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 Developing the research base to design and operate healthy schools now and in the environment of the future. 

Clean Air Programme

TAPAS is funded as part of the SPF Clean Air Programme. For more information, please see their website.

Focus Area Working Groups

 Our work is broken down into four in-depth content areas relating to schools and air quality: Understanding the problem; understanding the solutions; prioritising the solutions and dissemination and outreach. Each group will meet regularly to discuss the research landscape and identify priority areas for further work. If you would like to get involved please contact us.

Focus Area 1: Understanding the problem in school

Focus Area 2: Understanding the potential solutions

Focus Area 2: Understanding the potential solutions

This group will focus on the levels of pollution and their impact on overall indoor environmental quality (IEQ) – the extent of the problem; how the outdoor pollution impacts IEQ12; the health impacts; the broader impacts on learning; and schools in the context of the wider city, how air pollution problems link into wider sustainability issues in cities. 

Focus Area 2: Understanding the potential solutions

Focus Area 2: Understanding the potential solutions

Focus Area 2: Understanding the potential solutions

The possible solutions under consideration include building design and retrofit, ventilation systems, facades, glazing, materials etc.; external interventions e.g. traffic interventions like School Streets, green and blue spaces; behavioural aspects – how we use buildings; democratised ‘products’ to control the environment – e.g. intelligent devices, predictive models that can be accessed by schools; managing school locale and travel to and from school; public policy interventions.

Focus Area 3: Prioritising the solutions/taking an integrated approach

Focus Area 3: Prioritising the solutions/taking an integrated approach

Focus Area 3: Prioritising the solutions/taking an integrated approach

A systems approach will be developed using brain-storming, agent-based and economic modelling including quantification of health related effects of tackling air pollution. We will examine the potential for using data and AI in a systems approach and consider ‘whole-city’ thinking – putting solutions for schools in the wider context of city planning. In this way we will develop a framework for prioritising interventions. 

Focus Area 4: Dissemination and participation

Focus Area 3: Prioritising the solutions/taking an integrated approach

Focus Area 3: Prioritising the solutions/taking an integrated approach

We will work closely with Global Action Plan in field studies involving schools and making links to other sustainability agendas – Climate Change and SDGs. We will involve pupils through citizen science in these studies and work with the Department for Education (DfE) to establish a strong educational component. We set up wide dissemination activities through sector bodies: e.g. National Association of Head Teachers and air quality campaigners, and via the CO-SCHOOLS website www.coschools.org.uk

Our Work

Network events and workshops

Network events and workshops

Network events and workshops

Every six months we will bring our community together with a full Network meeting. We will also hold workshops on topics of interest with expert speakers. Members of TAPAS are welcome to join any of our focus group activities which will run regularly, or to work with us directly on bespoke research.

Working with schools

Network events and workshops

Network events and workshops

To change the conversation on air pollution we believe it is essential to engage directly with children, schools and parents. Our team includes education and citizen science specialists who will help us to effectively build schools outreach into our work programme.

Supporting research

Network events and workshops

Supporting research

We have the capability to award small grants to research projects that support our ambition to develop the research base to design and operate healthy schools in the environment of the future. Find out more about our Collaboration Building Workshop.

Our Team

Professor Paul Linden

Professor Paul Linden

Professor Paul Linden

Lead Investigator & focus area 1 lead

Dr Megan Davies Wykes

Professor Paul Linden

Professor Paul Linden

Focus area 1 lead

Dr Adam Boies

Professor Paul Linden

Professor Chris Pain

Focus area 1

Professor Chris Pain

Professor Chris Pain

Professor Chris Pain

Focus area 1

Professor Fan Chung

Professor Chris Pain

Professor Alan Short

Focus area 1

Professor Alan Short

Professor Chris Pain

Professor Alan Short

Focus area 2 lead

Professor Nicola Carslaw

Professor Nicola Carslaw

Professor Nicola Carslaw

Focus area 2 lead

Dr Henry Burridge

Professor Nicola Carslaw

Professor Nicola Carslaw

Focus area 2

Dr Liora Malki-Epshtein

Professor Nicola Carslaw

Dr Liora Malki-Epshtein

Focus area 2

Dr Mike Holland

Professor Runming Yao

Dr Liora Malki-Epshtein

Focus area 3 lead

Professor Runming Yao

Professor Runming Yao

Professor Runming Yao

Focus area 3 lead

Dr Fangxin Fang

Professor Runming Yao

Professor Runming Yao

Focus area 3

Larissa Lockwood

Dr Mark Winterbottom

Dr Mark Winterbottom

Focus area 4 lead

Dr Mark Winterbottom

Dr Mark Winterbottom

Dr Mark Winterbottom

Focus area 4 lead

Dr Marc Stettler

Dr Mark Winterbottom

Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk

Focus area 4

Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk

Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk

Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk

Focus area 4

Dr Matteo Carpentieri

Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk

Dr Matteo Carpentieri

Focus area 4

Dr Sarah West

Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk

Dr Matteo Carpentieri

Focus area 4

Dr Kat Roberts

Dr Kat Roberts

Dr Kat Roberts

TAPAS Network Manager

TAPAS Partners

TAPAS is working with a range of partners across academia, policy, industry and civil society.


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