Professor Tracy Morse

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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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. Examples of previous and current research 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 - 2022: Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance in Uganda and Malawi (DRUM) 2021 - 2024: Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their Environments (SPACES) 2021 - 2023: Improving Hygiene in Guardian Waiting Shelters and Communities in Malawi: an intervention development and feasibility study 2022-2023: British Colonialism, Marine Sciences, and Fisheries Governance: Lessons from Lake Malawi in the Mid-Twentieth Century 2022 - 2026: NIHR Global Health Research Group on Adolescent Health and Well-Being (Malawi)

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Publications

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
Risk perception and psychosocial factors influencing exposure to antimicrobial resistance through environmental pathways in Malawi
Chidziwisano Kondwani, Cocker Derek, Mwapasa Kumwenda Taonga, Amos Stevie, Feasey Nicholas, Morse Tracy
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2024)
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.24-0253
Urban waste piles are reservoirs for human pathogenic bacteria with high levels of multidrug resistance against last resort antibiotics : a comprehensive temporal and geographic field analysis
Ormsby Michael J, Mphasa Madalitso, Mwapasa Taonga, Chidziwisano Kondwani Regson, Morse Tracy, Feasey Nicholas, Quilliam Richard
Journal of Hazardous Materials Vol 484 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136639
The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) for Everyone controlled before-and-after (CBA) trial : trial protocol and baseline results
Chidziwisano Kondwani, Panulo Mindy, MacLeod Clara, Vigneri Marcella, White Blessings, Ross Ian, Morse Tracy, Dreibelbis Robert
JMIR Research Protocols (2024)
Validating critical control points using video vignettes for a food hygiene intervention
Morse Tracy, CHIDZIWISANO Kondwani Regson, Lenzi-Weisbecker Rachel, Deshpande Ashwini, Bidashimwa Dieudonné, Rosenbaum Julia, Tidwell Ben, Chima Simon, Thompson Gretchen
2024 UNC Water & Health Conference (2024)
Mapping and quantifying plastic pollution in informal settlements of urban Blantyre, Malawi
Mwapasa Taonga, Robertson Tony, Kazembe Dyson, Mnkhwamba Andrew, Kalonde Patrick, Feasey Nicholas, Quilliam Richard, Morse Tracy, CHIDZIWISANO Kondwani Regson
2024 UNC Water & Health Conference (2024)

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Professional Activities

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
Our Shared Future - Developing Our Joint Pathway for Impactful Partnerships inAfrica
Participant
9/10/2024
Peking University GLOBEX Summer School 2024 - Sustainability Theory and Practice
Participant
7/2024
One Ocean Hub Engage Event: From the coast to the ocean depths: Co-developing innovative solutions for sustainable development
Speaker
7/5/2024
ESD Curriculum Mapping from Planning to Implementation – Strathclyde’s Journey
Speaker
30/4/2024

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Projects

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
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
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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Professor Tracy Morse
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: tracy.thomson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3133