Cressida Bowyer, Keiron Roberts & Stephanie Northen
Cressida is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science and Health and the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Portsmouth, and Deputy Lead for the University's Revolution Plastics initiative. A biological scientist by training and having previously worked in the arts, the primary purpose of her research is to address global problems such as air quality and plastic pollution, using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies. Cressida often use creative methods, such as music, digital storytelling, puppetry and visual arts, to engage communities and find solutions to global issues in line with United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Keiron Roberts is a Senior lecturer in sustainability and built environment within the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the University of Portsmouth.
He works within the Research England funded GreenTech South Innovation hub. He is researching disruptive markets and policies to enable the uptake of new renewables, energy storage and market pricing to improve the islands energy autonomy as part of the Innovate UK funded Isle of Wight Energy Autonomous Community project. He is currently coordinating the UNEP IRP marine plastic litter think piece for delivery at the upcoming G20 events.
Keiron is a visiting research fellow at the University of Southampton where he previously held the position of research fellow. He is contributing to two research projects investigating the potential application of the circular economy model within the operations of a large water and wastewater company (Southern Water, ZeroWIN), and part of the continued development of the solid waste infrastructure model of GB within the MISTRAL project (EPSRC funded), with outputs influencing the UK's waste management infrastructure. Prior to his postdoctoral work he completed a PhD funded by EPSRC and the EU FP7 All Gas project, investigating the use of marine micro algae for biogas production.
Keiron is a researcher with expertise in wastewater, solid waste and energy systems and resource management and technologies, with a particular focus on sustainability and the circular economy.
Stephanie Northen is a Research Associate for Revolution Plastics at the University of Portsmouth working on mission-driven research projects to help mitigate the impacts of plastic pollution. Key areas of research are: policy governance, citizen science methods, and evidence-based research.
Stephanie is actively working on a project researching the introduction of reuse systems to offer transformative solutions to single-use packaging pollution. Other projects include the analysis of plastic governance in the South East Asian region, primarily around preventing plastic pollution around the Mekong River basin. Various involvements in interdisciplinary projects involving citizen science, surveys, and creative community and school engagement methods.
She is a recent postgraduate in Marine Science, having studied and researched UK coastal habitat complexities and BioHut strategies for the protection of endangered, juvenile, and commercially important marine species abundance in harbours and ports.
