Environmental anthropologist Dr Trisia Farrelly has has been appointed to a taskforce advising the United Nations Environmental Assembly Expert Group on marine plastic pollution.
'The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic' is a free, open access, and nearly carbon-neutral conference held entirely online between 26 June - 14 July 2017.
Trisia Farrelly has recently returned from sabbatical in Galway where she gave a seminar to marine biologists, zoologists and ecologists and human and physical geographers on the importance of social sciences in plastics research.