Our team
Meet STUE team: multidisciplinary board, research coordinator and our research fellows. Please contact us with any questions. We also welcome ideas and wishes for developing our operations and creating new ones.
Research Coordinator
Alisa Vänttinen
- Researcher
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358504793216
- alisa.vanttinen@tuni.fi
Associate Professors (tenure track)
Jonathon Taylor
- Associate Professor (tenure track)
- Urban Physics
- Faculty of Built Environment
- Tampere University
- jonathon.taylor@tuni.fi
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Selected publications
Brousse, O., Simpson, C., Walker, N., Fenner, D., Meier, F., Taylor, J., & Heaviside, C. (2022). Evidence of horizontal urban heat advection in London using six years of data from a citizen weather station network. Environmental Research Letters, 17(4), 044041.
Romanello, M., McGushin, A., Di Napoli, C., Drummond, P., Hughes, N., Jamart, L., ... & Hamilton, I. (2021). The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future. The Lancet, 398(10311), 1619-1662.
Taylor, J., & Howden-Chapman, P. (2021). The significance of urban systems on sustainability and public health. Buildings and Cities.
Taylor, J., Symonds, P., Heaviside, C., Chalabi, Z., Davies, & Wilkinson, P. (2021). Projecting the impacts of housing on temperature-related mortality in London during typical future years. Energy & Buildings, 111233.
Ferguson, L., Taylor, J., Zhou, K., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., Davies, M., & Dimitroulopoulou, S. (2021). Systemic inequalities in indoor air pollution exposure in London, UK. Buildings & cities, 2(1), 425.
Favarato, G., Clemens, T., Cunningham, S., Dibben, C., Macfarlane, A., Milojevic, A., ... & Hardelid, P. (2021). Air Pollution, housing and respirfatory tract Infections in Children: NatIonal birth Cohort study (PICNIC): study protocol. BMJ open, 11(5), e048038.
Kazakos, V., Taylor, J., & Luo, Z. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on NO2 and PM2. 5 exposure inequalities in London, UK. Environmental research, 198, 111236.
Symonds, P., Verschoor, N., Chalabi, Z. et al. (2021). Home Energy Efficiency and Subjective Health in Greater London. J Urban Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00513-6
Taylor, J., Jokela, S., Laine, M., Rajaniemi, J., Jokinen, P., Häikiö, L., & Lönnqvist, A. (2021). Learning and Teaching Interdisciplinary Skills in Sustainable Urban Development—The Case of Tampere University, Finland. Sustainability, 13(3), 1180.
Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Beagley, J., Belesova, K., ... & Costello, A. (2020). The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises. The Lancet.
Nix, E., Taylor, J., Das, P., Ucci, M., Chalabi, Z., Shrubsole, C., Davies, M., Mavrogianni, A., Milner J., & Wilkinson, P. (2020) Housing, health and energy: a characterisation of risks and priorities across Delhi’s diverse settlements, Cities & Health, doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1800161
Ferguson, L., Taylor, J., Davies, M., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., & Dimitroulopoulou, S. (2020). Exposure to indoor air pollution across socio-economic groups in high-income countries: A scoping review of the literature and a modelling methodology. Environment International, 143, 105748. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105748
Murage, P., Kovats, S., Sarran, C., Taylor, J., McInnes, R., & Hajat, S. (2020). What individual and neighbourhood-level factors increase the risk of heat-related mortality? A case-crossover study of over 185,000 deaths in London using high-resolution climate datasets. Environment international, 134, 105292. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.105292
Sharpe, R.A., Machray, K.E., Fleming, L.E., Taylor, T., Henley, W., Chenore, T., Hutchcroft, I., Taylor, J., Heaviside, C. and Wheeler, B.W. (2019). Household energy efficiency and health: Area-level analysis of hospital admissions in England. Environment international, 133, p.105164. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.105164
Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Boykoff, M., ... & Chambers, J. (2019). The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate. The Lancet, 394(10211), 1836-1878. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32596-6
Symonds, P., Hutchinson, E., Ibbetson, A., Taylor, J., Milner, J., Chalabi, Z., Davies, M., Wilkinson, P. (2019). MicroEnv: a microsimulation model for quantifying the impacts of environmental policies on population health and health inequalities. Science of the Total Environment, 697, p.134105. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134105
Taylor, J., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., Mackenzie, I., & Davies, M. (2019). Application of an indoor air pollution metamodel to a spatially-distributed housing stock. Science of the Total Environment, 667, 390-399. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.341
Sanchez-Guevara, C., Núñez Peiró, M., Taylor, J., Mavrogianni, A., & Neila González, J. (2019). Assessing population vulnerability towards summer energy poverty: Case studies of Madrid and London. Energy and Buildings, 190, 132-143. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.02.024
Li, X., Taylor, J., & Symonds, P. (2019). Indoor overheating and mitigation of converted lofts in London, UK. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. 40(4) 409-425. doi:10.1177/0143624419842044
