Academic Employment
2023-present – Lecturer, Urban Planning & Development (T&R), School of Geography & Planning, Cardiff University
I have taught on the following modules:
CP0148 Making Knowledge
CP0149 Key Issues in Urban Planning (Module Leader)
CP0272 Geographies of Work and Employability (Module Leader)
CP0273 Developing Research Methods (Module Leader)
CP0354 Professional Placement in Planning Practice
CP0370 Urban Design Guidance in Planning Practice (Module Leader)
CP0383 Research Dissertation
CPT831 Live Project
CPT855 Environmental Management and Climate Change
CPT857 Planning and Real Estate
CPT877 Transport and the City (Module Leader)
2021-23 - Research Associate, WISERD, Cardiff University
ESRC: Experts, expertise and citizen science: A case study of air quality monitoring
PI: Prof Rob Evans; Co-I: Dr Jamie Lewis
Action Research: An interdisciplinary ESRC examination into how and why a community use citizen science to protest about air quality. My role in WISERD was to: 1) liaise with the community and manage a small team of twelve community scientists, 2) establish a local network of air quality monitors, 3) share knowledge of the planning system and 4) to evaluate approaches to gathering data from the monitors. I undertook all 30 qualitative interviews and helped create and run three learning workshops held at Cardiff University's SPARK / SBRC facility.
2018-21 – Lecturer (T&R), School of Geography & Planning, Cardiff University
I taught on the following modules:
CP0145 Property, Urban Development and Regeneration
CP0148 Making Knowledge: Evidence and Practice
CP0149 Key Issues in Urban Planning
CP0246 Citizen Geographies (Module Leader)
CP0263 Sustainable Development: Concepts, Practices and Challenges
CPT826 Environmental Management
CPT855 Environmental Policy
CPT872 Methods Design
CPT878 Planning for Sustainability
CPT885 Governance of Eco-city Development (Module Leader)
CPT893 Researching Urban and Regional Development (Module Leader)
CPT898 Foundations of Social Science Research
I supervised Undergraduate and Postgraduate dissertations and continue to co-supervise a PhD student on a sustainable waste governance study in Libya.
2016-18 – Contract Research/ Lecturer, School of Geog. & Plan., Cardiff University
I taught on the following modules:
CP0136 Introducing Research Methods (GIS)
CP0149 Key Issues in Urban Planning
CPT826 Environmental Management
CPT878 Planning for Sustainability
CPT885 Governance of Eco city Development
As Research Associate:
1) ESRC: UK Environmental Governance Post-Brexit: What Will Happen to Waste?
Partner: Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM). PI: Prof Richard Cowell.
- 16 interviews, a workshop event and an industry focus group in Westminster.
- Analysed contested narratives around the EU’s proposed Circular Economy package
- Showed importance of geography to Brexit & political economy of waste management.
2) ESRC: Spark / Panalpina Challenge on the Circular Economy
Partner: Panalpina Group (supply chain logistics); PI: Prof Andrew Flynn.
- Undertook 16 interviews and analysis of trends in supply chains in terms of standards.
3) Green Infrastructure research: examining shifting contextual meanings of ‘green infrastructure’. With Prof Andrew Flynn and Dr Andrea Frank.
2013 - Research Assistant, School of City & Regional Planning, Cardiff University
EC DG Sanco: socio-economic research - agricultural transition. PI: Prof Mara Miele.
- Analysis of national compliance with EC governance on animal welfare (EUWelNet).
- Worked with colleagues in 12 EU countries; 14 qualitative interviews and country data.
2010-13 – Research Assistant, Low Carbon Research Institute, Cardiff University
EPSRC: socio-technical research – a hydrogen storage transition. PI: Prof Malcolm Eames.
- Case studies and policy analysis of £2.5m Supergen XIV consortium.
- Covered theory of innovations applied to the production of green hydrogen & fuel cells.
2009-10 – Development Officer, WHIA Support Unit (Public Health Wales)/ Cardiff Uni
Action research: with Dr Eva Elliott and Prof Gareth Williams from the School of Social Sciences. Using health impact assessment (HIA) to examine siting an incinerator in Cardiff.
