A fascinating article from Jyoti - thank you for sharing. Adding your supervisors here - @prof-joseph-holden.bsky.social @pippachapmn.bsky.social

One project will be funded up to a value of £1,025,000 of full economic cost.

Closing date is 23:00 GMT Monday 1 December 2025.

To apply, visit the UK Freshwater Quality Research Programme website to read the full guidance and download the application form:

water.leeds.ac.uk/news/uk-rese...

This call seeks to fund cutting-edge research which includes advanced microbial source tracking for Lough Neagh and its main tributary catchments to understand and map microbial sources and transmission routes, and their relative importance and impacts including on antimicrobial resistance.

Lough Neagh is the largest freshwater lake in the UK supplying 40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water.

In 2023, the Lough experienced a severe blue-green algal bloom, highlighting urgent environmental and public health concerns. In 2024 the Lough Neagh report and action plan was commissioned.

The successful project will become part of the UK Freshwater Quality Research Programme funded by NERC and Defra.

The funding is being administered by the Freshwater Quality Research Programme champion team, based within water@leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Closing date: 1 December 2025