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Publications

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal Vol 38, pp. 87-88 (2019)

, João Elsa

35th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (2015)

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(2024)

Lord Richard, , , Hamilton Alasdair, Jakstys Ignas, João Elsa, Robinson Peter, Torrance Keith

10th Annual Conference on the Advances in Land Contamination Assessment and Remediation (2019)

Lord Richard, , , Hamilton Alasdair, Jakstys Ignas, Joao Elsa, Robinson Peter, Torrance Keith

35th International Conference on Geochemistry and Health
(2019)

Teaching

My teaching expertise spans the gap between environmental assessment and engineering design. I am keen on exploring ways to enhance the alignment of these topics and developing innovative methods to foster an awareness and passion for sustainable design within our undergraduate curriculum.

My current teaching responsibilities include:

• CL114: Civil Engineering Design Projects
• CL134: Engineering Mechanics 2
• EO106: Structural Analysis 1
• CL804: Research Methods for Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
• EV939: Environmental Impact Assessment
• CL941: Best Practice in Environmental Impact Assessment

In addition to these teaching duties, I hold the position of programme leader for our undergraduate (BEng Hons / MEng) programmes in both Civil and Civil & Environmental Engineering.

Research Interests

My research focuses on how different parties collaborate in the built environment. This work aims to improve decision-making and sustainable design outcomes by understanding how stakeholders in environmental assessment and engineering design work together.

This interest has shaped my teaching practice and emerging scholarship in pedagogic research. Industrial practitioners make more sustainable decisions by collaborating early in construction projects. Our graduates can learn to share skills in an interdisciplinary environment while at Strathclyde which – with the largest engineering faculty in Scotland – is uniquely placed to deliver.

Professional Activities

Participant

24/4/2024

Member

11/10/2019

Participant

24/5/2018

Participant

1/5/2018

Member

2018

Participant

18/7/2017

Projects

Henriquez-Mui, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Cochrane, Neil (Principal Investigator) Mooney, Ronnie (Principal Investigator) Brunton, Holly (Post Grad Student) Kean, Alistair (Principal Investigator) McDonald, Alex (Principal Investigator)

With the introduction of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) as a statutory requirement for planning applications in England and the expansion of requirements for measurable biodiversity enhancements gaining traction internationally, there is a need for rapid, cost-effective pre and post intervention assessment of the quantity and quality of a habitat.
Traditional walkover methods can be labour intensive and rely on visiting a site e.g. a floodplain meadow, at the right time of year which may not always be conducive with project programmes and commissions leading to the risk of a site being wrongly classified and designs being based on incorrect assumptions.
Long-term habitat monitoring (e.g. over 30 years) can be expensive, with projects often challenged by funding constraints and looking for cost effective ways of undertaking the monitoring required.
Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring offers a novel approach to overcoming many of the complexities associated with BNG assessment. eDNA enables the detection of genetic material naturally shed by organisms into the environment, providing a highly sensitive, non-invasive, and cost-effective means of measuring biodiversity.

01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2025

Cochrane, Neil (Principal Investigator)

This collaborative research project aims to develop tools and techniques which will foster greater resilience in students and across academic institutions. Developed under the Leadership in Learning and Teaching Network.

14-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026

Cochrane, Neil (Principal Investigator)

22-Jan-2024 - 23-Jan-2024

Morrissey, Sean (Principal Investigator) Hasty, William (Principal Investigator) McCool, Susan (Principal Investigator) Strachan, Scott (Principal Investigator) Moore, Iain (Principal Investigator) Williams, Manuela (Principal Investigator) Faulkner, Suzanne (Principal Investigator) McCrorie, Kathryn (Principal Investigator) Cochrane, Neil (Principal Investigator) Carlysle-Davies, Felicity (Principal Investigator)

Scholarship of Teaching Collaborative Writing Groups (2023-26) is a facilitated staff development programme that supports staff to take their next steps in scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and undertake collaborative scholarship projects.

Collaborative writing groups will be organised around a theme. Each group will have a group leader and will work together for an extended period to produce scholarship outputs.

01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2026

Cochrane, Neil (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2019