Publications

Dr. Alana James

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor in Fashion in the School of Design at Northumbria University

Mapping the Environmental Impact Assessment Landscape in the Fashion and Textile Industries: Critical Gaps and Challenges

Mutambo, N., Peirson-Smith, A., KeChi-Okafor, C., Irving-Munro, A., Sheridan, K.J., Prendergast-Miller, M.T., Namdeo, A., Stanton, T., Gallidabino, M.D. and James, A., 2024. Mapping the Environmental Impact Assessment Landscape in the Fashion and Textile Industries: Critical Gaps and Challenges. Sustainability, 16(19), p.8377.

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Challenging Microfibre Fragmentation in the Fashion and Textile Industries

James, A.M., Mutambo, N., Prendergast-Miller, M., Sheridan, K.J. and Rogers, A., 2024. In Microfibre Pollution from Textiles (pp. 331-348). CRC Press.

Rethinking the fashion value chain: how reshoring can create a localised product lifecycle and support sustainable economic growth

James, A.M., Mather, S. and Sheridan, K.J., 2023. In Novel Sustainable Alternative Approaches for the Textiles and Fashion Industry (pp. 1-39). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

The future generation of fashion: How higher education contextualizes sustainability as a key design tool

James, A.M., 2021. In The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (pp. 83-89). Routledge.

Dr. Matteo Gallidabino

Co-Investigator

Assistant Professor in Forensic Chemistry at King's College London

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Mapping the Environmental Impact Assessment Landscape in the Fashion and Textile Industries: Critical Gaps and Challenges

Natural Fibers: Why Are They Still the Missing Thread in the Textile Fiber Pollution Story?

Stanton, T., James, A., Prendergast‑Miller, M. T., Peirson‑Smith, A., KeChi‑Okafor, C., Gallidabino, M. D., Namdeo, A., & Sheridan, K. J., 2024. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(29), 12763–12766.

Prevalence and characterisation of microfibres along the Kenyan and Tanzanian coast

KeChi-Okafor, C., Khan, F. R., Al-Naimi, U., Béguerie, V., Bowen, L., Gallidabino, M. D., Scott-Harden, S., & Sheridan, K. J., 2023. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, Article 1020919.

A study on contactless airborne transfer of textile fibres between different garments in small compact semi-enclosed spaces

Sheridan, K. J., Saltupyte, E., Palmer, R., & Gallidabino, M. D., 2020. Forensic Science International, 315, Article 110432.

Are microfibres a problem for aquatic ecosystems? What we don’t know about textile pollution

Gallidabino, M. D., Sheridan, K. J., Stanton, T., James, A., & Ginting, J., 2023. (Report). King’s Water Centre.

Dr. Anne Peirson-Smith

Principal Investigator

Professor and Subject Lead for Fashion in the School of Design at Northumbria University

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Mapping the Environmental Impact Assessment Landscape in the Fashion and Textile Industries: Critical Gaps and Challenges

Staging fashion in Hong Kong’s alternative neighbourhood places and spaces

Peirson-Smith, A., Craik, J., 2021. In Staging Fashion (pp.135-140). Bloomsbury.

Transforming Sustainable Fashion in a Decolonial Context: The Case of Redress in Hong Kong

Peirson-Smith, A. F., & Craik, J. (2021). Transforming sustainable fashion in a decolonial context: The case of Redress in Hong Kong. Fashion Theory: Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 24(6), 921–946.

Displaying and negotiating identity: Costume and ethnic dress

Peirson-Smith, A. F., & Craik, J. (2020). Displaying and negotiating identity: Costume and ethnic dress [Guest editorial]. Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, 7(1), 5–8.

Dr. Kelly Sheridan

Co-Investigator

Associate Professor in Forensic Science

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Mapping the Environmental Impact Assessment Landscape in the Fashion and Textile Industries: Critical Gaps and Challenges

Natural Fibers: Why Are They Still the Missing Thread in the Textile Fiber Pollution Story?

