Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment Towards Sustainable Chemical Use (ECORISC)
Centre for Doctoral Training
Over 235,000 chemicals are in use by society around the globe. During manufacture, use and disposal, these chemicals are emitted to natural environments where they may adversely affect ecosystems and human health. Chemical pollution is recognised as one of the greatest threats to ecosystems and has huge economic and societal costs. However, there are many gaps in our understanding of how chemicals impact the environment and how to manage chemical risks.
The ECORISC Centre for Doctoral Training (funded for 6 years by the Natural Enviornmal Reserach Council) will produce a generation of innovator scientists that can identify, understand and effectively manage the risks of chemicals through the use of state-of-the art science and out-of-the box thinking.
ECORISC draws together a critical mass of internationally recognised scientists from the universities of York, Cardiff, Exeter, Lancaster, Sheffield, and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrolody (UKCEH) who are ranked among the best in the UK in Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Environmental Science.
Research Themes
Individual PhD projects address one or more of six primary ECORISC research themes, identified as priorities for research in horizon scanning exercises and through our interactions with our associated partners in industry, government and third sector organisations.
Detection, fate, transport and uptake of chemicals in the natural environment
Development of mechanistic understanding of the integrative effects of chemicals on individuals
Effects of chemical mixtures, including in combination with other environmental stressors
Landscape-scale risk assessment across different spatial and temporal scales
This video created in collaboration with ECORISC PhD students at the University of York perfectly summaries the challenges ECORISC students are working to address. This and a number of other videos on conducting environmental monitoring studies were funded by a UK-Ukraine Twinning initiative funded by Universities UK International . The full set of video's can be found on YouTube.
ECORISC PhD students are already contributing to these many challenges. Our Key Findings and Outputs page details more.
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ECORISC CDT
Department of Environment and Geography
University of York
York
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1903 322999
ecorisc-cdt@york.ac.uk