Rate My Professor John Littlewood

As Principal Investigator, he has led over 55 successful external research and innovation initiatives, securing approximately £4.6 million in funding. Littlewood has supervised 20 doctorates to completion across DBA, DEng, DSBE, DProf, EdE, and PhD programs, chaired 13 examination panels, and externally examined 29 doctorates in the UK, Australia, France, and Italy. He coordinates professional doctorate pathways in Art & Design Practice, Engineering (DEng), and Sustainable Built Environment (DSBE), and serves on various university research committees. His research specializes in developing interventions to qualitatively and quantitatively assess and optimize the performance of new and existing buildings during design, manufacture, adaptation, retrofit, construction, commissioning, and operation, aiming to maximize user comfort, indoor air quality, quality of life, and minimize embodied and operational carbon emissions. Key publications include his editorship of the Springer volume Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2024; "Low-Cost CO2 Sensors: On-Site Performance Evaluation and Co-Location Correction Procedure for Reliable Ventilation Assessments in Schools" (Sensors, 2026); "When Are Decentralised Non-Potable Water Systems Environmentally and Financially Viable?" (Sustainability, 2026); and "Analysis of a Best-Fit Web Based LCA Tool for UK SMEs to Evaluate Residential Operational and Embodied Carbon" (2025). Awards include the Outstanding Contribution to KES Award (2020) and Innovate UK Outstanding KTP for Seven Oaks Modular (2023). He chairs the Wales Region of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers and serves as General Conference Chair for KES International.