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Professor Michael Deary

Professor

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

My research interests span the topics of air quality (indoor/outdoor, monitoring and modelling), carbon capture in aquatic environments, land contamination and chemistry (environmental, kinetics, peroxides and supramolecular).

Key Publications

Cleaner Air, Healthier Hospitals: Implementing the UK's Clean Air Hospital Framework, Okeowo, B., Dixon, J., Entwistle, J., James, P., Malone, D., Middlemass, L., Mills, A., Namdeo, A., Deary, M. 1 Sep 2025, In: Journal of Environmental Management
Evaluating Public Exposure to Airborne Particulates from Major Incident Fires: A Back Trajectory Plume Modelling Approach, Griffiths, S., King, H., Wilkinson, J., Kelly, F., Entwistle, J., Deary, M. 15 Jun 2025, In: Journal of Hazardous Materials
Gathering baseline data to assess household energy interventions' impact on indoor air quality, occupant health, and wellbeing: In2Air a non-randomized experiment, Entwistle, J., Ahmed, T., Bramwell, L., Coulby, G., Deary, M., Mansell, O., Namdeo, A., McNally, R., Vale, L., Vaughan, A., White, C. 3 Sep 2025, In: Public Health Research
Harmful air where we should feel most safe: a multi-agency quality improvement project to reduce passive smoking outside a tertiary neonatal and maternity unit, Roycroft, E., Vittery, E., Adekunle, V., Okeowo, B., Deary, M., Ahmad, B. 30 May 2025, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood
Pyreno-1,2,4-triazines as multifunctional luminogenic click reagents, Alshaikh, H., Parsons, J., Askwith, G., Deary, M., Nicholson, C., Sims, M., Kozhevnikov, V. 9 Oct 2025, In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
Shifting Shores: Carbon Storage and Habitat Resilience in a Major Scottish Saltmarsh, Deary, M. 11 Oct 2025, In: Estuaries and Coasts
Annealing 1,2,4-triazine to iridium (III) complexes induces luminogenic behaviour in bioorthogonal reactions with strained alkynes, Cooke, L., Gristwood, K., Adamson, K., Sims, M., Deary, M., Bruce, D., Antoniou, A., Walden, H., Knight, J., Antoine-Brunet, T., Joly, M., Goyard, D., Lanoe, P., Berthet, N., Kozhevnikov, V. 7 Oct 2024, In: Dalton Transactions
A novel application of back trajectory modelling to characterise public exposure to PM10 from a typical UK major open uncontrolled fire, Griffiths, S., Deary, M. 19 Jun 2024, UK Public Health Science 2024
A novel approach to the development of 1-hour threshold concentrations for exposure to particulate matter during the response to episodic air pollution events, Griffiths, S., Deary, M. 18 Jun 2024, 17th European Public Health Conference
A Study on Particulate Release when Machining Nano-structured Polymeric Composites., Shyha, I., Deary, M., Huo, D. 2024, In: Procedia CIRP

Current and Recent Projects

Green growth skills, Watson, R. (Principal Investigator), Deary, M. (Co Investigator), North of Tyne Combined Authority, 01/04/23 - 31/03/26, £463,160.00
ReNu NHS, Deary, M. (Principal Investigator), Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 01/10/22 - 30/09/26, £48,000.00

Professional Activity

Invited talk: An evaluation of dust release when machining nano-structured composite materials 2018

PGR Supervision

Babatunde Okeowo The UK’s clean air hospital framework: the role of hospitals as anchor institutions in achieving improved air quality within the communities they serve Start Date: 01/10/2022
Babatunde Okeowo The UK’s clean air hospital framework: the role of hospitals as anchor institutions in achieving improved air quality within the communities they serve Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025

Qualifications

Chemistry PhD December 01 1992

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