Below is a Youtube video of a public lecture Dr Paul Hutchings gave as part University of Leeds Alumni team’s “Meet the Researchers” series in March 2023. In it he discuss the challenge of achieving safely managed sanitation in urban areas and the types of research the WASH research group...
This blog is by Grace Phiri a PhD Researcher at the University of Leeds. Introduction Until the 1820s all over Europe urination and defaecation often took place in public places such as fields, gardens, and also in the streets. During the mid-19th century (1830-1860), Victorian social reformers championing debates on...
This blog is by Ruth Sylvester a PhD Researcher at the University of Leeds. You may be wondering how water insecurity applies to a country like the UK. It’s a fair question, and one that helps to reveal how we perceive poverty and inequality. Since the 1970s, the trajectory of...
This blog is written by Charles Shachinda, Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering MSc alumni and student from the 2020/21 cohort ‘Water is Life’ – as rightly proclaimed – but in essence only when it is clean, safe and readily available for consumption and use. And for quality Water, Sanitation and...
This blog is by Leonie Hyde-Smith a PhD student on the WaterWiser CDT programme Effective sanitation systems are crucial for public and environmental health, particularly in densely populated urban areas. It is widely accepted that the impacts of climate change will stress the effective functioning of urban sanitation systems. But...
This blog is by Chanda Singoyi a student on the Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering MSc (2021-2022 cohort). Growing up in Zambia, I was always aware of the water resources in my environment, culture, and politics. Rivers are depicted in our political propaganda as an untapped resource that will end...
Hospital-acquired infections are serious business. Hundreds of millions of patients a year pick up infections significantly contributing to the global burden of disease. The problem is most acute in low- and middle-income countries where one in ten patients becomes infected contributing to untold suffering and placing significant strain on overstretched...
(This article explains why we have had to withdraw from publishing the IJERPH Special Issue on “Learning from Failure in Environmental and Public Health Research”) This article is written by the WASH Failures Team. Follow them on Twitter: @FSM_Fail For the last couple of years, we have been...
Alicia Eduardo, Graduand, Master of Science in Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering. In February 2018, I received the most exciting notice of my life. I was accepted to study the MSc in Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering at University of Leeds, and was also awarded two scholarships, WASH Alumni and...
Matsautso Mumba, Student, Master of Science in Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering. *This post is about research conducted as part of a Master of Science in Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering final project, supervised by Professor Barbara Evans* Among the many challenges most African countries face, access to clean water and safely...