Jim is part of the University's Living Lab for Air Quality which will improve our knowledge of air quality to help shape and inform the university Landscape Strategy and Travel Plan. He is a member of the Leeds City Council Air Quality and Health Board which guides the city’s future strategy to tackle air pollution issues in the city. Jim is part of the NIHR funded BiB Breathes project which is currently using low cost PM2.5 sensors to assess the exposure of primary school children across the implementation of a Clean Air Zone in Bradford. He works extensively with Leeds City Council and colleagues from Leeds Beckett on the Sensing Leeds partnership, including a Research England funded programme to deploy a network of low cost PM2.5 sensors across the city. Jim’s work during the summer of 2023 was documented in this article. Most recently he has developed the Air Quality Stripes visualisation project, working with Dr Kirsty Pringle at EPCC (University of Edinburgh) and Richard Rigby of the school CEMAC team which launched in August 2024 – Guardian article, Mail online and The Conversation