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ECORISC CDT - SETAC 2026
Members of the ECORISC team travelled to the Netherlands in May to attend the SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting.
Many of our students presented posters and talks at the event including Dylan Asbury who was given the privilege of delivering the opening ceremony plenary, "Eating the Elephant and Empowering the Next Generation: Early-Career Perspectives on Environmental Science, Academia, and the Future," alongside four fellow researchers: Micha Wehrli (Eawag), Anna Shalin (University of Toronto), Bianca Stadelmann (University of Amsterdam), and Romain Figuière (Stockholm University).
Rather than a standard presentation, they delivered a dynamic, playful, and deeply honest performance, focused on navigating the systemic stresses of environmental research, the unique barriers early-career scientists face, and how to empower the next generation for a sustainable future.
The following day, they channeled that energy into chairing a special session, "Pull up a Chair: Connecting Science, Society, and the Next Generation." Joined by panelists Camille Étienne (social and climate activist), Rahel Marschall (GreenChem), and Hannes Reinwald (Bayer), they hosted a vital conversation on building two-way communication between science and the public, engaging youth, and supporting young professionals entering the field.
Spring 2026 Newsletter
ECORISC_Newsletter_May_2026.pdfEarlier versions of or newsletter can be found in our Newsletter Archive
Congratulations to our 1st cohort of students!
Congratulations to all our cohort 1 students who have recently passed their viva's. These include:
- Thilakshani Atugoda - Microplastics and the water industry: studying source, transfer and fate within the microplastic cycle
- Imogen Bailes - Understanding exposure of wildlife to persistent chemicals in the UK and the Antarctic
- Imogen Poyntz-Wright - Assessing responses to chemical exposure in invertebrate and fish populations and biodiversity across diverse UK aquatic environments
- Charlotte Robison-Smith - Hidden costs of environmental pollutants: functional impacts on host-pathogen interactions
- Ciara Sanchez-Paredes - Exposure to and effects of Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) on raptors in Great Britain
You can find out more about our 1st cohort of students on our alumni page.
Publications
2026
Durant, E.K., Carter, L.J., Edmondson, J.L. Field, K.J. 2026. Pharms on farms: Variable impacts of veterinary pharmaceuticals on an arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and soil microorganisms. Plant and Soil.
Jones, L., Mölkänen, S., Sowa, G., O'Connor, N., Asbury, D., Al-Jaibachi, R., Malpas, T., Mayall, H., Bond-Taylor, H. 2026. Reevaluating new and existing challenges Early Career Researchers face across Regulatory Ecotoxicology, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, vjag022.
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. (2026). Growth in production and environmental deposition of Trifluoroacetic acid due to long-lived CFC replacements and anesthetics. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL119216 , 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
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