study aim... Read More about Evaluation of four gridded climate products in streamflow and drought simulations in the Kelantan River Basin, Malaysia.

Creating a learning environment that values multiple perspectives, in the face of climate related design challenges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation explores the importance of learning environments for Higher Education students that value multiple perspectives on a specific design challenge. Using examples from the classroom, this presentation will explore the vital role of inte... Read More about Creating a learning environment that values multiple perspectives, in the face of climate related design challenges.

Real-time assessment and measurement of soil carbon in agricultural land of Gloucestershire at a farm-scale (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Previous research promoted carbon assessment and flow of human and natural capital to remediate atmospheric carbon emissions on farms. However, differences among types of agricultural land are often not included as part of measurement methods. This s... Read More about Real-time assessment and measurement of soil carbon in agricultural land of Gloucestershire at a farm-scale.

Retrofit information challenges and potential solutions: Perspectives of households, retrofit professionals and local policy makers in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article

Rapidly scaling up energy retrofit for existing buildings is critical to help meet climate targets. Information is frequently identified as a key barrier to residential retrofit. This paper explores the role of information sharing in accelerating ret... Read More about Retrofit information challenges and potential solutions: Perspectives of households, retrofit professionals and local policy makers in the United Kingdom.

Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks (2024)
Journal Article

Floods often cause significant damage to transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways, and bridges. This study identifies several topographic, environmental, and hydrological factors (slope, elevation, rainfall, land use and cover, distance... Read More about Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks.

Investigating a deep learning approach to real-time air quality prediction and visualisation on UK highways (2024)
Thesis

The construction of intercity highways by the United Kingdom (UK) government has resulted in a progressive increase in vehicle emissions and pollution from noise, dust, and vibrations amid growing concerns about air pollution. Existing roadside pollu... Read More about Investigating a deep learning approach to real-time air quality prediction and visualisation on UK highways.

SmartBioC Top Trumps (2024)
Physical Artefact

"SmartBioC’s Top Trumps" is a card game designed to playfully display information on the performance of biobased building assemblies and compare them against traditional construction methods.

The cards use SmartBioC’s multi-criteria assessment fra... Read More about SmartBioC Top Trumps.

Environmental assessment of cement production with added graphene (2024)
Journal Article

Cement production significantly contributes to climate change, necessitating alternatives to mitigate the environmental impacts of this essential construction material. This study evaluates 18 environmental impacts of producing Ordinary Portland Ceme... Read More about Environmental assessment of cement production with added graphene.

Experimental and operations viability assessment of powder-to-powder (P2P) mixture of graphene and cement for industrial applications (2024)
Journal Article

Studies have demonstrated that a minute quantity of graphene is sufficient to boost cement characteristics, but the attainment of good dispersion and uniformity of the resultant graphene-cement mixture remains a challenge. To alleviate these challeng... Read More about Experimental and operations viability assessment of powder-to-powder (P2P) mixture of graphene and cement for industrial applications.