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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Neil Ward is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Biochemistry, Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, and Food Science.

Their work encompasses various topics including heavy metals in the environment, phytochemicals and antioxidant activities, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, heavy metals in plants, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, botanical research and applications, and arsenic contamination and mitigation.

Neil Ward has contributed to several research publications, some of the recent notable papers include:

  • Chemical Composition and Bioactive Properties of Commercial and Non-Commercial Purple and White Açaí Berries (2020) published in Foods
  • Valorisation of banana peels by hydrothermal carbonisation: Potential use of the hydrochar and liquid by-product for water purification and energy conversion (2020) published in Bioresource Technology Reports
  • Phenolic content, anti-inflammatory properties, and dermal wound repair properties of industrially processed and non-processed acai from the Brazilian Amazon (2020) published in Food & Function
  • Transfer of arsenic, manganese and iron from water to soil and rice plants: An evaluation of changes in dietary intake caused by washing and cooking rice with groundwater from the Bengal Delta, India (2020) published in Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
  • RA-MAP, molecular immunological landscapes in early rheumatoid arthritis and healthy vaccine recipients (2022) published in Scientific Data

Frequent co-authors in Neil Ward's work include:

  • M. Felipe-Sotelo (9 collaborations)
  • Fernanda V. Matta (4 collaborations)
  • Jia Xiong (3 collaborations)
  • Mary Ann Lila (3 collaborations)
  • Débora Esposito (3 collaborations)

Ward's publications are often found in journals such as:

  • Environmental Research Food Systems (2 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2 publications)
  • Animals (2 publications)
  • Foods (1 publication)
  • Bioresource Technology Reports (1 publication)

Neil Ward has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom. Their research portfolio shows a multidisciplinary approach bridging environmental science and medical-related impacts, with a focus on the interactions between heavy metals, phytochemicals, and human health risks.

Best Publications

  • The Differentiated Countryside

    Terry Keith Marsden;J. Murdoch;P. Lowe;N. Ward

  • Doing flood risk science differently: an experiment in radical scientific method

    S N Lane;N Odoni;C Landström;S J Whatmore

  • Networks in rural development: beyond exogenous and endogenous models

    P. Lowe;J. Murdoch;N. Ward

  • Setting the next agenda? British and French approaches to the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy

    Philip Lowe;Henry Buller;Neil Ward

  • Placing the Rural in Regional Development

    Neil Ward;David L. Brown

  • THE AGRICULTURAL TREADMILL AND THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE POST-PRODUCTIVIST ERA

    Neil Ward

  • Coproducing Flood Risk Knowledge: Redistributing Expertise in Critical ‘Participatory Modelling’:

    Catharina Landström;Sarah J Whatmore;Stuart N Lane;Nicholas A Odoni

  • Agricultural Geography and the Political Economy Approach: A Review

    Terry Marsden;Richard Munton;Neil Ward;Sarah Whatmore

  • Moralizing the Environment: Countryside Change, Farming and Pollution

    Philip Lowe;Judy Clark;Susanne Seymour;Neil Ward

  • Moral economies of food and geographies of responsibility

    Peter Jackson;Neil Ward;Polly Russell

  • England and the 'New Regionalism'

    John Tomaney;Neil Ward

  • Universities, the Knowledge Economy and 'Neo-Endogenous Rural Development'

    Neil Ward;Jane Atterton;Tae Kim;Philip Lowe

  • Mobilising the commodity chain concept in the politics of food and farming

    Peter Jackson;Neil Ward;Polly Russell

  • Reconfiguring rural development in the UK: Objective 5b and the new rural governance

    Neil Ward;Kate McNicholas

  • The Future of Rural Society

    Neil Ward;P Lowe;T Marsden;T Munton

  • Participation in rural development : a review of european experience

    Neil Ward;P Lowe;C Ray;R Woodward

  • European Rural Development under the Common Agricultural Policy's ‘Second Pillar’: Institutional Conservatism and Innovation

    Janet C Dwyer;Neil Ward;Philip Lowe;David Baldock

  • The Nature of Rural Development: Towards a Sustainable Integrated Rural Policy in Europe

    Neil Ward;D Baldock;J Dwyer;P Lowe

  • Shifting values in agriculture: the farm family and pollution regulation1

    Neil Ward;Philip Lowe

  • Retailing, the food system and the regulatory state.

    A. Flynn;T. Marsden;N. Ward;P. Lowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Murdoch
Jonathan Murdoch Cardiff University
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
Sarah Whatmore
Sarah Whatmore University of Oxford
Stuart N. Lane
Stuart N. Lane University of Lausanne
Terry Marsden
Terry Marsden Cardiff University
Sandra A. Edwards
Sandra A. Edwards Newcastle University
Andreas H. Fink
Andreas H. Fink Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds

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