Dr Michael Deary

Associate Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Michael -Deary Research covers three main areas: reactions of peroxides in aqueous solution, air quality and land contamination. The work on peroxides has yielded over 20 publications and dates back to 1987; it has covered selective analytical techniques for peroxide determination, catalysis by cyclodextrins and catalysis by borate and carbonate. Air quality is an emerging area of interest and includes dispersion modelling in contrasting geographical areas and monitoring.

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Key Publications

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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. 14 Mar 2025, In: Health Technology Assessment
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
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
A novel application of back trajectory modelling to characterise public exposure to PM10 from a typical UK major open uncontrolled fire, Griffiths, S., Deary, M. 19 Jun 2024, UK Public Health Science 2024
A novel approach to the development of 1-hour threshold concentrations for exposure to particulate matter during the response to episodic air pollution events, Griffiths, S., Deary, M. 18 Jun 2024, 17th European Public Health Conference
A Study on Particulate Release when Machining Nano-structured Polymeric Composites., Shyha, I., Deary, M., Huo, D. 2024, In: Procedia CIRP
Sensory Textile-Bacterial Hybrids: Textile-Bacteria Fusion to Impart Forest-Associated Scents, Nerlich, P., Sherry, A., Deary, M., Morrow, R., Scott, J. 2024, In: Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice
The Impact of Air Pollution from Industrial Fires in Urban Settings: Monitoring, Modelling, Health, and Environmental Justice Perspectives, Deary, M., Griffiths, S. 21 Jul 2024, In: Environments
Boric acid catalysed hydrolysis of peroxyacids, Deary, M. 14 Apr 2023, In: RSC Advances

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 they serve Start Date: 01/10/2022