Dr Jennifer Roberts
Senior Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Personal statement
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, and Deputy Director of the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities (SISC).
My research is interdisciplinary and applied, and addresses socio-technical transitions - often relating to geological resources, energy, water or integrated systems. Ultimately my work aims to inform a fair and sustainable transition to net zero carbon future.
In addition to growing and developing my field through research and knowledge exchange, I am the MRes Director for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering MRes programmes, and I teach on sustainable development for several undergraduate and masters courses. I have delivered CPD and consultancy on citizens juries, decarbonisation, life cycle environmental and social impact assessment and design, ethnography, mixed methods, and facilitation.
I am engaged with Strathclyde's Energy, and Society and Policy strategic themes, and am a co-founder of Strathclyde's new Global Environmental Monitoring and Policy (GEMaP) Centre for Doctoral Training.
Beyond Strathclyde, I am the Deputy Editor in Chief of the journal Earth Science, Systems and Society, I am Deputy Director and ECR lead for the UKCCSRC, and sit on the UKERC Research Commitee and the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage Directorate, alongside other advisory roles. It is important to me to showcase geoscience and engineering for sustainable transition, and am co-director of Geoscience for the Future.
Prize And Awards
- Shortlisted: Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Awards - Education for Sustainable Development
- Recipient
- 26/5/2023
- Engineers without Borders Champion
- Recipient
- 13/5/2021
- Images of Research 2021 - Shortlist
- Recipient
- 4/5/2021
- Nominated: Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Awards 2020
- Recipient
- 28/5/2020
- Images of Strathclyde Category Winner: Measurement Science and Enabling Technologies
- Recipient
- 2018
- Heriot-Watt Scottish Energy News Researcher of the Year Award - Energy, Infrastructure and Society
- Recipient
- 2015
Publications
- Guiding Principles and Actions for Enhancing Community Benefits from Community Benefit Funds
- Hannon Matthew, Gowens Rebecca, Searle Rachel, Roberts Jennifer J, Cairns Iain, Major Laura
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00092494
- Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities' response to the Scottish Government's consultation on 'Community Benefits from Net Zero Energy Developments'
- Hannon M, Cairns I, Roberts J, Gowens R, Major L
- (2025)
- National climate strategies show inequalities in global development of carbon dioxide geological storage
- Alcalde Juan, Johnson Gareth, Roberts Jennifer J
- Communications Earth & Environment Vol 6 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02043-4
- CO2 storage capacity estimates for the major hydrocarbon reservoirs in Libya
- El Gheriani Mohamed, Burnside Neil, Roberts Jen, Tenthorey Eric
- Proceedings of the 17th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-17) 20-24 October 2024 17th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5071146
- Capacity building of Early Career Researchers to support a future thriving and sustainable CCS sector
- Blunt Carys, Gibbins Jon, Roberts Jennifer J, Steward Elise, Bray Rachel
- 17th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5043787
- (Two) wheels on the bus : road user perceptions of a bike bus and how this links to addressing global health challenges
- Harrington Deirdre M, Bardid Farid, Cory Katherine, Dixon James, Dodd Sarah, Ferguson Neil, Roberts Jennifer J, Bonner James
- Journal of Physical Activity and Health Vol 21, pp. 1382-1390 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2024-0219
Professional Activities
- Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities' response to the Scottish Government's consultation on 'Community Benefits from Net Zero Energy Developments'
- Recipient
- 4/2025
- Diversity and Inclusion among Experts and the Legitimacy of Deliberative Mini-Publics
- Contributor
- 4/7/2024
- Fault architecture in the Port Campbell Embayment, Otway Basin (Vic, Australia)
- Contributor
- 10/1/2024
- Strathclyde students runners-up in international competition on sustainable engineering solutions
- Contributor
- 19/7/2023
- IEAGHG Risk Management Network
- Participant
- 27/6/2023
- Making a buzz: Five ways that geoscience links to bees
- Blogger
- 17/5/2023
Projects
- The Local Zero podcast EHL mini-series
- Hannon, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 15-Jan-2025
- IDRIC Flex Funding: Use of speculative fiction for future imaginaries for CCUS to identify development pathways
- Roberts, Jen (Principal Investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
- Foundation Scotland Community Benefit Fund Review
- Hannon, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Cairns, Iain (Co-investigator) Major, Laura (Co-investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Investigating novel fluid injection approaches for CO2 storage optimisation (IDRIC Flex Proposal)
- Minto, James (Principal Investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
- Bridging current knowledge gaps to enable the UPTAKE of carbon dioxide removal methods (UPTAKE) HORIZON-RIA
- Roberts, Jen (Principal Investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2027
- FIRNS Community Benefit Certification for Carbon Offsetting
- Hannon, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Major, Laura (Co-investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Jennifer
Roberts
Senior Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: jen.roberts@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3180