Dr Heather Price
Senior Lecturer
Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Contact details
- Email heather.price@stir.ac.uk
- Telephone+44 (0)1786 467823
About me
I am a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography aiming to find new and creative ways to reduce environmental pollution and improve public health.
Biography
•Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography (2015 onwards; University of Stirling)
•Postdoc on the EPSRC project Energy for Development (2014 – 2015; Southampton University)
•Postdoc on the NERC/DFID (UPGro) project Groundwater 2030 (2014; Southampton University)
•Postdoc on the EU FP7 project TRANSPHORM (Traffic-related air pollution and health) (2011 – 2014; University of Hertfordshire)
•PhD in Air Pollution and Health (2007 – 2011; Cardiff University)
•BSc. (hons; 1st class) Environmental Geoscience (2004-2007; Cardiff University)
Divisional / Faculty Contribution
BES PGR Director
Chair of BES PGR Tutor team
Faculty PGR Committee
Member
NERC Iapetus Doctoral Training Programme
https://www.iapetus2.ac.uk/
Academic lead for Stirling
Other Academic Activities
Editorial Board
Springer Nature Applied Sciences
Other Project
The impact of air pollution on bee cognition (Co-I)
Funded by the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA), this interdisciplinary project is exploring the impacts of air pollution on bee cognition using case study sites across central Scotland.
Forth-ERA (Air Quality Co-lead)
https://www.stir.ac.uk/…about-forth-era/
The Forth Environmental Resilience Array (Forth-ERA), funded through the Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Region Deal, is a living laboratory providing environmental data and analytics. It aims to facilitate world-leading scientific research, promote more efficient environmental management and regulation, and stimulate business innovation in support of Scotland’s transition to a net zero carbon society. The Forth-ERA air quality objectives include to: 1) Deploy a co-designed (with stakeholders) indoor (n = ~100 sensors) and outdoor (n = 20 sensors) air quality monitoring network in Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire; 2) Explore community air quality priorities using online participatory approaches and use this as the basis for deploying sensors (n = 10) that address their priorities; 3) Create an online digital repository for air quality data, presented in meaningful ways for a variety of stakeholders (e.g., local authorities, Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), community groups and the public); 4) Identify and explore ways to use the collected air quality data to support policy and behaviour changes.
Professional Career
Member of the BSi standard committee on Indoor Air - Emissions to internal environments
https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/…mittees/50237128
The committee is responsible for the preparation of British Standards in the field of air quality in internal environments including emissions from products and their impact on air quality.
Scottish Government's CAFS2 Public Engagement Working Group
https://www.gov.scot/…-place-everyone/
Member of the Public Engagement Working Group supporting associated aspects of the Cleaner Air for Scotland 2 (CAFS2) air quality strategy.
UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College
https://www.ukri.org/…de-pilot-scheme/
Panel member supporting the UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme.
UKRI Regional Clean Air Champion for Scotland
https://www.ukri.org/…ality-across-uk/
Supporting the UKRI £42.5 million Clean Air Programme by acting as a central point for air quality research in Scotland and increasing collaboration and impact across and beyond the programme.
Professional membership
Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society
https://www.sages.ac.uk/
Member
UKIEG (UK Indoor Environments Group)
http://www.ukieg.org/
Member
Professional qualification
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/
Research (5)
The aim of my research is to find new and creative ways to reduce environmental pollution and improve public health.
I am an interdisciplinary researcher, combining a background in environmental science with more recent research experience in geography, social science and arts & humanities. I lead and contribute to inter- and trans-disciplinary projects which place people at their heart, using a variety of methods and approaches to engage people in the research process including co-creation, citizen science, participatory and creative methods. My current research projects are based in the UK and Africa.
Current postgraduate researchers (primary supervisor):
Sydney Byrns – Co-developing strategies to promote inclusive water governance in Malawi (Scottish Government)
Heather Anderson - Reconciling scientific and non-scientific safe water realities: case studies from the global North and global South (ESRC)
Completed postgraduate researchers (primary supervisor):
Amy McCarron - Air pollution and public health: exploring sustainable behavioural changes to reduce exposures in Scotland (NERC)
Projects
Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their EnvironmentS
PI: Professor Richard Quilliam
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions (Tupumue)
PI: Dr Heather Price
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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From fuel to pot: an interdisciplinary partnership to address the role of solid fuel use in food preparation in the household in Kenya and Malawi.
PI: Dr Isabelle Uny
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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The AIR Network - Action for Interdisciplinary air pollution research
PI: Dr Heather Price
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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The temporal dynamics of water access and quality in the slums of Blantyre, Malawi
PI: Dr Heather Price
Funded by: Royal Geographical Society
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Teaching
I currently lead/teach on the following modules:
•GEOU9EH Environmental Hazards (module coordinator)
•ENVU5EP Environmental Policy and Management
•ENMPG04 Environmental Policy
•GEOU2GE Global Environmental Issues
•GEOU6GI Sustainable Development
•GEOU9PR Environmental Geography BSc dissertation supervision
•ENMPG18/ ENMPG30 Environmental Management MSc dissertation supervision
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)