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Red-ALERT CDT Cohort 1 Students

We are delighted to have welcomed our first cohort of PhD students in October 2024 - find our more about their research projects here.


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Cohort 1 on Bath campus
Bath Training Event, October 2024

Our students are based at one of our Red-ALERT 4 Higher Education institutions, whilst working collaboratively with supervisors from more than one of those institutions, and receive support and expertise from our many external partners.

University of Bath

  • Joseph BEANEY
    Research Project: Establishing a new effect-directed analysis platform for understanding exposure risks of hazardous chemicals and their mixtures'.
    Lead Supervisor: Professor Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern
    External Partner: Wessex Water

  • Chloe INGHAM
    Research Project: Development of novel assays for PFAS pollutant compounds for incorporation into in-situ lab-on-chip sensors for freshwater environmental monitoring.
    Lead Supervisor: Professor Simon Lewis
    External Partner: Clearwater Sensors

  • Javeria MUNAWAR
    Research Project: An e-DNA probe to enable microbial source apportionment from environmental samples.
    Lead Supervisor: Dr Tom Arnott

Bangor University

  • Kate HERRIDGE
    Research Project: Source tracking and risk assessment of human pathogens in riverine water.
    Lead Supervisor: Dr Kata Farkas
    External Partner: Dwr Cymru, Welsh Water

  • Yashi JAIN
    Research Project: Factors controlling microplastic-pathogen interactions in watercourses.
    Lead Supervisor: Dr Karina Marsden
    External Partner: Dwr Cymru, Welsh Water

  • Adam WINROW
    Research Project: Modelling the fate of wastewater-derived human pathogenic fungi from catchment to coast.
    Lead Supervisor: Professor Peter Robins
    External Partner: Dwr Cymru, Welsh Water

Cardiff University

  • Sian DAVIES
    Research Project: A change in the water?: Using multidisciplinary approaches to leverage understanding of freshwater invertebrate responses to multiple environmental stressors.
    Lead Supervisor: Dr Tom Bishop

  • Maya LHOSTE
    Research Project: STREAM: Study of Two Rivers’ eDNA and Anthropogenic Pollutant Monitoring.
    Lead Supervisor: Dr Pablo Orozco Ter Wengel
    External Partner: Afonydd Cymru

  • Yanting ZHANG
    Research Project: Transport and spatial distribution of microplastics and byproducts, and associated risks to freshwater ecosystems.
    Lead Supervisor: Professor Catherine Wilson
    External Partner: Dwr Cymru, Welsh Water

University of Exeter

  • Erica BOSTON
    Research Project: Assessing Impacts of Combined Sewage Overflows and Surface Water Outfalls on Invertebrate Populations in River Catchments in Southwest England.
    Lead Supervisor: Professor Charles Tyler

  • Eleanor KIRK
    Research Project: Novel methodologies to assess the environmental health of freshwater systems.
    Lead Supervisor: Dr Robert Ellis
    External Partner: EmbryoPhenomics CIC

  • Holly ROBERTS
    Research Project: Future Fibres: A OneHealth approach to tracking microfibres through the wastewater system.
    Lead Supervisor: Dr Ceri Lewis
    External Partner: South West Water

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