Professor Anil Namdeo

Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Anil is a Professor of Air Quality Management, a Chartered Environmentalist and a Chartered Scientist. He a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS) and a Fellow of the Institute of Air Quality Management.

He is a member of the Civil Aviation Authority’s Environmental Sustainability Panel, and an ad-hoc member of Defra’s Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG). He was a member of the NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) Public Health Advisory Committee deveping guideline (NG70) on Air Pollution: Outdoor Air Quality and Health). He is involved in the activities of the US Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Transportation and Air Quality (ADC20).

His research bridges the gap between engineering, social science and public health. His research covers the monitoring, modelling and management aspects of air quality. His research focusses on air quality and health with special emphasis on personal exposure of population to air pollution. He is interested in environmental justice with a focus on understanding the links between land use, transportation, air quality, social deprivation and health. His recent work focuses on climate change (adaptation and mitigation) with particular emphasis on net-zero policies, strategies and practices.

He has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America through academic collaborations and funded research projects.

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Key Publications

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Dust Characterization and Evaluation of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ): Case Study of AFTU Buses in Senegal, Tchchche, B., Papathanasiou, S., Namdeo, A. 8 Mar 2024, EGU General Assembly 2024
Mapping the Environmental Impact Assessment Landscape in the Fashion and Textile Industries: Critical Gaps and Challenges, Mutambo, N., Peirson-Smith, A., KeChi-Okafor, C., Irving-Munro, A., Sheridan, K., Prendergast-Miller, M., Namdeo, A., Stanton, T., Gallidabino, M., James, A. 26 Sep 2024, In: Sustainability
Modeling of Air Quality near Indian Informal Settlements Where Limited Local Monitoring Data Exist, Hirst, R., Giesen, M., Peppa, M., Jobling, K., Jadhav, D., Ahammad, S., Namdeo, A., Graham, D. 5 Sep 2024, In: ATMOSPHERE
Natural Fibers: Why Are They Still the Missing Thread in the Textile Fiber Pollution Story?, Stanton, T., James, A., Prendergast-Miller, M., Peirson-Smith, A., Kechi-Okafor, C., Gallidabino, M., Namdeo, A., Sheridan, K. 10 Jul 2024, In: Environmental Science and Technology
P-730 A feasibility study of the impact of the level of exposure to ambient air pollutants on outcomes of assisted reproductive technologies, Blyth, U., Perkins, M., Harrop, S., Lennox, K., Dang, H., Namdeo, A., Choudhary, M. 3 Jul 2024, In: Human Reproduction
Relationship between air quality and asthma-related emergency hospital admissions in Mexico City 2017–2019, Hayes, L., Mejia-Arangure, J., Errington, A., Bramwell, L., Vega, E., Nunez-Enriquez, J., Namdeo, A., Entwistle, J., Miquelajauregui, Y., Jaimes-Palomera, M., Torres, N., Rascón-Pacheco, R., Duarte-Rodríguez, D., McNally, R. 1 Jan 2024, In: Thorax
The Impact of Poor Air Quality on Hospitalisation of Multi-morbid Patients: A Systematic Review, Hassan, N., Mohamed, L., Ahmed, A., Baxter, C., Wilson, S., Tolley, C., Namdeo, A., Slight, R., Slight, S. 1 Nov 2024, In: European Journal of Public Health
Driving factors behind the continuous increase of long-term PM2.5-attributable health burden in India using the high-resolution global datasets from 2001 to 2020, Maji, K., Namdeo, A., Bramwell, L. 25 Mar 2023, In: The Science of the Total Environment
Evaluation of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of transport cabins using optical particle counters, Tchchche, B., Papathanasiou, S., Namdeo, A. 8 Dec 2023, Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment 9th Conference
Exploring the role of human-following robots in supporting the mobility and wellbeing of older people, Li, S., Milligan, K., Blythe, P., Zhang, Y., Edwards, S., Palmarini, N., Corner, L., Ji, Y., Zhang, F., Namdeo, A. 20 Apr 2023, In: Scientific Reports

Current and Recent Projects

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Insights North East, Charles, D. (Principal Investigator), Namdeo, A. (Co Investigator), Research England, 01/08/22 - 31/07/25, £989,422.00

Professional Activity

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Membership of committee: Civil Aviation Authority (External organisation) 2022
Membership of committee: DEFRA (External organisation) 2021
Membership of committee: Queen Mary University of London (External organisation) 2021
Invited talk: Air quality management in the UK: what’s the hold up? 2021
Membership of committee: Born in Bradford Breathes (External organisation) 2021
Examination: External Examiner London South Bank University 2020
Editorial work: ATMOSPHERE (Journal) 2020
Membership of council: NERC Panel (External organisation) 2020
Examination: External Examiner - Loughborough University 2019
Membership of committee: Transportation Research Board (TRB) (External organisation) 2015

PGR Supervision

Abeer Ayidh G Alomiri Intersecting Environmental, Health, and Geographical. Factors: A Comprehensive Examination of Afforestation Initiatives in Saudi Arabia Start Date: 01/10/2024

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