BeEnvironmental - taking the sting out of waste and environmental management.

Dr Jane Beasley

Summary of Expertise

• Strategy and Policy:

  • development of waste strategies on a local level;
  • support nationally, through projects under the call-off contract, and through the secondment to the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, providing specialist advice;
  • research projects (including European case studies);
  • articles and editorials
  • visiting professor in waste management strategy and policy at the University of Northampton;
  • submission of written and verbal evidence to government select committees on waste management strategy and implementation

• Waste Management Research:

  • formal research qualification;
  • extensive experience in conducting and supervising a range of qualitative and quantitative waste research projects;
  • experienced in assessment, development, and project management of wide range of research activities;

• Facilitation:

  • experienced facilitator chaired and facilitated numerous waste events with a variety of different stakeholders including decision-makers, regulators and community sectors.

• Bid Assessment and Evaluation:

  • experienced in reviewing applications for funding - member of the Assessment Panel for the Legacy Fund of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and was responsible for application assessment and funding decisions to the value of approximately £20m;

• Communications and Awareness Raising:

  • preparation and evaluation of local authority communication plans and strategies;
  • web site development (in terms of content and style);
  • TV and radio experience;
  • conference and workshop presentations;
  • evaluation and development of communication strategies for Defra funded partnership projects on behalf of the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).

• Option Evaluation:

  • extensive knowledge of recycling and treatment options, including the application of technologies new to the field of waste management;
  • commissioned during the strategy unit review to look at best practice across Europe for Municipal Solid Waste, and to review a strategy for wider wastes;

• Training and Quality Assurance:

  • developed and delivered range of training courses to broad sector including local and national public and private stakeholders;
  • developed quality assurance methodology the WRAP standard and advanced recycling managers training courses.