Are London homes ready for a heatwave? Last week, I gave evidence to the London Assembly’s Planning and Regeneration Committee: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy birthday @UCL! 🎂

📣 Funded #PhD Studentship Opportunity: HEALS (#Heat, #Health and #Learning): Co-designing Climate-Resilient Strategies for Primary Schools in Oxfordshire (Deadline: 20 February)

Funded PhD opportunity with the CHILI Hub! (www.chili.ac.uk). The project will use systems thinking approaches to understand barriers in the delivery of Net Zero schools, to optimise heath, environmental, and justice co-benefits. Info here: lnkd.in/egz9bJ-N Get in touch: [email protected]

It's often said that an English person's home is their castle... but how much control do we actually have over the air we breathe at home? Awaab's Law comes into effect today! In this @uk.theconversation.com article, we write about what it does —and does not— mean for improving indoor air quality.

Still time to sign up for our free webinar for World Ventilate Day 2025. We’ll be introducing new research networks and discussing how to deliver better ventilation and IAQ for everyone. 7th Nov 12-1pm, sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/world-vent...

I'm proud to share that I’ll be speaking at the CIBSE Influence Theatre at elementalLONDON! Register for free: ⬇️ lnkd.in/eDgFkTWN

In this blog, Will Snell chief executive at @fairness.bsky.social highlights how wealth inequality undermines our climate response in three critical ways - increasing vulnerability, distorting politics and weakening social cohesion. Read here:

One in three young people surveyed expect to need mental health support in coming year according to polling commissioned from YouGov by UCL’s Grand Challenge of Mental Health & Wellbeing. Find out more: https://shorturl.at/1Rpfh

🥳 We're celebrating! 🥳 Join us for the celebration of 60 years of Environmental Design and Engineering at The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment. Register to attend our event on Realising the Health Co-benefits of the Transition to Net Zero on 8 October: shorturl.at/Hq6XO

🎉 Our UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering book "Shaping the Sustainable Built Environment in a Changing Climate", celebrating our 60th anniversary, is here and free to access: shorturl.at/8CeZr

Registrations are now open for the ERBE CDT Colloquium on 5 November in London: www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticket... ERBE CDT focuses on the interactions between energy supply systems and buildings, and the need to create healthy and productive home and work environments to adapt to climate change.

According to new Met Office research, UK heatwaves could become hotter and longer. City Hall is working on a new plan to better prepare for heatwaves in London. You can help inform the plan and find advice on keeping cool. Take the 6-minute survey now: www.london.gov.uk/talk-london/...

Children in England face ‘lost learning’ from flooding and extreme heat, research finds

Really excited to be part of the new EPSRC HESTIA network, led by @douglasbooker.bsky.social, and what better way to announce it than with a presentation at the UKIEG conference on Clean Air Day!

One and a half million words on air quality in the built environment. Join us on 3 June for a webinar with Simon Jones, founder of Air Quality Matters! Register now ► bit.ly/3YLVB8a

Today marks the start of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek & we'll be spotlighting how we're driving innovation through interdisciplinary research & partnerships. From child wellbeing to the importance of green spaces, find out more on our website 👇 bit.ly/449QX7r #UCLMentalHealth

📣📣📣 Come work with us! #Postdoc opportunity #2: Research Fellow/ Senior Research Fellow in Indoor Environmental Modelling. Applications open until 27 April. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #thermalcomfort #airquality #climatechange #EnergyPlus #buildingsimulation #jobalert #jobopportunity #hiring

📣📣📣 Come work with us! #Postdoc opportunity #1: Research Fellow/ Senior Research Fellow in Urban Climate and Environmental Modelling. Applications open until 22 April. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #urbanclimate #urbanoverheating #urbanmodelling #climatechange #WRF #jobalert #jobopportunity #hiring

📣 So proud of this paper! This was an ECR-led initiative as part of the @ukcleanair.bsky.social HEICCAM Network tackling #indoorairquality through an #environmentaljustice lens.

Funded #PhD opportunity (home & international students). Start September 2025. Join us @exeter.ac.uk @ecehh.bsky.social for a 4-year funded PhD project looking how #ClimateChange impacts on the #MentalHealth of #Parents and carers. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🌍🧠 Join us at "The Hot Brain 3: Climate Change & Brain Health" conference. Discover the latest research on how climate change impacts neurological health and learn about strategies to mitigate these effects. @uclqsion.bsky.social

📣 So excited to be involved, together with colleagues at the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, in 3 transdisciplinary Hubs aiming to realise the #health co-benefits of #NetZero!

I'm delighted to announce I will be leading the £2 million 'Accelerating Resilience and Climate Adaptation of Domestic Environments for vulnerable populations' (ARCADE) project! #climatechange #climateadaptation #heat #overheating #housing #healthybuildings #healthyhomes

Join us at the Bartlett Postgraduate In-Person Open Evening on Wednesday 5 February 2025 to explore cutting edge solutions for sustainable and healthy buildings, cities, and communities with the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

📣 📣 📣 Registration is now open for our CIBSE-IBPSA-England Technical Symposium 'Fit for 2050 - Achieving #netzero through intelligent, resilient and #sustainabledesign in the #builtenvironment' at UCL on 24-25 April. Register your place: buff.ly/3DH5HzB Early bird registration deadline: 16 February

In a changing climate, what are the future #heating and #cooling needs, and how will this impact UK #housing? Our study, part of the CS-N0W programme, tackled these questions by assessing the impact of a range of #climatechange projections on residential thermal comfort. ow.ly/zCpX50UFnOh

Delighted to have participated in the housing chapter of the Chief Medical Officer for England annual report on Health in Cities. We hope that this chapter can inform the implementation of targeted interventions to promote healthy urban housing. bit.ly/4gOWa7V #healthyhousing #healthycities

How do indoor environments affect health inequalities, inequities and injustice? What better way to start posting here than announcing the publication of our Special Issue on Health Inequalities and Indoor Environments in the Buildings & Cities journal, co-guest edited with Prof Marcella Ucci!