Many of the benefits of retrofit are social and health related, yet these outcomes are rarely captured or valued. Sara Edmonds, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub presents their report for broadening how success in retrofit is defined.
Douglas Booker, the project lead for HESTIA will also provide some information on the recently announced HESTIA Sandpit, including what it is, and how you can apply to be involved
Keynote Speakers
Sally Witcher OBE | Indoor air quality inequality: removing barriers to inclusion
Sally has worked throughout her career on poverty, inequality and exclusion. In 2023 she founded Inclusive New Normal, a social enterprise aiming to drive forward learning arising through the Covid-19 pandemic, towards a safe, inclusive new normal. Former roles include Chair of the Scottish Commission on Social Security (Scottish Government) and Disability Employment Advisory Group (UK Government), CEO of Inclusion Scotland and Child Poverty Action Group (UK), senior civil servant in the Office for Disability Issues DWP, and Care Inspectorate Board member. In 2006 she was awarded an OBE for services to disabled people. She has a Phd on diversity and social inclusion (University of Edinburgh) and an Honorary Doctorate (University of Stirling), was a visiting lecturer (Queen Margaret University College), and has been a member of numerous research advisory committees including the LSE’s Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. Her first degree was in Fine Art (Slade School, University College London). She is a disabled person, and at high risk from Covid or, more accurately, responses to it.
Dr Anna Pagani | Leverage points to housing justice: Thinking in systems with English social housing stakeholders
Anna is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at King’s College London and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. Her research, teaching, and engagement lie at the intersection of systems thinking, housing justice, and degrowth. In her work, she engages stakeholders in co-designing systemic interventions aimed at achieving a decommodified housing system, underpinned by values of ecological sustainability, local and global equity, conviviality, and participation.
At King’s, Anna is Engineering representative on the Net Zero Centre Steering Committee, where she coordinates the first Degrowth seminar series. She an active member of the Post-growth Planning cluster of the UCL Bartlett School of Planning and of the Postgrowth Cities Coalition. She is also part of several networks, including the multidisciplinary built environment think tank The Edge, and is listed the Register of Specialists of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
This webinar is part of a UKIEG Webinar series on Healthy Indoor Environments, in Partnership with Air Hub, HESTIA, and BreatHE In networks, as well as the Micro Networks Noise Networks Plus and GREENIN Micro-network Plus.