About Joan
After working in environmental management in my home town of Melbourne, I moved to the UK to study at Cambridge. I am now living in London, working as a sustainability consultant in a large engineering design company.
I love dancing, especially hip hop, lindy hop (swing) and latin dancing.
I bought my first digital SLR in 2005 and am learning to live up to it. Hopefully, you will see improvement in the photos I post.
I like personality psychometrics, having dabbled in it for work. Other things that make me happy are cooking, eating, public speaking and debating, washing dishes, putting groceries away after shopping, blowing out matches, and getting a bargain.
I am less keen on jogging, cold calling, travelling, country music, and changes that cannot be reversed.
One of the key defining moments in my life was when I got up and was the first person to dance at the dance social at Year 7 camp.
My work
Trivia
Self schema
JOAN ON THE WEB
Web profiles
- LinkedIn profile
- IEMA south east steering group profile — Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, February 2009 to ongoing
- Gates Scholar alum biography — Gates Cambridge Trust, 2006-2007
- MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development alum profile — Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge, 2006-2007
My work
- Adoption of energy efficiency innovations in new UK housing — Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineering Energy, vol 160 issue 4, November 2007
- Life on Mill Road — University of Cambridge Graduate Union handbook, 2007-2008 (PDF)
- Dissertation presentations — Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge, 16-18 July (PDF)
- Evening with Stephen Hawking — The Gates Scholar, June 2007 (PDF)
- Learning the lingo — News From Hughes, June 2007 (PDF)
- The features of environmental conflicts and how these impact on their mediation – Conflict Resolution e-Journal, 1, June 2007 (PDF)
Awards
- Cambridge engineers win James Watt Medal — Cambridge Network, 15 December 2009
- Adoption of energy efficiency innovations in new UK housing — University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, 14 December 009
- Prize winning paper for ICE Energy journal — Institute of Civil Engineers, 23 October 2009
- Dr Dick Fenner and former MPhil student Joan Ko win the James Watt Medal — Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge, 9 June 2009
- Cambridge awaits Monash graduate — Engineers Australia Student News, August 2006
- Cambridge Gates open for Joan — Monash Memo and Department of Engineering, 31 May 2006
- Transurban award for environmental engineering student – Monash Memo, 8 June 2004
- GHD Prize in water engineering — Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, 2005
News
- Gates Scholars’ Discussion Panel — Gates Cambridge Trust, 5 June 2007
- Alumni reach out to new scholars — The Gates Scholar, November 2006 (PDF)
- Engineering a change — The Age, 16 August 2005
Quoted
- Paper recommendation — Grant Shapps MP website forum
- What do recent graduates say about Green Steps? — Monash Sustainability Institute, 2005