Taylor, J. G., Haines, A., Milner, J., Davies, M., & Wilkinson, P. (2018). A Comparative Analysis of Global Datasets and Initiatives for Urban Health and Sustainability. Sustainability. 10(10) 3636 doi:10.3390/su10103636
Taylor, J. G., Symonds, P., Wilkinson, P., Heaviside, C., Macintyre, H., Davies, M., . . . Hutchinson, E. (2018). Estimating the Influence of Housing Energy Efficiency and Overheating Adaptations on Heat-Related Mortality in the West Midlands, UK. Atmosphere. 9(5) 190 doi:10.3390/atmos9050190
Claude, S., Ginestet, S., Bonhomme, M., Taylor, J. G., Marincioni, V., Korolija, I., & Altamirano, H. (2018). Evaluating retrofit options in a historical city center: Relevance of bio-based insulation and the need to consider complex urban form in decision-making. Energy and Buildings. 182, 196-204. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.10.026
Armstrong, B., Bonnington, O., Chalabi, Z., Davies, M., Doyle, Y., Goodwin, J., . . . Wilkinson, P. (2018). The impact of home energy efficiency interventions and winter fuel payments on winter- and cold-related mortality and morbidity in England: a natural equipment mixed-methods study. Public Health Research. 6 (11). London, UK. doi:10.3310/phr06110
Taylor, J., Liu, Y., Lin, B., Burman, E., Hong, S. M., Yu, J., . . . Davies, M. (2018). Towards a framework to evaluate the ‘total’ performance of buildings. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. 39(5) 609-631. doi:10.1177/0143624418762662
Taylor, J., Wilkinson, P.,…& Hutchinson, E. (2017). Comparison of built environment adaptations to heat exposure and mortality during hot weather, West Midlands region, UK. Environment International. 111, 287-294. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2017.11.005
Milner, J., Harpham, C., Taylor, J., … Wilkinson, P. (2017). The Challenge of Urban Heat Exposure under Climate Change: An Analysis of Cities in the Sustainable Healthy Urban Environments (SHUE) Database. Climate, 5, 93.
Macintyre, H. L., Heaviside, C., Taylor, J., …& Vardoulakis, S. (2017). Assessing urban population vulnerability and environmental risks across an urban area during heatwaves - Implications for health protection. The Science of the Total Environment, 610-611, 678-690.
Milner, J., Taylor, J. G., . . . Wilkinson, P. (2017). Environmental risks of cities in the European Region: Analyses of the Sustainable Healthy Urban Environments (SHUE) database. Public Health Panorama, 3(2) 300-309.
Alcock, I., White, M., Cherrie, M., Wheeler, B., Taylor, J., McInnes, R., . . . Fleming, L. (2017). Land cover and air pollution are associated with asthma hospitalisations: A cross-sectional study. Environment International, 109, 29-41.
Taylor, J., Davies, M., ...& Biddulph, P. (2016). Mapping indoor overheating and air pollution risk modification across Great Britain: A modelling study. Building and Environment, 99, 1-12.
Symonds, P.H., Taylor, J., …& Macintyre, H. (2016). Development of an England-wide indoor overheating and air pollution model using artificial neural networks. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 9, 606-619.
Smith, J.D., Mitsakou, C., …& Beevers, S.D. (2016). London Hybrid Exposure Model: Improving Human Exposure Estimates to NO2 and PM2.5 in an Urban Setting. Environmental Science and Technology, 50, 11760-11768.
Symonds, P.H., Taylor, J., …& Hamilton, I. (2016). Overheating in English dwellings: comparing modelled and monitored large-scale datasets. Building Research & Information, 45, 195-208.
Taylor,J., Yates, T., ...& Altamirano, H. (2016). Measuring ventilation and modelling M. tuberculosis transmission in indoor congregate settings, rural KwaZulu-Natal. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 20, 1155-1161.
Loucari., C., Taylor, J., … & Mavrogianni, A. (2016). Retrofit solutions for solid wall dwellings in England: The impact of uncertainty upon the energy performance gap. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 37, 614-634.
Taylor, J., Wilkinson, P., ...& Bohnenstengel, S.I. (2015). Mapping the effects of Urban Heat Island, housing, and age on excess heat-related mortality in London. Urban Climate, 14, 517-528.
Vardoulakis, S., Dimitroulopoulou, … Wilkinson, P. (2015). Impact of climate change on the domestic indoor environment and associated health risks in the UK. Environment International, 85, 299-313.
Yates, T., Khan, P., … & Abubakar, I. (2015). The Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in High Burden Settings. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 16, 227-238.
Jones, B., Das, P., … & Taylor, J. (2015). Assessing Uncertainty in Housing Stock Infiltration Rates And Associated Heat Loss: English And UK Case Studies. Building and Environment, 92, 644-656.
Mavrogianni, A., Taylor, J., … & Kolm-Murray, J. (2015). Urban social housing resilience to excess summer heat. Building Research and Information, 43(3), 316-333.
Shrubsole, C., Taylor, J., Das, P. & Davies, M. (2015). Impacts of energy efficiency retrofitting measures on indoor PM2.5 concentrations across different income groups in England: a modelling study. Advances in Building Energy Research, 10, 69-83.
Taylor, J., Mavrogianni, A., … Oikonomou, E. (2015). Understanding and mitigating overheating and indoor PM2.5 risks using coupled temperature and indoor air quality models. Building Service Engineering Research and Technology, 36(2), 275-289.
Taylor, J., Shrubsole, C., …& Oikonomou, E. (2014). The modifying effect of the building envelope on population exposure to PM2.5 from outdoor sources. Indoor Air. 24(6), 639-651.
