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Jamie is Head of urban wellbeing and has 15 years professional experience as a wellbeing consultant, split between research and practice: creating and using strong urban wellbeing evidence.

In practice, he leads the ‘evidence informed’ wellbeing service offer within Buro Happold’s sustainability team. He has worked on more than 70 projects, either leading or supporting planning and design excellence in a variety of settings. Most of his experience involves working with developers, local and city-region governments.

As a wellbeing consultant, Jamie’s most recent work, on behalf of Argent Related, has seen him lead an overarching wellbeing strategy for one of Europe’s largest regeneration projects – Brent Cross Town (BXT), in London. He is fortunate to have worked with clients and collaborators such as C40, UKGBC, Los Angeles government’s Sustainability Department, Her Majesty’s Crown Estate, Marks & Spencer, Lendlease, Yoo Capital and Igloo Regeneration.

Outputs associated with this work have won several practitioner awards and recognition from the UN.

Between 2010-14, Buro Happold part sponsored Jamie’s PhD, supervised jointly by an urban designer and neuro-psychologist at Cambridge University. He continues this primary research, working part-time at University of Manchester, where, together with UoM colleagues. During which he has developed robust new tools such as MOHAWk and NOURISH, and ‘action research’ approaches – using analogue and digital techniques. Further information can be found here.