Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science
freya.radford@uwe.ac.uk
Research interests: Microplastics, environmental pollution, ecotoxicology, aquatic ecosystems
My research focus is on investigating how anthropogenic contaminants, including microplastics impact aquatic and terrestrial environments. Recent work includes developing novel methods for extraction of microplastics from complex environmental matrices, assessing the impacts of contaminants on aquatic plants and determining the sources of microplastic contamination in agricultural soils.
Publications
Radford, F., Zapata-Restrepo, L.M., Horton, A.A., Hudson, M.D., Shaw, P.J. and Williams, I.D., 2021. Developing a systematic method for extraction of microplastics in soils. Analytical Methods, 13(14), pp.1695-1705.
Birkenhead, J., Radford, F., Stead, J.L., Cundy, A.B. and Hudson, M.D., 2020. Validation of a method to quantify microfibres present in aquatic surface microlayers. Scientific Reports, 10(1), p.17892.
Radford, F., Horton, A., Hudson, M., Shaw, P. and Williams, I., 2023. Agricultural soils and microplastics: Are biosolids the problem?. Frontiers in Soil Science, 2.