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Autumn 2025 Newsletter
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Congratulations!
Congratulations to both Eve Tarring and Imogen Poyntz-Wright, who have both successful passed their PhD's.
Eve's PhD was around assessing the risks to freshwater ecosystems from water-soluble polymers (WSPs) and Imogen assessed responses to chemical exposure in invertebrate and fish populations and biodiversity across diverse UK aquatic environments
Summaries of all our graduating students can be found on our Alumni Page
Publications
2025
Navarro Law, I., Brown, C, D., Snape, J., Durance, I., Reed, M., Fryer, M. The prevalence and acceptability of mesocosm studies submitted for macrophytes in pesticide risk assessment. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 2025, vjaf164
Dosunmu, O., Whiting, R., Matharu, A., Watson, N., Sweetman. The unintentional role of chemical regulation in regrettable substitution: The case of PFAS. Environmental Science & Policy 2025, Volume 174
Ellis, S., & Dosunmu, O. (2025). Greening Agriculture: Accelerating Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) Plant Protection Products through Innovation and Incentives in the EU. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.
Tarring, E. C., Robison-Smith, C., Ceballos-Ramirez, A. D., Durance, I., Harbottle, M. J., Cable, J., & Ward, B. D. 2025. Toxicity of the water-soluble polymer PVP is dependent on molecular weight and feed concentration for a freshwater model species. Science of the Total Environment, 983, 179686.
Ciara M. Sanchez-Paredes, Malcolm D. Burgess, Michael Fryer, M. Glória Pereira, Kathryn E. Arnold, Predictive framework for estimating the risks to raptors from ecologically relevant exposure to second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, Science of The Total Environment, 2025, Volume 992
Durant, E.K., Field, K.J, Sallach, B., Moeskjær, S., Williams, A., Carter, L.J. 2025 Azole antifungal contaminants disrupt mycorrhizal function and risk agricultural sustainability. Plants People Planet 2025, ppp3.70068.
Porter, N., Collins, R. 2025. Fungicides in English Rivers: Widening the Understanding of the Presence, Co-Occurrence and Implications for Risk Assessment. Environments 2025, 12, 45.
Cheung, S. J., Masud, N., Robison-Smith, C., Hansal, P., Davies-Jones, J., Ward, B. D. and Cable, J. 2025. Assessing the chemical interactions and biological effects of a petrochemical and bio-based plastic with a common plastic flame retardant and solvent. Science of the Total Environment 958, article number: 177958.
A list of all publications can be found in our Publication Archive.
ECORISC CDT
Department of Environment and Geography
University of York
York
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1903 322999
ecorisc-cdt@york.ac.uk