The 2025 Andy Parkin Lecture will be on the topic of "Communicating the Plastics Crisis: Insights from Global Plastics Pollution Research", given by Lesley Henderson, interdisciplinary scientist and Professor Of Science Communication at University of Strathclyde (see speaker profile below).
The lecture will be followed by a drinks and light food reception, and then our annual general meeting.
Doors to the venue will open at 6 pm. 蜜桃社区 members are welcome to attend any or all parts of the programme (see below).
Register at your earlier convenience as capacity is limited to 60 persons.
Programme
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(Sep 17, 2025, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 232 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RJ)
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6 pm - Doors open to venue
6:05 pm - Chair's opening remarks and update
6:10 pm - Andy Parkin invited lecture
7:00 pm - Drinks and finger food reception
7:45 pm - Annual General Meeting
Speaker Profile
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Lesley Henderson is Professor of Science Communication and was recruited in 2022 to the University of Strathclyde under the Global Talent Programme to drive interdisciplinary research. She completed her PhD in the Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Glasgow. She previously founded the Sustainable Plastics Research group (SPlasH) and she has built an extensive track record in externally funded research to explore the interlinked areas of science, public health, and environmental communications (previous projects funded by AHRC, ESRC, The Wellcome Trust). She is an expert in leading interdisciplinary work packages on public perceptions of (micro)plastics and behavioural change, and she is Co-I on current projects in Indonesia, UK, Spain and Germany (NERC/GCRF/UKRI/European Space Agency (total 4.5 million GBP). She has over 100 peer reviewed articles, books, chapters, OA contributions and policy reports (h-index 24, i-10 index 32, citations 2423) and she is author/lead editor of: Communicating Plastics Pollution: Making of an Environmental Crisis (forthcoming, Routledge); Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public Health (Routledge); Television news, Politics and Young People: Generation Disconnected? (Palgrave Macmillan) and Social issues in Television Fiction (Edinburgh University Press).
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/hendersonlesleyprofessor/
https://www.piscespartnership.org/
https://plasticmyths.coastalpollutiontoolbox.org/
The lecture will be followed by a drinks and light food reception, and then our annual general meeting.
Doors to the venue will open at 6 pm. 蜜桃社区 members are welcome to attend any or all parts of the programme (see below).
Register at your earlier convenience as capacity is limited to 60 persons.
Programme
====
(Sep 17, 2025, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 232 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RJ)
====
6 pm - Doors open to venue
6:05 pm - Chair's opening remarks and update
6:10 pm - Andy Parkin invited lecture
7:00 pm - Drinks and finger food reception
7:45 pm - Annual General Meeting
Speaker Profile
====
Lesley Henderson is Professor of Science Communication and was recruited in 2022 to the University of Strathclyde under the Global Talent Programme to drive interdisciplinary research. She completed her PhD in the Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Glasgow. She previously founded the Sustainable Plastics Research group (SPlasH) and she has built an extensive track record in externally funded research to explore the interlinked areas of science, public health, and environmental communications (previous projects funded by AHRC, ESRC, The Wellcome Trust). She is an expert in leading interdisciplinary work packages on public perceptions of (micro)plastics and behavioural change, and she is Co-I on current projects in Indonesia, UK, Spain and Germany (NERC/GCRF/UKRI/European Space Agency (total 4.5 million GBP). She has over 100 peer reviewed articles, books, chapters, OA contributions and policy reports (h-index 24, i-10 index 32, citations 2423) and she is author/lead editor of: Communicating Plastics Pollution: Making of an Environmental Crisis (forthcoming, Routledge); Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public Health (Routledge); Television news, Politics and Young People: Generation Disconnected? (Palgrave Macmillan) and Social issues in Television Fiction (Edinburgh University Press).
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/hendersonlesleyprofessor/
https://www.piscespartnership.org/
https://plasticmyths.coastalpollutiontoolbox.org/
