Centre for Environmental Health and Engineering
Our Centre is a designated World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for the protection of water quality and health.
Our research
We provide support to international governments through international agencies such as WHO, Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and relief organisations such as Oxfam, UNICEF and Medicins Sans Frontier (MSF).
We are a multidisciplinary research centre with international expertise which undertakes research activities and services that address today’s environmental and public health global challenges. Projects cover the entire water, wastewater, pollution cycle and encompass topics such as:
- Water resources surveillance
- Modelling and management
- Advanced water and wastewater treatment
- Resource recovery
- Pollution control and waste management
- Water quality and public health
- Risk assessment and management.
Study with us
Our research activities form an integral part of our successful masters course. It attracts overseas students and professionals who wish to take advantage of the considerable global interest in water, wastewater, sanitation, public health, pollution and waste management to develop their careers.
Prizes we've won
Our project won the UK-Philippines Newton Prize 2019. The project aims to convert wastewater into nutrient rich fertiliser and is leading the way on improving the health and prosperity of rapidly urbanising areas in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
Our University was a joint winner of the 2011 Queen's Anniversary Prize for wide-ranging and global work improving access to safe drinking water and sanitation. Listen to Brian Clarke talking about why water research is so important.
People
Head of the Centre
Academic staff
Research staff
Visiting staff
- Professor Jeni Colbourne MBE, Chief Drinking Water Inspector, DWI
- Professor Matthias Maier, Stadtwerke Karlsruhe
- Professor Paul Sherlock, (formerly of Oxfam and Coordinator of Water and Sanitation Emergencies, UNICEF)