Dr Laura-Jayne Ellis (Bradford) BSc, MSc, PhD, MRSC

Dr Laura-Jayne Bradford

Daphne Jackson Research Fellow

Laura is an environmental toxicologist understanding the adverse health outcomes from exposure to emerging pollutants such as nanomaterials. Her research focuses on the biological mechanisms and adverse outcome pathways that are evoked during and post exposures. Her work also focuses on the maternal and offspring health during long term exposure and recovery to nanomaterials, as part of interventions to identify new and alternative approach methodologies for nanomaterial regulation. 

Laura has also worked across several interdisciplinary multi-partnered research project including EU Horizon Europe project  INSIGHT, EU collaborative FP7 and H2020 projects; Nanodefine, ACEnano NanoCommons, RiskGONE, NanoFASE, NanoMILE, NanoSolveIT . Laura has also worked collaboratively on NanoBEE and the Highlights Topics from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

Dr Laura-Jayne Bradford - Daphne Jackson Trust

Qualifications

  • BSc in forensic science from the University of Wolverhampton
  • MSc in toxicology from the University of Birmingham
  • PhD in environmental science from the University of Birmingham
  • Lecturer and Researcher in environmental toxicology in the Nanoscience group at the University of Birmingham

Teaching

Laura has taught across the BSc Environmental Science, MSc Health, Safety and Environment Management, MSc Environmental Health, and the MSc Public and Environmental Health Sciences Programmes.

Other activities

A member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2024