{"id":34,"date":"2022-05-27T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/?p=34"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:10:05","slug":"meet-the-team-freya-radford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/meet-the-team-freya-radford\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the team: Freya Radford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We re<\/em>cently appointed Freya Radford <\/a>to the team as a Biospheric Microplastics Research Fellow. Below Freya shares a bit on her background and her work: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have recently joined UWE as a Biospheric Microplastics Research Fellow to work on developing microplastics research within the cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a degree in marine biology and have experience working as an aquatic ecotoxicologist investigating the impacts of pesticides and herbicides on freshwater communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently, I have completed my PhD which focused on microplastic contamination in soils. This ranged from developing analytical methods for extracting microplastics from soils to quantifying and characterising microplastics in soils with a focus on sewage sludge as a source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have also had experience working on microplastic projects in tropical seagrass systems and identifying microplastics in wastewater treatment plants. Additionally, I have helped supervise several masters projects looking at macrolitter in hedgerows, the impacts of microplastics on plants and the presence of microplastics in a range of river environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research interests lie in investigating the impacts of anthropogenic contaminants on the environment. I am particularly interested in quantification and characterisation of contaminants to determine source and sink dynamics as well as determining their ecotoxicological effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am currently working on developing research to address critical gaps in the microplastics research landscape. This will involve developing new methods for microplastic detection in a range of samples (air, soil, and water) using a variety of identification methods. In addition to this I will be working towards identifying microplastic sources, transport mechanisms and potential hazards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently appointed Freya Radford to the team as a Biospheric Microplastics Research Fellow. Below Freya shares a bit on her background and her work: I have recently joined UWE as a Biospheric Microplastics Research Fellow to work on developing microplastics research within the cluster. I have a degree in marine biology and have experience … Continue reading “Meet the team: Freya Radford”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2,8],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-the-team","tag-biospheric-microplastics","tag-research-fellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/microplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}