UNIVERSITY BASED RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS ‘A FLAVOUR’

1. UNIVERSITY BASED RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS‘A FLAVOUR’ Professor Adrian J Saul a.j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk Pennine Water Group and Catchment Science Centre

2. PENNINE WATER GROUPEPSRC Platform Grant University of Sheffield Civil and Structural Engineering Chemical and Process Engineering Management School University of Bradford Engineering Design and Technology Archeological, Geographical and Environmental Sciences

3. PWG • Formed October 2001 - now 11 academics • 10 PDRA • 10 RGRA • 20 PhD students • The Group proposes to advance engineering and scientific knowledge across all aspects of water services. • Main emphasis is on the more effective and efficient management of water and wastewater assets and delivery of services. • International Advisory Group • Extensive research collaboration with industry • Excellent facilities • Research funding in excess of £6M • Partnership opportunities with CSC

4. Research Themes • Integrated Flood Risk Management (Professor Adrian Saul) • Solute transport and mixing processes (Dr Joby Boxall) • Sediment transport and pollution processes (Dr Simon Tait) • Sewer system management (Professor Richard Ashley) • Integrated Asset management (Ashley and Saul) • Potable water distribution systems (Boxall and Saul) • Stormwater management (Dr Virginia Stovin) • Social science (Dr Elizabeth Sharp) • Economics and whole life cost accounting (Linda Lewis) • Bio-chemical systems (Dr Catherine Biggs) • Chemical processes and biofilms (Dr Robert Edyvean) • Instrumentation (Dr Kirill Horoshenkov) • Research methods • Fieldwork, laboratory and pilot scale studies • Full-scale system monitoring • Analytical techniques • Mathematical modelling and CFD

5. Model formulation • Model simplification • Quantifying uncertainty P&S Soc • Influence networks • Water, Environment and Society seminars Geog • Nutrient chemistry • Sediment erosion • GIS and remote • sensing External collaborators • Ecotoxicology • Ecosystem structure • and functioning • Conservation and • restoration Animal and Plant Sciences • Hydrogeology • Natural attenuation • Sustainable urban • redevelopment • Systems analysis • Bayesian networks Town and Regional Planning and Landscape APS CompSci GPRG • Ecosystem modelling • Earth observation • science Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics CSC Sheffield core CTCD PWG • Urban flooding • SUDS • Urban sediment and • pollutant transport

6. Flooding • PWG and CSC • 2 INTERREG projects • AUDACIOUS – adaptable urban drainage for climate change • Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC) £14.5M • Stormwater management • SUDS • Green Roofs • Socio – economic and health impacts • New approaches to manage flood risk in urban areas

7. EU - example • Project CORONA - £1.7M European research project which attempts to build confidence in forecasting natural attenuation of groundwater pollution • The goal is to increase confidence in assessment and forecasting of natural attenuation by: • strengthening the scientific basis which supports the use of natural attenuation as risk assessment tool • providing simple but robust engineering tools for assessment and quantification of natural attenuation as a remedial approach for groundwater pollution • promoting the use of these tools in the end-user community of problem holders, regulators and advisors Project partners University of Sheffield (co-ordinator) University of Tubingen (Germany) Technical University of Denmark University of Ferrara (Italy) TNO (Netherlands) Charles University, Prague (Czech Rep.) Queen's University, Belfast (UK) University of Utrecht (Netherlands) Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland) ESI (UK)

8. MUWS: Microbiology in Urban Water SystemsFP6Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge GrantPartnerships • CPE: Catherine Biggs, Robert Edyvean • APS: Mark Osborn • CSE: Joby Boxall, Richard Ashley, Adrian Saul • Civil @ Bradford: Simon Tait • 3 TOK Fellows – Peter Deines & tbc

9. Science Objective:To integrate into existing PWG projects so that microbiological issues associated with urban water systems can now be addressed Develop and apply molecular microbiological techniques for the characterisation and quantification of planktonic and biofilm microbiological communities, within water distribution and sewer networks. Develop protocols to quantify the impact of these microorganisms, due to their presence, diversity and function on the performance of water distribution and sewer systems

10. URSULA - Urban River Corridors and Sustainable Living Agendas • People are at the heart of the urban area • The River delivers ecological goods and services • Design offers the possibility of innovation • Values are the agents of change • Project Management is essential to bind the tasks and deliver the Outcomes Sheffield City Council Waterways Strategy Group South Yorkshire Forest Yorkshire Forward Environment Agency Arup Scott Wilson SNIFFER RTPI RICS BURA Yorkshire Water

11. Monitoring site: flow and water quality Multi-Scale FrameworkWhole life costs associated with the water framework directive TOPCAT & INCA SCALE UP Research scale models Catchment scale models, GIS , risk indicators Changes in farming practice and in local land use INCA Research catchment scale experiments The Chequers Engagement, Discussion, Willingness to listen Stakeholder workshops Decision Support Tools Informing stakeholders SCALE DOWN Catchment scale planning The PERM Implementation tools Implementation at farm scale TopManage The PERM River Basin Management Plans

12. Yorkshire Water Strategic Partnership 5 year funding of base resource 10 Year Vision – 26 projects identified 12 current projects circa £1M Cross disciplinary from customer engagement through to near real time monitoring and modelling with proactive operation and management 2 Strategic research catchments have been established

13. Water: perception & behaviour It never stops raining – so why should I save water? Aim: To define public awareness of water innovations & evaluate methods of changing perception & consequent behaviour Objectives: How shared-beliefs occur Theoretical tools for understanding public perceptions: Theory of Social representations How perceptions inhibit or enable people to act Can I save water? Is it worth it? Theory of Self efficacy How to avoid Criteria for effective Information campaigns • Define what constitutes an effective information campaign • Conduct case studies to develop & test effective • information campaigns • Provide recommendations about how sustainable water • management campaigns should be designed & implemented • Make recommendations with respect to ongoing evaluation • of sustainable water campaigns. What are they talking about? • Deliverables: • Two packages containing • practical advice about: • How to research what the • public think. • How to encourage the public to think & act • in a more sustainable way toward water. Christine Sefton (c.sefton@bradford.ac.uk) Dr. Liz Sharp (e.sharp@bradford.ac.uk)

14. Summary • University has large interdisciplinary groups with wide ranging skills • Extensive collaborations with academics world wide • Extensive links Industry • All aspects of research undertaken • Substantial funding from a large number of sources • Excellent track record in transferring research outputs to industry design standards and guidelines • Excellent facilities for fieldwork and experimental research Future We welcome your collaboration

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