Prof. Kathy Lewis, BSc, PhD,
FIAP, MIEMA
Professor of Agricultural Chemistry
Email: k.a.lewis@herts.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)1707 284582
Kathy is an environmental
chemist and research leader for the Agriculture and Environment
Research Unit. She joined the University in 1995 and established AERU
soon after. Kathy became a Professor in 2014.
Kathy's main areas of
interest include environmental management of agriculture, horticulture
and land-use, in particular environmental pollution from chemical
inputs and the impacts arising from agricultural processes taking a
whole farm perspective. She is also involved in the development of
techniques to encourage a more sustainable agriculture including the
socio-economic aspects, rural development, policy issues, environmental
labelling and green taxes. Kathy's work covers a wide spectrum of
topics including pesticides, nutrients, waste and resources and
biodiversity, particularly with respect to climate change and rural
development. This has evolved over the years to cover the entire farm
to fork production chain particularly with respect to policy
development.
Kathy is a Fellow of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP) and a Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (MIEMA). She is also the UK Editor of the Elsevier scientific journal ‘Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment’.
Qualifications
Kathy's first degree in
environmental chemistry with computer science was awarded by the
Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA), and her PhD in
agricultural best practice and was awarded by the University of
Hertfordshire.
Previous employment
Before joining the University
of Hertfordshire, Kathy spent 23 years at Warren Spring Laboratory and
1 year in Industry working as an Environmental Manager.
Selected projects
- Waitrose pesticide load
indicator for sustainable crop protection
- Review of Livestock Feed
Additives that have Direct Beneficial Effect on the Environment
- The climate change
mitigation potential of an EU farm: towards a farm-based integrated
assessment
- Assessment of reduction in
environmental burdens through targeted measures compared with whole
farm approaches in cropping and livestock systems
- Development of chemical
substance databases (PPDB, VSDB, BPDB)
- Effective approaches to
environmental labelling of food products
- Developing software tools
for pesticide risk assessment for the EU FOOTPRINT Project
- Comparison of the
Environmental Risk of Pesticides used in Conventional and Integrated
Farming Systems for Farms
- Concerted Action of
Pesticide Environmental Risk Indicators (CAPER)
Recent publications
- Veldkamp, A.. Li, Y., Alignier, A.M., Audet, P., Bajocco, S., Chen, X., Cheng, Y., Drinkwater, L.E., Lewis, K.A., Petit, S., Saggar, S., Toyota, K. & Zheng X. (2023). How to get your paper published in 'Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment'. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 359: 108687. DOI [Editorial].
- Badawy, M.H., Murnane, D., Lewis, K.A. & Morgan, N. (2023). A new laboratory method to study the impact of leaf texture on pesticide dislodgeable foliar residues (DFR). Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B, 58(8): 555-564. DOI.
- Rainford, J, Tzilivakis, J., Garthwaite, D., Jones, G. & Lewis, K.A. (2023). Finalising a Pesticide Load Indicator for the UK: Phase 4 Report. Prepared for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), UK, for project PC0116, by FERA Science Ltd and the Agriculture and Environment Research Unit (AERU), University of Hertfordshire, UK. [Download].
- Badawy, M.H.; Murnane, D., Lewis, K.A. & Morgan, N. (2022). Development of a New Dislodgeable Foliar Residue Analytical Laboratory Method for Pesticides. Annals of Work Exposure and Health, Preprint. DOI.
- Badawy, M.H., Morgan, N. & Lewis, K.A. (2021). Correlation between dietary and dislodgeable foliar (DFR) crop residues decline data: a proposed approach to refine non-dietary risk assessment. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 127. DOI.
Prof.
Kathy Lewis's extended publications
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