Taylor, J., Davies, M., …& Jones, B. (2014). The relative importance of input weather data for indoor overheating risk assessment in dwellings. Building and Environment, 76, 81-91.
Mavrogianni, A., Davies, M., …& Jones, B. (2014). The impact of occupancy patterns, occupant-controlled ventilation and shading on indoor overheating risk in domestic environments. Building and Environment, 78, 183-198.
Taylor, J., Shrubsole, C., …& Davies, M. (2014) Simulation of pollution transport in buildings: the importance of taking into account dynamic thermal effects. Building Service Engineering Research and Technology. 35(6), 682-690.
Taylor, J., Davies, M., …& Lai, K.M. (2012). Predicting the health risks of urban floods using GIS, building simulation, and microbial models. Environment International. 51: 182-195.
Taylor, J., Biddulph, P., …& Lai, K.M. (2012). Using building simulation to model the drying of flooded building archetypes. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 6(2): 119-140.
Taylor, J., Davies, M., Canales, M., Lai, K.M. (2012) The persistence of flood-borne pathogens on building surfaces under drying conditions. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 216(1): 91-99.
Pankhurst, L. J., Taylor, J., …& Lai, K. M. (2012). Can clean-room particle counters be used as an infection control tool in hospital operating theatres? Indoor and Built Environment. 21(3), 381-391.
Taylor, J., Lai, K.M., …& Biddulph, P. (2011). Flood Management: Prediction of microbial contamination in large-scale floods in urban environments. Environment International. 37(5): 1019-1029.
Helena Leino
- Associate Professor (tenure track)
- Ympäristöpolitiikka
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358401909751
- helena.leino@tuni.fi
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Field of expertise
environmental policy, urban planning, sustainable urbanisation, complementary construction, public participation, land use planning conflicts, co-created knowledge production, experiments
Selected publications
Laine, Markus, Leino Helena, Santaoja Minna (2018) Building Citizens’ Trust in Urban Infill: a Dynamic Approach. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18817089
Jokinen, Ari, Leino Helena, Bäcklund Pia, Laine Markus (2018) Strategic planning harnessing urban policy mobilities: The gradual development of local sustainability fix. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2018.1454828.
Wallin Antti, Leino Helena, Jokinen Ari, Laine Markus, Tuomisaari Johanna, Bäcklund Pia (2018) A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification. Urban Planning 3(3), 40-51.
Bäcklund Pia, Häikiö Liisa, Leino Helena, Kanninen Vesa. (2018). Bypassing publicity and transparency for getting things done: between informal and formal planning practices in Finland. Planning Practice & Research 33(3), 309-325.
Leino Helena, Santaoja Minna, Laine Markus. (2017). Researchers as knowledge brokers: translating knowledge or co-producing legitimacy? An urban infill case from Finland. International Planning Studies, 23:2, 119-129.
Leino, Helena & Ilari Karppi & Ari Jokinen (2017) It’s all about the birds! The irreversible transformation of place, Planning Theory 16:2, 133-149.
Leino, Helena (2013) The Locality of Boundary Practices. In: Mäntysalo, Raine, Balducci, Alessandro (eds.) Urban Planning as a Trading Zone. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 13. Drodrecht: Springer, 111-124.
Leino, Helena (2012) Boundary Interaction in Emerging Scenes: Two Participatory Planning Cases from Finland. Planning Theory and Practice 13 (3), 383–396.
Leino Helena & Markus Laine (2012) Do matters of concern matter? Bringing issues back to participation. Planning Theory 11 (1), 89–103.
Päivi Kymäläinen
- Associate Professor (tenure track)
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358405374265
- paivi.kymalainen@tuni.fi
STUE Board
Liisa Häikiö
- Professor
- sosiaalipolitiikka, erit. työpolitiikka
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358503186095
- liisa.haikio@tuni.fi
Helena Leino
- Associate Professor (tenure track)
- Ympäristöpolitiikka
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358401909751
- helena.leino@tuni.fi
More information
Field of expertise
environmental policy, urban planning, sustainable urbanisation, complementary construction, public participation, land use planning conflicts, co-created knowledge production, experiments
Selected publications
Laine, Markus, Leino Helena, Santaoja Minna (2018) Building Citizens’ Trust in Urban Infill: a Dynamic Approach. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18817089
Jokinen, Ari, Leino Helena, Bäcklund Pia, Laine Markus (2018) Strategic planning harnessing urban policy mobilities: The gradual development of local sustainability fix. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2018.1454828.
Wallin Antti, Leino Helena, Jokinen Ari, Laine Markus, Tuomisaari Johanna, Bäcklund Pia (2018) A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification. Urban Planning 3(3), 40-51.
Bäcklund Pia, Häikiö Liisa, Leino Helena, Kanninen Vesa. (2018). Bypassing publicity and transparency for getting things done: between informal and formal planning practices in Finland. Planning Practice & Research 33(3), 309-325.
Leino Helena, Santaoja Minna, Laine Markus. (2017). Researchers as knowledge brokers: translating knowledge or co-producing legitimacy? An urban infill case from Finland. International Planning Studies, 23:2, 119-129.
Leino, Helena & Ilari Karppi & Ari Jokinen (2017) It’s all about the birds! The irreversible transformation of place, Planning Theory 16:2, 133-149.
