I completed my BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter in 2019, before taking up a 1-year post as a laboratory technician in the Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter. I then went on to complete an MSc in Environmental Management at Lancaster University in 2021.
In October 2021, I moved to the University of Stirling to take up my current post as Research Assistant within the research group of Professor Richard Quilliam.
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Metcalf R, Fellows R, White HL & Quilliam RS (2024) Persistence of ‘wet wipes’ in beach sand: An unrecognised reservoir for localised E. coli contamination. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 201, Art. No.: 116175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116175
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Metcalf R, Messer LF, White HL, Ormsby MJ, Matallana-Surget S & Quilliam RS (2024) Evidence of interspecific plasmid uptake by pathogenic strains of Klebsiella isolated from microplastic pollution on public beaches. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 461, Art. No.: 132567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132567
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Ormsby MJ, Woodford L, White HL, Fellows R, Oliver DM & Quilliam RS (2024) Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae can cycle between environmental plastic waste and floodwater: Implications for environmental management of cholera. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 461, p. 132492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132492
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Ormsby MJ, White HL, Metcalf R, Oliver DM, Feasey NA & Quilliam RS (2024) Enduring pathogenicity of African strains of Salmonella on plastics and glass in simulated peri-urban environmental waste piles. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 461, p. 132439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132439
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Ormsby MJ, White HL, Metcalf R, Oliver DM & Quilliam RS (2023) Clinically important E. coli strains can persist, and retain their pathogenicity, on environmental plastic and fabric waste. Environmental Pollution, 326, Art. No.: 121466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121466
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White HL, Mwapasa T, Mphasa M, Kalonde PK, Feasey N, Oliver DM, Ormsby MJ, Morse T, Chidziwisano K & Quilliam RS (2023) Open defaecation by proxy: Tackling the increase of disposable diapers in waste piles in informal settlements. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 250, Art. No.: 114171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114171
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Metcalf R, White HL, Ormsby MJ, Oliver DM & Quilliam RS (2023) From wastewater discharge to the beach: Survival of human pathogens bound to microplastics during transfer through the freshwater-marine continuum. Environmental Pollution, 319, Art. No.: 120955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120955
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Metcalf R, White HL, Moresco V, Ormsby MJ, Oliver DM & Quilliam RS (2022) Sewage-associated plastic waste washed up on beaches can act as a reservoir for faecal bacteria, potential human pathogens, and genes for antimicrobial resistance. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 180, Art. No.: 113766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113766