Dr Vicki Stevenson

Biography

After several years as an industrial researcher and completing my Eng D in glazed thermal solar collectors, I joined the Welsh School of Architecture as a researcher in 2006. During that period, I was involved in a range of research and engagement/dissemination projects including:

• Built Environment Sustainability Training
• Welsh Energy Sector Training
• Low Carbon Built Environment
• Sustainable Building Envelope Demonstration
• Development of Sustainable Hydrogen
• Sustainable Environmental Improvements in the Commercial Sector

I was appointed as Lecturer (2015), then Senior Lecturer (2019) and most recently Reader (2022).  I value my role as Course Director for MSc Environmental Design of Buildings (https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught/courses/course/environmental-design-of-buildings-msc) for the opportunity it gives me to guide so many talented graduates into a profession which will benefit from their skills!  Similarly, I've enjoyed the opportunity to work with several Post Graduate Researchers as they progress through their doctoral studies.  I take great pride in their successes!

Honours and awards

• Senior Fellow: Advance HE 2019
• Teaching Excellence Nomination (Cardiff University) 2018
• Outstanding Reviewer for "Energy and Building" Journal
• WISE Excellence Award Finalist 2010
• EBP Award for Curriculum Support 2010
• WISE Excellence Award Finalist 2009
• Fellow: Energy Institute 2006
• Chartered Engineer / Member: Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 1998

Professional memberships

• Senior Fellow - Advance HE
• Fellow of Energy Institute
• Chartered Energy Engineer
• Member of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
• Chartered Engineer

Academic positions

• 2019 - current: Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University
• 2015-2019: Lecturer, Cardiff University
• 2013-2015: Project Manager - Welsh Energy Sector Training, Cardiff University
• 2008-2013: Research Associate, Cardiff University
• 2006-2008: Research Assistant, Cardiff University
• 2000-2002: Product Manager, IQE
• 1992-2002: Research Officer, British Steel / Tata

Speaking engagements

• Guest Speaker and Session Chair ICEEE (2020)
• Cardiff University Virtual Summer School (2020)
• Lecturing visit to South China University of Technology (2014)
• Guest Speaker for Newport materials Society (2014)
• 50th Menelaus Lecture / 25th Anniversary of WISE (2009)
• Scottish Parliament Cross Party Science and Technology Group (2009)
• UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre (2009)
• Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (2009)
• Engineering UK Visiting Lecturer (2008-2010)

Committees and reviewing

• Grant reviewer EPSRC
• Grant reviewer Cambridge Centre for Digital Built Britain
• Journal reviewer - Energy and Building
• Journal reviewer - Detritus
• Topic Editor - Sustainability Journal
• Member of Energy Institute College
• Scientific Committee - Master's Conference, NCEUB

Publications

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Teaching

Course Director:

• MSc Environmental Design of Buildings https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught/courses/course/environmental-design-of-buildings-msc (Since Sept 2017)
• MSc Theory & Practice of Sustainable Design (2016)

Lecturing

• Passive Strategies and Design
• Renewable energy generation and storage
• Whole life Carbon Footprint (embodied and operational carbon in buildings)
• Personal and Professional Responsibility
• Sustainable Materials and Buildings
• Structuring an Investigation

MSc Dissertation supervision

• Passive Strategies and Design
• Environmental impact of vegetated (green) roofs / facades
• Whole life energy/carbon  in design (including embodied energy)
• indoor air quality
• Energy efficient refurbishment design
• Impact of prefabricated construction on waste
• Sustainability of materials in the built environment including Circular Economy
• Strategies for Zero/low carbon buildings
• Social sustainability

Research interests

I have a strong interest in passive design, renewable energy generation and storage, sustainable materials, whole life energy and urban farming as it applies to the built environment. This includes:

• The circular economy, whole life cost and embodied energy of construction materials,
• The holistic sustainability of construction materials, including their impact on indoor air quality,
• The relationship between energy saving / low energy technologies in buildings and occupant comfort - particularly indoor air quality.
• Using my own house as a case study on topics including urban farming

  (https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/green-futures/) and renewable energy generation and storage.

Supervision

Supervision experience

Supervised 5 PhDs to successful completion. Currently primary supervisor for 4 PhDs and co-supervisor for 2 PhDs

Additional supervision interests

Happy to consider related architectural science topics, for example:

• Sustainable materials
• Embodied energy / water and carbon footprint of materials in construction
• Indoor air quality in buildings

Current supervision

Past projects

• Supervisor for Adedamola Ojerinde "The use of Rice Husk Ash (RHA) as stabilizer for Compressed Earth Block (CEB) for affordable houses" (awarded 2020)
• Co-Supervisor for Kenan Zhang "An affordable nearly-zero energy townhouse prototype for China's future low-carbon housing" (awarded 2020)
• Supervisor for Noor Aalhashem "Establishing appropriate Socio-Cultural and Environmental Design Strategies for residential buildings in Baghdad: Learning from the vernacular" (awarded 2020)
• Supervisor for Hasan AlFarra "Architectural Integration of Transpired Solar Thermal Technology in Building Envelopes and Associated Technological Innovation Analysis" (awarded 2014)
• Co-Supervisor for Jennifer Baxter "Technological Innovation Systems - hydrogen from waste" (awarded 2013)