McGill University
Postdoctoral fellow candidate
Supervisor: Gordon Hickey
Start: 2024-09-01
End: 2026-12-31
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Project

New Approach Methods in Regulatory Science
Paris is a postdoctoral researcher conducting research on the organizing of ecological chemical risks and ecological risk governance, with a particular focus on documenting and theorizing transnational standardization processes. Paris employs ‘Engaged Innovation Research’ methodology to assess the domains of applicability for omics-based New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in the chemical risk assessment activities of regulators such as Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Science and Technology Branch (ECCC-STB). Her work has a general focus on understanding the standardization and institutionalization of new practices in regulatory science based on emerging technologies. Paris is a former regulatory scientist and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Publications can be found here: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9564-764X

Keywords

chemical risk assessment, ecotoxicology, chemicals management, environmental protection, environmental epidemiology

Publications

1- (Re)imagining purpose: A framework for sustainable nanotechnology innovation
Jeffcoat, Paris, Cary Di Lernia, Catherine Hardy, Elizabeth J. New, Wojciech Chrzanowski
2024 NanoImpact

2- Breaking the “Toxic Ignorance Cycles” that Hinder New Approach Method (NAM) Acceptance in Environmental Risk Assessment
Jeffcoat, Paris, Gordon M. Hickey, Steven Maguire, Niladri Basu
2025 Environmental Science & Technology

3- Enabling regulatory innovation: precaution, risk, and new approach methodologies
Jeffcoat, Paris, Jaye Ellis, Gordon M Hickey, Steven Maguire, Niladri Basu
2025 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management