Katy Roelich
Senior Research Fellow
Telephone number:
+44(0) 113 34
38668
Email address: k.e.roelich@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.115
Biography
I was appointed Senior Research Fellow in 2011, jointly with the Institute of Resilient Infrastructure in the School of Civil Engineering and have experience in environmental and engineering consulting in the UK and overseas and, more recently sustainability research. While working in consultancy I provided environmental and sustainability advice to a wide range of industries including, utilities, nuclear, oil, mining, rail, road and housing working for the private sector, government agencies and utility companies.
Following nine years in consultancy I moved to the Stockholm Environment Institute to work in the field of sustainable consumption and production research, predominantly in the application of environment-economy models to policy analysis and development. My work at SEI involved producing scenarios for sustainable consumption and production in Europe and investigating our reliance on scarce metals for low carbon transitions.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Chemistry, University of Durham (1997)
MSc (Distn) Environmental Engineering, Newcastle University (1998)
Memberships/Fellowships
Member of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network
Research Interests
My current research activities centre around the interaction between engineering, the environment and society, including resilience of infrastructure transitions to resource scarcities and the role of infrastructure in shaping resource consumption and behaviour. See our research wiki for more information http://sure-infrastructure.leeds.ac.uk/doku.php
Current research projects include:
Undermining Infrastructure: EPSRC funded project using an enhanced method of stocks and flows analysis to understand the reliance of future technologies and infrastructure renewal on critical materials and how we can develop infratructure that is more resilient to this scarcity.
Land of the MUSCos: EPSRC funded project developing a new business model of multi-utility service provision to integrate end users and reduce resource consumption.
UK Energy Research Centre: Funded under UKERC's Energy and Environment theme understanding embedded emissions in goods and services and how policy and infrastructure can reduce consumption-related emissions.
Equitable Allocation of Critical Metals for Low Carbon Energy: PhD research into alternative approaches to allocation of critical metals that support universal access to sustainable energy services.
Publications
Reports
Dawkins, E; Chadwick, M; Roelich, KE; Falk, R Metals in a Low-Carbon Economy: Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Business in a Finite World. Stockholm Environment Institute. pp.1-56 2012.
Roelich, K. E. (2010, November). Securing the future - the role of resource efficiency (SAP 135). Banbury. Retrieved from http://www.wrap.org.uk/downloads/FULL_REPORT_v2.9aeb8aae.10014.pdf
Conferences
Roelich, K.E., Busch, J., Dawson, D., Purnell, P., Steinberger, J.K., (2012). Undermining Infrastructure - avoiding the scarcity trap. At Technoport, Trondheim, Norway. http://sure-infrastructure.leeds.ac.uk/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=ui:katy_roelich_technoport2012.pdf
Roelich, K.E, Steinberger, J.K., Knoeri, C., Varga, L. (2012) Resource-Efficient, service-oriented infrastructure operation. At ISUP, Bruges http://sure-infrastructure.leeds.ac.uk/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=muscos:katy_roelich_muscos.pdf
Roelich, K. E. (2008, September 16). Resource efficiency in the food and drink supply chain. In Waste and Resource Management – a Shared Responsibility. , 16-17 September 2008. Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
Roelich, K. E., Kemp Benedict, E., Chadwick, M., & Dawkins, E. (2011, September 17). Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Low Carbon Economy. In World Resources Forum. Davos