Leino, Helena (2013) The Locality of Boundary Practices. In: Mäntysalo, Raine, Balducci, Alessandro (eds.) Urban Planning as a Trading Zone. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 13. Drodrecht: Springer, 111-124.
Leino, Helena (2012) Boundary Interaction in Emerging Scenes: Two Participatory Planning Cases from Finland. Planning Theory and Practice 13 (3), 383–396.
Leino Helena & Markus Laine (2012) Do matters of concern matter? Bringing issues back to participation. Planning Theory 11 (1), 89–103.
Marko Seppänen
- Professor
- Vice Dean for Education (Faculty of Management and Business)
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358405884080
- marko.seppanen@tuni.fi
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About me
Professor of industrial management, interested in the following themes (not limited to):
- digital platforms and new kinds of value creation mechanisms
- building ecosystems, especially in bio- and circular economy
- technology management and innovations
- new business development and business transformation
Sofie Pelsmakers
- Associate Professor (tenure track)
- Architecture, Housing Design
- Faculty of Built Environment
- Tampere University
- +358504478491
- sofie.pelsmakers@tuni.fi
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By appointment (room RJ 313, Hervantra Campus) - please email sofie.pelsmakers@tuni.fi
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6933-2626
- CV:
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About me
My passion is for sustainable architecture and sustainable housing design teaching, practice and research that makes a difference and responds to current societal and environmental challenges. Originally born in Belgium, I am a UK chartered architect (ARB/RIBA) and have dedicated over 20 years to advancing sustainable architecture and creating more sustainle living environments.
Responsibilities
I am honoured to Chair the ASUTUT - Sustainable Housing Design research group. Our research group investigates and re-imagines new approaches to housing design and its spatial and architectural quality in an ever-changing world (e.g. climate change, finite resources, ageing populations, declining health and well-being, loneliness, pollution, urbanisation, affordability). ASUTUT aim to make meaningful societal change through holistic research in order to influence and support the design of sustainable living environments and resilient communities now, and in the future. The research group consists of 3 full-time and over 7 part-time researchers at different levels, and they combine unique areas of expertise that include:
AGILE DESIGN: adaptable, flexible and dweller-oriented housing design and housing solutions.
ECOLOGICAL DESIGN: energy efficient and zero energy and zero carbon design, user satisfaction and performance evaluation, and the impact of these diverse aspects on spatial and architectural quality and dwellers health and well-being.
INCLUSIVE DESIGN: accessibility, inclusive housing design, including and encountering human diversity in design practices and environments (including various models of co-housing and shared spaces).
In addition to PhD, Masters thesis supervision and guest lectures elsewhere, I chair and teach (togerer with colleagues) 4 courses in the architecture unit:
1. Fundamentals of Urban Housing Design (FIN, year 3)
2. Societally Responsive Housing Design (EN, year 4)
3. Experimental Architectural Design (EN, year 5)
4. Sustainable Architecture (EN, Masters)(recipient of Tampere University’s 2021 Honorable Mention for Good Teaching and Teaching Development)
Other responsibilities include:
# Visiting Professor at the Sheffield School of Architecture (on the Sustainable Architecture Studies Masters course)
# Associate Editor of Buildings and Cities - an Independent, not-for-profit OA peer-review transdisciplinary journal.
# Member of PROFI 6 STUE Research Platform (Sustainable Transformations of Urban Environments)
# BEN Faculty Representative on the Professor's Council
# Tampere University representative for construction theme at the Climate Leadership Coalition (CLC, the largest non-profit climate business network in Europe)
# Founding member of ACAN Finland (Architects Climate Action Finland, www.acan.fi ).
Field of expertise
Together with colleagues, I strive to make a difference through holistic real-world research and teaching, in order to influence the design of sustainable housing environments and resilient communities now, and in the future. My focus is on ’every day’ housing architecture with specialty in ecological, low energy and low carbon, affordable housing design and housing adaptability. I am particularly interested in how homes and spaces work in reality and how they are used and change over time (i.e. actual performance and user satisfaction (BPE and POE)).
My current research focuses on the resilience and capacity of residents and their living environments to respond to and adapt to current and anticipated societal and environmental challenges and changes. This includes spatial and environmental adaptations to respond to residents’ needs, changing demographics and a changing climate.
Projects include 'Housing in Change' (2020-2022), funded by YH Kodit Hosuing Company and Foundation; Working from Home (2020-2022, with Aalto University and Milan Polytech University), Nordic Sustainable Housing Design (with colleagues in Denmark), Carbon Neutral Development Through Net Zero and Net Impact Design (2021-2022, with Ming Hu, Fulbright visiting scholar), and RESCUE: Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments (2020-2023), Academy of Finland funded research led by Aalto university. We also focus on older adults and accessibility, inclusivity and healthy ageing; for example the connection between their homes and welfare (including perceptions of loneliness) is part of the Finnish home and interconnections with well-being and welfare project (2021-2022). Our interdisciplinary SOL-TECH project (2022-2024) focuses on human-centered solar smart technology design for healthy aging with collegaues in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Nursing Sciences. The GREENERAGE Erasmus+ project (2021-2024) focuses on climate literacy and green living for older adults.
