PhD in Microplastics As Indoor Air Pollutants

For PhD in Microplastics As Indoor Air Pollutants, tuition is 24,433 USD per year.

Graduates of the 3-year PhD in Microplastics As Indoor Air Pollutants have gone on to roles in environmental policy, academia and consulting.

The programme is based in the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying and is supervised by Dr Brett Martinson, Dr Fay Couceiro, and Professor John Williams.

The work on this project will generate data in the quantity and type of airborne microplastics in all types of indoor environments, including homes, libraries, lecture theatres, and trains. The focus is on areas with vulnerable populations, such as elderly care homes, nurseries, and hospitals, to understand the distribution and origin of these microplastics.

The aim is to enable new strategies to safeguard human health against microplastic pollution in the air we breathe.

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