Professor Michael Deary

Professor

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

My research interests span the topics of air quality (indoor/outdoor, monitoring and modelling), carbon capture in aquatic environments, land contamination and chemistry (environmental, kinetics, peroxides and supramolecular).

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Key Publications

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Back trajectory modelled PM10 plumes: population vulnerability profile from an uncontrolled fire, Griffiths, S., Deary, M. 26 Oct 2026, In: European Journal of Public Health
Harmful air where we should feel most safe: addressing health inequalities using a QI approach to tackle smoking on a hospital site, Roycroft, E., Vittery, E., Adekunle, V., Okeowo, B., Deary, M., Ahmad, B. 6 Oct 2026, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition
The Significance of Unifying Non-Integrated Information on Contaminated Land and Risks, Brotherton, J., Hussain, S., Deary, M., Mahammedi, C., Beal, C., Butt, T. Feb 2026, In: Environmental Management
Cleaner Air, Healthier Hospitals: Implementing the UK's Clean Air Hospital Framework, Okeowo, B., Dixon, J., Entwistle, J., James, P., Malone, D., Middlemass, L., Mills, A., Namdeo, A., Deary, M. 1 Sep 2025, In: Journal of Environmental Management
Evaluating Public Exposure to Airborne Particulates from Major Incident Fires: A Back Trajectory Plume Modelling Approach, Griffiths, S., King, H., Wilkinson, J., Kelly, F., Entwistle, J., Deary, M. 15 Jun 2025, In: Journal of Hazardous Materials
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. 3 Sep 2025, In: Public Health Research
Harmful air where we should feel most safe: a multi-agency quality improvement project to reduce passive smoking outside a tertiary neonatal and maternity unit, Roycroft, E., Vittery, E., Adekunle, V., Okeowo, B., Deary, M., Ahmad, B. 30 May 2025, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood
Pyreno-1,2,4-triazines as multifunctional luminogenic click reagents, Alshaikh, H., Parsons, J., Askwith, G., Deary, M., Nicholson, C., Sims, M., Kozhevnikov, V. 28 Nov 2025, In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
Shifting Shores: Carbon Storage and Habitat Resilience in a Major Scottish Saltmarsh, Deary, M. 1 Dec 2025, In: Estuaries and Coasts
Annealing 1,2,4-triazine to iridium (III) complexes induces luminogenic behaviour in bioorthogonal reactions with strained alkynes, Cooke, L., Gristwood, K., Adamson, K., Sims, M., Deary, M., Bruce, D., Antoniou, A., Walden, H., Knight, J., Antoine-Brunet, T., Joly, M., Goyard, D., Lanoe, P., Berthet, N., Kozhevnikov, V. 7 Oct 2024, In: Dalton Transactions

Current and Recent Projects

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Green growth skills, Watson, R. (Principal Investigator), Deary, M. (Co Investigator), North of Tyne Combined Authority, 01/04/23 - 31/03/26, £463,160.00
ReNu NHS, Deary, M. (Principal Investigator), Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 01/10/22 - 30/09/26, £48,000.00

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: An evaluation of dust release when machining nano-structured composite materials 2018

PGR Supervision

Babatunde Okeowo The UK’s Clean Air Hospital Framework: the role of hospitals as anchor institutions in achieving improved air quality within the communities that they serve. Start Date: 01/10/2022
Babatunde Okeowo The UK’s clean air hospital framework: the role of hospitals as anchor institutions in achieving improved air quality within the communities they serve Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025

Qualifications

Chemistry PhD December 01 1992