In our HOMES4FUTURE project we investigate the impact of a warming world on overheating in Finnish housing and adaptations needed to new and existing housing design. DIGI4GREEN (Academy of Finland Mobility Funding) expands on this and focuses on smart-home technology to manage green living in Finland and China. Linked to this is our INPERSO Horizon Europe project (2022-2026) where we focus on Industrialised and Personalised Renovation for Sustainable Societies with colleagues in ICT and Civil Engineering, and where I lead WP4: New human-centric and inclusive models for deep low carbon renovation of housing.
My teaching is student-centred and with students we explore the use of context and sustainability as a generator of housing and architecture concepts and spatial delight. I also pursue pedagogical methods to challenge and transform traditional inter-subjective values and positions in architecture education and for embedding holistic sustainability approaches in design courses; some of this work has been published. Aligned with this is our Erasmus+ funded transnational project ARCH4CHANGE: Digital climate emergency curriculum for architectural education - methods towards carbon neutrality. It aims to tackle students’ and educators’ skills gaps. ARCH4FUTURE (EDUFI) extends this to the China context with our partners in South-East University .
In my work I attempt to bridge the information gap between research and architectural practice. As such, I single authored ‘The Environmental Design Pocketbook, a comprehensive publication which distils environmental science, legislation and guidance into one easy to use single source, now in its 2nd edition (3rd edition due in 2023). This publication received commendation by the RIBA President's Medals for ‘Outstanding Practice-located Research' (2012) and was ‘Highly Commended’ for the UKGBC/PRP ‘Rising Star award’ 2013. For selected endorsements see here. Together with Judit Kimpian and Hattie Hartman, I co-authored a 50,000 word peer-reviewed book 'Energy, People, Buildings: Making Sustainable Architecture Work' (RIBA, 2021). I also guest-edited the first issue of RIBA DESIGN STUDIO 'Everything needs to Change: Architecture and the climate Emergency ', together with Nick Newman (RIBA, 2021). With Liz Donovan, Aidan Hoggard and Ula Kozminska I am lead author of a 100,000 word peer-reviewed book: 'Designing for the Climate Emergency: A Guide for Architecture Students ', Riba Publishing (2022).
Alternate description
My passion is for architecture teaching, practice and research that makes a difference and responds to current societal and environmental challenges. My specialty is low energy, adaptable, affordable housing design and housing retrofit. I am particularly interested in how buildings and spaces work in reality, and how architecture exists and changes over seasons and time. This includes how building use and users change and adapt buildings (i.e. actual performance and user satisfaction (POE/BPE)), and how architecture shapes uses and users. I am also interested in pedagogical methods for embedding transformational values and holistic sustainability approaches in architecture education. In my work I attempt to bridge the information gap between research and architectural practice.
I thrive on genuine collaboration with others who are also striving to make the world a better and more sustainable place.
Research topics
Generally, my research spans across (and often combines) three areas, all of which are co-researched with scientists in our sister disciplines (e.g. social sciences, engineering, gerontology, geography etc.):
1) sustainable living environments (e.g. low energy/low carbon and nZEB homes, climate change adaptability, building performance and user satisfaction (POE/BPE), and health and well-being)
2) basic housing design research (e.g. accessible and inclusive design, designing for ageing population, adaptable and dweller-oriented housing design and flexible housing solutions, shared spaces and new co-housing models)
3) sustainable architecture pedagogy (values, integration of sustainability in design studio, peer-learning, blended learning)
For research projects see here.
Core team members (*part-time researchers in our group):
Post-docs: Jyrki Tarpio*, Tapio Kaasalainen*, Raul Castano de la Rosa
PhD researchers: Katja Maununaho*, Sini Saarimaa,* Taru Lehtinen*, Anna Helamaa*, Troels Rugbjerg (DK based), Mo Elsayed (Venice University funded double PhD degree)
Research assistants: Heini Järventausta*, Elina Luotonen*, Essi Nisonen
Other close associated BEN researchers*: Jonathon Taylor, Teemu Hirvilammi, Jenni Poutanen
Research unit
ASUTUT - Sustainable Housing Design - www.sustainablehousingdesign.com
Research fields
1) sustainable living environments (e.g. low energy/low carbon and nZEB homes, climate change adaptability, building performance and user satisfaction (POE/BPE), and health and well-being)
2) basic housing design research (e.g. accessible and inclusive design, designing for ageing population, adaptable and dweller-oriented housing design and flexible housing solutions, shared spaces and new co-housing models)
3) sustainable architecture pedagogy (values, integration of sustainability in design studio, peer-learning, blended learning)
Research career
In addition to my bachelor and masters architecture degree, I hold 2 specialist masters degrees: an MSc Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies (UEL, 2000), and a Masters in Research (MRes) in Building Energy Demand from UCL (2012). After practicing sustainable housing design as a project architect for several years at Levitt Bernstein Architects in London, and while also teaching sustainable architecture part-time at the University of East London (2001-2011), I completed my PhD at the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment on the retrofit of the UK's existing pre-1919 housing stock, in particular investigating ground floor heat loss (2012-2016). I used in-situ U-value measuring techniques and undertook pilot studies to validate the effect of insulation interventions on floor heat loss.
In October 2015, I took up a part-time Environmental Design lectureship at Sheffield University School of Architecture where I also co-led the MSc in Sustainable Architecture Studies and undertook UK industry and government funded research. I was also part-time Head of Research at ECD Architects (London + Glasgow) where I supported architects with evidence-based design.
