Water research groups
Water research faces a number of challenges due to changing climate and rainfall patterns, growing global populations, shifting land use patterns and increasing water consumption. With a wide variety of experts operating across a range of disciplines, water@leeds can rise to these challenges!
Embracing truly interdisciplinary research, water@leeds offers a 'one-stop-water-research shop'.
water@leeds incorporates four broad research themes. The themes are not discrete and do not represent the limit of water@leeds expertise. The themes serve to concentrate activity within the water@leeds collective of researchers and academics. The themes are:
For details of the range of topics and specialist areas provided by water@leeds, please follow the links above.
water@leeds has drawn academics and researchers together from across the University of Leeds and hence can offer research across the disciplines of: biology, chemistry, biochemistry, conservation, ecology, geography, environmental science, geology, geochemistry, economics, civil engineering, microbiology, sociology, political science, design, material science and many more.
Our research is funded by a variety of funding bodies including research councils (NERC, EPSRC, ESRC), government (Defra, Environment Agency) and international sources (European Union, UNESCO), and through industrial sponsors such as Yorkshire Water.
Please see the project page for more details.