Aligning the Textile Industry towards the Mitigation of Microfibre Pollution

By Kelly J. Sheridan, Anna Bateman, Elliot Bland, Charline Ducas, Sophie Mather

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Challenging Microfibre Fragmentation in the Fashion and Textile Industries

James, A.M., Mutambo, N., Prendergast-Miller, M., Sheridan, K.J. and Rogers, A., 2024. In Microfibre Pollution from Textiles (pp. 331-348). CRC Press.

Dr. Anil Namdeo

Co-Investigator

Professor of Air Quality Management and Net Zero at Northumbria University.

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Analysis of electric vehicle charging behaviour in existing regional public and workplace charging infrastructure: A case study in the North-East UK

Zhang, Y., Li, S., Blythe, P., Wardle, J., Herron, C., Edwards, S., Li, D., Ji, Y. & Namdeo, A., 1 Mar 2025, In: Transportation Engineering. 19, p. 1-13 13 p., 100309.

Cleaner Air, Healthier Hospitals: Implementing the UK's Clean Air Hospital Framework

Okeowo, B., Dixon, J., Entwistle, J. A., James, P., Malone, D., Middlemass, L., Mills, A.-L., Namdeo, A. & Deary, M. E., 1 Sept 2025, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 391, p. 1-16 16 p., 126468.

Gathering baseline data to assess household energy interventions' impact on indoor air quality, occupant health, and wellbeing: In2Air a non-randomized experiment

Entwistle, J., Ahmed, T., Bramwell, L., Coulby, G., Deary, M., Mansell, O., Namdeo, A., McNally, R., Vale, L., Vaughan, A. & White, C., 14 Mar 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Health Technology Assessment.

Air pollution abatement from Green-Blue-Grey infrastructure

Kumar, P., Corada, K., Debele, S. E., Emygdio, A. P. M., Abhijith, K. V., Hassan, H., Broomandi, P., Baldauf, R., Calvillo, N., Cao, S. J., Desrivières, S., Feng, Z., Gallagher, J., Kjeldsen, T. R., Khan, A. A., Khare, M., Kota, S. H., Li, B., Malham, S. K. & McNabola, A. & 12 others, , 10 Dec 2024, In: Innovation Geoscience. 2, 4, 100100.

Dr. Thomas Stanton

Co-Investigator

Lecturer in Geography (Geography and Environment)

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Natural Fibers: Why Are They Still the Missing Thread in the Textile Fiber Pollution Story?

Shedding off-the-grid: The role of garment manufacturing and textile care in global microfibre pollution

Thomas Stanton, Elyse Stanes, Claire Gwinnett, Xiaoyu Lei, Myrna Cauilan-Cureg, Myrna Ramos, J. Brett Sallach g, Eleanor Harrison, Amy Osborne, Catherine H. Sanders, Edwin Baynes, Antonia Law, Matthew Johnson, David B. Ryves, Kelly J. Sheridan, Richard S. Blackburn, Deirdre McKay

It's the product not the polymer: Rethinking plastic pollution

Thomas Stanton, Paul Kay, Matthew Johnson, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Rachel L. Gomes, Jennifer Hughes, William Meredith, Harriet G. Orr, Colin E. Snape, Mark Taylor, Jason Weeks, Harvey Wood, Yuyao Xu

Freshwater and airborne textile fibre populations are dominated by ‘natural’, not microplastic, fibres

Thomas Stanton, Matthew Johnson, Paul Nathanail, William MacNaughtan, Rachel L. Gomes

Dr. Miranda Prendergast-Miller

Co-Investigator

Assistant Professor at Northumbria University in the Geography and Environmental Sciences Department

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Polyester-derived microfibre impacts on the soil-dwelling earthworm Lumbricus terrestris

Miranda T. Prendergast-Miller, Andreas Katsiamides, Mustafa Abbass, Stephen R. Sturzenbaum, Karen L. Thorpe, Mark E. Hodson

Natural Fibers: Why Are They Still the Missing Thread in the Textile Fiber Pollution Story?

Mapping the Environmental Impact Assessment Landscape in the Fashion and Textile Industries: Critical Gaps and Challenges

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Challenging Microfibre Fragmentation in the Fashion and Textile Industries

Alana M. James, Nkumbu Mutambo, Miranda Prendergast-Miller, Kelly J. Sheridan, Abbie Rogers