| Carolin Vorstius |
2015-21 |
Title: Safeguarding and Improving Raw Water Quality by Increasing Catchment Resilience
Community Impact: Better integrated catchment resilience enhances environmental protection and reduces treatment costs resulting from compromised catchments. |
Dundee and James Hutton Institute |
| Kirsty Holstead (p/t) |
2016-20 |
Title: Governing Water One Drop at a Time: Responses to, and Implications of, Community Water Management in Scotland & Beyond.
Community Impact: will help optimise community engagement to protect and maintain raw water quality, improving quality of supply and reduce treatment in remote rural communities. |
St Andrews and James Hutton Institute |
| Lucille Groult (p/t) |
2017-21 |
Title: Socio-Legal Responses to the Challenges of Contaminants of Emerging Concern.
Community Impact: The objective is to improve availability of "safer" products and assess feasibility of potential legal improvements. Furthermore, the project will look for ways to support consumers to make informed choices. |
Dundee |
| Kerr Adams |
2018-22 |
Title: The Scottish Water Landscape and Its Resilience to Change: An Assessment to Support Future Policy.
Community Impact: The objective is to provide a systematic insight into the future of Scottish land use/management/industry and its relationship with water quality and quantity, and provide the necessary evidence (for national strategy, planning and policy) of the resilience of policy and management options to uncertain drivers of change. |
Edinburgh |
| Elliot Hurst |
2018-22 |
Title: Adaptive Engineering Solutions to Water Abstraction and Control for Developing Countries.
Community Impact: The objective is to provide solid evidence to support best practice guidance for rural communities on the application and adaptive needs of wetland treatment systems utilising different vegetation types, and how effectiveness may vary across wet and dry seasons. |
Stirling |
| Hanna Peach |
2018-22 |
Title: Optimising Microbial Communities for Removal of Priority Chemical from Water.
Community Impact: The objective is to characterise in detail the degradation of the OMPs diclofenac and triclosan by microbial biofilter communities formed in a range of Scottish source waters. This information is an essential prerequisite for targeted design of biofilter microbial communities for OMP degradation. |
Edinburgh and James Hutton Institute |
| Sydney Byrns |
2019-23 |
Title: Co-developing strategies to promote inclusive water governance in Malawi
Community Impact: Through cross-scale analysis of social network structure, dynamics, and beliefs, this project aims to strengthen national and institutional water policies together with the methods of providing feedback between water sector stakeholders, with the objective of this leading to more adaptive water governance in Malawi. |
Stirling |
| Julius Cesar |
2019-23 |
Title: Blue-green prescribing for a healthier population and a healthier water environment
Community Impact: The study aims to investigate the feasibility of adopting a blue green prescribing strategy in local health boards by examining the components of existing models of prescribing green pharmaceuticals and blue space interventions; mapping out key stakeholders and policies that influence the uptake of pharmacological and non-pharmacological prescribing; and analysing viewpoints of stakeholders about blue green prescribing. This information is useful in the development of a bespoke blue green prescribing strategy that fits in the context of Scottish healthcare system and considers behavioural, environmental, social, and systemic facets of intervention adoption. |
Glasgow Caledonian |
| Rita Noelle Moussa |
2019-23 |
Title: Conversion of wastewaters and organic waste into chemicals, energy, and organic fertiliser
Community Impact: The objective is to establish an anaerobic digestion process for the bio-decomposition of wastewaters and organic waste to be able to provide cleaner and healthier water before being discharged into the environment. Moreover, the process will produce valuable chemicals such as ethanol, short chain organic acid for industrial use and hydrogen, methane for energy production (biofuel and electricity). |
Aberdeen |
| Diana Souza Moura |
2019-23 |
Title: Microplastics as a vector for micropollutants in aquatic environments.
