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Sarah Jayne Bell
Alma materMurdoch University
University of New England
University of Western Australia
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College London
ThesisResearching sustainability: material semiotics and the Oil Mallee Project (2004)

Sarah Jayne Bell[1] FICE CEng is the City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Honorary Professor of Environmental Engineering at The Bartlett School in University College London (UCL). She works on urban water systems. She was the Director of the UCL Engineering Exchange during her 16 years as a Professor of Environmental Engineering at UCL.

Early life and education

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Bell studied chemistry and environmental engineering at the University of Western Australia and graduated with a Bachelor's of Science and Bachelor's of Engineering in 1996. She moved to the University of New England in Australia for her graduate studies and earned her master's degree in environmental management in 1999.[2] Bell was a doctoral student at Murdoch University, where she worked on sustainability and technology policy and completed her PhD in 2004.[2][3] In 2005 Bell joined University College London.[4]

Research and career

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After moving to the United Kingdom, Bell was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Research Fellowship on Living With Environmental Change.[2][5] Her research considers urban water systems and infrastructure provision, and involves collaboration between engineers and their local communities.[2][6][5] Bell has studied the ability of health systems to respond to climate change.[7] She has worked with AECOM, Thames Water and Arup Group.[8] She was promoted to Professor in September 2018.[9]

Bell identified that there was not much collaboration between engineers, architects and local communities. In an effort to mitigate this lack of communication, Bell founded the University College London Engineering Exchange.[10] She worked with UCL Urban Laboratory to launch a review into social housing, which identified that demolition decisions are often made by professional bodies without adequate engagement with residents.[10] She is part of the Community Water Management for a Liveable London (CAMELLIA), which looks to improve decision making through community and industry engagement.[11] As part of CAMELLIA Bell has looked to make London's water supply more sustainable.[12]

Bell is committed to teaching[13] and her efforts have been recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering and University College London.[4] She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and Institution of Civil Engineers.[citation needed]

Selected publications

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  • Bell, Sarah; Johnson, Charlotte; Austen, Kat; Moore, Gemma; Teh, Tse-Hui (2023). Co-designing Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities. UCL Press. ISBN 9781800082229.
  • Bell, Sarah (2018). Urban Water Sustainability: Constructing Infrastructure for Cities and Nature. Routledge. ISBN 9781138929906.
  • Bell, Sarah (2016). "Assessment of building-integrated green technologies: A review and case study on applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method". Sustainable Cities and Society. 27: 106–115. doi:10.1016/j.scs.2016.06.013. hdl:2086/17084.
  • Bell, Sarah (2015). "Renegotiating urban water". Progress in Planning. 96: 1–28. doi:10.1016/j.progress.2013.09.001.

References

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  1. ^ Bell, Sarah Jayne. "Sarah Bell (@sarahjaynebell) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d UCL (11 October 2017). "Sarah Bell". UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ Eames, Malcolm; Dixon, Tim; Hunt, Miriam; Lannon, Simon (6 September 2017). Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-00722-7.
  4. ^ a b "What's new | UCL Women | STEM networking for Women at UCL | Page 3". Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Sarah Bell - EPSRC website". epsrc.ukri.org. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  6. ^ Bell, Sarah; Paskins, James (2013). Imagining the Future City : London 2062. Ubiquity Press. ISBN 978-1-909188-19-8.
  7. ^ Seshamani, Venkatesh (6 December 2010). "Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Managing the health effects of climate change: Lancet and University College London Institute for Global Health Commission". doi:10.3410/f.6921956.7111054. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ "Sarah Bell". INSS. 12 January 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  9. ^ Professor Sarah Bell - Inaugural Lecture 'Re-engineering engineering: from buildings to communities', retrieved 19 December 2019
  10. ^ a b "Engineering community : Bartlett 100". bartlett100.com. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  11. ^ "Community Water Management for a Liveable London (CAMELLIA)". Imperial College London. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  12. ^ "London faces 'severe' water droughts as population grows, experts warn". Evening Standard. 27 January 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  13. ^ Bell, Sarah; Chilvers, Andrew; Jones, Liz; Badstuber, Nicole (4 May 2019). "Evaluating engineering thinking in undergraduate engineering and liberal arts students". European Journal of Engineering Education. 44 (3): 429–444. Bibcode:2019EJEE...44..429B. doi:10.1080/03043797.2018.1552663. ISSN 0304-3797. S2CID 115371312.
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