About Ges
Dr Ges Rosenberg is a Research Fellow in Engineering Systems and Design at the University of Bristol, and is a Co-Investigator for the UKPRP-funded TRUUD project, leading on meta-research of transdisciplinary approaches to complex urban health challenges. He is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol, part of the Engineering Systems and Design Research Group, a member of the Cabot Institute and of the University’s City Engagement Group.
He investigates how ‘systems’ approaches (‘systems thinking’ and ‘systems engineering’) can be applied to structure socio-technical problems, and to design and analyse a wide range of engineering solutions and policy interventions, with specific application to infrastructure and city futures. This includes researching how to innovate and add value through transdisciplinary and collaborative approaches (coproduction and co-creation), and applying systems modelling to improve the management of interconnectivity in a complex ‘system of systems’. These approaches hold the prospect of improving societal outcomes such as sustainability, resilience, tackling inequality, and enhancing health and well-being, and these are principal drivers for his civic-oriented research interests.
He was Co-Investigator and Project Manager for Bristol’s Urban ID project and as Project Manager investigated the impacts and opportunities of advanced manufacturing on sustainability and resilience at city-scale for the Re-distributed Manufacturing for the Resilient and Sustainable City. He applied the synthesis of coproduction, learning journeys and systems thinking (from Urban ID) to support the development of Bristol’s ‘One City’ approach and city digitalisation (funded by Centre for Digital Built Britain). He co-created the influential engineering Interdependency Planning & Management Framework for Section 3 of the HM Treasury Green Book. He has 20 years of prior experience in industry, 12 years in mathematical modelling and analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems, and 8 years as Company Technical and Operations Director at Stirling Dynamics.
Publications
- Promoting sustainable urban freight through stakeholder engagement to co-create decarbonisation pathways in the UK
- Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection
- Tackling Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
- Pandemics, vulnerability and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk?
- Understanding emergent behaviour within the economic infrastructure system-of-systems
- Many Neighbourhoods, One City
- Co-Creating a City Scale Digital Strategy and Framework: A Systems and Co-Production Approach
- Bristol City's Future and the Role of Digital: Workshop Report
For more publications, please visit https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Ges-Rosenberg-2c769a5c-c06c-4216-8a56-bc6f4abc4e2a/