Professor Sarah Hendry
Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, Energy Environment and Society
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Biography
Professor Sarah Hendry is an academic lawyer specialising in water and environmental law. She is the Head of Dundee Law School. In that role she is involved in the design and delivery of the LLB and LLM programmes at Dundee.
Sarah also works within the Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, which is hosted at Dundee. Her research interests in Scots, EU and comparative water law extend across both water resources and water services. Sarah is Scottish Editor for the Journal of Water Law and the Journal of Environmental Law and Management. She was a member of the Scottish Customer Forum, and of the Irish Government's Expert Commission for Water.
Research
Sarah’s research interests cross over all aspects of national water law: legal frameworks for water resources management, water rights and abstractions, water quality and pollution control; and the regulation of water services. She has a special interest in water law reform. She works closely with scientists and policymakers, looking at the linkages between science, policy and law.
Sarah was a member of the Customer Forum, and she was a member of the Irish Government's Expert Commission on water. She has been involved in several funded projects for Scottish Government related to the regulation of water services, including rural supply, source protection and valuing water, as well as projects funded by the EU on water resource management.
Recent publications include:
Carvalho L, Mackay EB, Cardoso AC, Baattrup-Pedersen A, Birk S, Blackstock K, Hendry S et al. Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: an analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive. Science of the Total Environment. 2019 Mar 25;658:1228-1238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.2
Hendry S The Water Framework Directive – Challenges, Gaps and Potential for the Future (special issue) Journal of European Environment and Planning Law, 14 (2017) 247-266
Hendry S (2016) The Customer Forum: Putting Customers at the Centre of Regulating Water Services Water Policy Available Online 23 February 2016, DOI: 10.2166/wp.2016.199
Hendry S (2016) Scottish Water – A Public Sector Success Story Water International Special Issue; Available online 15 August 2016 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508060.2016.1212961
Hendry S, (2015) Frameworks for Water Law Reform (monograph) CUP International Hydrological Series
Teaching
Sarah leads a Masters module in Water Law and Honours modules in Environmental Law and in Human Rights. She contributes to modules across the curriculum at all levels.
Sarah has always been involved in programme management, curriculum design and quality assurance, and continues with these activities as Head of Law. Law at Dundee offers both Scots and English qualifying Law degrees, as well as specialist LLBs with Languages and with Energy law. A suite of LLM programmes span commercial law, environmental law and international law specialisms.
Media availability
I am available for media commentary on my research.
Professor Hendry is an environmental lawyer. Her research focuses on water law, especially water quality and water pollution, and the governance and regulation of water services (drinking water and wastewater).
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Areas of expertise
- Clean water/sanitation
- Water
Research projects
Project lead
Research project
New and emerging pollutants in water present health threats to humans and the environment.
Research project
Small water supplies in Scotland are less likely to meet drinking water quality standards and likely to be managed by communities or individuals who may need support. We looked at how other countries manage small rural water supplies, to guide their governance and management in Scotland.
Stories
Press release
Two University of Dundee initiatives are to benefit from millions of pounds of UK Government investment.
News
Dundee Law School has celebrated their first in person prizegiving event since 2019.
