Dr Jo Barnes

Dr Jo Barnes is Senior Research Fellow in Air Quality in the Air Quality Management Resource Centre of the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at UWE Bristol. Her research is into policy, management and behaviour change related to improving air quality. She studies how best to drive policy change in the quality of air and she works with citizens and interest groups to address what can be done to enact positive change. Alongside this she explores the impacts of air pollution on different and more vulnerable parts of society such as the elderly, children, pregnant women and those in low socioeconomic status. Much of her analysis relates to pollution from road traffic in urban areas.

Jo is Co-Chair of the Air Pollution conference series, and is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. She also served for many years on the Royal Society of Chemistry's Environmental Chemistry Group Committee, as Honorary Secretary and, latterly, as Honorary Treasurer. She was awarded the Nurul Leksmono Memorial Award for her PhD thesis on the effectiveness of Local Air Quality Management. Jo is leading on stakeholder engagement research on the CADTIME project in Delhi to inform development of mitigation actions, and undertook citizen engagement analysis to develop bottom-up policy implementation as part of the EU ClairCity project.

Jo runs an IAQM-accredited CPD training on Air Quality Management and is the Programme Leader for the IES-, IEMA- and CIWEM-accredited MSc Environmental Management (http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/F1N21) and MSc Environmental Consultancy (http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/F90012) programmes.