Community Impact: Affect societal attitudes in respect of the use of plastics and provide tools to influence policies by understanding the mechanism of interaction between microplastics and natural toxins, such as microcystins, and pharmaceuticals, as well as the effect of microplastics loaded with micropollutants on aquatic biota in freshwater, and the potential dangers of underestimating these pollutants in drinking water as current water sampling protocols do not account for adsorbed pollutants. |
Robert Gordon |
| Indira De Menezes Castro |
2020-24 |
Title: Elimination at source of biocidal agents from freshwater environments by TiO2 photocatalysis
Community Impact: To research developing a pilot scale modular photocatalytic treatment unit that can be deployed for source management of biocide discharge, i.e. in drainage channels, waste gutters, rural SuDS, or waste water ponds. |
Robert Gordon |
| Manuel Valdivia Moya |
2020-24 |
Title: Nanomaterials and photonic solutions: Novel 'at source' approaches to stop hospital-derived priority substances reaching the sewer network
Community Impact: To study the nature and extent of the emerging problem of pharmaceuticals in wastewater prior to developing novel at-source solutions to eliminate the risk, particularly with respect to healthcare facilities (e.g. at hospitals). |
Highlands and Islands |
| Ilgaz Cakin |
2020-24 |
Title: Reed Bed Use Within Scotch Whisky Distilleries to Treat Wastewater: A New Toolkit to Help Maximise Performance
Community Impact: To research sustainable, high-performance green wastewater treatment technologies for the Scottish whisky sector. |
Highlands and Islands |
| Sayali Pawar |
2020-24 |
Title: Future proofing Scotland's water security: delivering safe and resilient water supplies
Community Impact: To relate past drought periods to observed water quality in drinking water supply catchments (chemical and biological status) to examine empirical evidence of drought impacts in Scotland in terms of water quantity, quality and ecosystem resilience, with a special focus on private water supplies and users. |
Dundee and James Hutton Institute |
| Martyn Roberts |
2020-24 |
Title: The role of place and scale on effectiveness of temporary storage areas for surface runoff attenuation
Community Impact: To provide a decision support framework for policy and practitioners. This will communicate the functioning of temporary storage areas (TSAs) in various scenarios and provide a useful tool for effectively targeting and managing future TSAs. |
Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute |
| Anna McWilliam |
2021-25 |
Title: Innovative brash management to enhance water quality following peatland restoration and forestry operations
Community Impact: By investigating physical and chemical properties of brash, this research will explore its potential use for mitigating water quality perturbations post-felling and for nutrient removal during water treatment, and produce guidance to help the forestry industry enhance water quality following peatland restoration and forestry operations. |
Highlands and Islands |
| Daniel Atton Beckmann |
2021-25 |
Title: Using satellite remote sensing and automated in situ sensors to monitor and predict cyanobacterial blooms in multiple lakes
Community Impact: To find practical and innovative ways to monitor and forecast cyanobacterial blooms in inland waters by combining ongoing data acquisition (satellite and meteorological data) and automated in situ sensors for real-time assessment and short-term forecasting of crucial water quality and health parameters for multiple Scottish lakes. This project would benefit the general public in terms of lowering health risks owing to cyanobacterial blooms and benefit water managers who would be able to utilise the up-todate information about their lakes. |
Stirling |
| David Bryan |
2021-25 |
Title: Integrated management of Scotland's agricultural wetlands to deliver multiple benefits and minimise pollution swapping
Community Impact: To advance understanding on how constructed wetlands can be optimised within agricultural landscapes for ecosystem services whilst minimizing trade-offs, by means of a holistic assessment approach to study these systems. Furthermore, it will involve a significant degree of stakeholder engagement to understand the barriers to implementation across rural communities, aiming to provide tools to investigate how upscaling options will affect catchments within a changing climate. |
Stirling |
| Donald Robertson |
2021-25 |
Title: Citizen-derived digital data for water resources management in Malawi
Community Impact: Through a multidisciplinary approach, this research will establish the scientific knowledge and data gaps that exist within the water sector in Malawi and develop an understanding of how decision makers interact with and utilise data. From this grounding, it will incorporate the use of use of citizen-generated, technology-enabled data in support of evidence-based decision making to create stronger, proactive water management approaches and inform current Scottish Government efforts to enhance the capacity for sustainable water resources management in Malawi. |
Strathclyde |
| Sarah Crowe |
2021-25 |
Title: Water smart cities: towards a place-based approach for waterfront management and flood protection
Community Impact: Drawing upon a multi-disciplinary approach, with input from engineering, geoscience, urban planning, policy and community-based approaches to resilience, this research will further understanding of how integrated 'place-based waterfront approaches' for innovative flood protection and vulnerability risk assessments can develop 'waterfront smart cities', creating places that encompass a range of uses with social, environmental and economic benefits to promote better quality of life, well-being, resilience and protection against extreme climate change. |
Dundee |
| Oludare Durodola |
2021-25 |
Title: Optimising water use and soil carbon sequestration - can agricultural co-cropping systems provide multiple benefits to address climate change?
Community Impact: To further understanding of the processes underlying optimal co-cropping systems for multiple benefits, aiming to develop a decision support framework for selecting appropriate crop combinations for sustainable water management and carbon sequestration while putting Scotland at the forefront of innovation for novel agricultural systems in mitigating and adapting to climate change. |
Aberdeen |
