PhD Candidate - Sustainable Architecture

Lecturer / Tutor

Background

Bryce is a pursuing PhD with the Graduate School of the Environment at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) and with the University of Gloucestershire at Cheltenham. His doctorate thesis is researching the Ecological Footprint of the construction of the Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE) at CAT.

He was Sustainability Manager at Hill Holt Wood, Lincolnshire as a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) associate between Hill Holt Wood and the University of Lincoln as a Project Manager designing and developing an Eco-Village. In 2009 his KTP project won the National Award for the 'Best Application of Social or Management Science' for a Knowledge Transfer Partnership.

Bryce has lectured on Sustainable Architecture at the University of Lincoln, De Montfort University and Nottingham-Trent University.

Prior to working at CAT, Bryce worked for the Canadian International Development Agency and as a Sustainable Communities Development Consultant. Bryce has lived and worked in El Salvador, Canada and the UK.

Qualfications

MA Architecture: Development and Regeneration. University of Lincoln, UK (Full award to be granted in 2010).

MSc Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies - Distinction. Centre for Alternative Technology / University of East London, UK. Granted 2007.

Undergraduate Certificate in Community Economic Development. Centre for Sustainable Community Development. Simon Fraser University, Canada. Granted 2003

BA (Hons) Geography and English - 1st Class.
University of Victoria, Victoria. Canada. Granted 1995.

Teaching Activities

Bryce lectures and is a tutor on the MSc: Renewable Energy and the Built Environment programme, he also lectures on the MSc Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies programme.

Research Interests

Bryce's current research is concerned with sustainable community development. He has published and lectured on a wide range of topics from ecological economics to sustainable construction.

Publications

Gilroy Scott, B. et al. (2008) Design for Sustainable Architecture and Environments. The Fourth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economics & Social Sustainability, Malaysia. 4-7 January.

Gilroy Scott, B. (2007) Integration of teaching and research: Design development for a range of autonomous buildings. 24th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA). National University of Singapore. Singapore. 22-24 November.

Gilroy-Scott, B et. al. (2006) Design Development for a Community Hall: the architecture of a sustainable building in Lincolnshire. Construction Information Quarterly. Vol. 9. Issue 1:12-20.

Gilroy-Scott, B. (2006) Localised Energy Storage - what options are there for global communities? EuroSolar-World Council on Renewable Energy - Energy Autonomy through the storage of Renewable Energies. Wuppertal, Germany. 30-31 October.

Gilroy-Scott, B. and Sodagar, B (2006) Design Development for a Range of Autonomous Buildings. Rethinking Sustainable Construction. Sarasota, Florida, USA. September 19-22.

Gilroy-Scott, B. (2006) Community Metabolisms and an Exemplar Project. Second Sustainable Science Symposium. University of East London/ Centre for Alternative Technology. July 7.

Gilroy-Scott, B. (2005) Sustainable Construction: Building Sustainable Communities. Designing for Life. Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists. Birmingham. UK. November 18.

Gilroy-Scott, B (2002) Praxis of Ecological Politics. Ecological Theory, Politics and Action. National Conference of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. March 14-17.