Sustainability for Built Environment Practice PgCert/PgDip/MSc/MA: Research areas

Many of the staff in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture are research active. This ensures they are in touch with the latest thinking and bring best practice to your studies.

The Sustainable Design Research Group  (part of the Design Research Centre) is leading projects that connect design and designers with sustainability issues. Recent research projects have focused on:

• designing and manufacturing with recycled materials;
• building a 'sustainable materials' library for designers; and
• air quality and its impact on the health of building occupants.

The Real Estate Research Centre focuses on specialist areas related to the valuation, appraisal and management of property, including:

• a qualitative and reflective approach to the role of appraisal and management of land and buildings; and
• relating professional activity to changing social and political agendas.

The researchers frequently use the context of either leisure or sustainable properties as the exemplar for their studies.

Research in the School of Earth Sciences and Geography at Kingston forms part of the Centre for Earth and Environmental Science Research (CEESR). Research falls into three different groups:

• Geodynamics and Crustal Processes – including tectonics, basin evolution and applications of palaeomagnetism to global geodynamics;
• Environmental Change – including remote sensing of land cover change in tropical and temperate ecosystems and human impacts on watercourses and soils in Britain; and
• Agriculture, Environment and People – including the human, environmental and policy dynamics of rural systems.

You may be able to publish any research you undertake on the Kingston University Research and Innovation Reports (KURIR) website. This site gives anyone associated with Kingston University the opportunity to publish articles, which will be permanently available to the academic community.