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Interests
Siobhan is a Senior lecturer in Environmental and Civil Engineering. Her research interests include:
- Whole life carbon accounting in construction, to identify hotspots for reducing embodied and user green house gas emissions from both buildings and infrastructure.
- Environmental assessment, including life cycle assessment, for assessing impacts of novel concrete products.
- Risk assessment of contaminated sites (including human health risk assessment, the use of bioaccessibility testing and differentiating between geogenic and anthropogenic sources of contamination).
- Remediation of carbon disulphide soil and groundwater contamination.
Prior to starting her research at Queen's University Belfast in 2004, Siobhan worked within Kirk McClure Morton (now RPS Belfast), as a Chartered Engineer for 6 years, working on a wide variety of projects including contaminated land investigation, risk assessment and remediation, environmental impact assessment and design of waste management facilities, including landfill sites and recycling centres.
Other
Siobhan is a member of the Sustainable Practises Committee for the school and is Scholarsips and Prizes Co-ordinator for Civil Engineering.
Teaching
Siobhan has extensively reviewed how sustainable development and environmental engineering is embedded within Civil Engineering undergraduate programmes . She teaches the following modules to BEng/MEng Civil Engineering students:
- Civil Engineering in a Changing Environment (CIV3067 20 CATS points). Siobhan developed this module which was first offered to students in 2021-2022. It sets out how civil engineering needs to urgently adapt to meet the carbon reduction targets that will mitigate the climate emergency.
- Design and Communications 4 (CIV4012 40 CATS points) undertaken by final year MEng Civil Engineering students. Siobhan acts as a special consultant advising on environmental and sustainability issues, including whole life carbon analysis for infrastructutre and buildings.
Until 2016, Siobhan taught Contaminated land I (CIV8007/4020), a 10 CATS points module that introduced the concepts of contaminated land management and detailed how exploratory investigations and preliminary and generic risk assessments should be undertaken.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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R3810NBE: Low Carbon Footprint Precast Concrete Products for an Energy Efficient Built Environment
Soutsos, M., Chen, J. F., Cox, S., Long, A., Selim, G. & Sha, W.
11/11/2016 → …
Project: Research
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R6501QST: Improved decision-making in contaminated land site investigation and risk assessment
Doherty, R., Allen, C. C. R., Cox, S., Kulakov, L., Larkin, M. & Ofterdinger, U.
17/02/2015 → …
Project: Research
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R3403CIV: Project 10761 DETI/GSNI Scientific Research Services for the Tellus Border Project
Ofterdinger, U., Cox, S., Doherty, R., Fogarty, D. & McKinley, J.
01/08/2012 → 31/10/2013
Project: Research
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The importance of solid-phase distribution on the oral bioaccessibility of Ni and Cr in soils overlying Palaeogene basalt lavas, Northern Ireland
Cox, S. F., Chelliah, M. C. M., McKinley, J. M., Palmer, S., Ofterdinger, U., Young, M. E., Cave, M. R. & Wragg, J., Oct 2013, In: Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 35, 5, p. 553-567 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparison of methods used to calculate typical threshold values for potentially toxic elements in soil
McIlwaine, R., Cox, S., Doherty, R., Palmer, S., Ofterdinger, U. & McKinley, J. M., Oct 2014, In: Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 36, 5, p. 953-971Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Correlation analysis as a tool to investigate the bioaccessibility of nickel, vanadium and zinc in Northern Ireland soils
Palmer, S., Ofterdinger, U., McKinley, J. M., Cox, S. & Barsby, A., Oct 2013, In: Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 35, 5, p. 569-584 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Degradation of carbon disulphide (CS2) in soils and groundwater from a CS2 -contaminated site
Cox, S. F., McKinley, J. D., Ferguson, A. S., O'Sullivan, G. & Kalin, R. M., Apr 2013, In: Environmental Earth Sciences. 68, 7, p. 1935-1944 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Connecting citizens through participatory design activities: lessons from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mariotti, J., McGrath, T., Kwasny, J., Cox, S. F., Alengaram, U. J., Darvish, P. & Soutsos, M., 19 Apr 2023, (Early online date) In: The Design Journal. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Ireland Brownfield Network - 10th Anniversary Event
Siobhan Cox (Member of programme committee) & Rory Doherty (Member of programme committee)
15 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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REMEDIATE Conference
Tatiana Cocerva (Participant), Siobhan Cox (Participant), Rory Doherty (Organiser), Ulrich Ofterdinger (Participant), Mark Cave (Participant) & Manus Carey (Participant)
19 Sep 2018 → 20 Sep 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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The 12th Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications
Tatiana Cocerva (Advisor), Siobhan Cox (Participant), Rory Doherty (Participant), Ulrich Ofterdinger (Participant), Manus Carey (Participant) & Mark Cave (Participant)
04 Jul 2018 → 05 Jul 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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28th Annual International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy, and Air
Tatiana Cocerva (Participant), Siobhan Cox (Participant), Rory Doherty (Participant) & Ulrich Ofterdinger (Participant)
19 Mar 2018 → 22 Mar 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Neha Mehta
Tatiana Cocerva (Host), Siobhan Cox (Host) & Rory Doherty (Host)
17 Jul 2017 → 28 Jul 2017Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
Impact
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IBN Response to Consultation on the Draft Strategic Planning Policy Statement for Northern Ireland
Rory Doherty (Participant) & Siobhan Cox (Participant)
Impact: Public Policy Impact