Dr Rodney Stewart

Dr Rodney Stewart (GU)
PhD, BEng (Hons1)


Project Leader SEQ Residential End Use Study                  
Smart Water Research Centre

Dr Rodney Stewart is a Project Leader for the South-east Queensland (SEQ) Residential End Use Study.  His research expertise includes water demand management, smart water metering technologies, rainwater tank performance, water infrastructure planning, urban water end use consumption and water-energy and nexus issues.

Current Research Interests
Water conservation policy
Remote smart water metering and monitoring of residential household end uses

Performance of internally plumbed rainwater tank supplied end uses and energy intensity
Verifying sustainable diversified water supply systems
End use water consumption flow patterns and pattern matching
Leakage detection, analysis and rectification practices and policies
Performance of dual reticulated recycled water distribution systems

Future research interests
Hot water end uses and energy intensity of modern heating systems
Automated end use analysis
Water consumption time of use tariffs
Real time peak demand analysis


Qld Government Griffith University USC specialises in sustainability Agilent Technologies Aqua Diagnostic International Water Centre
Recent News

  • Smart Water Research Centre’s Dr Vicki Ross was recently awarded her PhD in psychology from the University of Queensland. Vicki’s research examined the impact of trust in authorities on public acceptance of recycled water, and involved developing a psychological model of the characteristics and drivers of trust and acceptance. The research comprised three large-scale Australian studies that tested the model across three different risk contexts (low, medium and high perceived risk).

    Analysis through path modelling showed that in all three contexts trust in the water authority was a significant predictor of acceptance of the water management scheme. Also across the three contexts, greater trust was associated with lower risk perceptions, which in turn produced greater acceptance. In the high perceived risk setting (the proposed indirect potable reuse scheme in Toowoomba), perceptions of risk had the strongest direct effect on acceptance of the scheme.

    The findings highlighted the importance of community engagement programs in establishing ongoing public support for water supply schemes. The results also demonstrate that establishing trusting relationships between communities and water authorities is crucial to public acceptance of higher perceived risk schemes such as indirect potable reuse.

     

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