Our people

Research interests:

• Climate change
• Ocean modelling
• Ocean carbon cycle

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

• Chemistry of indoor environments
• Computational and physical chemistry
• Air chemistry modelling
• Lung exposure to pollutants
• Far-UVC photochemistry

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

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

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

Research interests:

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

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

Research interests:

• Urban sustainability
• Economic geography
• Critiquing the political economy 

Research interests:

• The relationship between inequality and sustainability in South Asia

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

• Climate finance

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

• Relationships between the human and environmental systems

Research interests:

• Development
• Energy
• Low-carbon transition
• Commodity frontiers
• Cities
• Urban futures

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

• Human-animal interactions and coexistence
• Non-lethal methods to manage wildlife and free-roaming livestock
• Fertility control for wildlife
• Wildlife ecology, behaviour and population management
• Management of non-native invasive wildlife

Research interests:

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

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

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

Research interests:

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

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

Research interests:

• Understanding the processes that govern climate using geochemistry
• Timing of Pleistocene climate change events
• Palaeoclimate reconstructions
• Deep-sea coral paleo-biogeography
• Impact of weathering on the ocean and climate

Research interests:

• Analysing the links between climate, resource consumption, the economy and development
• Effects of policies aimed at reducing resource use and environmental pressures
• Economy
• International trade and development

Research interests:

• Reconstruction of past sea level changes
• Environmental reconstruction of coastal areas; how these influence cultural development
• Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction using pollen and diatom analyses

Research interests:

• Sustainable healthcare
• Developing tools to identify/manage chemical risks to society and the environment.

Research interests:

• The links between livelihoods and environmental change
• Science, policy and environmental governance
• The practical and policy mechanisms that can advance sustainable development

Research interests:

• Resilience in food systems
• Sustainability and the agri-food sector
• Environmental, economic and social costs of enhanced transport systems
• Environment, society & governance
• Mapping social and knowledge flows in ecosystems

Research interests:

• Environmental problems driven by economic factors
• Strategic behaviour of natural resource users/managers in a temporal-spatial context
• Dynamic optimisation of natural resource management
• Relationship between trade and global environmental change driven by invasive species
• Strategic interactions in environmental cooperation at local and international scale

Research interests:

• Environment and human health
• The protective value of ecosystems
• Vulnerability and resilience in relation to environmental hazards
• Wildlife disease and wildlife management
• Implications of political and land use change for climate risk

Research interests:

• Analytical chemistry
• Environmental toxicology