Dr Paul Nieuwenhuis - Associate Member of BRASS

Career Experience and Qualifications

Paul Nieuwenhuis was born in the Netherlands and studied in Australia, Belgium, Spain and Scotland, where he obtained two degrees from Edinburgh University. A lifelong interest in cars and car making allowed him to get a job with the Motor Industry Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The unit was later privatised, this moved him into the consultancy world, carrying out projects for most of the world’s car and truck makers, while he also became a special advisor on state aid in the automotive industry to the European Commission (DGIV). Since 1990, he has been with the prestigious Centre for Automotive Industry Research (CAIR) at Cardiff University of which he is now a co-director. CAIR specialises in the economic and strategic aspects of the world automotive sector, giving it a rare overview of the industry. The centre is self-funding and attracts contracts from car makers, suppliers and other automotive stakeholders, including governments, world-wide. Here he also developed his special interest in the problems of making personal mobility compatible with our environment and with sustainability.

Research Areas of Interest

Sustainable personal mobility, especially automobility. This includes areas relating to sustainable production and consumption, industrial ecology, localisation, etc.

Research Projects

Paul has been working on the concept of Micro Factory Retailing, one of the flagship projects within BRASS. In addition, his work is becoming closely aligned with the wider sustainable production and consumption agenda and this takes the BRASS automotive research into areas such as alternative fuels and powertrain as well as how to build and consume cars in a more sustainable manner. His primary task within BRASS is therefore for its sustainable motor industry project and related personal mobility issues.

Publications

Recent Publications

· Nieuwenhuis, Paul, Vergragt, Philip & Wells, Peter (eds. 2006) The Business of Sustainable Mobility, Sheffield: Greenleaf

· Nieuwenhuis, Paul & Wells, Peter. The automotive industry and the environment: a technical, business and social future. Cambridge: Woodhead, 2003

· Nieuwenhuis, Paul & Wells, Peter. The future of the automotive industry - a guide. Cardiff: BT & Centre for Automotive Industry Research, 2002

· Wells, P & Nieuwenhuis P (2004, published 2006), ‘Business models for relocalisation and sustainability’ Greener Management International, Issue 47, Autumn, 89-98, ISSN 0966-9671

· Nieuwenhuis, P & Wells, P (2007) ‘The all-steel body as a cornerstone to the foundations of the mass production car industry’ Industrial and Corporate Change

Nieuwenhuis P (2006) ‘Green SUV: a contradiction in terms?’, AWK Automotive Environment Analyst, November, Issue 136, 24-25

Other Key Publications

• · In 1992 The Green Car Guide was published, of which Paul Nieuwenhuis was the principal author. Subsequent publication of Motor Vehicles in the Environment (1994) and The Death of Motoring? (1997) and a series of articles on automobility and sustainability have established him as one of the foremost experts on motor vehicles and their environmental impact.

Teaching Commitments

• Responsible for automotive content on Post Graduate  Diploma in Motoring Journalism (CARBS-JOMEC)
• Module coordiator CARBS MBA elective International Automotive Industry Management
• Module coordinator, CARBS MSc Sustainable Business and International Transport
• Supervisor of three PhD students
• Supervisor of MBA and MSc dissertations