Dr Purva Tavri

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Purva Tavri
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Teaching and learning
Research
Business, knowledge transfer and international
Professional practice, knowledge exchange and impact
Leadership and management

About

Dr Purva Tavri is a Chartered Environmentalist, Chartered Waste Manager, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Environmental Planner & Architect, with over 15 years of experience in sustainability and waste management.

She is a Centre Councillor in the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) London & Southeast Centre and a Steering Committee Member of the Island Waste Management Global Alliance.

Purva is a trained researcher with her doctoral research on exploring how organisations adopt reuse behaviour in practice. She has also received awards from CIWM, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) and Inspiring Indian Women (IIW) for her publications. She has been nominated by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management Equality, Diversity and Inclusion group as one of the influential women in the industry.

Purva aims to achieve longevity by bringing individuals and organisations to a self-sustainable level and always aims to combine research and practice for a better environment and well-being in society.

Academic responsibilities

Lecturer in Environmental Management

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.)
  • Master's in Environmental Planning
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Pro-environmental, organisational behaviour change to drive forward reuse in the UK

Teaching and learning

BSc in Environmental Science

  • Leading on the School-wide Sustainability for Professional Practice module (EG4022) in collaboration with CSCM department, Sustainability leads (academic and operations) and HackCentre. Bringing real-life challenges for the students to work in groups to come up with solutions using problem-solving skills and methods. 

MSc in Environmental management

  • Leading on the Environmental Management module (GG7045) and developing relationships with professionals to come for guest talks. The pool of professionals consists of alumni, the private sector, the public sector, and SMEs. Bringing theory and practice together in the class-room.
  • Leading on MSc supervision projects based on collaboration with businesses, charities, and other institutions and are real-life-based projects.

Qualifications and expertise

  • FHEA

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

Research projects & funding:

2024

Working on a book as a sole author in Routledge Publishing, the Taylor & Francis Group

  • Working title: India's Deep-rooted Circular Practices: A Reverse Learning Model for Sustainable Impact
  • Project timeline - March 2024 to Aug 2026

KU Research Investment - Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research Grants

  • Successful - £29,400 - SDGs Navigator: Pioneering AI Powered Sustainability
  • PI with collaborators from computing, learning and teaching and estates
  • Managing project and RAs
  • Project timeline - Jan 2024 to July 2024

Enhancing Research Culture for Women in STEM

  • Successful - £30k - WISH project
  • Co-lead with a colleague in Computing
  • Project management and seed-funding
  • Project timeline - Dec 2023 to July 2024

2023

Investing in Research Capacity funds 2023 - Form part of 2 funding streams:

  • Net zero
  • Nature-based solutions

Enhancing Research Culture for Women in STEM: Kingston University People Awards 2023 - Enterprising team runner-up

    • Successful - £40k - WISH project
    • Co-lead with a colleague in Computing
    • Project management and seed-funding
    • Project timeline - Feb 2023 to July 2023

Recent Publications, press, conferences, and media:

  • Tavri, P. and Todd, S. The Power of Collaboration. Circular Nov/Dec 2022, p.19.
  • Gupta. D, et al., 2022, Enhancing Informal Sector in Waste and Resource Management of India through ICT & Circular Economy. Proceedings of National Online Conference on Planning, Design and Management.
  • Tavri, P. Connecting the dots. Circular March 2022.
  • Guest on Women's Special Express show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtqADyToM4

Qualifications and expertise

  • Chartered Environmentalist
  • Chartered Waste Manager
  • Fellow of School for social entrepreneurs
  • Fellow of The Higher Education Academy

Areas of specialism

  • Sustainability
  • Waste and resource management
  • Reuse
  • Circular Economy
  • Pro-environmental behaviour change

Scholarly affiliations

  • People Awards, Enterprising team runner-up by Kingston University, 2023
  • Green Impact Award by Kingston University, 2023
  • Awarded Environmentalist Champion by Inspiring Indian Women, 2022
  • Selected by CIWM as an inspiring female in waste & resource industry, 2021
  • ISWA publication awards, Third prize, 2019
  • Roger Perry Award for Best Research Paper by CIWM, 2017

Business, knowledge transfer and international

Worked in the industry for over 15 years in sustainability and waste management.

Qualifications and PROFESSIONAL expertise

  • Environmental management
  • Construction waste management
  • Third sector

Professional practice, knowledge exchange and impact

Professional affiliations/memberships:

      • Chartered Environmentalist
      • Chartered Waste Manager
      • FHEA
      • Fellow member of the School for Social Entrepreneurs

Professional awards:

      • 2022: Champion of the Earth (Environmentalist) award by Inspiring Indian Women (IIW)
      • 2021: Selected as one of the inspiring females in the waste & resource industry by the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM) 
      • 2019: Third prize for publication awards by the International Institute of Waste Association (ISWA)
      • 2017: Roger Perry Award for Best Research Paper by the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM)

Leadership and management

Leading on modules:

  • L 4 module school-wide module
  • L7 module

Personal tutorial scheme (PTS): co-leading in managing the PTS at school level

Research/Funding:

  • Women In STEM Hub (WISH): co-leading and managing the project
  • SDGs Navigator: Pioneering AI Powered Sustainability - Leading and managing the project

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