Network

Connect with our network for expert or peer-to-peer advice. Our network includes experts across many aspects of toilet design, available for contact. Each person’s profile features their biography, contact details and their areas of expertise.

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Bio:
Dr. ir. Marian Loth has become known as the ‘Dutch toilet expert’. Her PhD project in cooperation with TU Delft and the Dutch National Railways (NS) led to a new toilet design concept that is currently being implemented in NS intercity trains.
Marian Loth Sanitary researcher and designer TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering For her master’s graduation project Marian invented and designed a female urinal at the design department of1
Expertise:
DesignHygiene / SanitationPublic TransportResearch

Bio:
A design anthropologist, Jo-Anne has undertaken a number of empirical studies with nearly 500 users on their experiences of public toilets in the UK. Her PhD and subsequent research has specifically focused on how design has succeeded or failed to meet users’ needs and has considered the physical barriers created by design as well as issues of safety and dignity.
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Expertise:
Accessibility / InclusivityConsultancy / StrategyDesignDisabilityResearchUrban Environment / Infrastructure

Bio:
A design researcher since 2009. I use inclusive, people-centred, participatory and co- design methodologies to address social and urban challenges. I co-lead the RCA Public Toilet Research Unit and also manage Tinkle.
Gail Ramster Senior Research Associate, The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art I am co-lead (with Jo-Anne Bichard) of the Royal College of Art's Public Toilet Research1
Expertise:
Accessibility / InclusivityConsultancy / StrategyDesignNational Data / Open DataResearch

Bio:
Charlotte is a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter. Her research interests lie at the intersections of gender, sexuality, disability and medicine.
Charlotte Jones Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter Between 2015-2018, Charlotte was Research Fellow on Around the Toilet, a series of AHRC-funded1
Expertise:
DisabilityGenderLabour & WorkResearch

Bio:
Clara Greed is a town planner and urban designer, concerned with creating inclusive, equitable, and sustainable cities, especially in relation to women’s needs.
Clara Greed Emerita Professor of Inclusive Urban Planning, UWE Bristol Clara seeks to plan for ‘the city of everyday life’. This led her to research on public toilet provision but1
Expertise:
DesignGenderResearchUrban Environment / Infrastructure

Bio:
Dr Deljana Iossifova is Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Manchester. She trained as an architect at ETH Zurich and has a PhD in Social Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Deljana Iossifova Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies, University of Manchester Currently, Deljana is the Chair of the Urban Studies Foundation and PI on a portfolio of international inter- and transdisciplinary1
Expertise:
Global EastResearchUrban Environment / Infrastructure

Bio:
Researcher of water supply, drainage and sanitary appliances for many years at BRE. Chairman of the BSI Committee responsible for BS 6465 Sanitary appliance provision. Former Principal Technical Officer of the CIPHE. Currently lecturing on water topics for CIBSE. Co-author of books on Drainage Design and Sustainable Water Supplies, as well as numerous BRE publications.
John Griggs Water and More John represents the UK on various International and European committees, eg: non-sewered sanitation, Service activities relating to drinking water supply, wastewater and stormwater systems, above1
Expertise:
British StandardsResearchWaste & Wastewater Engineering

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I am a Reader in Disability Studies and Education at Sheffield Hallam University. My research draws on disability, queer, trans and gender studies to consider relationships between disability, gender and the body.
Jen Slater Sheffield Hallam University I led the AHRC-funded Around the Toilet project (www.aroundthetoilet.com). Around the Toilet used arts-based participatory approaches to explore toilets as spaces of exclusion and belonging.1
Expertise:
Accessibility / InclusivityDesignDisabilityGenderLGB / Queer & TransResearch

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Dr Lauren White is an ESRC-funded research fellow at the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield.
Lauren White Research Fellow, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield. Lauren is a sociologist working at the intersections of everyday life, creative qualitative methodologies and the sociology of health1
Expertise:
Accessibility / InclusivityDesignResearchSociology