Geriant Ellis
Chair of Environmental Planning
Queen's University Belfast
Geraint is Chair of Environmental Planning in the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s University, Belfast and Co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. His research interests are in planning and sustainability with a particular emphasis on renewable energy, planning governance and healthy urban planning.
Recent research projects have focussed on climate-neutral cities (C-Newtral), community-based approaches to planning and well being (HOPE, Change Stories) and until recently led an EU Innovative Training Network on the social aspects of renewable energy (MISTRAL). He was formally a member of the REF2021 assessment panel for Architecture, Built Environment and Planning and between 2018 and 2022 was as an independent member of the Irish National Economic and Social Council.
