Colin is an Interior and Environmental Design graduate with a broad range of industry experience and was recently an Industry Investigator on behalf of Saint-Gobain Ecophon as an Industry Partner in the Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC) ARC research project. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne and was recently part of the Management Team for the ILESE – Scoping Study.

He is leading the Ecophon Global Concept Development for Educational Environments and matrix managing local Concept Developers in the education sector focusing on acoustic design for sustainable learning spaces across, Europe, India, South Africa and South America. 

Colin works actively as an industry partner with the Future Classroom Lab (FCL) which is run by the EU SchoolNet organisation, supporting Ministries of Education across Europe and he also works actively as a local partner with the FCL.dk in Copenhagen. On a mission to motivate an holistic multi-disciplinary approach to learning spaces design which includes joined-up thinking around the key IEQs. Learning more about the impact of IEQs and their connection to supporting innovative and sustainable learning spaces.  Active in industry advocacy and stakeholder engagement, linking future research collaborative opportunities to better enable and support innovative and sustainable learning environments.