Zaid Alwan

Zaid Alwan
Tel:  0191 243 7143
E-Mail: zaid.alwan@northumbria.ac.uk

Zaid joined Sustainable Cities Research Institute Northumbria University in 2001, having previously worked as Environmental advisor at The Northern Energy Initiative (TNEI). Zaid’s main areas revolve around energy and environmental aspects of sustainable development. Particular interests include applications of low carbon technologies, environmental and energy assessments, and skills development in the energy sector.

Over recent years Zaid has developed and worked on several EU projects based around sustainable development, exchanging best practice and collaboration with academic and industrial bodies throughout the European Union. This included City Modelling, energy inputs and outs, energy use and farming practices and impact on Climate change.

In addition Zaid is involved in lecturing on issues such as energy, skills and sustainable development.

Externally, Zaid is member of IEMA, and a registered Environmental Auditor and currently working to be a BREEAM assessor for Code for Sustainable Homes.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Proposal writing, bidding for regional national and European projects. This includes both research and consultancy work

• Research and consultancy activities, both short term and long term contracts, on various aspects of energy and environmental work

• Teaching on BE0966 module, sustainable development and skills

• Report writing and production of articles for academic and non academic journals  

Selected Publications

Internal research report

1. Alwan Z (2002) Business Environmental Needs and Mapping Analysis for the North East.  Research Report: Sustainable Cities Research Institute

Conference Paper

1. Alwan Z, Jankovic L, Hopwood B, (2003) CAST: Understanding the Complexity of Cities. ICLEI Conference, Athens
2. Alwan Z, Fitzgerald I (2003) Sustainable Jobs in Sustainable Energy: Closing the Gap

3.Alwan Z, Hopwood W, Jankovic L, (2005). Exploring changes in land use, population, transport and economics with CAST. Proceedings of computers in Urban Management Conference, 2005, University College London
4. Underwood CP, Ramachandran J, Giddings RD, Alwan Z (2006) Renewable energy clusters for remote communities. Proceedings of System Simulation for Buildings, SSB’06, Liege.
5. Alwan Z (2006) CAST City Analysis. An Integrated Model of Land use, population, transport and economics.

Research Reports

1. Alwan Z (2006) Sustainable skills for Sustainable Communities


Research Grants / Consultancy Grants

Title: Environmental Needs and Mapping Analysis for North East.
Duration: 6 months  2001-2002
Funders: Environment Agency and One North East
Value: £30,175
Partners: BIE (Business in Environment) Environment Agency

Title: CAST-City Analysis and Simulation Tool
Duration: 2002-2005
Funders: European Commission FP5
Value: € 2 M ( £150k to UNN)
Partners: Local authorities, Research universities in Portugal, Finland, and Greece

Title: Sustainable Energy modelling in remote communities in North East. Value
Duration: 2004-2005
Funders: University Research Funding
Value: £10k
Partners: Sheffield, Birmingham, Newcastle and Rochdale  Local Authorities

Title: QLIF: sustainability appraisal of energy use. Value (40k)
Duration: 2005-2008
Funders: European Union FP6 programme
Value: £60 k
Partners: 20 Partners within the European Union

Title: Sustainable Jobs in for sustainable communities: promoting energy related skills. Value (25k)
Duration: 2006-2007
Funders: LSC (learning skills Council)
Value: £25 k
Partners: NaRec and Newcastle University

Title: Ignite information resource - regional database for regional theme. Author for sustainability theme
Duration: 2006-2007
Funders: One North East
Value: £10k
Partners: none