Personal statement
Dr Tracy Morse is Senior Lecturer and Head of Strathclyde Centre for Sustainable Development. Having previously been based in Malawi for 20 years, she leads an interdisciplinary research team with a focus on addressing the determinants of health in low and middle income countries. Working with a number of partners globally, she is focussed on promoting the importance of transdisciplinary research in addressing sustainable development for all, and supporting the transformational change needed to support attainment of UN SDGs.
Examples of previous and current projects:
2006 - 2016: Scotland Chikwawa Health Initiative
2015 - 2020: Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity Consortium (SHARE)
2015 - 2020: WATERSPOUTT (EH Horizon 2020)
2018 - 2021: Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance in Uganda and Malawi (DRUM)
2019 - 2024: Tsogolo Langa (sexual and reproductive health rights for adolescents)
Professional activities
- University Of Strathclyde (Organisational unit)
- Member
- 10/10/2022
- StrathCEKO - Strathclyde Climate Education Kick-Off: A systems thinking approach to scalable, peer-to-peer climate education
- Contributor
- 19/9/2022
- SDSN UK THE Impact Rankings online seminar
- Speaker
- 7/7/2022
- Peking University Globex Summer School - Sustainability Theory and Practice
- Organiser
- 4/7/2022
- Queen's Platinum Jubilee Challenge
- Participant
- 27/6/2022
- How can Scottish global development programming evolve?
- Speaker
- 8/6/2022
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Projects
- NIHR Global Health Research Group on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
- Morse, Tracy (Principal Investigator) Beattie, Tara (Co-investigator) Davidson, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Henderson, Marion (Co-investigator) Morton, Alec (Co-investigator) Quinn, Neil (Co-investigator) Sosu, Edward (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
- British Colonialism, Marine Sciences, and Fisheries Governance: Lessons from Lake Malawi in the Mid-
Twentieth Century
- Wilson, David (Principal Investigator) Knapp, Charles (Co-investigator) Morse, Tracy (Co-investigator)
- 04-Jan-2022 - 03-Jan-2023
- VIP4SD: Building Pandemic Resilience (£10K)
- Perry, Marcus (Principal Investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator) Morse, Tracy (Co-investigator) Vlachakis, Christos (Research Co-investigator)
- This VIP4SD project will develop methods of using Indoor Environmental Quality metrics to rapidly inform best practice for managing and designing buildings to enhance the health and wellbeing of occupants, initially by informing short- and long- term COVID-19 disaster responses.
- 20-Jan-2021
- Improving Hygiene in Guardian Waiting Shelters and Communities in Malawi: an intervention development and feasibility study
- Morse, Tracy (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their Environments (SPACES) (GCRF)
- Morse, Tracy (Principal Investigator)
- 04-Jan-2021 - 03-Jan-2025
- A roadmap for implementing the SDGs using space data
- White, Chris (Principal Investigator) Morse, Tracy (Co-investigator) Sindico, Francesco (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator) McKee, David (Co-investigator)
- Space data offers high-resolution, real-time, global scale earth observation and monitoring of our planet. Over half of the Essential Climate Variables (ECV) can only be measured from space, spanning the oceanic, atmospheric and terrestrial elements of the earth climate system. As well as supporting long term climate monitoring and modelling of impacts and change, space data offers a unique opportunity to support global efforts in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These include observing global changes over different time scales such as rising sea levels, the quantification of our global carbon footprint, and the accounting of natural capital. Climate change is also increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters which impact our most vulnerable populations, economies and environments. Space-based assets can support impact-based early-warning forecasts and real-time monitoring solutions to prepare for and respond to natural disasters such as floods, wildfires, and cyclones, as well as contributing to event attribution analyses that can enable relating causes to impacts.
Achieving the SDGs, and harnessing the potential of space data in a changing climate is beyond the reach of any single individual or institution. At Strathclyde, while we are well placed to service the Scottish government's needs on sustainable development, we do not fully understand where our cross-disciplinary expertise lies with regards to both sustainable development and the use of space data. The ambitions of the SDGs call for coordination and collective efforts from across disciplines and institutions. It is therefore critical that Strathclyde’s researchers and thinkers are able to come together in a common SDG vision through a detailed ‘roadmap’ to guide (and collaborate with) the Space Cluster and other external partners in how space data can be used to support sustainable development and the implementation of the SDGs.
The objectives of this project are to:
1.Review the SDGs and global space ECV data, including availability, accessibility, uncertainties and usability, based on existing publications and resources
2.Explore Strathclyde’s cross-disciplinary sustainability and space expertise, supported by the Space Cluster, the CfSD and SCELG, and map Strathclyde’s sustainability and space expertise to the SDGs
3.Review earth observation and space-related sustainable development expertise across the UK
4. Create a ‘roadmap’ for Strathclyde’s Space Cluster, identifying challenges, knowledge gaps and opportunities for external partnerships towards the implementation of the SDGs using space data
TIC Zone Ideas Fund (Strathclyde) (£11,653) - 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
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