Title:	School Research Director
Department:	Politics and International Relations
Address:	32/38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW
Tel:	+44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext: 7604
Fax:	+44 (0)20 7911 5164
Email:	josss@westminster.ac.uk
Website	www.westminster.ac.uk/governance+sustainability
Office Hours:	Monday - Friday 9 - 5

Biography

Professor Simon Joss is Director of Research in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages (SSHL), with responsibility for staff research and the School’s MPhil/PhD programme. He is a member of the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Following his PhD from Imperial College in the field of science and technology studies, Simon Joss joined the University of Westminster in 1997 as Research Fellow and was subsequently appointed Head of Department of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (2003-2008) and Acting Head of the new Department of Politics and International Relations (2009). He was appointed Reader in 2007, and Professor in 2008. Simon Joss has acted in various expert capacities for, among others, the Wellcome Trust, the UK government’s Sciencewise Strategy Group, the Institute of Public Policy Research, and the Parliamentary Assembly of t he Council of Europe. He was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 2005.

Research and Teaching Interests

Simon Joss’s research interests include technology assessment, the governance of sustainability, and eco-city innovation. In 2007 he set up, and has since directed, the Governance and Sustainability research group (www.westminster.ac.uk/governance+sustainability). He also co-ordinates the multi-centre Eco-Cities Initiative (www.westminster.ac.uk/ecocities), as part of which he currently leads an ESRC project.

Simon Joss launched the new Masters of Research in International Environmental Policy and Politics, of which he is currently Course Leader (see www.westminster.ac.uk/mresenv). He provides doctoral supervision in science and technology studies, institutional governance and environmental sustainability, and eco-city innovation.

Recent Research Outputs

Joss, S., Tomozeiu, D. & Cowley, R. 2012. Eco-city indicators: governance challenges. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, vol 155: 109-120. (Open access link)

Joss, S. 2011. "Eco-city Governance: a case study of Treasure Island and Sonoma Mountain Village", Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, vol 13 (4): 331-348. [abstract]

Joss, S; 2011. "Eco-cities: the mainstreaming of urban sustainability; key characteristics and driving factors", International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, vol 6 (3): 268-285. [abstract]

Joss, S; 2010. “Accountable governance, accountable sustainability? A case study of accountability in the governance for sustainability”, Journal of Environmental Policy & Governance, 20 (2): 408-421. [abstract]

Joss, S. 2010. “Eco-cities: a global survey 2009.” WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, vol 129: 239-250. [abstract]

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CV

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