Heather Price
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Mum | SL in Env Geog @StirUni | Air pollution, inter- & trans-disciplinary approaches, participatory methods | UKRI Regional Clean Air Champion for Scotland.
Stirling, UK
Joined April 2014
🚨 Join us on 10 July 2025 (2–3:30PM CAT) for a webinar with Dr. Sydney Byrns on lessons from Malawi’s 2023 Water Policy review for rural water legislation. 💧 📍Google Meet: https://t.co/YnVCBBlHdR
#WASH #WaterPolicy #WESNET #Malawi
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📢 Welcome to the latest Clean Air Programme newsletter! Inside: 🌍 Programme Updates 🎓 ECR workshop recap 📅 New events: LEZs & NHS Net Zero 📚 Reports & pubs 🏆 Champions’ highlights 👇
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Social determinants of health (SDOH) are often overlooked in policy-making, leading to individual-focused health initiatives. In @TheLancetPH, authors call for a shift from individual accountability to systemic solutions to address SDOH:
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Social determinants of health, although widely acknowledged, tend to be poorly translated into policy. Health programme initiatives too often underline individual accountability, which reinforces a...
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Today we are publishing our Areas of Research Interest (ARI). This document collates ESS’ recommendations on research and evidence requirements that have been identified through our investigations and analytical work.
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Fantastic to be awarded funding with Prof Ruth Doherty (U. Edinburgh) to support the Scottish ResearcH Partnership For Air Pollution Health Effects (SHAPE+). We will bring together academics with wider air quality stakeholders to support healthier air for all in Scotland 😀
We are delighted that 8 of our researchers have secured funding from @RoyalSocEd following the autumn 2024 Research Awards open call. Find out more about the successful projects here:
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Communicating Air Quality: the first-ever International Conference dedicated to exploring Air Quality Communication.Led by the @imperialcollege, in collaboration with the @UniofOxford and funded by the British Academy/@wellcometrust
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Led by the Environmental Research Group at Imperial College, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and funded by the British Academy/Wellcome Trust. The one-day event will bring together...
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Registration is now OPEN for my dream conference ➡️ Communicating Air Quality: Digital, Physical, and Theoretical Advances 🌍 co-delivered w. @AndyGrieveAir @dudman_karl - featuring talks by @DrMariaNeira @DrGaryFuller @LoveSsega @drheatherprice & more! https://t.co/ctuncg0AbU
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New UK research raises the possibility that incinerators contribute to pollutants in breast milk. My latest for @theguardian. Research led by @ImperialSPH, @imperialcollege
https://t.co/2Tw0BaN8Zd
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Researchers find winds affecting emissions from incinerators play role, though diet still thought to be largest factor
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(3/6) Air pollution is a particular challenge in cities, where the greatest levels of pollution are combined with the highest concentrations of people. Transport emissions need special focus in cities.
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Today we have published a statement following the @scotgov and @ScottishEPA responses to our report, ‘Particulate Matter in Scotland.’ You can read our statement here: https://t.co/HvAPPop9aA
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Deadline for social and environmental sciences to apply for this training programme funded by @ESRC and @NERCscience is 4 December 2024! @profmarkreed
Want to turn your research into real action? Join this free #PolicyEngagement training for #UKResearchers. Get hands-on guidance and policymaker insights. Register by 5 pm (UK time) on Wednesday, 4 December 🔗 https://t.co/Gjhge3M6M1 This virtual training is offered at no cost
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The final agenda is out for next month's #airpollution conference at the @RoySocChem. We have talks from AQEG members, keynote from COMEAP chair Anna Hansell along with research presentations and posters Monday is the last date to book a place....... https://t.co/VlN6C52Cp8
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Job Alert - @GeogDurham is seeking applications for two permanent Human Geography Assistant Professorships - https://t.co/PyBf2IDRZn closing date 11:59pm on 12th January 2025
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Funded PhDs on place & memory, Univ of Stirling. Apply by Dec 20, start March/April 2025. Background open, study eg dynamic relations of place & memory; navigating together in space & time; disorientation & difficult places; cognitive ecologies of the city
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New NERC @IapetusDTP #PhD opportunity on "Communicating the air". Interdisciplinary PhD using indoor/outdoor #AirPollution data from @forth_era as the basis for supporting action to improve exposures/health. @eshh_stir More here: https://t.co/nFKnh4KWJJ Get in touch :)
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New👏🏼paper👏🏼in @BMC_series featuring brilliant work by Ashley Williams from her @imperialsph masters thesis on social, cultural & lived understandings of what counts as "clean air" in indoor/home environments @ERGImperial @StudyWellHome #BMCPublicHealth
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BMC Public Health - Air pollution is of significant environmental and public health concern globally. While much research has historically focused on outdoor air pollution, indoor air pollution has...
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Excited to share that my 2023 @ImperialSPH MPH student, Ashley Williams, has published her Master’s work on how people define and understand 'clean air' in their homes! 🏡 @kaylloquial @ERGImperial
https://t.co/T2dgKJJXUW
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BMC Public Health - Air pollution is of significant environmental and public health concern globally. While much research has historically focused on outdoor air pollution, indoor air pollution has...
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Curious about air quality? 🌍 How is it measured? How does it affect our health? What about daily exposure and policy frameworks? Join our @ImpUrbanHealth & @ERGImperial ONLINE Introduction to Air Quality course on Nov 28th & Dec 5th🌬️📩 Register here:
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The first is about "Assessing the environmental risk of contaminant accumulation & release from retreating glaciers" & will be hosted at @GeogDurham, supervised by myself & a fantastic interdisciplinary team (@drheatherprice @KCameronArctic @linznicholson) https://t.co/Rsd2zJHy41
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