Dr. John Robinson

Dr. John Robinson

Co-Investigator


Projects

Wellbeing and the campus built environment: a new framework for U of T campus building performance assessment

Wellbeing and the campus built environment: a new framework for U of T campus building performance assessment

Researchers from the University of Toronto are investigating how building, common area and classroom and office features on campus impact graduate studen comfort and wellbeing.

Health and comfort Energy and GHG emissions
Wellbeing and the Built Environment: Exploration of Multi-unit Residential Buildings (MURBs)

Wellbeing and the Built Environment: Exploration of Multi-unit Residential Buildings (MURBs)

Research exploring the impact of multi-unit residential buildings and office buildings on inhabitant wellbeing

Health and comfort Energy and GHG emissions

Publications

Journal Publications

  • Morgan, G. T., Touchie, M. F., Robinson, J., Jakubiec, A., & Tran, J. (2026). Critical reflections on the process of interdisciplinary building science research. Buildings and Cities, 7(1), pp. 653–666. doi: 10.5334/bc.797  

  • Makaremi, N., Morgan, G.T., Yildirim, S., Jakubiec, J.A., Robinson, J., Touchie, M., “A framework for evaluating the impact of buildings on inhabitant well-being.” Building and Environment, 280, (2025), 113117, doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113117

  • Makaremi, N., Yildirim, S., Morgan, G.T., Touchie, M.F., Jakubiec, A., Robinson, J. “Impact of classroom environment on student wellbeing in higher education: Review and future directions,” Building and Environment, 265, (2024), 111958, doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111958

  • Lach, N., McDonald, S., Coleman, S., Touchie, M.F., Robinson, J., Morgan, G., Poland, B., Jakubiec, A. “Community Wellbeing in the Built Environment: Towards a Relational Building Assessment,” Cities and Health. (2022) doi:10.1080/23748834.2022.2097827

  • Morgan, G. T., Coleman, S., Robinson, J. B., Touchie, M. F., Poland, B., Jakubiec, A., Macdonald, S., Lach, N., & Cao, Y. “Wellbeing as an emergent property of social practice”. Buildings and Cities, (2022) 3(1), pp. 756–771. doi:10.5334/bc.262

  • Coleman, S., Touchie, M.F., Robinson, J.B., Peters, T. “Rethinking Performance Gaps: A Regenerative Sustainability Approach to Built Environment Performance Assessment,” Sustainability, 10(12) (2018) 4829 doi:10.3390/su10124829

Conference Publications

  • Morgan, G. T., Jakubiec, A.J., Robinson, J., Touchie, M.F., “Beyond comfort, towards well-being: Using photovoice to assess the collective dimensions of inhabitant well-being in an energy efficient multi-unit residential building” in the CISBAT 2025: The Built Environment in Transition Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 3-5, 2025