Rhona has 35 years’ experience working in climate change, sustainable development and place making in the public, private, academic and charitable sectors. She joined CAG Consultants as a Partner in 2020 after 10 years running her own sustainable development and regeneration consultancy business.
Rhona particularly enjoys working with collaborative, cross-sectoral teams to find ways to address the wicked issues we face in tackling climate change and creating places that are good both for us and for nature.
She specialises in evidence-based approaches to climate change mitigation/adaptation and low carbon development and regeneration. Areas of expertise include qualitative socio-economic/environmental research and evaluation, stakeholder engagement, whole place approaches to place making/low carbon planning, skills development, community energy and research that influences both policy and practice.
Current/recent work includes: Learning and Evaluation Partner for the National Lottery Community Fund’s Climate Action Fund programme – phase 1; Community Energy Infrastucture project for the Greater South East Net Zero Hub; Developing local area climate adaptation and mitigation advice for local authorities for the Climate Change Committee; Developing a Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Framework for the Scottish Government’s Climate Action Hub programme; Support and Learning Partner for the Climate Action Leeds programme. Rhona is delighted that she will lead the CAG team as Evaluation Partners for the CILIP led Green Library Hubs project that will start later this year.
Rhona’s work has been recognised at a national level, having been invited to No 10 to advise on community energy and regeneration and provide case studies to the No 10 Policy unit. She was awarded a PhD from Newcastle University for research on whole settlement approaches to energy self-sufficiency and taught and undertook research at the university on climate change and regeneration.
