Our Team
Our staff have a wide range of skills and expertise relating to the environmental, carbon and sustainability agendas, including resource and waste management, carbon management and greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, knowledge transfer, data analysis, planning, environmental management, education/training and event management.
The core staff, coupled with access to expertise from GCU, provides the knowledge and flexibility to take on multi-disciplinary projects and manage changing work demands in a practical and cost effective manner.
The Centre staff through their continuing personal development, and the close links with GCU, is able to provide project or research teams with an enviable
breadth of skills, expertise and experience in the full spectrum of environmental issues, sustainability and their relevance to business.
Jim Baird
Centre Director
T: +44 (0)141 273 1404
E: j.baird@gcu.ac.uk
As Director, Jim is responsible for the overall direction and development of the Centre, its staff and research and consultancy programmes.
His career has been spent working in a contract R&D environment, first with the British Hydromechanics Research Association at Cranfield, specialising in fluid mechanics, and later at the Water Research Centre, undertaking environmental modelling of coastal and inland waters and managing a major environmental programme on behalf of the predecessor to the Environment Agency.
Since joining Glasgow Caledonian University he has established the University’s environmental research portfolio, broadened out to include wider sustainable issues and increasingly the low carbon agenda.
Colin Murchison
Projects Manager
T: +44 (0)141 273 1364
E: c.murchison@gcu.ac.uk
Colin is the Senior Projects Manager at the Centre and a lecturer in the School of the Built and Natural Environment
Colin has significant expertise in Life Cycle Analysis and its application into product design, a subject he also lectures at Post graduate level. He provides expert guidance on environmental design issues (particularly the WEEE Directive) and has supervised postgraduate students in the topic.
Prior to working in the environmental field, Colin was a civil engineer working both in manufacturing and consultancy. He was latterly responsible within a multidisciplinary team for the management and co-ordination of the manufactured components and the on site fabrication and installation of the world’s second largest ship-lifting platform at the Clyde Submarine Base in Faslane.
Paulo Cruz
Sustainable Food and Drink Programme Manager
T: +44 (0)141 273 1425
E: paulo.cruz@gcu.ac.uk
Paulo has over 11 years of experience in the waste and environmental sector working on a variety of research, consultancy and operational roles.
He has an interest in the potential for low technology solutions to mitigate the impacts of climate change and has been involved in a variety of projects for private and public sector clients.
Paulo currently leads the Sustainable Food & Drink Programme.