Overview of OISD

Professor Rajat Gupta, Director of OISD rgupta@brookes.ac.uk

Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development

Multi-disciplinary research institute in

the Faculty of Technology, Design

and Environment comprising eight

research groups, with cross-cutting

research themes.

Help create a sustainable future by

undertaking cutting-edge research on

sustainability in the built and

natural environments at all scales.

Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development

• Addresses multiple dimensions of sustainable

development and the synergies that link them,

through a multi-disciplinary approach.

• Regarded as one of the UK’s largest research

institutes dedicated to sustainable development

research in the built environment.

(HEFCE report in 2008)

• Involved in major Research Council programmes:

• Living with Environmental Change (LWEC)

• Energy research programme (ERP)

• Sustainable Urban Environments (SUE)

www.oisd.brookes.ac.uk

OISD Seminar Series

http://architecture.brookes.ac.uk/

media/resources/OISD-

Summer2013-v5.pdf