Professor Tracy Morse
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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. 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)
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
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
- 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 (2025)
- Groundwater monitoring challenges in Malawi : pathways to sustainable solutions
- Robertson Donald, Morse Tracy, White Chris, Ellis Rowan
- 2024 UNC Water & Health Conference (2025)
- Mapping waste piles in an urban environment using ground surveys, manual digitization of drone imagery, and object based image classification approach
- Kalonde Patrick K, Mwapasa Taonga, Mthawanji Rosheen, Chidziwisano Kondwani, Morse Tracy, Torguson Jeffrey S, Jones Christopher M, Quilliam Richard S, Feasey Nicholas A, Henrion Marc YR, Stanton MichelleC, Blinnikov Mikhail S
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Vol 197 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-025-13675-6
- The persistence of failure in water, sanitation and hygiene programming : a qualitative study
- Barrington Dani J, Sindall Rebecca C, Chinyama Annatoria, Morse Tracy, Sule May N, Beale Joanne, Kativhu Tendai, Krishnan Sneha, Luwe Kondwani, Daudi Malolo Rossanie, Mcharo Onike, Odili Anthony C, Ravndal Kristin T, Rose Jo, Shaylor Esther, Wozei Eleanor, Chikwezga Faida, Evans Barbara E
- BMJ Global Health Vol 10 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-016354
- 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 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136639
Professional Activities
- Scotland Malawi Partnership: WASH Forum
- Chair
- 9/4/2025
- World Water Day 2025
- Organiser
- 2025
- 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
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
- 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
- Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their Environments (SPACES) (GCRF)
- Morse, Tracy (Principal Investigator)
- 04-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Tracy
Morse
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: tracy.thomson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3133