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Areas of expertise
- Environmental Policy
Background
Mehdi Hafezi joined Cranfield University as a research fellow in systems thinking. Mehdi received his Master of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 2013, and his PhD in systems modelling from Griffith University, Australia, in 2020. He conducted his doctoral research as a member of the risk assessment and systems modelling team within a multidisciplinary project titled EcoAdapt, which aimed to identify appropriate adaptation interventions through an integrated systems modelling approach.
Research opportunities
His research interests focus on the application of systems thinking in environmental, public health, and socio-economic systems, including hybrid systems modelling, System Dynamics (SD), Probabilistic Modelling, and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), as well as Project Management and Decision Support Systems (DSS).
Clients
Mehdi is currently involved in a multidisciplinary project so-called' Grounds Well', which aims to drive community innovation by applying systems science to maximise the contribution of Urban Green and Blue Space to support residents and improve social well-being through the prevention of and reduction of inequalities in, non-communicable diseases (NCD) in urban settings in the UK. This is a 4-year programme of work in three cities - Belfast, Edinburgh and Liverpool - focusing on developing, supporting and evaluating community urban green and blue spaces to promote health and well-being for all. Groundswell takes a systems approach that means understanding the multiple and interconnecting components of policy-making, practice, perception and people, which together affect the presence, location, character and use of UGBS.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Garcia L, Hafezi M, Lima L, Millett C, Thompson J, .... (2025). Future-proofing cities against negative city mobility and public health impacts of impending natural hazards: a system dynamics modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(3)
- Hunter RF, Cleland C, Wang R, O’Neill C, Mullineaux S, .... (2025). Investigating the long-term public health and co-benefit impacts of an urban greenway intervention in the UK: a natural experiment evaluation – study protocol. BMJ Open, 15(7)
- Hunter R, Garcia L, Clewley N, Hafezi M & Hilton J. (2023). 5 year public health impacts of an urban greenway, Belfast, Northern Ireland: Causal Loop Diagram (Abstract no diagram). European Journal of Public Health, 33(Supplement 2)
- Ghaboulian Zare S, Alipour M, Hafezi M, Stewart RA & Rahman A. (2022). Examining wind energy deployment pathways in complex macro-economic and political settings using a fuzzy cognitive map-based method. Energy, 238(January)
- Hafezi M, Stewart RA, Sahin O, Giffin AL & Mackey B. (2021). Evaluating coral reef ecosystem services outcomes from climate change adaptation strategies using integrative system dynamics. Journal of Environmental Management, 285(May)
- Dhirasasna N, Suprun E, MacAskill S, Hafezi M & Sahin O. (2021). A Systems Approach to Examining PhD Students’ Well-Being: An Australian Case. Systems, 9(1)
- Alipour M, Hafezi R, Rani P, Hafezi M & Mardani A. (2021). A new Pythagorean fuzzy-based decision-making method through entropy measure for fuel cell and hydrogen components supplier selection. Energy, 234(November)
- Hafezi M, Giffin AL, Alipour M, Sahin O & Stewart RA. (2020). Mapping long-term coral reef ecosystems regime shifts: A small island developing state case study. Science of The Total Environment, 716
- Hafezi M, Sahin O, Stewart RA, Connolly RM, Mackey B, .... (2020). Adaptation strategies for coral reef ecosystems in Small Island Developing States: Integrated modelling of local pressures and long-term climate changes. Journal of Cleaner Production, 253
- Alipour M, Hafezi R, Papageorgiou E, Hafezi M & Alipour M. (2019). Characteristics and scenarios of solar energy development in Iran: Fuzzy cognitive map-based approach. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 116
- Hafezi M, Sahin O, Stewart R & Mackey B. (2018). Creating a Novel Multi-Layered Integrative Climate Change Adaptation Planning Approach Using a Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability, 10(11)