ECCD Seminar Series

The Energy and Climate Change Division have reinstated the ECCD Seminar Series,  which will typically run every other Friday from 15:00-16:00 as a hybrid meeting.

One member of the ECCD team, or an invited speaker, will deliver a 20-30 minute talk on the topic of their choice, either related to their research or the research goals of the group. This will then be followed by 15-25 minutes of discussion with debate and idea generation for current and potential projects.

Please contact ECCD serg@soton.ac.uk if you would like to join, present or have any questions about the seminar. We encourage a wide range of topics and discussions.

Previous topics discussed during the ECCD seminar include:

  • Overheating Risk for Schools and Care Homes – Karam Kalsi, Research Assistant
  • How to present your work – Prof. Patrick James, Professor of Energy & Buildings
  • Testing methods to initiate inter-generational interactions on energy within the home – Gregory Sewell, Research Asssistant in energy, buildings and behaviour
  • Interpretable data-driven models for scalability in neighbourhood buildings – Karla Gonzalez, PhD student
  • Productive use of Electricity: PV Powered Cooling: Milk Centres in Rwanda – Dr Majbaul Alam, Research Fellow at the Energy and Climate Change Divison
  • Load Growth in Existing Mini Grids and Future Challenges – Dr Luke Blunden, Research Fellow in Energy for Developmpent, Marine, Cities and the Built Environment
  • New Approach to Determine the Importance Index for Developing Offshore Wind Energy Potential Sites – Dr Mostafa Mahdy, ECCD researcher
  • A summary of tidal stream energy resource assessment and array optimisation – Dr Danny Coles, Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth
  • Developing and Financing Mini-grids – a private sector perspective – Chirs Kanani, Winch Energy‘s Senior Business Developer
  • Energy Modelling and Analytics in the Built Environment—A Review of Their Role for Energy Transitions in the Construction Sector – Dr Manfren Massimiliano, Lecturer in Energy in Buildings
  • 3 minute thesis – Nasser Alghamdi, Sager Asulamy, Alois Klink, Ayah Mohamed, Ellis Ridett and Muhammad Talut, PhD researchers within the Energy and Climate Change Division PhD researchers
  • Quantifying the potential of ultra-efficient houses to reduce seasonal electricity demand and enable greater renewable supply – Dr Ben Anderson, Principal Research Fellow within the Energy and Climate Change Division
  • To what extent has the climate emergency strategy adopted by Southampton City Council met the objectives set for it? – Councillor Leggett, Southampton City Council Cabinet Member for Green City & Place
  • Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution – Dr Ben Anderson, Principal Research Fellow within the Energy and Climate Change Division
  • Energy signature modelling for Measurement and Verification 2.0, state of the art and future research – Dr Manfren Massimiliano, Lecturer in Energy in Buildings
  • Vortex induced vibrations of risers, and how to stop them – Professor John Chaplin
  • Development of the Green City Performance Tracker – Dr Philip Turner and Dr Mostafa Mahdy, ECCD Research Fellows
  • Impact of Solar PV Penetration on City Grids in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Sager Alsulamy ,ECCD Postgraduate Researcher
  • Realising the Isle of Wight’s aspiration for renewable energy power generation and local consumption – Ellis Ridett, ECCD Postgraduate Researcher
  • Tidal Energy and Sandbanks – Dr Luke Blunden, Research Fellow in Energy for Developmpent, Marine, Cities and the Built Environment
  • Seasonality of Heat Deamnd in Social Housing – Victoria Aragon, Researcher in Energy and the Built Environment
  • Future of Southampton, the 15-minute city – Dr Philip Turner, Research Fellow in Cities, Energy and Behaviour
  • Introduction to Tableau – Dr Thomas Rushby, Research Fellow in Energy and Behaviour
  • Energy Management at the University of Southampton – Jane Altounyan, Asst Energy Analyst, UoS Estates and Facilities
  • Change Management: What’s in it for Me? – Nasser Alghamadi, ECCD Postgraduate Researcher
  • Shoreline Change in Coastal Natural World Heritage Sites – a global assessment – Salma Sabour, ECCD Postgraduate Researcher
  • A Conversation about Energy Sufficiency – Dr Thomas Rushby, Research Fellow in Energy and Behaviour
  • SENSE: Paired Surveys – Inferential Analysis and Network Analysis? – Dr Stephanie Gauthier, Lecturer in Energy and Buildings
  • Reflections about state of the art Building Energy Modelling – Dr Manfren Massimiliano, Lecturer in Energy in Buildings
  • Benchmarking Fault Detection in Photovoltaics Using Thermographic Imagery and Machine Learning – Alois Klink, ECCD Postgraduate Researcher
  • The effect of COVID-19 2020 lockdown on electricity consumption and associated direct green-house gas emissionss in Great Britain – Dr Ben Anderson, Principal Research Fellow within the Energy and Climate Change Division

ECCD Seminar video presentations

See below for select video summaries of the ECCD seminar presentations

  • Post-Occupancy Evaluation methods for the built environment – Dr Stephanie Gauthier, Lecturer in Energy and Buildings

 

  • Acceptability of occupants sharing information – Dr Stephanie Gauthier, Lecturer in Energy and Buildings