Updates

Vanessa Nguyen was named the winner of the 2026 Ian McCrae Award at the Routes to Clean Air conference on the 21st October. This annual award takes the form of an essay competition that is open to early careers members of the IAQM. It is presented in honour of the late Dr Ian McCrae who ...

Earlier this year, the IAQM launched a refreshed awards programme that built on its existing Ian McCrae Award and introduced four brand-new awards to recognise the outstanding people, projects and organisations driving improvements in air quality across the UK and beyond.These awards celebrate the skill, innovation and commitment of our community — from early career ...

We are inviting applications from IAQM Associate or Full members in the first 10 years of their careers in an air quality-related discipline to join the IAQM Early Careers Network (ECN) subcommittee. The ECN was established in 2017 to provide IAQM early career professionals with a platform to develop skills, network ...

The IAQM has published new Guidance on the assessment of odour for planning. This guidance has been prepared to assist practitioners involved in odour assessment for planning. It is not intended to replace existing guidance produced by the environment agencies for environmental permitting (EP) purposes, or where a specific assessment method is already provided within existing ...

The IAQM is delighted to host the STAIR tool for Natural England, its new Screening Tool for Air Quality Impacts from Roads developed by AECOM. In due course this will be added to Natural England’s Access to Evidence catalogue. Please download the zip file to your C drive or preferred location and then enable macros to ...

There are five upcoming vacancies on the IAQM Committee, providing a brilliant opportunity to take a leading role in the work of the IAQM. To fill these positions, we are looking for members who want to contribute to the work and development of the IAQM over the next three years, including our exciting plans for the ...