AQMRC PhD Progress

AQMRC staff have been busy supervising and examining PhDs over the recent months.

Jim recently completed his 30^th external examination of a PhD candidate when he conducted a viva at Trinity College, Dublin. Recently he has completed research degree external examiner duties for Newcastle University and Imperial College, London.

Ross Hunter completed his minor corrections to the satisfaction of the examiners. He will be awarded his PhD at the Geography and Environmental Management Graduation Ceremony to be held in Bristol cathedral in July. With the award of his PhD Ross becomes Jim’s 25^th successful research degree candidate.  

Jo Barnes and David Williams continue to make very good progress with their research and both will submit their thesis in 2014.

 

 

Enda now a Member of the Scientific Committee for IUAPPA 2013

Enda has been invited to become a member of the Scientific Committee for IUAPPA 2013. This is the 16^th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress and will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from the 19^th September until the 4^th October 2013. Enda will be attending the Congress and presenting on some of the recent work undertaken by AQMRC. The theme of this year’s Congress is “Many Nations - One Atmosphere: Plotting the Path to Sustainability". Further details on the Congress can be found here - http://www.iuappa2013.com/

 

Enda invited to Newcastle to present on LAQM

Enda has been invited to present at a workshop on “Air Quality and Health Research in the UK” organised by the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability. The event is on Thursday 18^th April 2013. Further details can be found here - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sustainability/events/item/workshop-air-quality-and-health-research-in-the-uk

 

AQMRC interviewed for BBC One's 'Bang Goes The Theory'

Last week Rose was interviewed by researchers for BBC One's 'Bang Goes The Theory' for a forthcoming episode on air pollution. The researchers behind the show were keen to understand more about how sources of air pollution have changed over time, from coal smoke and industrial pollution to the majority of problems today being traffic related.

 

'Bang Goes The Theory', "investigating the science behind the headlines and making sense of the everyday issues that matter to us all", is a popular science programme, shown on Monday nights on BBC One at 7.30pm http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lwxj1

 

The episode will be shown tonight http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s7twg.