Docent Jennifer McConville, at the Department of Energy and Technology, is one of the five researchers who has been awarded 3 million SEK as a career grant from the Vice-Chancellor of SLU.
SLU’s Career Grant is launched every second year to award researchers at the early stage of their careers. They receive a grant of 3 million SEK each. Jennifer McConville’s research uses systematic and applied sustainability analysis as decision support in planning and decision-making regarding sanitation and wastewater management. The aim is to improve resource recovery from these systems by adapting technical infrastructure and institutional arrangements. She performs her research in Sweden as well as low- and middle-income countries. She uses life cycle thinking, participation and socio-technical analysis to better understand and shape planning processes so that they can transition towards sustainability.
Jennifer McConville plans to use the career grant together with her research group to:
- Develop and apply new transdisciplinary methods for sustainability analysis with a focus on resource recovery
- Increase knowledge of trade-offs between different sustainability aspects
- Develop guidance for transitioning to sanitation systems with increased resource efficiency and equitable access for all
The results of Jennifer McConville’s research will help authorities responsible for sanitation and wastewater management to increase resource recovery and choose more sustainable systems.
Read more about Jennifer McConville’s research on the following pages:
- Jennifer McConvilles CV
- Summary of Jennifer McConville’s Docent lecture ” Circular Sanitation Systems – What would make the transition possible?”
- Research project SPANS – Sanitation Planning for Alternative Nutrient-recovery Systems
- Research project ”Gamification of sanitation planning”Â
- Research project ”End-of-Wastewater”
- Research project ”Food in circular robust systems” (in Swedish)
- News from the Environmental Engineering group