Dr Rory Jones
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Associate Professor
Office
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Chancellor's buildingAreas of interest
My research addresses the overarching areas of energy use in buildings and indoor environmental quality. I have a specific interest in people and building interactions, which investigates how people effect the performance of buildings through their interactions with the building services and passive architectural elements and also how buildings affect the comfort, health and productivity of people inside buildings. The ultimate goal of my research is to achieve future buildings with high quality indoor environments with reduced energy consumption.
More widely, my research addresses digital tools for energy efficiency, overheating, retrofit of existing buildings, indoor air quality, low energy building design, building performance simulation, energy use in developing countries, and the gap between predicted and actual performance of buildings.
Research centres and groups
Research projects
- A Socio-technical Study of Electricity Demand, Efficiency and Flexibility in the Urban Housing Sector of Burkina Faso, EP/Y000935/1 (PI). EPSRC, 2024 – 2026. Project Value: £202,110
- Non-residential energy tariff analysis and research initiative (NER-TARI) (Co-I). Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, 2023. Project Value: £46,204
- Sustainability Hub: Low Carbon Devon (Co-I). European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), 2019 – 2023
- Energy Game for Awareness of energy efficiency in social housing communities (EnerGAware) (Co-I). European Union Horizon 2020, 2015 – 2018
- Post Occupancy Evaluation of energy use, environmental parameters and occupant behaviour on the new build low energy Beechfield View housing estate in Torquay, UK (Co-I). Sovereign Housing Association, 2013 – 2016
- Expert advice on the design of a hypothetical randomised control trial on smarter heating controls (PI at UOP). Department of Energy and Climate Change, 2013 – 2014
- eViz: Energy Visualisation for Carbon Reduction (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow). EPSRC, 2012 – 2015
- 4M: Measurement, Modelling, Mapping and Management: An Evidence-based Methodology for Understanding and Shrinking the Urban Carbon Footprint (PhD Researcher). EPSRC, 2009 – 2014
- An investigation of the socio-economic, technical and appliance related factors affecting high electrical energy demand in UK homes (PhD Researcher). EPSRC, 2009 – 2014
Background
- Associate Professor. School of the Built Environment, University of Reading, UK (2023 – Present)
- Lecturer. School of the Built Environment, University of Reading, UK (2022 – 2023)
- Lecturer. Department of Built Environment, University of Plymouth, UK (2017 – 2022)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Department of Built Environment, University of Plymouth, UK (2012 – 2017)
- PhD Researcher. School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Building Energy Research Group, Loughborough University, UK (2009 – 2014)
Academic qualifications
- PhD, School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Building Energy Research Group, Loughborough University, UK, 2014
- PGCert in Academic Practice, University of Plymouth, UK, 2019
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Member of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Affiliate Region England
- Member of The UK Indoor Environments Group (UKIEG)
- Editorial Board Member of Intelligent Buildings International