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- Qualifications:PhD, MLitt, BSc.
- Position:Research Fellow
- Department:FET - Architecture and the Built Environment
- Email:Freya.Wise@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
Dr Freya Wise is an ESRC Research Fellow at the University of the West of England (UWE) in the Centre for Advanced Built Environment Research (CABER) and a Visiting Fellow at The Open University (OU). Freya completed her interdisciplinary PhD at the OU in 2022 on: Carbon reduction and heritage retention: retrofitting appraoches for vernacular buildings and their residents. She aslo has an MLitt in Warstudies from the University of Glasgow and an Open BSc at the OU. Freya has subsequently worked in research at London South Bank University infroming retrofit services for local authorities, at the OU on systematic approaches to increasing heat pump uptake, and on commercial embodied carbon calculations. Freya has been involved in work with LETI, the National Retorfit Hub, the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard and Historic England. s
Freya's ORCID ID is: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9532-3862
Area of expertise
Freya is interested in using multidisciplinary approaches to increasing sustainability in the built environment, with a specific focus on existing buildings. Freya's multidisciplinary PhD research focussed on reducing carbon for residential heritage buildings while retaining their heritage values and explored both how people use and value their homes as well as technical issues such as how traditional buildings are represented in energy modelling tools and the operational and embodied carbon potential of a wide range of retrofits. Freya's research seeks to combine the 'what' and 'how' of hard science with the 'why' of social science through mixed methods and interdisciplinary research.
Freya is interested in all aspects of increasing sustainability in the built environment but particularly issues relating to heritage, embodied carbon, how people use and value buildings, energy modelling and making retrofit information more accessible and increasing retrofit literacy. She is also interested in all aspects of history, especially military and naval history up to the 18th century and her historic interests feed into her work on heritage values.
Impact and Engagement
Freya thinks it is important that researchers work ot share their research in an accessible and useful manner with non-specialist audiences and that policy should be evidence based and informed by research. She has created various articles and award winning short videos aimed at sharing her work with the general public and regularly contributes material to government consultations and calls for evidence on the sustainable built environment. An eight minute vidoe summarising Freya's PhD research can be found here: https://vimeo.com/791850069
She has also participated in task groups with LETI (Low Energy Transformation Initiative) around creating professional guidance on retrofit and has presented at events organised by Historic England, The Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance, the Socieity for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), in addition to academic conferences. Freya is also involved in the National Retrofit Hub.
Freya's fellowship at UWE involves a partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority to work together to provide information on retrofit to households in the National Park.
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