Professor Paul Jeffrey
Professor of Water Management
Location: Building 39, Cranfield campus
E: p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754814
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Professor Jeffrey has research interests spanning several areas of water management including governance, customer relations, demand management, socio-economic dimensions, infrastructure planning, asset management, and sustainable water management. He is also active in researching the application of concepts from complexity and evolutionary science to natural resources management and has a long track record of research on water recycling. Paul is Programme Manager for the STREAM Industrial Doctorate Centre and Vice Chair of the University’s Science & Engineering Research Ethics Committee.Clients
- Anglian Water
- EC FP7
- EPSRC
- Leverhulme Trust
- United Utilities
- Yorkshire Water
Background
Paul Jeffrey is Professor in Water Management at the Cranfield Water Science Institute, and Programme Manager of the STREAM Industrial Doctorate Centre. He has a first class honours degree in ‘Science & Society’, an MSc in ‘Energy and Environment’ and obtained his doctorate in Technology Policy from Cranfield in 1992. As a post-doc researcher he spent three years studying sustainable development issues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, returning to Cranfield in 1996.
A Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, Prof Jeffrey has contributed over 100 journal & conference publications in fields as diverse as water resources management, water recycling, science & society, technology assessment, social justice, and complex systems. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Hydrology and the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Water Resources. He was also a member of the expert review panel for the IPCC AR4 report.
