MissKelsey McClure

Kelsey is a research support assistant at the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP). In this role, she provides assistance in research and administrative related activities across two projects with international reach: ‘AMRWATCH: Defining the anti-microbial resistance burden of manufacturing waste in Puducherry and Chennai’ and a Drought Vulnerability Initiative funded by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.

AMRWATCH has partnered with four institutions (Aarupadai Veedu Medical College & Hospital, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute and Pondicherry University) in India to develop policy recommendations for antimicrobials in manufacturing effluents based on data collated from their receiving environments. Whilst, as part of FAO’s ‘Building Forward Better Initiative’, Kelsey and her colleagues are collaborating with academics from 12 drought-fragile countries to help build resilience through the formation of integrated drought management strategies.

As a member of the web editor community, she is responsible for updating and maintaining the AMRWATCH web page alongside running the Imperial College London ‘Environmental Management’ X (previously Twitter) account.

She graduated from the University of Reading in 2020, with a BSc (Hons) in Zoology. As part of her independent research project, she investigated the comparative seasonal diversity of acari on carrion and its application to forensic science.