Richard Ashley is a Chartered Civil and Environmental Engineer and Co-Director of the EPSRC funded Platform Centre, the Pennine Water Group (30 staff and researchers), with current research turnover of more than 8M euro. He is Visiting Professor in..
Richard Ashley is a Chartered Civil and Environmental Engineer and Co-Director of the EPSRC funded Platform Centre, the Pennine Water Group (30 staff and researchers), with current research turnover of more than 8M euro. He is Visiting Professor in Sanitary Engineering at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands and research advisor to FORMAS (Swedish research funding agency). Professor Ashley has many years experience in all aspects of urban water systems, including modelling, monitoring, management, operation and use. His research is in three main areas:
1. Internationally in the forefront of advancing knowledge about sewer solids and associated processes.
2. More than 10 years researching sustainable water systems, being main author of an IWA publication on ‘Including sustainability in decision making for water assets – a guide’.
3. Flooding and climate change research; completed a UK Government Foresight project on Flooding and Coastal defence – leading the urban aspects. Chairman of a water and flood review inquiry for Bradford Metropolitan District Council. Various other related technical projects for industry, municipal authorities and end-users and other stakeholders.
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