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Research Area: Community Engagement

Lora Fleming

lora fleming

Lora is the director of the Centre for Environment and Human Health and chair of oceans and human health at the University of Exeter Medical School. She is a board certified occupational and environmental health physician and epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience and expertise in environment and occupational exposures and human health research and training.

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Joanie Willett

Joanie Willett

Joanie is interested in the complex inter-relationship between identity, the economy, and the environment and exploring sustainable communities through theory, practice, policy and governance.

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Kelly Thornber

Kelly thornber

Kelly’s research focuses on the global threat of antimicrobial resistance and developing more sustainable aquaculture practices, both in the UK and globally.

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Clare Saunders

clare saunders

Clare researches social movements, protest and environmental politics. Her work has been particularly focused on environmental and global justice movements, although she has recently been engaged in a pan-European study of protest on a range of issues. Her current work looks at pro-environmental behaviour change – looking especially at energy use and clothing – and climate change policy networks.

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Ilya Maclean

ilya maclean

Ilya is an applied ecologist interested in climate-vegetation interactions at the scales relevant to management and decision-making. He has expertise in microclimatology, remote-sensing and fine-scale hydrological modelling.

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Anne Leonard

anne leonard

Anne’s research focuses on marine systems and epidemiology. She studies catchment-level processes contributing to the transmission of antibiotic resistant bacteria in coastal bathing waters, with a view to identifying mitigation strategies to reduce the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment. She is particularly interested in recreational waters, transmission in coastal bathing waters and microbial genes associated with land uses and re-use of water and crop irrigation.

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Brendan Godley

Brendan godley

Brendan’s wide ranging research interests are in biodiversity conservation. He largely focuses on the study of marine vertebrates (turtles, mammals, birds and sharks) and interdisciplinary approaches to conservation research, including focussing on the issue of microplastics in our oceans.

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Emma Mckinley

Emma’s research covers marine social sciences, public perceptions of marine and coastal systems, social and cultural values and their role in marine and coastal governance, marine planning, blue growth and coastal communities.

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Ryerson Christie

Ryerson Christie

Ryerson’s main research interests focus on the application of critical security studies to the analysis of human security, peacebuilding, and natural disasters. My work has focused on how these shape the relationships between local communities, civil society and the state. His research has had a geographic focus on Southeast Asia and Cambodia.

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Albert Chen

Albert Chen

Albert’s research focuses on water and human environment systems. Particular focus is on: hydraulic modelling, urban drainage, flood forecasting, innovation technology applications, water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus, climate change impact on critical infrastructure, prediction of water-borne disease, hazard impact and cascading effects assessment, and mitigation and resilience strategies.

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Steve Ormerod

With a research focus on global change effects on freshwater organisms and ecosystems; river biodiversity and ecosystem services Steve is a leading specialist in riverine and wetland bird ecology.

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Wouter Poortinga

An environmental psychologist, based in the Welsh School of Architecture and the School of Psychology. Expertise in psychological and behavioural aspects of single-use plastics. Other research interests are in human-environment interactions, including:
environmental risk perception
sustainable behaviours and lifestyles

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Marianna Dudley

Marianna is an environmental historian of modern Britain with a focus on environmental change and its impacts on communities, places, and politics. Her current research explores wind and wave power, and the rise of renewable energy technologies more broadly, in the twentieth century.

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Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon

Dave holds the posts of Professor of Social Justice, Director of the Bristol Poverty Institute and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol. He provides research leadership for multidisciplinary poverty relevant research and advised the World Health Organisation on measurement issues concerning water and sanitation access and policy in low and middle income countries.

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Adrian Healy

A UKRI Future Research Fellow, Adrian’s research focuses on the resilience of people and places, urban groundwater and water resilience in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Ian Bateman

Ian is an environmental economist, interested in ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and social science knowledge within decision making and policy. Particular interests lie in the fields of quantitative analysis, integrated modelling and the valuation of non-market benefits and costs.

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Kate Baker

Kate Baker

Based in the Centre for Water Systems, Kate is the lead for community engagement on two European Union funded projects, NextGen (Living Labs for Circular Economy in the Water Sector) and LOTUS (International Cooperation for Low-cost innovative Technology for water quality monitoring and water resources management for Urban and rural water Systems in India).

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Animal Physiology Antimicrobial Resistance Aquaculture Biogeochemistry Chemistry Circular Economy Climate Change Coastal Community Engagement Conservation / wildlife Contaminants / pollutants Data management Drinking water Drought Ecology Ecosystem services Ecotoxicology Environmental Risk Epidemiology Estuaries Evolutionary biology Extreme Events Fish / fisheries Flooding Freshwater Genetics and genomics Geochemistry Groundwater Human health Hydrology Informatics Lakes and reservoirs Marine Microbiology Modelling Molecular dynamics Pathogens Pollutants Rainfall Renewables / energy use Rivers Social Science Sustainable behaviours Wastewater Water systems

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  • Water Innovation and Research Centre (Bath)
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  • The Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (Exeter)

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