A free one-day workshop
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Division of Environmental Health and Risk Management
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
The aim of this one-day workshop is to enable knowledge-exchange as well as informal interactions with colleagues and peers in the field. The workshop is designed to be highly multi-disciplinary in nature and will allow people working across a wide range of thematic areas in the field of air pollution (including measurement and monitoring, modelling, health impacts, climate change, regulation and policy-making) to identify synergies and explore possibilities of collaborative work.
The workshop will include keynote addresses, plenary talks, submitted talks, poster presentations on the following key topics:
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Technological advances in characterization of air pollutants
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Novel approaches for health exposure assessment
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Air Pollutants and Climate Impacts
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Novel air pollutants
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Characterization and modelling of air pollutants in indoor areas
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Regulation of air pollutants
The keynote speakers at the workshop will be:
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Professor Roy M Harrison, Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Professor of Environmental Health, University of Birmingham
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Professor Duncan Laxen, Managing Director, Air Quality Consultants Ltd. and Professor of Air Quality Management and Assessment at University of the West of England
Plenary speakers include:
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Dr Ruth Doherty, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, University of Edinburgh
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Professor Rob Mackenzie, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Birmingham
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Dr John Gulliver, Lecturer in Environmental Science, Imperial College
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Dr Juana Maria Delgado Saborit, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Dr Cathryn Tonne, Lecturer in Environmental Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Dr Prashant Kumar, Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey
This one-day workshop is organized thanks to the University of Birmingham’s Roberts funding award 2012.
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The conference will be FREE for delegates to attend
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Refreshments will be available throughout the day: lunch, drinks and nibbles will all be provided free of charge