RESET People

RESET was founded in 2007 by staff and students at the Centre for Alternative Technology and RESET maintains a valuable relationship with CAT, its alumni and staff. The following people are responsible for delivering RESET's mission on a day to day level, but RESET would be nothing without the support and input of its members and supporters.

RESET Interns

As well as permanent staff, RESET Development is grateful to the continuing stream of highly motivated and committed people who come to work with us as interns for a few months to gain experience in a specific area of our work. You can find out more about Internships with RESET here.

INTERNS IN 2012:
Maria Pantas - IHDC Exhibition and Awards Co-ordinator
Tom Citroen - Membership and Communications Officer
Lani Leuthvilay - Advocacy Officer
Aine Higgins ni Chinneide - Bangladesh Project Manager
Chris Eves - Low Impact Building Materials Researcher
Ben Rumer - Design and Quarterly Magazine
Ramie Bains - Training Support Officer
Angelaine Doherty - IHDC 2012 Design
Anne Gerharz - Training Co-ordinator

INTERNS IN 2011:
Zoe Barker - Advocacy Officer
Dimitra Kyrkou - Design and Quarterly Magazine
Amber Parsons - Communications Officer
Clare Smith - Training Support Officer
Steven Harry - Training Support Officer
Taylor Roark - Research
Hadas Even Tsur - Training Support Officer
Brigid Clarke - Community Facilitation Officer
Nadia Khalid Tithi - Bangladesh Project Support
Kaissa Tait - Bangladesh Support Officer
Alex Green - Advocacy Officer
Lisa Ruf - Bangladesh Research Officer
James Mackness - IHDC Conference Co-ordinator

INTERNS IN 2010:
Kelly Gunnell - IHDC Co-ordinator
Marko Kalik - Community Pproject Officer (Dalston Roof Park)
Brigid Clarke - Community Project Officer (Devenoshire Road Nature Reserve)
Sucheta Narang - Bangladesh Support Officer
Amy Clancy - Communications Officer
Tim Spicer - Training Research Officer
Lisa Groves - Communications Officer
Jane Monahan - Future of the World Exhibition Curator
Cassandra Dove - IHDC Advocacy Officer
Anna Kerrane - Community Facilitation
Heidi Hauf - Bangladesh Support Officer
Asya Starovoit - Ecobuild Advocacy Officer

INTERNS IN 2009:
Dharmi Patel - Bangladesh Support Officer
Teresa Gerena - Bangladesh Support Officer

VOLUNTEERS
RESET is also hugely grateful to all the volunteers who come and help out on a regular basis too at events, exhibitions and conferences. Thank you to everyone for all your support!

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BLANCHE CAMERON | Founding Director & Trustee
Blanche co-founded RESET in 2007 with Magnus Wolfe Murray, Linda Forbes and other students and staff at the Graduate School of the Environment at the Centre for Alternative Technology / University of East London, where she has been a Senior Lecturer since 2001. She has many years of training and professional experience in both designing and building ecological design projects including community self-build, and has worked as a builder and architectural designer in Germany, France and the UK. Blanche is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, sits on the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Biodiversity and is a member of the TCPA and the AECB.
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BRIONY TURNER | Director & Trustee
Having taken voluntary redundancy during the Homes and Communities Agency’s restructuring process, Briony will be starting an ESRC funded PhD at King’s College London in October entitled: Homes, households and the socio-technical fabric: putting energy transitions into practice. The focus of the research will be on examining how an understanding of householders’ everyday energy practices and their socio-technical context can shape urban transitions to low carbon futures, within the UK’s social housing sector.
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ROBERT PREWETT | Trustee
Robert studied architecture at Bath University and the Technische Universiteit in Delft. Having worked with Feilden Clegg Bradley architects for 5 years he established Prewett Bizley architects in 2005 with university friend and long term collaborator Graham Bizley. Through building research they have developed an expertise in low carbon building strategies for new build and retrofit. In 2009 they completed a retrofit of a Victorian house where the heating demand was reduced by 90%.
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MAGNUS WOLFE MURRAY | Advisor
Magnus was key to the founding and development of RESET Development in 2007. After working for 15 years as Country Manager for NGOs in numerous locations worldwide, Magnus went on to become an advisor for UNOCHA in Liberia and the Maldives. He has designed and managed training of local Internally Displaced People committees, trained camp managers and has been a consultant for the UN, World Bank and USAID. Magnus recently completed his MSc in Advanced Environment & Energy Studies and delivering lectures on Renewable Energy, Sustainable Buildings and Land Use for post-disaster recovery programmes.

Previous RESET People

LINDA FORBES | Co-Founding Director (2007-2009)

HENRIETTA LYNCH | Director (2010) Trustee (2011)

NIKKI LINSELL | Volunteer (2009-2010), Director & Trustee (2010-2011)