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We have a large number of staff within the Department of Environment and Geography.

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Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Ahmad Abdullah H Alfisal

Postgraduate Researcher

Abdullah Almedhmadi

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Oliver Andrews

Senior Lecturer in Climate Science

Research interests:

  • Catalysing adaptation and resilience
  • Climate change
  • Ocean modelling

Professor

Research interests:

  • Wildlife dispersal of antimicrobial resistance
  • Impacts of environmental contaminants on wildlife
  • Biodiversity and ecosystems services
  • Woodland management and biodiversity;
  • Animal ecology and behaviour

Honorary Fellow

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Zoe Austin

Research Fellow

Elaine Azzopardi

Postgraduate Researcher

Matthew Badham

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations

Matthew Badham

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations

Lecturer in Environment and Development

Research interests:

  • Sustainable cities and neighbourhoods
  • Urbanisation, poverty and inequality
  • Livelihood and environmental change
  • Ecosystem services
  • Agricultural development and food security

Lecturer in Human Geography

Sarah Belalia

Postgraduate Researcher

Catherine Berridge

Postgraduate Researcher

Nathan Booth

Research Trainee

Alejandra Bouzas Monroy

Postgraduate Researcher

Professor

Research interests:

  • Effects and risks of emerging chemical contaminants in the natural environment
  • Methods for monitoring pollution in cities

Chair in Food, Climate and Society

Research interests:

  • Food and climate change
  • Transforming food systems
  • Environmental and nutrition impacts of dietary options

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Quality of life
  • Planning and the built environment
  • Age-friendly housing and built environments

Postgraduate Researcher

Elizabeth Carper

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Jamie Carr

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Professor, Deputy Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Indoor air quality
  • Numerical modelling of air pollution chemistry in the indoor environment
  • Indoor air pollution

Dr Toby Carter

Research Associate

Angel Ceballos Ramirez

Postgraduate Researcher

Qinglu Chen

Postgraduate Researcher

Tung-Yun Chen

Postgraduate Researcher

Lalita Chomphen

Postgraduate Researcher

Banki Chunwate

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Jo Cook

Research Associate

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Juan Pablo Cordero Garayar

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lydia Crampton

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Lecturer in Environmental Science

Research interests:

  • Measurements and modeling of air pollution
  • Exposure assessment of stressors/ pollutants
  • Waste to energy conversion using the thermo-chemical conversion pathway

Research Associate in Indoor Air Chemistry

Lecturer in Sustainable Management

Research interests:

  • Low-carbon economic transitions
  • Environmental innovation and societal transitions
  • Energy research and social science
  • Climate change
  • Sustainability management

Dean of the Faculty of Sciences

Research interests:

  • African Food Systems
  • Climate Change Adaptations in Dryland Farming Systems
  • Soil science
  • Climate change
  • Environmental sustainability

Paul Drury-Brady

Media and Communications Officer

Postgraduate Researcher

Alison Edmonds

Student Services Manager

Alison Edmonds

Student Services Manager

Postgraduate Researcher

Professor

Research interests:

  • Modelling air pollution
  • Climate change impacts on arable crops
  • Modelling land surface exchange processes
  • Agricultural adaptation to climate change
  • Air quality mitigation policy

Beth Evans

Postgraduate Researcher

Lee Eyre

Postgraduate Researcher

Zheng Fang

Postgraduate Researcher

Caroline Fannon

Timetabling Administrator

Professor, Deputy Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Supporting systemic change and transformations for new kinds of regenerative futures
  • Action oriented research and transdisciplinary methods to support change
  • Transforming formalized knowledge creation systems and institutions
  • Designing transformational approaches and business models
  • Transformational capacity building and education

Alison Fletcher

AFN Project Manager

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Ben Gallant

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Postgraduate Researcher

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Sea-Level studies
  • Sedimentology
  • Microfossil analysis
  • Hazards of subduction zone earthquakes, tsunamis, and sea-level rise

Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Recent accelerations of sea-level rise
  • Rapid sea-level change during interglacials
  • Quantitative methods of sea-level reconstruction using microfossils
  • Patterns of Holocene isostatic crustal movement
  • High-precision dating techniques for sea-level reconstruction

Nikhil Ghosh

Postgraduate Researcher

Andrew Gibson

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Lecturer in Sustainability

Research interests:

  • The relationship between inequality and sustainability in South Asia

Dr Stephen Hall

Senior Industry/Business Research Fellow

Postgraduate Researcher

Blaine Hancock

Technician

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Urban inequality
  • Everyday and embedded structural inequalities at city level.

