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Honor Mackley-Ward

Honor joined the CCRI in March 2022. Her research interests are in sustainable food systems and public health nutrition, access to greenspace, and health inequalities.

Biography

Honor specialises in the interrelationships between the environment and human health, with experience working in global public health, environmental science, ecological public health and behavioural change science. She has a broad, practical and scientifically robust skillset, specialising in primary qualitative and mixed methods research, science communications and research co-production.

Between her degrees, Honor worked in science communications and volunteer management. She has extensive experience working on farms and market gardens in these roles, as well as for educational and charitable organisations such as the Eden Project.

Honor is a trained advocate in accessible communications and democratising academic research, and thrives in conducting research that is public facing, policy relevant, and well anchored in the needs of society.

Projects include:

  • SPRINT (Horizon 2020): Investigating the impact of pesticides on one-health.
  • MINAGRIS (Horizon 2020), Investigating the impact of micro- and nano-plastics on soil health and agricultural productivity.
  • Flourishing Floodplains (WWT): Floodplain meadow restoration in the Severn Estuary..
  • PBC4GGR (UKRI): Perennial biomass crops and their potential in meeting net zero.

Qualifications

  • MSc Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School.
  • BSc (Hons) Geography, Environment and Society, University of Exeter.
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