糖心视频

Doctor James Dixon

Senior Lecturer

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Personal statement

James joined the 糖心视频 in 2015 as part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids. In collaboration with SP Energy Networks, his PhD looked at the impact of electric vehicles on our power system and the potential to which their charging can be managed to support the integration of renewables. Through external collaboration with Scottish Government and Denmark Technical University, James grew his interests in wider transport system decarbonisation.

After over 3 years in the Transport Studies Unit and Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, working on various research programmes including the Centre for Research in Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) and Climate Compatible Growth (CCG), James returned to Strathclyde in 2023 as a Lecturer in Transport in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.

James' current research interests are in transport-energy-environment modelling to support policymaking for sustainable transport transitions in data-poor contexts, including in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and in advancing understanding of the potential for e-mobility and renewable energy integration in different mobility contexts around the world.

James has also worked as an Energy Systems Technical Specialist at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), advising policy units and ministers on issues relating to low-carbon energy systems. James is a chartered engineer with the IET, and has previously worked as an engineer in the aerospace (Rolls-Royce) and nuclear (UK Atomic Energy Authority) industries.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
9/2024
Recipient
7/2020
Recipient
2019

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Publications

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Environmental Research Letters (2026)
, Kishimoto Paul, Colson Marie, Craglia Matteo, Becker Nicolas, Vasquez Belen, , Cazzola Pierpaolo, Achmadi Fadiah, Cuenot Francois, Black Alexander, Knoll Verena, Medimorec Nikola, Cardama Maruxa, Huizenga Cornie, Sheldon Dominic, Msoni Malindi, Teter Jacob, Leather James, Tun Thet Hein, Dalkmann Holger
Transportation (2025)
, , Naveed Syed Hassan, Kennedy Douglas
(2025)
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IET Conference Proceedings Vol 2025, pp. 1713 - 1717 (2025)
Bergman Marissa, Tomei Julia, Hirmer Stephanie, Stockport Beatrice, , , Hofbauer Leonhard, Leonard Alycia, Lubello Pietro, Manzano Elena Pierard, Verrier Brunilde, Daly Margaux, Fields Neve, Gardumi Francesco, Pye Steve, Kausya Mourice, Mackinlay Kirsty, Nayema Kevin, Onsongo Elsie, Kumar Divya Subash
iScience Vol 28 (2025)
Wahome Caroline, , , , Pickstone Edwin, McGarrigle Aoife, Njeru Ezekiel
Sustainability week Strathclyde (2025)

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Research Interests

  • Low-carbon transport
  • Modelling and simulation
  • Electric vehicles
  • Electricity system flexibility
  • Distribution system planning & operation
  • Energy storage and demand side management

Professional Activities

Speaker
12/12/2025
Speaker
25/9/2025
Contributor
10/9/2025
Speaker
31/7/2025
Speaker
14/5/2025
Participant
25/4/2025

Projects

Dixon, James (Principal Investigator) Ferguson, Neil (Co-investigator) Sturgess, David (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
Speirs, Jamie (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator) Dixon, James (Co-investigator) Hawker, Graeme (Co-investigator) Katris, Antonios (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2028
Dixon, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
Wahome, Caroline (Researcher) Dixon, James (Principal Investigator) Pickstone, Edwin (Co-investigator) McGarrigle, Aoife (Technician) Njeru, Ezekiel (Co-investigator)
A low-cost soil fertility sensor system, leveraging materials like newspaper, soot, and plant enzymes, is being developed to improve food security for smallholder farmers in Kenya. This project aims to empower farmers with real-time data to optimize their agricultural practices and improve crop yields. The initiative is a collaboration between universities in the UK and Kenya, utilizing a "co-creation" philosophy to develop user-led solutions.
01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2026
Rodgers, Paul (Principal Investigator) Dixon, James (Co-investigator) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Co-investigator) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator) Inns, Tom (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator) Wodehouse, Andrew (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Co-investigator)
Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. The more we ignore the climate emergency the bigger the impact will be on health and the need for care with poor environmental health contributing to major diseases, including cardiac problems, asthma and cancer. Many of the actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change and improve environmental sustainability also have positive health benefits; the Lancet Commission has described tackling climate change as "the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century". The challenges faced present an incredible opportunity to do things differently - to take a design-led approach in designing and making through high-reward demonstrator projects to help transform the health ecosystem. Through wider public engagement we aim to advance societal understanding of design's impact, and the opportunities, barriers, behaviour changes and tools needed to transition to a green approach. This research will unite a wide range of disciplines, research organisations, regional and local industry, and other public sector stakeholders, with policy-makers. The Design HOPES Green Transition Ecosystem (GTE) Hub will sustain a phased long-term investment to embed design-led innovation, circularity, sustainability and impact for the changing market, across product, service, strategy, policy and social drivers to evolve future design outcomes that matter to the people and planet. Our research is organised around seven core Thematic Workstreams, based on the NHS Scotland Climate Emergency and Sustainability Strategy (2022-2026). Design HOPES will be delivered and managed by interdisciplinary teams with significant expertise in design and making, co-creation, health and social care, with professionals with a sustainability remit, and businesses working in the design economy. Design HOPES encompasses a rich disciplinary mix of knowledge, skills, and expertise from a range of design disciplines (i.e., product, textile, interaction, games, architecture etc.) and other disciplines (computer science, health and wellbeing, geography, engineering, etc.) that will be focused on people and planet (including all living things), from the micro to macro, from root cause to hopeful vision, from the present to the future, and from the personal to the wider system. Design HOPES will design and make things and test them to see how they work, which will help more ideas and things emerge. The Hub will be an inclusive, safe, collaborative space that will bring in multiple and marginalised perspectives and view its projects as one part of a wider movement for transformational change whilst not overlooking existing assets and how we can re-use, nurture and develop these sustainably. Design HOPES aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence, promoting and embedding best practice through our collaborative design-led thinking and making approaches to build a more equitable and sustainable health and social care system. We will create new opportunities to support both existing services and new design-led health innovations in collaboration with NHS Boards across Scotland, the Scottish Government, patient and public representatives, health and social care partners, the third sector, academia and industry. Our seven Thematic Workstreams and associated projects will deliver a rich mix of tangible outcomes such as new innovative products, services, and policies (e.g., sustainable theatre consumables, packaging, clothing, waste services, etc.) during the funded period. With award-winning commercialisation and entrepreneurial support from the collaborating universities, we will also look to create new "green' enterprises and businesses. We will achieve this internationally recognised centre of excellence using design-led thinking and making to build a more equitable and sustainable health and social care system.
01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
Dixon, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024

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Doctor James Dixon
Senior Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: james.dixon@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted