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Staff Profile

Elizabeth Lawson

Research Assistant: Decentralised Water

  • Email: elizabeth.lawson@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 4894
  • Address: Devonshire Building
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle Upon Tyne
Background

Background

Elizabeth is a PDRA in Water Governance on the EPSRC funded project Decentralised Water Technologies. 

Prior to her joining this team she completed her EngD at the University of Exeter as part of the STREAM IDC programme, where she was sponsored by Northumbrian Water. Here, her research was concerned with the operationalisation of resilience within the UK water sector, with a specific focus on how existing resilience theory can be translated into tangible actions at the operational level. 

Elizabeth has previously spent time working within the UK water sector before moving on to work as part of the Europe and Central Asia, Climate and Environment team for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, where she was based in Tirana, Albania. 


Qualifications

EngD Water Engineering- University of Exeter 

MSc Disaster Management and Sustainable Development - Northumbria University

BSc Geography and Environmental Management - Northumbria University 

Research

Current Research

Decentralised Water Technologies (Nov 2021- ) As a research assistant on the EPSRC funded project "Decentralised Water Technologies" I am part of Work Package 7. Together with colleagues from the University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde, we are working together to create an international centre of excellence of policy implementation to facilitate the deployment of decentralised and sustainable solutions to water services. 



Publications