With an interest in counterintuitive and innovative solutions for important problems, I research topics related to housing, system dynamics modelling, the management of change, and decision making. Multiple subject areas and universities enhanced my interest in discerning interdisciplinary approaches to address problems. In interdisciplinary research I use participative methods and my main research methods are system dynamics modelling, qualitative and case study research. I have a strong interest in processes of change, interactions among people and the construction of an environment sustainable in every sense, allowing for resilient development.

In the past three years, I have completed work on Integrated Decision-Making about Housing, Energy and Wellbeing (HEW), on Housing in Nairobi's Informal Settlements (HINIS), on a Web-Integrated Interactive Simulation Environment (HEW-WISE), and an exciting project with the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on developing a systems perspective of home owner decision-making about energy efficieny in the wider policy and industrial context.

Currently, I am working on several reasearch grants: I lead the work package on City Engagemnt in the Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH) project. This work package includes collaborators across four continents and about five post-doctoral reasearchers. In addition, I lead the system dynamics work package in the Total Performance of Low-Carbon Buildings in China and the UK (TOP) project. I am also a Co-Investigator on a prestigeous EPSRC Platform Grant on Built Environment Systems Thinking that aims at developing a systems perspective across the Bartlett School for Environment, Energy & Resources.