DoctorFrances Charters

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Senior Lecturer Above the Bar
    Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • +6433694632 (Work)
  • Civil and Natural Resources Engineering E307

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

I co-ordinate and teach an undergraduate course in Stormwater Systems Engineering and a Masters course in Integrated Urban Water Management. I also contribute teaching in Environmental Engineering and Ecologically Engineered Systems undergraduate courses. A hallmark of my teaching practice is the use of hands-on learning activities such as lab experiments, field monitoring and sampling, and site visits to strengthen students' connection between theory and real-world ecological processes. I enjoy using the surrounding campus as a 'Living Laboratory' for teaching and research.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Performance of Waste-sourced Treatment Media for Enhancing Stormwater Treatment Outcomes
    1 Apr 2026 - 31 Mar 2029
    Rathnayake, Dasunika
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Characterising urban stormwater quality: heavy metals and pathogen pollution from new subdivisions
    16 Feb 2026 - 23 Oct 2026
    Davenport and Smith,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Characterising urban stormwater quality: sediment and nutrient pollution from new subdivisions
    16 Feb 2026 - 23 Oct 2026
    Carey and Dixon,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Contaminant build-up in stormwater swales
    16 Feb 2026 - 23 Oct 2026
    Brawn and Connor,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Metal Content in Photovoltaic Module Runoff During Simulated Rainfall
    16 Feb 2026
    Blair, Ashton
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Nature-based stormwater solutions: a field review of Christchurch raingardens
    16 Feb 2026 - 23 Oct 2026
    Mackintosh and Matla,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Contaminant build-up in stormwater basins
    14 Jul 2025 - 11 Nov 2025
    Bacci-Rowe and Leniston,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Long term infiltration performance of stormwater dry basins
    14 Jul 2025 - 11 Nov 2025
    Courtney and Smith,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Performance assessment of a floating treatment wetland
    14 Jul 2025 - 7 Nov 2025
    Prout and Brydon,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Developing scalable measures of environmental outcomes
    2 Jun 2025
    Howson, Gene
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Sediment and Heavy Metals Characterisation
    18 Nov 2024 - 7 Feb 2025
    Waterhouse, Matthew
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Stormwater quality characterisation for biofiltration treatment systems
    18 Nov 2024 - 28 Feb 2025
    Banks, Dean
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy
    31 Jul 2024 - 31 Jul 2024
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    ENCN347 Stormwater Systems Engineering
    16 Jul 2024 - 18 Oct 2024
    ENCN347
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Characterisation and implications of post-storm elevated sediment in the Ōpāwaho/Heathcote River
    15 Jul 2024 - 11 Nov 2024
    Duston and Gibson,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Treatment Bunds for Reducing Stormwater Pollution in Ephemeral Streams
    15 Jul 2024 - 11 Nov 2024
    Macfadyen and Ledgerwood-Gee,
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    ENCN281 Environmental Engineering
    12 Mar 2024 - 16 Apr 2024
    ENCN281
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    ENCN405 Ecological Engineering
    27 Feb 2024 - 8 Mar 2024
    ENCN405
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Individual Peer Evaluation of Teaching
    3 Aug 2023 - 18 Aug 2023
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Modelling the contribution of nitrogen to stormwater from permeable surfaces
    17 Jul 2023 - 14 Nov 2023
    Bricknall and Sparg,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Performance Assessment of Cox’s Quaifes Stormwater System
    17 Jul 2023 - 14 Nov 2023
    Mercer and Robertshaw,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Performance assessment of novel downpipe treatment systems for heavy metals
    17 Jul 2023 - 14 Nov 2023
    Clarkson and Millar,
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Stormwater systems engineering
    17 Jul 2023 - 20 Oct 2023
    ENCN347
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Capturing the ecological resilience of water sensitive design features
    18 Jul 2022 - 10 Nov 2022
    Ross and Brown,
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Hydraulic optimisation of the Upper Heathcote stormwater management basins
    18 Jul 2022 - 10 Nov 2022
    Evans and Hodder,