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 WaterChloe 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 SensorsJaveria 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 WaterYashi JAIN
Research Project: Factors controlling microplastic-pathogen interactions in watercourses.
Lead Supervisor: Dr Karina Marsden
External Partner: Dwr Cymru, Welsh WaterAdam 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 BishopMaya LHOSTE
Research Project: STREAM: Study of Two Rivers’ eDNA and Anthropogenic Pollutant Monitoring.
Lead Supervisor: Dr Pablo Orozco Ter Wengel
External Partner: Afonydd CymruYanting 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 TylerEleanor KIRK
Research Project: Novel methodologies to assess the environmental health of freshwater systems.
Lead Supervisor: Dr Robert Ellis
External Partner: EmbryoPhenomics CICHolly 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