AboutDaniel Black is a research director with 25 years professional experience in third and private sectors as well as academia, and a wide range of knowledge domains focused on urban development, decision-making and planetary health.
Daniel is currently Programme Director of a 6-year £10m research consortium, led from University of Bristol Medical School, which aims to Tackle the Root causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development (TRUUD). Daniel works closely with multiple other universities, academics and consultants, particularly at the Universities of Bath (economics, management, policy), Coventry (agro-ecology and water), and UWE Bristol (Health and Applied Sciences). He is currently completing a PhD by Publication in complex research operationalisation. Having spent many years learning about processes and detail downstream in a range of urban disciplines including transport, urban design, building construction and community engagement, Daniel now leads research into decision-making that takes place upstream: governance, partnerships, corporate strategy, risk management. |
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Projects timeline and headline knowledge domains
Headline areas of investigation + areas of specialism employed in our research
Daniel can perhaps be best described as a 'specialist-generalist', 'IS2 Team Leader' (Bammer, 2013) or 'tree-shaped' (as opposed to 't-shaped' or, perhaps, 'X-shaped'). He is certainly not expert in all the areas listed below, but has a good working knowledge of most, deeper in some areas than others. His role is to 'stitch and knit', coordinate and liaise between, always with an eye to the evolving theories of change and the main prize: planetary health outcomes.
Urban Health
Impact Assessment
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Food-Energy-Water Systems
Real Estate Investment
Commercial Property Development
Planning Consultancy
Economics (BSc)
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Urban Health
Climate Risk Valuation
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