Interdisciplinary research

The Centre's academics incorporate qualitative and quantitative research methods in a truly interdisciplinary fashion; connecting science, the arts and the humanities to improve understanding of the health risks and opportunities presented by the environment.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology

PhD Research: Microplastics as Vectors of Antimicrobial Resistance in Aquatic Systems

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant global threat to human health, with the environment playing an increasingly important role in the evolution and spread of AMR. Microplastics are ubiquitous in…

Community and Social Inequalities

Smartline

Smartline was a multi-partner research project looking at how technology can be used to help us live healthier and happier lives.

Blue Environments and Health

GCRF Blue Communities

Blue Communities is a 4 year research capacity-building programme for marine planning in East and South-East Asia, funded by UK Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund. The programme has 12 interconnected research projects, which will be actively integrated to support marine planning, and 10 cross-cutting capacity building activities.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology

AMR environmental risk assessment

Designing a new method to quantify the environmental risks posed by antibiotics.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology, Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Ecological drivers of drug resistance

Exploring the ecological drivers of drug resistant pathogens in aquatic environments.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology

Antimicrobial resistance in rivers

Analysing the contribution of wastewater treatment discharge to antibiotic resistance.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology

Antimicrobial resistance surveillance

Developing an international strategy for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the environment.

Food Systems and Planetary Health

Community food and health

Establishing a research programme to evaluate community food production initiatives.

Blue Environments and Health

Seas, Oceans and Public Health in Europe

A pan-European initiative to coordinate research into the links between the marine environment and human health.

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Beyond Greenspace

Beyond Greenspace aimed to improve our understanding in this area by examining how different types and qualities of natural environment have varying relationships with human health and wellbeing. The project used some of the UK’s extremely valuable existing (‘secondary’) datasets to address this research question.

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Nature on Prescription Handbook

This handbook is the culmination of detailed evidence gathering through evidence review, interviews and workshops with people and organisations involved in providing green social prescribing.

Community and Social Inequalities

Active travel study

This project pools five qualitative datasets that have explored experiences of ‘travel’ across the UK.

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