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Sabine Pahl is a Social Psychologist engaged in basic and applied research and her applied work focuses on the human dimension in environmental issues. She investigates perceptions and behaviour change, particularly in the area of protecting marine environments, marine litter and microplastics and energy efficiency.

Other applied work examines restorative effects of natural environments including the use of natural environments in healthcare. Sabine has been involved in research projects funded by EPSRC, ESRC, DEFRA, DECC, NERC, UNEP, FP7, Interreg and H2020. She has more than 95 peer-review publications (google h-factor = 42) and serves on the Editorial Boards of the two key journals in the field, Journal of Environmental Psychology and Environment & Behavior, as well as the interdisciplinary journal Microplastics and Nanoplastics, and she is Associate Editor for the fully open-access journal Global Environmental Psychology.

Her projects typically span research and application in interdisciplinary teams. She has provided science advice and input into policy at national, European and international levels, always contributing psychological and behavioural science perspectives.

At the international level, she has contributed to two microplastics reports with the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Pollution (GESAMP WG40), and has led the UNEP-funded global stocktake of actions against plastic pollution in 2020. She was co-chair of an interdisciplinary working group that reported to the EU Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (SAPEA, 2019) and has contributed to a G7 working group in Oct 2019 and a WHO working group in March 2020.

Sabine is also Honorary Professor of Applied Social Psychology at the University of Plymouth.

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