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This interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cluster addresses the challenges of poor water quality caused by pollution, alongside applied and technical advances in water pollution mitigation. The cluster’s primary focus areas include:
(1) understanding the processes driving water pollution;
(2) investigating the complex mechanisms underlying water pollution (e.g., water-rock/soil/waste-gas-living matter interaction; fate of pollutants);
(3) assessing the impacts of water pollution on the environment and human health;
(4) developing and evaluating innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective water monitoring and treatment/remediation technologies, as well as water risk management strategies, based on the principles of industrial symbiosis and the circular economy.
A key research topic within this cluster is the fate of emerging pollutants (e.g., metals/metalloids, nano- and microplastics, forever chemicals, and pharmaceuticals) across diverse environmental media under changing climate and land use scenarios, including pollutant transport through environmental flows. The cluster also situates water pollution and its mitigation within broader environmental and societal contexts, encompassing green infrastructure, ecosystem services, urban hydrology, urban lake and river sediment management, sustainable water treatment/remediation technologies, Nature-based Solutions (NbS), Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), and holistic river basin management strategies.
Dr Anna Bogush is an Associate Professor, a Leader of the Cluster “Water Pollution and Mitigation”, an Academic leader of the CU SIG “Environmental Pollution and Mitigation”, and an Academic Leader for the High-performance Analytical Hub at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR, Coventry University). Her research and teaching interests lay in interdisciplinary area including environmental science and engineering, chemistry, geochemistry, material science, environmental management and circular economy. She has produced internationally leading research in the field of understanding holistically the fate of emerging pollutants (e.g., metals/metalloids, nano- and microplastics, pharmaceuticals, etc.) in natural-anthropogenic system and developing sustainable materials & technologies using concepts of industrial symbiosis and circular economy to tackle the environmental issues. She has a wide-range of experience in instrumental analysis (Synchrotron XAS (XANES/EXAFS), CT-scan, and 2D/3D XRF; FTIR and Raman spectroscopy/microscopy; SEM/EDS, TEM/STEM, XRD, STA, ICP-OES/MS, etc.) that helps to do research at an advanced level. She has contributed to securing internal and external funding awards and acted as PI/Co-PI/Co-I/Researcher-Co-I on individual/collaborative interdisciplinary projects funded by H2020, RAEng, NERC, EPSRC/NSFC, EC, COST, UCL, CU, BMSS, industry, and the Environment Agency. She is an author of 6 book chapters and over 90 peer-reviewed REFable papers. She is an independent external expert/reviewer in the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Ofwat, the European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST Association), and Newton Prize (UK National Commission for UNESCO). She is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry where she promotes STEM for younger generation. She is an expert panel member for the Plastics in Floristry Working Group and for the EBNet Biochar Working Group. She is an editor in the section “Environmental Engineering” within the Journal Scientific Report in Nature Portfolio.
The members of the cluster regularly publish articles, monographs, book chapters, and other media on this multidisciplinary subject. For the most recent publications, please see outputs on the Coventry University Pure page.
PublicationsThe members of the cluster lead and collaborate on a number of research projects and additional projects are available on the Coventry University Research Portal.
Projects
This project supports collaborative work between academic researchers, industry bodies and UK-based cut-flower firms to tackle these problems resulting in reductions in usage of plastics and packaging and better management of waste products.
The UPeM project main target is to establish harmonised protocols for sampling and analysis of PFAS in different in- and out-streams (liquid, gas, aerosol) from PEMFC and PEMWE and for the quantitative validation of PFAS release in FC and WE operation, while also improving the understanding of the root cause(s) of the PFAS release.
The WATERSENS project aims to demonstrate the benefits of six DWM technologies in removing emerging pollutants and provide an integrated decision framework to help water authorities and stakeholders select, design, and integrate these systems.
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