Recent Highlights
Autumn 2025 Newsletter
Earlier versions of or newsletter can be found in our Newsletter Archive
Listen to Lucy Hart (Lancaster Univeristy) talk alongside Stephanie Metzger, policy adviser at the Royal Society of Chemistry about the UK Government's plan to take forever chemicals. Stephanie Metzger talks about where all these chemicals come from and Lucy talks through new science on the sources.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Isla Thorpe, who passed her PhD with minor corrections.
Isla's PhD focused on Isla’s research focused on the potential exposure and risks of companion animal parasiticides in surface waters. You can find more details on Isla's project and our other graduating students on our Alumni Page.
Publications
2026
Savage, G., Guézou, A, Jones, J. S., b, Lady Rea, M., Buitron López, M. L., Pilla Quinchiguango, S. H.,Lewis, C., Galloway, T. S. 2026 Rapid spatiotemporal monitoring of beach microplastics in the Galápagos Islands. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 226, 119344
2025
Bearth, A.B., Kopainsky, B., Jones, L.B., Vist, G.E., Husøy, T., Svendsen, C., … & Mathisen, G. H. (2025). Exploring experiences of the regulatory toxicology system: system-level promoters and inhibitors of new approach methodologies. Archives of toxicology, 1-22.
Jones, L.B., Burns, C.J., and Arnold, K. E. 2025. Systems-based analysis of the factors affecting the use of evidence in European chemical assessment and management. Environment International. 109859.
Jones, L. B., Whaley, P., Bearth, A., Vist, G. E., Husøy, T., Hoffmann, S., ... & Mathisen, G. H. 2025. Improving how we use workshops when solving complex research problems: reflections from the CHANGE project. Archives of toxicology, 1-9.
Hart, L., Hossaini, R., Wild, O., Mazzeo, A., Halsall, C., Hou, X., Wang, Z., Chipperfield, M. P., Arduini, J., Krummel, P. B., Lunder, C. R., Mühle, J., O'Doherty, S., Park, S., Reimann, S., Stanley, K. M., Weiss, R. F., Dickon, Y. Growth in Production and Environmental Deposition of Trifluoroacetic Acid Due To Long-Lived CFC Replacements and Anesthetics. Advancing Earth and Space Sciences 2025, Volume 53, Issue 3
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