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.
Research projects
Integrating hydrological modelling and satellite data to inform crop field soil moisture
Principal investigator: Dr Belen Marti-Cardona
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Funding amount: £77,136
Maize mapping and sustainable water use in Afghanistan
Principal investigator: Dr Belen Marti-Cardona
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Funding amount: £97,285
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 Centre
Dr Devendra Saroj
Senior Lecturer and Head of Centre for Environmental Health and Engineering (CEHE) Programme Director - MSc Water and Environmental Engineering
Academic staff
Dr Thomas Bond
Lecturer
Dr Bing Guo
Lecturer
Professor Prashant Kumar
Professor and Chair in Air Quality and Health; Founding Director, Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE)
Dr Belen Marti-Cardona
Lecturer in Earth Observation and Hydrology
Dr Katherine Pond
Senior Lecturer
Research staff
Maryam Hoseini
Research fellow
Emeritus staff
Professor Barry Lloyd
Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health Engineering
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)