Dr Anna Romanova BEng Hons, PhD, SFHEA, MInstLM

2019 Student Led Teaching Awards, shortlisted for the 'Extra Mile Award'

2018 Student Led Teaching Awards, Overall Award Winner for 'Supervisor of the Year'

2018 Student Led Teaching Awards, Award Finalist for 'Faculty Star'

2017 Student Led Teaching Awards, Overall Award Winner for 'Outstanding Personal Tutor'

2016 Excellence in Education Awards - 'Contribution to student employability in FES'

2015 Outstanding achievements in TME Group Business Project co-ordination.

2010 International Water Association, Young Water Professional.

2009 University of Bradford, Elijah Hepworth Memorial Prize for best Engineering Design & Technology undergraduate student.

2009 University of Bradford Grace Dearborn Prize for the Final Year Project of outstanding merit.

2008 ARUP Future Star Award nomination for exceptional project management skills.

Professional Member of Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)
Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Member of British Academy of Managers (BAM)
Member of Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE)

Member of American Society of Acoustic's (ASA)
Member of UK Acoustic's Network (UKAN)

Anna carries out solo or collaborative research in the following fields:

• Acoustic properties and noise reduction of vertical barriers including foliage;
• Supply Chain Management of Living Green Walls;
• Economic and social benefits of Living Green Walls;
• Gamification in Learning;
• Individual and group based student Motivation in Learning;
• Concrete pipe corrosion and life prediction.

Key funded projects

• 2018: Chartered ABS Scholarship, Charted Association of Business Schools​ - 'Playful Learning', together with Bedfordshire University Business School and University of Greenwich Business School (£9,693)
• 2017: GRE, Gamification in Teaching and Learning - 'Group Business Project - emotional engagement'. A. Romanova – Principal Investigator. Bedfordshire University – Co-Researchers, (£5,000).
• 2017: BAM - British Academy of Management's, Management Knowledge & Education (MKE) Grants Scheme: 2017-2018, 'Employability-related peer-to-peer learning and Social Media Communication patterns explored in cross-year teams of live Group Business Projects', (£3,928).
• 2016-2017: 'Novel method of measuring acoustic absorption in situ', GRE (26,800).
• 2016: 'Future of Green Facades', Principal Investigator: Dr Benz Kotzen, Co-Investigator: Dr Anna Romanova, GRE (10,000).
• 2016: 'Systematic Investigation of Green Walls Acoustic Absorption Coefficient', GRE (£3,751).
• 2016: GWES 2015-16, Graduate Work Experience Scheme, Internship Fund, Graduate Trainee Research Officer for Green Wall Survey, GRE (£12,000).
• 2015-2016: Student Experience Grant - Knowledge & fun day experience, GRE (£8,000).
• 2015 – 2016: HEIF Grant - Environmental Properties of Green Walls (£4,100).
• 2014 – 2015: GRE Consultancy Grant - Air & Noise Pollution Monitoring (£15,000).
• 2012 – 2014: Assessing Current State of Buried Sewer Systems and Their Remaining Safe Life, EPSRC - EP/I032150/1, £273,329.
• 2011: Pipe flow turbulence characterisation using wave probe tracer method (with Czech Technical University, Czech Republic and Bologna University, Italy), £ 24,500.
• 2010 – 2011: Flowhawk method validation (with ADS Environmental Services, USA), £165,000.
• 2010 – 2013: Advanced numerical techniques for characterising obstructions in sewer pipes, EPSRC, £602,279 (with Brunel University and University of Reading).
• 2009 – 2011: Review of sewer inspection methods reliability (with BOCU, Austria), £32,100.
• 2009 – 2012: Sonic Characterisation of Water Surface Waves, Turbulence, Mixing and Bed Friction in Shallow Water Flows (with Open University, Cardiff University, Stanford University, USA and Moscow Institute of Engineering Physics, Russia), EPSRC £795,690.
• 2008 – 2009: Sewer Condition and Blockage Detection Classification Using Novel Acoustic Instrumentation (with University of Sheffield), EPSRC £194,676.

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