Position

Lecturer / Tutor

Background

20 years in consulting engineering, mostly in Zimbabwe with Ove Arup & Partners, involving project management and co-ordination of multidisciplinary services for industrial developments. Additional responsibilities included graduate engineer training as the firm’s Training Officer and implementing ISO 9001 as the firm’s Quality Systems Manager. From 2000 freelance consultant, undertaking Environment-oriented Cost Management (EoCM) with industries in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, the Philippines and China and implementing RISE (Resource Ingenuity for Small Enterprises) in Zambia and South Africa. This work has consistently involved participatory methods, training and presentation experience and working with diverse groups of people. Since 2008 tutoring at the MSc Architecture, Advanced Environmental Energy & Studies.

Professional Qualifications

MSc Civil Engineering     University of Aalborg, Denmark
Chartered Engineer    UK Engineering Council
Member    Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), UK
Member    Institution of Structural Engineers (IstructE), UK
Fellow    Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (ZIE)
Member    Women’s Engineering Society (WES), UK
Trainer    PREMAnet (Profitable Environmental Management) Germany

Teaching Activities

Seminar tutor
Thesis supervision
Practical: Communicating climate change – introduction to managing a change process
Special module practicals: Non-violent direct acting (Environmental Politics and Economics Module); Timber structures (Environmentally Responsive Materials Module)

Research Interests
Change processes, behaviour and citizen action.
Structural timber
Publications, Conference Papers and Presentations
•    Reimer, L. (2009) ‘CAT, Centre for Alternative Technology - an organisation of transition in transition promoting transition’, More inconvenient truth, Royal Geographic Society(RGS) - Institute of British Geographers (IBG) Annual International Conference, 26-28 August University of Manchester
•    Reimer, L. and Mason, K. (2008) ‘Imaging Resistance: Wish you were here’, Photographs Matter, Royal Geographic Society(RGS) - Institute of British Geographers (IBG) Annual International Conference, London 27-29 August, RGS
•    Reimer, L. for COWI Consult (2002) Zambia Teacher Training Colleges: Preventive Maintenance Manual, Zambia Ministry of Education/DANIDA
•    Kölling, F. and Reimer, L. for denkmodell and Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (2002) RISE (Resource Ingenuity for Small Enterprises) Handbook and Trainers’ Manual, InWent/Zambia Chamber of Small and Medium Business Associations, CDG
•    Reimer, L. and Dube, I. (1996) ‘Relevant Technology in Africa’, Arups on Engineering, Berlin, Ernst & Sohn, pp 208-213
•    Reimer, L. (1992) ‘Demystifying the myth - Training of women in male dominated areas’, NAMACO Annual Congress, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
•    Reimer, L.A. (1991) ‘Women in engineering in Zimbabwe’, ICWES9 Proceedings, University of Warwick 14-20 July, Science Reviews Limited, pp 67-70E
•    Reimer, L. ‘The Oxyco (BOC) Development, Harare, Zimbabwe’, The Arup Journal

Lotte Reimer, MSc Eng, CEng, MICE, MIStructE