{"id":8,"date":"2024-08-19T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:48:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Sustainable Systems Group (SSG) takes a whole-systems perspective to measuring sustainability in design, engineering and decision making. We use methods from industrial ecology to understand the full environmental footprint of our products and activities, and to determine what choices will lead to more sustainable outcomes in practice.<\/p>\n<h2>People<\/h2>\n<h3>Academic staff<\/h3>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;margin-bottom: 40px;padding-bottom: 30px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30 size-thumbnail\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 25px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 1.1em;border-radius: 4px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/2025\/10\/profile-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Profile picture of Stephen Allen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden\">\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0\">Stephen Allen<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.bath.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/stephen-allen\">Steve<\/a> is an Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainability and an Associate Professor of Life Cycle Assessment. His research and teaching focuses on measuring sustainability in design, engineering and decision making.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, see Steve\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srallen.net\/\" data-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.srallen.net\/\">personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;margin-bottom: 40px;padding-bottom: 30px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30 size-thumbnail\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 25px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 1.1em;border-radius: 4px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/2025\/10\/profile-150x150.png\" alt=\"Profile picture of Rick Lupton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden\">\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0\">Rick Lupton<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.bath.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/rick-lupton\">Rick Lupton<\/a> is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;margin-bottom: 40px;padding-bottom: 30px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-35 size-thumbnail\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 25px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 1.1em;border-radius: 4px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/2025\/10\/profile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Cooper\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden\">\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0\">Sam Cooper<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.bath.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/sam-cooper\">Sam<\/a>\u2019s research relates to optimising the use of technologies to achieve decarbonisation, and measuring their impacts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Research staff<\/h3>\n<p>To be added...<\/p>\n<h3>PhD researchers<\/h3>\n<p>To be added...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Sustainable Systems Group (SSG) takes a whole-systems perspective to measuring sustainability in design, engineering and decision making. We use methods from industrial ecology to understand the full environmental footprint of our products and activities, and to determine what choices...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1958,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iscc-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}