Dr. Graeme Sherriff

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Biography

Graeme leads research at the interface of environmental sustainability and social justice. He works on a range of societal issues including active travel, transport planning, fuel poverty and energy retrofit and green space. He utilises qualitative and quantitative methods, including innovative approaches such as social media, oral history and peer-to-peer interviewing. With a background in planning and sustainability and experience of working in the NGO and local government sectors, he works with, and has been funded by, a range of organisations including academic institutions, Government, housing providers and the private sector. He combines locally-rooted research with communities and stakeholders in the UK with strong international activity, mostly recently in Europe and Australia. He is co-director of the Sustainable Housing and Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) and coordinator of the interdisciplinary Healthy Active Cities research group. As Chair of the Fuel Poverty Research Network and Cycling and Society Research Group steering committee member, he is committed to developing meaningful academic and practitioner dialogue.

Areas of research

Sustainability, Social inclusion, Sustainable transport, Active travel, Fuel poverty, Energy efficient retrofit, Low carbon transitions