Using genomic sequencing to identify and characterise genospecies within the Rhizobium leguminosarum complex linked to increased performance and yield of a legume crop (£55k; BBSRC; PI Richard Quilliam)
Sustainable waste management and Covid-19: an opportunity to build resilience into the livelihoods of waste pickers in South Africa (£30k; SFC-GCRF Covid-19 Urgency call; PI Richard Quilliam)
SPACES: Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their Environments (£3.85 million; NERC-GCRF; PI Richard Quilliam)
Sources, impacts and solutions for plastics in South East Asia coastal environments (£1.50 million; NERC-GCRF; Co-I Richard Quilliam)
Microbial hitch-hikers of marine plastics: the survival, persistence and ecology of microbial communities in the ‘Plastisphere’’
PI: Professor Richard Quilliam, value: £1.85m, funded by: NERC
Twitter: @PlasticVectors
Value-added marketing of mangrove oysters as an alternative livelihoods strategy for female gatherers in Sierra Leone (in collaboration with the Institute of Aquaculture)
The temporal dynamics of water access and quality in the slums of Blantyre, Malawi (Royal Geographical Society; PI Dr Heather Price)
Evaluating the relationship between public perception, engagement and attitudes towards underground energy technologies and UK Geoenergy Observatory science (British Geological Survey, PI Dr Jennifer Dickie)
Current PhD projects
Building resilience to respond to future environmental change across Scottish catchments
On-farm’ seed priming: an ecological & sustainable disease management strategy
Optimising multi-pollutant phytoremediation strategies to sustainably improve raw water quality
Opportunities and barriers for recovering value from faecal sludge in African cities
The role of Scotland’s inland waters in promoting blue-health in rural communities
The role of human excreta in building sustainable rural futures
Completed PhD projects
Environmental Sustainability and Human Health Research Group 