Following the UK Brexit referendum, I joined the Aarhus School of Architecture (Denmark, 2018-2019) as Assistant Professor in Sustainable Architecture where I co-founded a collaborative and transnational research group 'Nordic Sustainable Architecture' with Elizabeth Donovan and Ula Kozminska. I now chair the Sustainable Housing Design research group at Tampere University (2019-present).
Top achievements
2021: Tampere University 2021 Honorable Mention for Good Teaching and Teaching Development for the Sustainable Architecture course (with Dalia Milian Bernal)
2018-present: Invited on architectural judging panels (Architects Journal; PassivHaus Trust, Norman Fosters Travel Scholarship)
2017: Recognition as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and FHEA (2015)
2017: Selected as Bartlett PhD Alumni Role Model
2017: UK patent-pending with industry partner (GB17101780.7, 2018)
2015: One of 12 RIBA Role models in architecture (2015), as part of the RIBA’s Equality & diversity project.
2013-2018: RIBA/CIC Equality/Diversity mentor
2013: 1 of 13 Stars of Building Science in Virtual Academy of Excellence, Building 4 Change (BRE)
2013: UKGBC Highly Commended 'Rising Star Award' for publication The Environmental Design Pocketbook
2013: Listed as 1 of 20 ‘Women influencing Sustainable Architecture’, by the Architects Journal
2012: Commendation by RIBA President's Medal for Outstanding Practice Located research (for The Environmental Design Pocketbook) and highly commended by the UKGBC
Funding
Academy of Finland, EU (Horizon Europe, Erasmus+), Erkko Foundation, YH Kodit Housing company and Foundation, TAU PROFI 5 Sustainable Welfare Systems (SWS), EDUFI
Mission statement
The research group strives to make a difference through holistic real-world research, in order to influence and support the design of sustainable housing environments and resilient communities now, and in the future. The researchers do this by investigating and re-imagining responses to current and predicted societal and environmental challenges, such as climate change, finite resources, ageing populations, declining health and well-being, loneliness, pollution, urbanization, affordability.
The Sustainable Housing Design research group combines research and practice and merges unique areas of expertise. This includes adaptable, flexible and inclusive housing design, energy efficient and zero energy and zero carbon design, user satisfaction and performance evaluation, and the impact of these diverse aspects on spatial and architectural quality and dwellers health and well-being.
Our research explores and validates the implications of these challenges on the making of space, and their relevance to housing design and their communities. In doing so, our research also unfolds the value of innovative, sustainable housing design and the role of different stakeholders within this.
We thrive on genuine collaboration within our group and with residents and citizens as key stakeholders, as well as with colleagues in industry and in other disciplines at the university and with colleagues elsewhere who are also striving to make the world a better and more sustainable place.
Main positions of trust
2021-: BEN Faculty Representative on the Faculty Council and member of BEN Research Development Group
2021-: Visting Professor at Sheffield University
2019-: Associate Editor of Buildings & Cities (jufo 1), with Editor-in-Chief Richard Lorch (previously at Building Research & Information)
2018-: member of recruitment panel process for Professorships/lectureships/postdocs
2018-2021: invited member of the Formas Expert Review Panel for Sustainable Development annual open call – Swedish Research Council
2018-2021: External Examiner of the MSt (Masters of Studies) in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment, Department of Architecture and Engineering, Cambridge University
Selected publications
Peer-reviewed publications (Journals & Conferences & book chapters) - see https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/persons/sofie-pelsmakers
Sami Oikarinen
- Senior Research Fellow
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
- Tampere University
- +358504798933
- sami.oikarinen@tuni.fi
Kalle Pajunen
- Professor
- (yrityksen johtaminen)
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358503182206
- kalle.pajunen@tuni.fi
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About me
I am a full professor of management and organizations. My research interests relate to strategic management, organization theory, and international business. I also work on questions related to configurational theory and set-theoretic methods. I have published my research e.g. in Business & Society, Innovation, International Business review, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Small Business Economics, Socio-Economic Review, and other journals. See more from Google Scholar.
Anu Siren
- Professor
- gerontologia
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358504750373
- anu.siren@tuni.fi
Jonathon Taylor
- Associate Professor (tenure track)
- Urban Physics
- Faculty of Built Environment
- Tampere University
- jonathon.taylor@tuni.fi
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Selected publications
Brousse, O., Simpson, C., Walker, N., Fenner, D., Meier, F., Taylor, J., & Heaviside, C. (2022). Evidence of horizontal urban heat advection in London using six years of data from a citizen weather station network. Environmental Research Letters, 17(4), 044041.
Romanello, M., McGushin, A., Di Napoli, C., Drummond, P., Hughes, N., Jamart, L., ... & Hamilton, I. (2021). The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future. The Lancet, 398(10311), 1619-1662.
Taylor, J., & Howden-Chapman, P. (2021). The significance of urban systems on sustainability and public health. Buildings and Cities.
Taylor, J., Symonds, P., Heaviside, C., Chalabi, Z., Davies, & Wilkinson, P. (2021). Projecting the impacts of housing on temperature-related mortality in London during typical future years. Energy & Buildings, 111233.
Ferguson, L., Taylor, J., Zhou, K., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., Davies, M., & Dimitroulopoulou, S. (2021). Systemic inequalities in indoor air pollution exposure in London, UK. Buildings & cities, 2(1), 425.
