20 years of CEnv | Exploring CEnv careers

Erin Gill is global marketing director at Arup, a global consultancy with a focus on the built and natural environments. Her role involves leading Arup’s global marketing programmes and teams, and she has a professional qualification in marketing accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Erin chose to pursue chartership via the Chartered Environmentalist route, and she is a member of the Energy Institute.

Erin spent 20 years as an environment and energy journalist before moving into marketing and this has allowed her to transfer significant understanding and knowledge about climate change, pressures on ecological function, and other primary environmental issues, to her work as a marketer.

One of Erin’s areas of interest is how marketers can and should advance their skills development and understanding of drivers of societal change, with a particular focus on climate change, sustainability and digitisation.

Jim Longhurst is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science at UWE, Bristol where he served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability. His 40-year research career has focussed on air and carbon management and urban sustainability. His research has been supported by EPSRC, NERC, ESRC, H2020, various EU Framework Projects, Welcome Trust, UK and overseas governments, local authorities and charitable sources. He has published over 225 peer reviewed journal articles or book chapters, and edited 24 books. His work includes investigations of spatial approaches to air quality management such as of Low Emissions Zones, Air Quality Management Areas, Clean Air Zones and related designations. He has extensive international experience encompassing work in cities as diverse as Sao Paulo, Durban, Mexico City, Delhi, Lagos, Bangkok and numerous European and UK municipalities. His career research and consultancy income exceeds £14 million. He has supervised 33 PhD and MPhil degrees to completion and served as external examiner for 36 research degrees in the UK, Ireland, Australia, India, Malaysia, Mauritius and South Africa. From 2000 to 2023 he served as the co-chair of the Annual Air Pollution Conference. He has advised national and international government departments, enforcement agencies, private companies and third sector bodies on air and carbon management. In 2002 he co-founded the Institute of Air Quality Management. He is a Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Scientist, a Vice President of the UK Institution of Environmental Sciences, Vice Chair of the Bristol Climate and Nature Partnership, immediate Past President of Environmental Protection UK, now EPIC, and was the inaugural co-chair of Bristol’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change.