Zena Lynch MA., CMCIEH, FCIEH, SFHEA

Zena Lynch

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5556
Email
z.lynch@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Zena Lynch is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham where she is lead for the MSc Environmental Health programmes.  Previously she worked as a Health Policy lead in the West Midlands and also as a lead practitioner for Environmental Health departments.  She investigates interactions between housing and health and the impact of poor and insecure housing on people’s lives.

Qualifications

BSc Environmental Health., MA Environmental Management. Fellow and Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.  Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority

Biography

Zena Lynch is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham where she is lead for the MSc Environmental Health programmes.  During her time at the University, she has supported enhanced student experience, including initiatives to support students transition from University education into Environmental Health Practitioner roles.  Prior to working at the University, Zena was Health Policy lead and Director of ‘Living Well West Midlands’ for the West Midlands Regional Assembly, leading large scale, community-based, health and wellbeing projects.  Zena worked for many years as an Environmental Health Practitioner, latterly focusing in the housing and public health arena and this is where her concern for social justice related to peoples experience of poor housing originated.  She investigates interactions between housing and health and the impact of poor and insecure housing on people’s lives.  Amongst other publications, she is a joint author of the second edition of the Environmental Health and Housing book published in 2018.

Teaching

Zena Lynch is course lead for the MSc Environmental Health and Public and Environmental Health Science programmes.  She also teaches and supports Occupational Health and Safety students, undergraduate Geography courses and students in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. She is teaching lead for the Environmental Pollution group.

Postgraduate supervision

Supervision of between 10-16 Masters students each year.  Topics areas include Housing and Health, public health, health and safety and environmental protection.

Research

Social justice related to peoples experience of poor housing and enhanced educational student experience

Other activities

CIEH Housing Advisory Group (since 2016)

CIEH Learning Advisory Group (appointed July 2017)

CIEH Education and Teaching Special Interest Group (since 2012)

CIEH West Midlands group (since 2012)

Environmental Health Research Network (EHRNet) (since 2017)

Environmental Health across the world (since 2020)

Publications

Rodrigues, M., Manuela, S., Errette N., Davis G., Lynch Z., Dhesi, S., Hannelly, T., Mitchell D., Dyjackj D., Ross, K. (2021) Can Environmental Health Practitioners contribute to ensure population safety and health during the COVID-19 pandemic? Safety Science 136 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.105136

Lee, J., Phillips I., & Lynch Z (2020) Causes and prevention of mobile crane-related accidents in South Korea, International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2020.1775384

Stewart, J and Lynch Z., (2018) Environmental Health and Housing, Issues for Public Health, London, Routledge

Lynch, Z., and Dhesi, S., George Cadbury and Corporate Social Responsibility: working conditions, housing, education and food policy in Pioneers in Public Health, Lessons from History, 2017, edited by Jill Stewart ISBN-10: 1138059455

Porusia, M., Poynter, A.; Dhesi, S.; Lynch, Z., The Bait Preference of American Cockroach (Periplaneta Americana): Field and Laboratory Strains, Advanced Science Letters, Volume 23, Number 4, April 2017, pp. 3558-3561(4) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2017.9170

Stewart, J., and Lynch Z., 2017, Environmental Health and Housing, Issues for Public Health, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, ISBN:978-1-138-08971-6

Dhesi S., Lynch Z., What next for Environmental Health? Perspectives in Public Health. 2016 Jul;136(4):225-30. DOI: 10.1177/1757913915609946.

Walsh U., Lynch Z., Dhesi, S., (2016) Regulation and bureaucracy – a significant source of farmers’ stress, Paper published as part of Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series, Northern Ireland Assembly

Reviews

Reviewer for Bassett’s Environmental Health Procedures, Eighth Edition: Environmental

Health, Vol. 28, Issue 6, July 2014

Reviewer for British Food Journal (2016). 

Reviewer for Taylor and Francis Group (2017)

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