Favarato, G., Clemens, T., Cunningham, S., Dibben, C., Macfarlane, A., Milojevic, A., ... & Hardelid, P. (2021). Air Pollution, housing and respirfatory tract Infections in Children: NatIonal birth Cohort study (PICNIC): study protocol. BMJ open, 11(5), e048038.
Kazakos, V., Taylor, J., & Luo, Z. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on NO2 and PM2. 5 exposure inequalities in London, UK. Environmental research, 198, 111236.
Symonds, P., Verschoor, N., Chalabi, Z. et al. (2021). Home Energy Efficiency and Subjective Health in Greater London. J Urban Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00513-6
Taylor, J., Jokela, S., Laine, M., Rajaniemi, J., Jokinen, P., Häikiö, L., & Lönnqvist, A. (2021). Learning and Teaching Interdisciplinary Skills in Sustainable Urban Development—The Case of Tampere University, Finland. Sustainability, 13(3), 1180.
Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Beagley, J., Belesova, K., ... & Costello, A. (2020). The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises. The Lancet.
Nix, E., Taylor, J., Das, P., Ucci, M., Chalabi, Z., Shrubsole, C., Davies, M., Mavrogianni, A., Milner J., & Wilkinson, P. (2020) Housing, health and energy: a characterisation of risks and priorities across Delhi’s diverse settlements, Cities & Health, doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1800161
Ferguson, L., Taylor, J., Davies, M., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., & Dimitroulopoulou, S. (2020). Exposure to indoor air pollution across socio-economic groups in high-income countries: A scoping review of the literature and a modelling methodology. Environment International, 143, 105748. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105748
Murage, P., Kovats, S., Sarran, C., Taylor, J., McInnes, R., & Hajat, S. (2020). What individual and neighbourhood-level factors increase the risk of heat-related mortality? A case-crossover study of over 185,000 deaths in London using high-resolution climate datasets. Environment international, 134, 105292. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.105292
Sharpe, R.A., Machray, K.E., Fleming, L.E., Taylor, T., Henley, W., Chenore, T., Hutchcroft, I., Taylor, J., Heaviside, C. and Wheeler, B.W. (2019). Household energy efficiency and health: Area-level analysis of hospital admissions in England. Environment international, 133, p.105164. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.105164
Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Boykoff, M., ... & Chambers, J. (2019). The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate. The Lancet, 394(10211), 1836-1878. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32596-6
Symonds, P., Hutchinson, E., Ibbetson, A., Taylor, J., Milner, J., Chalabi, Z., Davies, M., Wilkinson, P. (2019). MicroEnv: a microsimulation model for quantifying the impacts of environmental policies on population health and health inequalities. Science of the Total Environment, 697, p.134105. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134105
Taylor, J., Shrubsole, C., Symonds, P., Mackenzie, I., & Davies, M. (2019). Application of an indoor air pollution metamodel to a spatially-distributed housing stock. Science of the Total Environment, 667, 390-399. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.341
Sanchez-Guevara, C., Núñez Peiró, M., Taylor, J., Mavrogianni, A., & Neila González, J. (2019). Assessing population vulnerability towards summer energy poverty: Case studies of Madrid and London. Energy and Buildings, 190, 132-143. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.02.024
Li, X., Taylor, J., & Symonds, P. (2019). Indoor overheating and mitigation of converted lofts in London, UK. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. 40(4) 409-425. doi:10.1177/0143624419842044
Taylor, J. G., Haines, A., Milner, J., Davies, M., & Wilkinson, P. (2018). A Comparative Analysis of Global Datasets and Initiatives for Urban Health and Sustainability. Sustainability. 10(10) 3636 doi:10.3390/su10103636
Taylor, J. G., Symonds, P., Wilkinson, P., Heaviside, C., Macintyre, H., Davies, M., . . . Hutchinson, E. (2018). Estimating the Influence of Housing Energy Efficiency and Overheating Adaptations on Heat-Related Mortality in the West Midlands, UK. Atmosphere. 9(5) 190 doi:10.3390/atmos9050190
Claude, S., Ginestet, S., Bonhomme, M., Taylor, J. G., Marincioni, V., Korolija, I., & Altamirano, H. (2018). Evaluating retrofit options in a historical city center: Relevance of bio-based insulation and the need to consider complex urban form in decision-making. Energy and Buildings. 182, 196-204. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.10.026
Armstrong, B., Bonnington, O., Chalabi, Z., Davies, M., Doyle, Y., Goodwin, J., . . . Wilkinson, P. (2018). The impact of home energy efficiency interventions and winter fuel payments on winter- and cold-related mortality and morbidity in England: a natural equipment mixed-methods study. Public Health Research. 6 (11). London, UK. doi:10.3310/phr06110
Taylor, J., Liu, Y., Lin, B., Burman, E., Hong, S. M., Yu, J., . . . Davies, M. (2018). Towards a framework to evaluate the ‘total’ performance of buildings. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. 39(5) 609-631. doi:10.1177/0143624418762662
Taylor, J., Wilkinson, P.,…& Hutchinson, E. (2017). Comparison of built environment adaptations to heat exposure and mortality during hot weather, West Midlands region, UK. Environment International. 111, 287-294. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2017.11.005
Milner, J., Harpham, C., Taylor, J., … Wilkinson, P. (2017). The Challenge of Urban Heat Exposure under Climate Change: An Analysis of Cities in the Sustainable Healthy Urban Environments (SHUE) Database. Climate, 5, 93.
