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Publications

, Badarnah Lidia, Barakat Merate, Chatzimichali Anna, Atkins Ed

Energy Research and Social Science Vol 85 (2022)

, Gething Bill, Marco Elena

(2020)

Butt Anosh Nadeem,

Social Science and Medicine Vol 399 (2026)

, , , , Chatzimichali Anna

Buildings & Cities Vol 7, pp. 360–377 (2026)

Shibeika Amna,

ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research Vol 20, pp. 463-477 (2026)

, , McGill Grainne,

Design Research Society Conference 2026 (2026)

Research Interests

Currently, Sonja is leading delivery of multiple research and innovation projects (value in 2021 in excess of £1.2mil) aiming to transform interrelated energy governance systems to account for complex multi-phenomenon and multi-scale interconnected encounters between humans, nonhumans, spatial, socio-technological and environmental dimensions of everyday life. As PI on the £586,000 EPSRC project GLOW [EP/V041770/1], she is in collaboration with multiple research and industry partners, looking to develop new communication protocols to manage home energy demand drawing on bee colony and home socio spatial energy behaviour data across three low energy housing communities. She was Co-I on the £772,178 EPSRC project RESIDE [ EP/R008434/1] (with Oxford Brookes) and was lead investigator on the energy evaluation work for the REPLICATE project (). She is also developing a new multimodal visual lexicon for radical architecture practice to better communicate collective needs across diverse multispecies environments. Below is a selection of projects delivered or ongoing since last 5 years:

• 09/2021 (£586K) EPSRC GLOW-Energy nested bio system flows- from the home to the hubÌý(PI) - Multidisciplinary collaboration with leading international experts in smart energy governance regimes including Energy Systems Catapult
• 02/2021 (£310K) Department for Education ‘Achieving zero carbon’ bootcamp cpd course for industry (Co-Lead) collaboration with UWE EDM
• 03/2019 (22K) VC Challenge Fund Automating environmental performance analysis in modular housing (PI) Collaboration with UWE FBL
• 08/2019 (20K) G4G Energy stories from the campus in collaboration with BAM and Hydrock (Co-Lead) Collaboration with UWE FBL
• 06/2019 (10K) G4G Perceptions of comfort in MMC housing – Zedpods study (PI) Collaboration with BCC, YMCA, BHF
• 03/2018 (EUR 29mil) EU H2020 project Renaissance of Places with Innovative Citizenship and Technology (REPLICATE) Co-leading Housing energy intervention Evaluation Programme in Bristol (Lead)
• 02/2018-(7K) North Somerset Council NSC Design Guidance and Sustainability Evaluation Consultancy (Lead)
• 12/2017-(3K) SHAPE Energy Research Challenge Award (with Wroclaw University of Science and Technology) (PI) Invited Contribution in advisory capacity to European Research Challenges in Energy Policy Agenda
• 10/2018- (£773K) EPSRC RESIDE ‘Residential building energy demand reduction in India’ (Co-I); leading and developing 2 work packages that will provide theoretical underpinning to data analysis and dissemination
• 03/2017- (£46K) Flagship fund ‘MMC delivery in social housing’ (PI); leading data bid writing as well as research design, data collection, analysis, liaising with client and disseminating- most recently in AJ ‘Offsite construction’ issue 5thOct 2017
• 09/2017- (£3.5K) Scott Brownrigg sustainability and environmental management consultancy (PI)
• 01/2017 (£22K) BEIS, International evidence heating controls (PI)
• 07/2016-09/2017 (£15K) HEA Developing Digital Feedback tools (CoLead)Ìý

Professional Activities

Contributor

21/8/2025

Participant

27/11/2024

Organiser

7/9/2023

Speaker

4/5/2023

Participant

22/3/2022

Advisor

1/9/2021

Projects

Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Vermeylen, Saskia (Co-investigator) Witte, Kimia (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2026 - 30-Jan-2028

Crawford, Megan (Principal Investigator) Tse, Dwight (Principal Investigator) Witte, Kimia (Co-investigator) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Co-investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Quigley, John (Co-investigator) White, Chris (Co-investigator)

05-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026

McGill, Grainne (Principal Investigator) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Co-investigator) Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro (Co-investigator)

02-Jan-2024 - 02-Jan-2025

Witte, Kimia (Principal Investigator) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Co-investigator) McFadden, Constance (Research Co-investigator)

Leverhulme Doctoral School in Nature Inspired Acoustics (NIA) Studentship

01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2028

Windmill, James (Principal Investigator) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Co-investigator) Lau, K H Aaron (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2032

Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Principal Investigator) Windmill, James (Co-investigator) Luoni, Sara (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028