Dr Ben Williams

Ben has 18 years’ experience in environmental sampling, measurement, analysis and apportionment of air pollution and other airborne components. He worked as an environmental consultant for 5 years, developing and undertaking novel source apportionment investigations for industry and regulatory authorities, and between 2018 and 2020, was seconded into the Environment Agency (England) to aid in the development of the UK’s next-generation air quality monitoring networks through an user needs lens.

He is also co-lead of UWE’s Biospheric Microplastics Research Cluster, sits on the Committee of the International Network of Environmental Forensics and on the Editorial Board of the Cambridge University Press Journal, Prisms: Plastics. Ben as also been an ad-hoc member of Defra’s Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG). Over the last decade, Ben has worked across numerous participatory and community research projects on microplastics, traffic and public involvement in policy development, locally, nationally and internationally.