Macintyre, H. L., Heaviside, C., Taylor, J., …& Vardoulakis, S. (2017). Assessing urban population vulnerability and environmental risks across an urban area during heatwaves - Implications for health protection. The Science of the Total Environment, 610-611, 678-690.
Milner, J., Taylor, J. G., . . . Wilkinson, P. (2017). Environmental risks of cities in the European Region: Analyses of the Sustainable Healthy Urban Environments (SHUE) database. Public Health Panorama, 3(2) 300-309.
Alcock, I., White, M., Cherrie, M., Wheeler, B., Taylor, J., McInnes, R., . . . Fleming, L. (2017). Land cover and air pollution are associated with asthma hospitalisations: A cross-sectional study. Environment International, 109, 29-41.
Taylor, J., Davies, M., ...& Biddulph, P. (2016). Mapping indoor overheating and air pollution risk modification across Great Britain: A modelling study. Building and Environment, 99, 1-12.
Symonds, P.H., Taylor, J., …& Macintyre, H. (2016). Development of an England-wide indoor overheating and air pollution model using artificial neural networks. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 9, 606-619.
Smith, J.D., Mitsakou, C., …& Beevers, S.D. (2016). London Hybrid Exposure Model: Improving Human Exposure Estimates to NO2 and PM2.5 in an Urban Setting. Environmental Science and Technology, 50, 11760-11768.
Symonds, P.H., Taylor, J., …& Hamilton, I. (2016). Overheating in English dwellings: comparing modelled and monitored large-scale datasets. Building Research & Information, 45, 195-208.
Taylor,J., Yates, T., ...& Altamirano, H. (2016). Measuring ventilation and modelling M. tuberculosis transmission in indoor congregate settings, rural KwaZulu-Natal. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 20, 1155-1161.
Loucari., C., Taylor, J., … & Mavrogianni, A. (2016). Retrofit solutions for solid wall dwellings in England: The impact of uncertainty upon the energy performance gap. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 37, 614-634.
Taylor, J., Wilkinson, P., ...& Bohnenstengel, S.I. (2015). Mapping the effects of Urban Heat Island, housing, and age on excess heat-related mortality in London. Urban Climate, 14, 517-528.
Vardoulakis, S., Dimitroulopoulou, … Wilkinson, P. (2015). Impact of climate change on the domestic indoor environment and associated health risks in the UK. Environment International, 85, 299-313.
Yates, T., Khan, P., … & Abubakar, I. (2015). The Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in High Burden Settings. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 16, 227-238.
Jones, B., Das, P., … & Taylor, J. (2015). Assessing Uncertainty in Housing Stock Infiltration Rates And Associated Heat Loss: English And UK Case Studies. Building and Environment, 92, 644-656.
Mavrogianni, A., Taylor, J., … & Kolm-Murray, J. (2015). Urban social housing resilience to excess summer heat. Building Research and Information, 43(3), 316-333.
Shrubsole, C., Taylor, J., Das, P. & Davies, M. (2015). Impacts of energy efficiency retrofitting measures on indoor PM2.5 concentrations across different income groups in England: a modelling study. Advances in Building Energy Research, 10, 69-83.
Taylor, J., Mavrogianni, A., … Oikonomou, E. (2015). Understanding and mitigating overheating and indoor PM2.5 risks using coupled temperature and indoor air quality models. Building Service Engineering Research and Technology, 36(2), 275-289.
Taylor, J., Shrubsole, C., …& Oikonomou, E. (2014). The modifying effect of the building envelope on population exposure to PM2.5 from outdoor sources. Indoor Air. 24(6), 639-651.
Taylor, J., Davies, M., …& Jones, B. (2014). The relative importance of input weather data for indoor overheating risk assessment in dwellings. Building and Environment, 76, 81-91.
Mavrogianni, A., Davies, M., …& Jones, B. (2014). The impact of occupancy patterns, occupant-controlled ventilation and shading on indoor overheating risk in domestic environments. Building and Environment, 78, 183-198.
Taylor, J., Shrubsole, C., …& Davies, M. (2014) Simulation of pollution transport in buildings: the importance of taking into account dynamic thermal effects. Building Service Engineering Research and Technology. 35(6), 682-690.
Taylor, J., Davies, M., …& Lai, K.M. (2012). Predicting the health risks of urban floods using GIS, building simulation, and microbial models. Environment International. 51: 182-195.
Taylor, J., Biddulph, P., …& Lai, K.M. (2012). Using building simulation to model the drying of flooded building archetypes. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 6(2): 119-140.
Taylor, J., Davies, M., Canales, M., Lai, K.M. (2012) The persistence of flood-borne pathogens on building surfaces under drying conditions. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 216(1): 91-99.
Pankhurst, L. J., Taylor, J., …& Lai, K. M. (2012). Can clean-room particle counters be used as an infection control tool in hospital operating theatres? Indoor and Built Environment. 21(3), 381-391.
Taylor, J., Lai, K.M., …& Biddulph, P. (2011). Flood Management: Prediction of microbial contamination in large-scale floods in urban environments. Environment International. 37(5): 1019-1029.
Päivi Kymäläinen
- Associate Professor (tenure track)
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Tampere University
- +358405374265
- paivi.kymalainen@tuni.fi