Dr Juliet Richards

Prior to joining the School of Environment and Development, Dr Richards worked in private practice as an environmental consultant specialising in environmental risk evaluation, soil and water pollution control. More recently, she has worked forBritish Waterways as an environmental planning advisor, specialising in the promotion of integrated canal side development and ensuring the potential of inland waterways to achieve sustainable social, economic and environmental improvements is maximised within local planning policy and development proposals.

Water-related studies form the core of Dr Richards’ research interests. In particular, she has gained expertise in the field of land use and development planning and flood risk. Her PhD examined the influences affecting local planning policy and development control decisions with implications for flood risk in England. She is currently building upon her PhD research as a Research Associate investigating the practical problems faced by local planning authorities in implementing national planning policy objectives to manage flood risk, as part of the UK Flood Risk Management Research Consortium. The project aims to inform national and local government on appropriate policy guidance and planning practice to ensure the objectives of the new, draft planning policy statement on development and flood risk are implemented effectively at the local level of planning.

Educational Background

1995 - 1998 BSc (Hons) Environmental Biology First Class, University of Manchester

1998 - 1999 MSc Pollution and Environmental Control, University of Manchester

2001 - 2005 PhD 'The Treatment of Inland Flood Risk in Development Plans and Development Control in England' University of Manchester