Iain McLellan

I am now in my fourth year of academia and before that I worked in 3^rd Sector organisations and environmental regulators and have 8 years environmental policy experience working with national and local government, regulators and the private sector in the fields of air quality, land quality and noise.

My primary area of interest is the impacts environmental pollution but in particular air pollution and soil contamination.  I have recently been involved in projects which have focussed on odour emissions from waste water treatment works, the impact of noise from marine renewable energy on marine invertebrates (with biology and engineering colleagues) and the treatment of manganese contamination in water systems.  In my research I use various analytical measurement techniques such as ICP-AES, ICP-MS, Graphite Furnace-AAS, Flame-AAS, HPLC and LC-MS.

My teaching remit includes Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching on the Physical Sciences programme (Chemistry and Forensic Science) and the Safety, Health and Environment programme.  I am the Programme Leader for the MSc Waste and Resource Management.  Modules I co-ordinate (and teach on) include Analytical Chemistry (Lvl 9), Chemical Laboratory Techniques (Lvl 8), Safety, Health and Environmental Protection (Lvl 9), Principles of Sustainability (Lvl 11), Waste Management (Lvl 11) and Pollution Control (Lvl 11). 

In September 2018 I was made Programme Leader for the MSc Waste and Resource Management programme.

My current research includes (i) working with local authorities monitoring air quality using low cost, portable monitors in urban environments, (ii) legacy pollution in estuarine sediments and their potential influence on antimicrobial resistance and most recently (iii) links between air quality and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 

My PhD students researching (i) particulate matter and COPD (ii) carbon emissions within the public sector, (iii) waste to product recycling and re-use and (iv) quality management in the oil industry and links to policy

I am interested to develop ‘ecosystem services approach’ and ‘resilience’ as part of a collaborative, inter-disciplinary approach within the University and wider external research community.  Taking this approach I would wish to translate my experience with POPs and agroforestry management techniques in Mediterranean ecosystems to different forestry systems.

Private sector companies interested in contamination and air quality, and systems approaches.