Jonathan Haslam

AFN Project Manager

Health & Safety and Technical Manager

Postgraduate Researcher

Research Associate in Sea-Level Studies

Florence Hill

Research Technician

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Chemical, biological and physical processes of natural systems
  • HPC
  • Sedimentology
  • Physical oceanography
  • Palaeobiology

Student Services Administrator

Student Services Administrator

Anniversary Professor

Research interests:

  • Effects of earthworms on soil chemistry
  • Ecosystem services
  • Evolution to carbon cycling

Dr Sahar Hofmann

Lecturer in Sustainability

Research interests:

  • Climate finance

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Geography pedagogies in higher education
  • Accessibility of science and environmental change

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Flood risk management
  • Disaster risk management
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Nature based solution

PA/Administrator, PA to PI on AgriFood Network Project

PA/Administrator, PA to PI on AgriFood Network Project

Dr Liz Hurrell

Senior Lecturer

Postgraduate Researcher

Chikaosolu Ileka

Postgraduate Researcher

Mahmuda Islam

Postgraduate Researcher

Lecturer in Environment and Development

Research interests:

  • Relationships between the human and environmental systems

Salamatu Kemokai

Postgraduate Researcher

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • The relationships between resource governance, urban and environmental conflict
  • The economic and political geographies of low-carbon transition
  • Regional development
  • Urban histories and climate responses
  • Progressive localism

Honorary Fellow

Postgraduate Researcher

Partik Kumar

Postgraduate Researcher

Anita Labane

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Research Associate in Environmental Chemistry

Tonghua Li

Postgraduate Researcher

Lecturer in Sustainability

Research interests:

  • Interaction between capital, society and nature in the Anthropocene
  • How society makes sense of anthropogenic environmental changes
  • Corporate sustainability
  • Sustainable finance
  • Non-state actor responses to environmental change

Postgraduate Researcher

Justice Mabesa

Postgraduate Researcher

Zoe Mackay

Postgraduate Researcher

Lecturer in Sustainability

Research interests:

  • The post-growth and degrowth economics
  • Post-capitalism
  • Alternative economies

Professor

Research interests:

  • Climate change
  • Tropical ecology
  • Conservation
  • Tropical Ecosystem dynamics
  • Ecosystems

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Conservation ecology and biodiversity
  • Land use modelling
  • Pollution impacts to biogeochemistry

Christopher Middleton

Postgraduate Researcher

Lecturer in Environmental Science

Research interests:

  • Mountain ecosystems and their response to environmental change
  • How soil organisms cycle carbon and nutrients
  • How snow cover exerts an effect on energy in mountain ecosystems

Georgina Mitchell

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Ollie Moore

Lecturer in Environmental Science

Research interests:

  • Investigating the cycling of bioessential elements in soils and marine sediments
  • Investigating the rates at which minerals weather within subsurface bedrock fractures
  • Applying mineral-water interface research to the understanding of global element cycles
  • Development of novel proxies for palaeo ocean redox and biogeochemical cycling

Tchiyiwe Moyo

Postgraduate Researcher

Cassilde Muhoza

Postgraduate Researcher

Sarah Mullally

Postgraduate Researcher

Katariina Nara-Zanotti

Student Services Coordinator

Katariina Nara-Zanotti

Student Services Coordinator

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Rebecca Newman

Research Fellow

Abba Ngurno

Postgraduate Researcher

Honorary Fellow

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Tobias Otieno

Postgraduate Researcher

Napat Ouicharoen

Postgraduate Researcher

Nina Overtoom

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Pritha Pande

Research Associate

Angelica Pardo Islas

Technician - River Monitoring

Reader

Research interests:

  • Social dimensions (e.g. perceptions, policies, ethics, responsibility) of energy
  • Climate change
  • Geoengineering

Amanda Pauw

Student Services Coordinator

Amanda Pauw

Student Services Coordinator

In Memoriam: Senior Lecturer

Dr Hanna Pettersson

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Sagarmoy Phukan

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Ben Pile

Research Associate

Angela Purdham

Industry Liaison Officer

Pattrawut Pusingha

Postgraduate Researcher

Guanzhong Qiao

Postgraduate Researcher

Dr Pablo Raguet

Research Associate

Rebecca Reid Rodrigues

Student Services Administrator

Rebecca Reid Rodrigues

Student Services Administrator

Rebecca Reid Rodrigues

Student Services Administrator

Reader

Research interests:

  • the controls on the dynamics of glaciers and ice-sheets
  • Ground-based and airborne RES techniques in exploring englacial and subglacial environments
  • Thermal evolution of small Arctic glaciers
  • Supraglacial environments

Beth Roberts

Student Services Assistant

Beth Roberts

Student Services Assistant

Ieuan Roberts

Technician - Analytical Chemistry