Speakers

Richard is the Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy at the Grantham Centre. His role involves identifying and creating mechanisms to deliver real world impact from the Centre’s research through engagement with policy and decision makers. Richard is an energy and carbon specialist with an extensive experience in the private and public sectors delivering energy and carbon reduction projects and roadmaps for organisations of all types and scales.

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Danielle is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield. She is passionate about reducing the impact of the built environment on the planet.  She is the lead investigator of BuildZero, a research programme exploring whether the UK’s building stock needs can be met with zero raw material extraction, zero carbon and zero waste. 

Danielle also leads the South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre’s work on retrofit, which is exploring how to decarbonise the region’s homes. More broadly, Danielle’s research explores different methods to reduce the demand for new material use through circular economy principles.

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Hadi's research focuses on the challenges relating to resource consumption and productivity in urban systems in the context of planetary resource capacity and extreme climate change. Hadi has previously worked on spatially multi-scale examinations of urban systems and the extent to which their performance is influenced by their embedded physical infrastructure. 

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Ceri leads the South Yorkshire Retrofit Development Programme for the Mayoral Combined Authority. She works with regional and national partners to shape proposals and interventions for housing retrofit (improvements to increase energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption).

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Rachael is the Grantham Centre Co-Director and she supervises a number of Grantham Scholars. Recently she has become the director of the new South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre. She is also the Academic Lead for Sustainability across the whole of the University of Sheffield, spearheading the strategy and plan to make the University more sustainable.

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Matt is the Director of Research and Innovation for the School of Geography and Planning at the University of Sheffield. Matt's work is concerned with understanding social change in relation to sustainability, through a focus on everyday life and the socio-technical systems that shape it. He was a Co-Investigator at DEMAND Centre funded by the Research Councils UK to address ‘End Use Energy Demand Reduction‘.

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Stuart is a Research Fellow in Sustainability Assessment at the Grantham Centre. His interest lies in advancing the field of Life Cycle Assessment to include the dynamics of time and location, and fully understanding the impact and potential benefits of bio-based materials.

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Aimee is a Professor of Energy Policy in Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research is concerned with how energy and climate related policy (particularly relating to domestic carbon reduction) impacts lived experience in often unanticipated ways. Aimee has led more than 30 research projects and has authored over 30 peer reviewed articles in her area of expertise.

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Alex is a Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation. He focuses on the economics of climate change, nature recovery and inequality. In the past Alex held multiple research and consultancy positions through which he provided support to decision makers in governments and development banks on adaptation investment and climate risk assessment.

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Tony is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and the Co-Director of the Grantham Centre. His focus is on the global challenge of the food, water, and energy nexus; feeding a growing world population; reducing the impacts of agriculture and food production that account for 30% of green house gas emissions and 70% of water use; and harnessing the power of the sun for food production and renewable energy.

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Rosamund is the founder, director, and trustee of the Ella Roberta Foundation, named after her daughter Ella who tragically died aged 9 from air pollution, and is the only person in the world to have it listed as the cause of death on her death certificate. 

A WHO Breathe Life Champion, Rosamund is one of the most prominent advocates for clean air worldwide, a powerful voice in the air pollution debate. Her determination to highlight the human cost of air pollution has led to her addressing audiences all over the world; from her recent TED Talk to conversations with other eminent environmentalist and health advocates. Rosamund's work frequently involves lobbying politicians, as well as medical professionals, for more education and stronger legislation when it comes to air pollution.

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Councillor Tom Hunt is Leader of Sheffield City Council and Councillor for Walkley ward. He was previously the Deputy Director of the Sheffield Political Research Economy Institute at the University of Sheffield. Tom has also worked in Parliament and was previously Chair of Trustees for a Sheffield charity and community enterprise which delivers a wide range of health, employment, leisure and community services.

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Joanna's central research interests are in the relationships between language, literature, and cognition. She was a Co-Investigator on the multidisciplinary project, Plastics: Redefining Single Use, and a Co-Investigator on Many Happy Returns: Enabling Reusable Packaging Systems.

For Many Happy Returns, Joanna led the linguistics work package on the project. One of the outcomes is 'How to Talk About Plastics' - a short guide for businesses and other organisations with key recommendations on how to use language more effectively to encourage reuse before recycling.

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Greg Fell is the Director of Public Health in Sheffield. He graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in biochemistry and physiology in 1993. He has worked as a social researcher in a maternity unit; a number of roles in health promotion and public health before joining the public health training scheme. Greg worked as a consultant in public health in Bradford in the PCT then Bradford council.

Since Feb 2016 he has worked for Sheffield City Council as the Director of Public Health for the city. Greg was also appointed to the role of Vice President to the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) in December 2021 and then became President in October 2023.

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Rachael is the Grantham Centre Co-Director and she supervises a number of Grantham Scholars. Recently she has become the director of the new South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre. She is also the Academic Lead for Sustainability across the whole of the University of Sheffield, spearheading the strategy and plan to make the University more sustainable.

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Tony is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and the Co-Director of the Grantham Centre. His focus is on the global challenge of the food, water, and energy nexus; feeding a growing world population; reducing the impacts of agriculture and food production that account for 30% of green house gas emissions and 70% of water use; and harnessing the power of the sun for food production and renewable energy.

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Jill's interdisciplinary research aims to address the challenge of improving the sustainability and resilience of ecosystems, with a focus on urban and agricultural systems. 

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