Panel Discussion Speaker

Lesley Henderson joined the University of Strathclyde as Professor of Science Communication in 2022 under the Global Talent Programme. She is internationally recognised for her research in science, environment and public health communications and leads global research into the social dimensions of plastic pollution (UK, Europe, Nigeria, Indonesia and Japan). She previously held posts in Social & Political Sciences, Brunel University London where she founded the Sustainable Plastics Research Group (SPlash) and in Public Health & Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She completed her PhD in the Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Glasgow. Her research has been used to prioritise the cultural context of plastics use, media framing of the problem and role of communications in behaviour change. She has advised DEFRA, the EU and UN on microplastics policy and regulation leading to plastic-free oceans becoming a ‘cross-cutting priority’ for the European Commission.