Professor Jim Longhurst

Jim is Professor of Environmental Science and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability at UWE, Bristol.    

In his AVC role, Jim leads the university’s sustainability agenda ensuring that sustainability considerations are present in the university’s teaching, research, campus operations and civic engagement work. In 2016 he won the UK and Ireland Green Gown Award for Leadership.  In that year the university won three more Green Gowns for Student Engagement, Learning and Skills and Continuous Improvement and went on to win two of the three International Green Gown awards. In 2019 and 2020 he led the development of UWE’s innovative Climate Action and Sustainability Strategy.

He has nearly 35 years’ experience of research leadership specialising in air quality and carbon management. In his professorial role he provides executive leadership for the Air Quality Management Resource Centre and the WHO Collaborating Centre on Healthy Urban Environments. He has published over 250 papers, book chapters and edited works in the peer reviewed literature.  

His national roles include Vice President of the UK Institution of Environmental Sciences, Honorary Vice President of Environmental Protection UK, Director and Trustee of the Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC) and Director of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership CIC. In June 2020 he will become the chair of the EAUC’s Board of Trustees.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Environmental Sciences, a Fellow of the EAUC, an Honorary Fellow of Society for the Environment, a Chartered Scientist and one of the first Chartered Environmentalist’s in the UK. 

He co-chairs Bristol’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change and is the  EAUC Commissioner for the Climate Commission for UK Higher and Further Education Leaders.