Professor Tracy Morse
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Personal statement
Personal statement
Tracy Morse is Professor of Environmental Health and Head of Strathclyde Centre for Sustainable Development, supporting the University to embed sustainable development at the heart of its activities. Having previously been based in Malawi for 20 years, she leads an interdisciplinary research team with a focus on addressing environmental health challenges 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.
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Prize And Awards
- UK & Ireland Green Gown Award 2022
- Recipient
- 8/11/2022
- Honorary Vice President
- Recipient
- 2019
- Award for Contributions to environmental health in Malawi
- Recipient
- 6/5/2016
- Strathclyde Medal
- Recipient
- 2015
- Meritorious Endeavours In Environmental Health Award
- Recipient
- 2010
- Strathclyder of the Year
- Recipient
- 2008
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Publications
- Adherence to solar disinfection water treatment reduces diarrheal incidence among children in Malawi : a secondary analysis of a cluster quasi-experimental study
- Luwe Kondwani, Lungu Kingsley, Morse Tracy, McGuigan Kevin, Conroy Ronan, Buck Lyndon, Sambala Evanson
- Journal of Water and Health (2025)
- Transmission of ESBL producing E. coli and antimicrobial resistance gene flow across One Health compartments in Eastern Africa : a whole genome sequencing study
- Musicha Patrick, Beale Mathew A, Cocker Derek, Oruru Fiona, Zuza Allan, Salifu Chifundo, Nanono Sylvia, Isaasi Fred, Chidziwisano Kondwani Regson, Mugisha Lawrence, Musoke David, Morse Tracy, Jacob Shevin T, Feasey Nicholas, Thomson Nicholas R
- The Lancet Microbe (2025)
- Colonialism, governance, and fisheries : perspectives from Lake Malawi
- Gough Milo, Nkhoma Bryson, Chirwa Elias, Wilson David, Knapp Charles, Morse Tracy, Mulwafu Wapulumuka
- The Journal of African History Vol 66 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S002185372500012X
- Exploring hygiene behaviours among child caregivers in rural Malawi using multilevel logistic models
- Anusa Collins, Masangwi Salule Joseph, Chidziwisano Kondwani, Morse Tracy
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol 22 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22050801
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene for everyone intervention study : protocol for a controlled before-and-after trial
- Chidziwisano Kondwani, Panulo Mindy, MacLeod Clara, Vigneri Marcella, White Blessings, Wells Joseph, Ross Ian, Morse Tracy, Dreibelbis Robert
- JMIR Research Protocols Vol 14 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.2196/68280
- Fishing (in) the past to inform the future : Lessons from the histories of fisheries management in Lake Malawi and Mbenji Island
- Wilson David, Chirwa Elias, Nkhoma Bryson, Gough Milo, Knapp Charles W, Morse Tracy, Mulwafu Wapulumuka
- Marine Policy Vol 173 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106589
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Professional Activities
- Scotland Malawi Partnership: WASH Forum
- Chair
- 9/4/2025
- World Water Day 2025
- Organiser
- 24/3/2025
- SDSNUK Going Green Roundtable - Communities in Transition: Impacts of decarbonisation in regions with fossil fuel and energy intensive industries
- Participant
- 18/2/2025
- ISPF-SFC funded Workshop
- Speaker
- 5/12/2024
- 2nd Joint China-UK Experts Symposium on Sustainable Development and Decarbonisation (S2D2)
- Organiser
- 2/11/2024
- The role of environmental health in tackling emerging challenges
- Speaker
- 1/11/2024
Projects
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Morrissey, Sean (Principal Investigator) Morse, Tracy (Co-investigator) Willison, Debra (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2027
- NIHR Global Health Research Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration R4 (2023)
- Morse, Tracy (Principal Investigator) Beattie, Tara (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024
- WASH for Everyone
- Morse, Tracy (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- 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
- 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
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Contact
Professor
Tracy
Morse
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: tracy.thomson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3133