University of Roehampton
Professor Anne Robertson is an Environmental Scientist with research interests in Freshwater Biodiversity- and in particular the biodiversity of groundwaters and the impact on freshwater ecosystems of disturbances such as climate change and emerging contaminants. She is increasingly interested in developing interdisciplinary approaches to address complex problems such as declining water quality and quantity and habitat loss.
Professor Garry Marvin is an anthropologist. The main focus of his research is that of human-animal relationships and he has written on bullfighting, cockfighting, zoos, human-wolf relationships, and recreational hunting. At present his research is focused on human-wildlife conflicts and coexistences and human-animal-environment issues.
Professor Lewis Halsey's research centres on the metabolic rate of organisms, seeking to quantify their energy expenditure and how it changes under different scenarios described by their environment (e.g. temperature), behaviour (e.g. active versus resting) or physiology (e.g. healthy v. immune compromised).
Professor Mick Cooper is a counselling psychologist with an interest in the interface between psychological and social/environmental change. He is author of 'Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society' (Bristol University, 2023). Mick is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative research methods and has published primarily in the areas of counselling for young people, humanistic therapies, and the development of more personalised and collaborative therapeutic practices.
Dr Angie Pepper is a moral and political philosopher with expertise in contemporary political philosophy, applied ethics, normative ethics, and analytic feminist philosophy. Her recent research focuses on what we owe to other animals.
Josh Appignanesi is a writer/director whose work spans fiction, documentary and the space in-between. His six feature films were released theatrically in over thirty territories and online in over a hundred, with work gaining festival Competition slots at Tribeca, Rotterdam, Cannes/ACID, Berlin and Sheffield, awards at London, Edinburgh, Turin, and BAFTA, BIFA, BAFTSS and AHRC Research In Film nominations.
Nick Mayhew-Smith is an author and researcher on landscape and environmental spirituality, looking at traditions that tie communities to the natural world, through place-making, ritual, story-telling and practice. His work has looked at the very long narratives that have developed in Christian tradition and cultures, particularly focusing on water-based spirituality as made manifest in clusters of beliefs and practice around natural springs, rivers, lakes and the sea. From the earliest church onwards, pre-Christian folk beliefs helped to shape Celtic spirituality in Atlantic Britain and Ireland, creating enduring patterns that Mayhew-Smith has studied extensively, and brought to a popular, modern audience through ongoing work with the British Pilgrimage Trust and his book Britain's Pilgrim Places (2020).
Rogerio Da-Silva has a background in computer science, specifically computer graphics and its applications in computer games, animations and virtual and augmented reality. His current research focuses on serious games i.e. games with a purpose such as education (edutainment), training, advertisement, medicine/ health.
Yuwei Lin is a sociologist specialised in science and technology studies. Her work endeavours to understand digital co-production cultures, socio-technical dynamics within and across these open, distributed, de-centralised, crowd-sourced, audience-led, user-participatory, community-based innovation systems. Her recent research interests concentrate on critical data studies, observing the big data, open data, algorithmic cultural phenomenon and related issues such as privacy, surveillance, automated discriminations by artificial intelligence (AI). Yuwei is experienced in conducting qualitative research online and offline. She is also exploring and experimenting how performance-led / art-led, sensory / experiential, creative methods can serve the purpose of gather good-quality data that can reflect the sophisticated interactions and relationships in increasingly ubiquitous digital environments.
Cecile Reed has wide ranging interests in aquatic ecology, aquatic parasitology and the benefits of restored aquatic ecosystems on human wellbeing and aquatic life.
Heike Salzer is a dance artist fluidly operating in performance, choreography and site specific screen dance. Her work is seeking to discover the unseen, the in-betweenness and the things that are in transformation. She sees the body as a place of inquiry utilising the visceral experience of tuning into the environment as a way to inform, reveal and reflect on place and emotional geographies of individuals, communities and society.
Muriel Tinel-Temple encourages and supervises students in their individual and creative practice, using all type of formats, including audio-visual essays, music videos, video installations, and the innovative re-use of archival material. An active researcher, she has published books on self-portrait in the moving-image, notably on early video works, and articles on the creative use of found footage and self-reflexive films.
Cranfield University
Dr Robert Grabowski is an environmental scientist specialized in the interdisciplinary study of rivers. He applies a whole system perspective to tackle fundamental scientific and applied challenges at the interface of geomorphology, ecology, and integrated land-water management. His PhD researchers use a range of methods (field work, laboratory experiments, analysis of remote sensing data, and modelling) to develop a process-based understanding of river-floodplain systems.
Professor Ian Holman is an environmental scientist whose research is focussed on understanding and modelling how changes in current and future land use and land management at catchment to national scales affect natural capital and ecosystem services, including water and climate regulation, water purification and food production.
Dr Andrea Momblanch is a water and environmental engineer specialised on catchment-scale water resources systems analysis. Her research focuses on the development of novel water management approaches, aided by modelling, to understand the trade-off between human and environmental water uses, and to discover new ways to reconcile and balance competing demands.
Dr Alison Parker is a hydrogeologist engaged in research and teaching in water and sanitation in low-income countries, including circular economy, managed aquifer recharge, gender, menstrual management and container-based sanitation.
Dr Pablo Campo Moreno is an environmental chemist studying the fate and occurrence of pollutants during water and wastewater treatments as well as bioremediation processes. Concurrent with these topics is his interest in implementing analytical methods to detect target contaminants and their transformation products.
Professor Bruce Jefferson is a chemical engineer conducting research on how the underlying process pathways can be better managed to deliver a paradigm shift in how we apply technology for sewage treatment and drinking water production to safeguard aquatic ecosystems and human health.
Dr May Sule is an environmental engineer specialising in the interactions between water, sanitation, hygiene and health systems. Her research focuses on the technical and non-technical (socio-economic) aspects of achieving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) success in line with the global sustainable development goals agenda.
Dr Heather Smith is a social scientist researching the governance, institutions and societal dimensions of the water and wastewater services sector. She is particularly interested in the relationship between governance and resilience, using an interdisciplinary perspective,
Dr Alesia Ofori is a social scientist with interest in how political, economic, and socio-cultural processes occurring within and across local and global levels impact sustainable resource use, development and governance. Her work is interdisciplinary, drawing on political economy, critical feminist and political ecology scholarship, and anthropological methodologies such as ethnography.
Dr Anil Graves is a social scientist who applies biophysical, social, economic, agronomic and ecological methods to assess and value of benefits and trade-offs in land use systems, arising through land use change, and under different future scenarios.
Dr Simon Jude is a transdisciplinary scientist that develops and evaluates new techniques, tools, and technologies to support improved decision-making. He is particularly interested in climate risk and adaptation, sensor technology for data collection, and marine environmental risks.
Dr Alice Johnston is an ecologist and modeller. Her research focuses on gaining a mechanistic understanding of how organisms interact with their environment to determine population-, community- and ecosystem-level responses to environmental change.
Professor Zhugen Yang is leading the development of innovative sensing technology in the water-environment-health-nexus. His low-cost origami paper device has been used for rapid diagnosis of infectious disease in wastewater networks. He is now keen to work with river scientists and community groups for new applications to river health.