{"id":8,"date":"2025-01-20T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:11:43","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\" style=\"min-height:800px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1240\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-37\" alt=\"Coal powered power station with windmill in foreground\" src=\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920-1536x992.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920-1200x775.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-60 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#a9b2c6\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-primary-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:64px\">About Us<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-primary-color\"><\/mark>:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:22px;line-height:1.3\"><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-primary-color\">The Society was founded in April 2022 by organisers of earlier UK &amp; Ireland 1-day meetings on occupational and environmental exposure science. The first of these was held in 2013 in Edinburgh and in 2026 this will be held at the UK Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology at the Lancaster Environment Centre<\/mark><\/em>, Bailrigg<em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-primary-color\">.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:330px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aims:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Society has the following core aims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To promote occupational and environmental exposure science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To oversee the arrangements for an annual UK based meeting on occupational and environmental exposure science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To facilitate the development of a professional network in the UK focussed on occupational and environmental exposure science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To promote research collaborations in occupational and environmental exposure science within the UK as well as internationally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Exposure Science?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As long ago as 400 BC Hippocrates reported how air, water, food, and living quality influenced disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exposure Science involves establishing the types, levels, and combinations of exposures that people experience and once known works to reduce\/counteract the exposures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions that exposure scientists try to answer&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How do exposures affect human health and disease over a lifetime?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are the spatial and temporal dimensions of exposure events?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How do we minimize exposure pathways?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today exposure science is a multi-disciplinary field, involving researchers from many fields, such as environmental science, analytical chemistry, biology, geology, physics, atmospheric measurements, data science and mathematical modelling as well as occupational hygiene and medicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aims: The Society has the following core aims: What is Exposure Science? As long ago as 400 BC Hippocrates reported how air, water, food, and living quality influenced disease. Exposure Science involves establishing the types, levels, and combinations of exposures that people experience and once known works to reduce\/counteract the exposures. Questions that exposure scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society - Exposure Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society - Exposure Science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aims: The Society has the following core aims: What is Exposure Science? As long ago as 400 BC Hippocrates reported how air, water, food, and living quality influenced disease. Exposure Science involves establishing the types, levels, and combinations of exposures that people experience and once known works to reduce\/counteract the exposures. Questions that exposure scientists [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Exposure Science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-13T14:11:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1240\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/\",\"name\":\"Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society - Exposure Science\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-20T17:05:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-13T14:11:43+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1240,\"caption\":\"Coal powered power station with windmill in foreground\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/\",\"name\":\"Exposure Science\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Exposure Science\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-Exposure-Logo-02.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-Exposure-Logo-02.png\",\"width\":3298,\"height\":2472,\"caption\":\"Exposure Science\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society - Exposure Science","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society - Exposure Science","og_description":"Aims: The Society has the following core aims: What is Exposure Science? As long ago as 400 BC Hippocrates reported how air, water, food, and living quality influenced disease. Exposure Science involves establishing the types, levels, and combinations of exposures that people experience and once known works to reduce\/counteract the exposures. Questions that exposure scientists [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/","og_site_name":"Exposure Science","article_modified_time":"2025-11-13T14:11:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1240,"url":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/","url":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/","name":"Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society - Exposure Science","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg","datePublished":"2025-01-20T17:05:43+00:00","dateModified":"2025-11-13T14:11:43+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coal-fired-power-station-3767893_1920.jpg","width":1920,"height":1240,"caption":"Coal powered power station with windmill in foreground"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Welcome to the UK Exposure Science Society"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/","name":"Exposure Science","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#organization","name":"Exposure Science","url":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-Exposure-Logo-02.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-Exposure-Logo-02.png","width":3298,"height":2472,"caption":"Exposure Science"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposurescience.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}