CHILI Scientific Symposium 2026

This event brings together researchers and partners from across the CHILI (Child and Adolescent Health Impacts of Learning Indoor Environments Under Net Zero) project and wider community for networking, scientific exchange, and interdisciplinary learning.

Speakers

Keynote speakers include:

• Professor Lizzie Rushton, Professor of Education, University of Stirling and Deputy Chair of the Scottish Council of Deans of Education. She has extensive expertise in Climate Change and Sustainability Education (CCSE), working across England, Scotland and internationally including Brazil, Chile and Iraq. Since 2022, Lizzie has co-led the BERA Education for Environmental Sustainability Special Interest Group. In 2025, she led a national survey of teachers’ practices in relation to CCSE in Scotland and led the design and implementation of Scotland’s first national framework for Learning for Sustainability in Initial Teacher Education.
• Professor Rosie McEachan, Director of Born in Bradford and a proud (Scottish) Bradfordian. Rosie is an experienced applied health researcher with particular interests in cohort studies, development and evaluation of complex interventions, environmental determinants of health, green space, air quality, and co-production. She leads the UKRI Population Health Improvement Healthy Urban Places consortium. Rosie holds visiting professor positions at University College London, the University of York and the University of Bradford.
• Dr Trystan Leng, an infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeler based at Lancaster University. During the Covid-19 pandemic, his research focused on evaluating school-level interventions, and provided the first quantitative estimate of the impact of twice weekly mass testing in secondary schools in England. He currently holds a Wellcome Early Career Award fellowship, focusing on identifying school-based approaches to pathogen control that could be viable alternatives to school closures. Recently, he has become increasingly interested in understanding the broader societal impacts of epidemic control, and how these can be incorporated into models to better inform policy.

The day will also feature research presentations from colleagues across CHILI including Dr Samuel Wood (Imperial College London), Cedric Burden (Swansea University), Dr Smriti Safaya (SEI York, University of York), Dr Niloofar Shoari (UCL) and Prof Dejan Mumovic (UCL) who will showcase interdisciplinary work spanning building engineering, environmental exposures, population data science, and child health.

Poster session

We will host an extended poster session, with posters displayed throughout the day and a dedicated viewing period. Researchers interested in presenting a poster are invited to submit a short abstract (max 250 words) using the link below. Early‑career researchers are especially encouraged to contribute. 

Submit a poster proposal.