Dr Purva Tavri
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
- Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- School of Engineering and the Environment
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management
- Email:
- p.tavri@kingston.ac.uk
About
Dr Purva Tavri is a Chartered Environmentalist, Chartered Waste Manager, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Environmental Planner & Architect, with over 15 years of experience in sustainability and waste management.
She is a Centre Councillor in the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) London & Southeast Centre and an Advisory Member Higher Education & Industry Connect of the G100 club.
Purva is a trained researcher with her doctoral research on exploring how organisations adopt reuse behaviour in practice. She has also received awards from CIWM, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) and Inspiring Indian Women (IIW) for her publications. She has been nominated by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management Equality, Diversity and Inclusion group as one of the influential women in the industry.
Purva aims to achieve longevity by bringing individuals and organisations to a self-sustainable level and always aims to combine research and practice for a better environment and well-being in society.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.)
- Master's in Environmental Planning
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Pro-environmental, organisational behaviour change to drive forward reuse in the UK
Domains
BSc in Environmental Science
- Leading on the School-wide Sustainability for Professional Practice module (EG4022) in collaboration with CSCM department, Sustainability leads (academic and operations) and HackCentre. Bringing real-life challenges for the students to work in groups to come up with solutions using problem-solving skills and methods.
MSc in Environmental management
- Leading on the Environmental Management module (GG7045) and developing relationships with professionals to come for guest talks. The pool of professionals consists of alumni, the private sector, the public sector, and SMEs. Bringing theory and practice together in the class-room.
- Leading on MSc supervision projects based on collaboration with businesses, charities, and other institutions and are real-life-based projects.
Qualifications
- FHEA
Courses taught
Research projects & funding:
2024
Working on a book as a sole author in Routledge Publishing, the Taylor & Francis Group
- Working title: India's Deep-rooted Circular Practices: A Reverse Learning Model for Sustainable Impact
- Project timeline - March 2024 to Aug 2026
KU Research Investment - Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research Grants
- Successful - £29,400 - SDGs Navigator: Pioneering AI Powered Sustainability
- PI with collaborators from computing, learning and teaching and estates
- Managing project and RAs
- Project timeline - Jan 2024 to July 2024
Enhancing Research Culture for Women in STEM
- Successful - £30k - WISH project
- Co-lead with a colleague in Computing
- Project management and seed-funding
- Project timeline - Dec 2023 to July 2024
2023
Investing in Research Capacity funds 2023 - Form part of 2 funding streams:
- Net zero
- Nature-based solutions
Enhancing Research Culture for Women in STEM: Kingston University People Awards 2023 - Enterprising team runner-up
- Successful - £40k - WISH project
- Co-lead with a colleague in Computing
- Project management and seed-funding
- Project timeline - Feb 2023 to July 2023
Recent Publications, press, conferences, and media:
- Tavri, P. and Todd, S. The Power of Collaboration. Circular Nov/Dec 2022, p.19.
- Gupta. D, et al., 2022, Enhancing Informal Sector in Waste and Resource Management of India through ICT & Circular Economy. Proceedings of National Online Conference on Planning, Design and Management.
- Tavri, P. Connecting the dots. Circular March 2022.
- Guest on Women's Special Express show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtqADyToM4
Qualifications
- Chartered Environmentalist
- Chartered Waste Manager
- Fellow of School for social entrepreneurs
- Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
Specialisms
- Sustainability
- Waste and resource management
- Reuse
- Circular Economy
- Pro-environmental behaviour change
Scholarly affiliations
- People Awards, Enterprising team runner-up by Kingston University, 2023
- Green Impact Award by Kingston University, 2023
- Awarded Environmentalist Champion by Inspiring Indian Women, 2022
- Selected by CIWM as an inspiring female in waste & resource industry, 2021
- ISWA publication awards, Third prize, 2019
- Roger Perry Award for Best Research Paper by CIWM, 2017
Worked in the industry for over 15 years in sustainability and waste management.
Qualifications and Professional expertise
- Environmental management
- Construction waste management
- Third sector
Professional affiliations/memberships:
- Chartered Environmentalist
- Chartered Waste Manager
- FHEA
- Fellow member of the School for Social Entrepreneurs
Professional awards:
- 2022: Champion of the Earth (Environmentalist) award by Inspiring Indian Women (IIW)
- 2021: Selected as one of the inspiring females in the waste & resource industry by the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM)
- 2019: Third prize for publication awards by the International Institute of Waste Association (ISWA)
- 2017: Roger Perry Award for Best Research Paper by the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM)
Leading on modules:
- L 4 module school-wide module
- L7 module
Personal tutorial scheme (PTS): co-leading in managing the PTS at school level
Research/Funding:
- Women In STEM Hub (WISH): co-leading and managing the project
- SDGs Navigator: Pioneering AI Powered Sustainability - Leading and managing the project
Publications
In conversation : Dr Purva Tavri and Stephanie Todd
Tavri, Purva and Todd, Stephanie, 2024, Transform
Waste not, want not
Tavri, Purva and Todd, Stephanie, 2024, Transform
The power of collaboration
Tavri, Purva and Todd, Stephanie, 2022, Circular, 24, pp 19
Connecting the dots
Tavri, Purva, 2022, Circular Online, pp 50-51
Learn and co-create
Tavri, Purva, 2021, Circular Online
Resurgence of reuse at the organisational level : a reactive development in the UK
Tavri, Purva, 2021, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management (174), 3, pp 73-77
Value action gap : a major barrier in sustaining behaviour change
Tavri, Purva, 2021, Academia Letters
Localism, localism, localism
Tavri, Purva, 2021, Circular Online
Barriers to reuse at organisational level
Tavri, Purva, 2020, Circular Online
Sector wide opinions on reuse
Tavri, Purva, 2020, Circular Online
School of Arts at Kingston University : turning wood waste into resource
Tavri, Purva, 2019, Circular Online
A successive pro-environmental behaviour framework
Tavri, Purva, 2019, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management (172), 1, pp 14-27
Changing times
Tavri, Purva, 2019, CIWM Journal, pp 39-42
Tavri, Purva, 2018, CIWM Journal, pp 24-26
Briefing: Waste management techniques and environmental solutions – a significant association
Tavri, Purva, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management (171), 1, pp 1-3
It's in the bag...
Tavri, Purva, 2018, CIWM Journal, pp 34-35
What is reuse?
Tavri, Purva, 2017, CIWM Journal, pp 48-49
Organisational behaviour change towards waste reuse in the UK third sector
Tavri, Purva, Sayce, Sarah and Hands, Victoria, 2015, International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements (3), 4, pp 291-304
Tavri, Purva, Gupta, Deepa and Patil, Ruchi(2022). In: 2nd National Online Conference on Planning, Design and Management (NOCPDM- 2022), 06 - 07 May 2022 :Held online
Developing a theoretical behavioural framework and identifying its association with UK industry evidence on waste re-use
Tavri, Purva, Sayce, Sarah and Hands, Victoria(2014). In: 7th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment, 12 - 14 May 2014 :Ancona, Italy
Waste reuse and preparing to reuse : the top priority
Tavri, Purva, Sayce, Sarah and Hands, Victoria(2013). In: WASTES 2013, 11-13 Sep 2013 :Braga, Portugal
Is collaborative re-use a solution to help reduce waste production while maintaining economic growth? The organisational level study in the UK
Tavri, Purva (2020), PhD thesis, Kingston University