Professor Cliff Hardcastle BSc MSc PhD FRICS MACostE

Professor Cliff Hardcastle is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Teesside. Before that he was Assistant Principal (Knowledge Transfer And Commercial Development) and Dean of the School of the Built and Natural Environment at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is also Visiting Professor to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. Professor Hardcastle is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Building in Scotland.

Professor Hardcastle has spent many years engaged in research directly linked to the economic and process elements of construction. In more recent years this work has concentrated on risk mechanisms associated with the Private Finance Initiative, approaches to procurement and now sustainability modelling

He has generated research and enterprise funding to a value of over £5 Million pounds. He has over 100 publications and has been a keynote and invited speaker to conferences in the USA, China, Hong Kong, Brazil, Malaysia and Russia. Formerly a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College he has been a referee for research councils in the UK, South Africa and Hong Kong.

Email: c.hardcastle@tees.ac.uk