Prof Julieanna Powell-Turner
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
A Professor in Environmental Sustainability, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, and the Director of the Centre for Research into Environmental Science and Technology (CREST) in the Faculty of Science, Business and Enterprise. Providing strategic leadership to the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Professor Paul Bissell and Executive Dean Professor Kurt Allman, ensuring activities align with the strategic goals of the university.
As a Senior Leader in the Faculty, she is responsible for shaping, implementing, and delivering the University's Research and Knowledge Exchange Strategy. This includes overseeing relevant Key Performance Indicators such as the Research Excellence Framework, the Knowledge Exchange Framework, Civic Engagement, and the provision of Postgraduate Teaching and Research. She has taught and researched environmental sustainability for over 2 decades and has successfully secured considerable external funding, published in the academic and government press, and seen numerous PhD's through to completion.
My teaching relates to the challenges, vulnerabilities, and opportunities in environmental sustainability from a systems perspective. This includes global industrialisation related to protection, climate change, social cohesion in communities, resource management, industrial projects, fragility and criticality of environmental networks, geopolitical risks, stakeholder dialogue, sustainable supply chains, LCA, product lifecycles, circular systems, through life capability management, and research methods.
I am interested in the intersections between natural resources, civic society, and environmental management and protection through life. The aim of the through life approach is to apply strategic foresight to future threats and opportunities that may reduce the likelihood and/or impact of disruptions through risk identification (disruptions), assessment (occurrence and impact), action (strategy and mitigation) and monitoring (reduce risk). In particular, I'm interested in Smart Specialisation (environmental protection), and how this links to sustaining communities and businesses in our ever-changing environment. As an academic I have successfully secured over £6million of external funding to date from UKRI and other government partners and am supervising students in the areas of climate action, social cohesion, energy transition, sustainable composites, green skills, green energy systems, benefits realisation, and project benefits. Much of my research has focused on Europe, South Asia, and East Asia in contributing to the creation of an enabling environment for sustainable growth. Sustainability is the driving force behind all my endeavours, guiding me to identify and shape best practices in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Powell-Turner JW & Murgatroyd CA (2021) Sustainability, Supply Chains, and Defense. In: The Palgrave encyclopedia of interest groups, lobbying and public affairs, London: Palgrave Macmillan, ed. Living edition.
Powell-Turner J & Antill PD (2019) National Security - Breakthroughs in Research and Practice "Critical Raw Materials and UK Defence Acquisition". In: National Security: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, IGI Global, p. 673-693.
Smith JCD & Powell-Turner JW (2018) Defence Logistics in Context. In: Defence Logistics - Enabling and Sustaining Successful Military Operations, London: Kogan Page, p. 64-89.
Powell-Turner J, Antill P & Fisher R (2016) The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and the European Union's electrical and electronic equipment directives, Resources Policy, 49 (September) 422-432.
Powell-Turner J & Antill PD (2016) Critical raw materials and UK defence acquisition: The case of the rare Earth elements. In: Emerging Strategies in Defence Acquisitions and Military Procurement, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, p. 129-149.
Powell-Turner J & Antill P (2015) Will Future Resource Demand Cause Significant and Unpredictable Dislocations for the UK Ministry of Defence?, Resources Policy, 45 217-226.