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Academic staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 3263 [email protected]
Dr Stuart Black

Associate Professor in Environmental Radioactivity

Head of School 

+44 (0)118 378 8646 [email protected]
Dr Sophie Blackburn Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 5911
[email protected]
Professor Nicholas Branch

Professor in Palaeoecology

Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science

+44 (0)118 378 3266 [email protected]
Professor Hannah Cloke Professor in Hydrology +44 (0)118 378 6974 [email protected]
Professor Chris Collins Professor of Environmental Chemistry +44 (0)118 378 8910 [email protected]
Dr Jonathan Dale Lecturer in Physical Geography  +44 (0)118 378 4837 [email protected]
Dr Sarah Duddigan Lecturer in Environmental Science  +44 (0)118 378 5887 [email protected]
Professor Ruth Evans Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 7755 [email protected]
Dr Rob Fry Lecturer in Geographical Systems +44 (0)118 3787972 [email protected]
Professor Hilary Geoghegan

Professor of Geography 

+44 (0)118 378 8915 [email protected]
Professor Mike Goodman Professor of Geography (Environment and Development) +44 (0)118 378 7686 [email protected]
Professor Sandy Harrison Professor in Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles +44 (0)118 378 5258 [email protected]
Professor Alan Howard Professor of Geography and Higher Education +44 (0)118 378 8763 [email protected]
Dr Anna Jackman Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 3934 [email protected]
Dr Sally Lloyd-Evans Associate Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 5293 [email protected]
Dr Alison MacLeod

Associate Professor in Physical Geography

School Director of Teaching and Learning

+44 (0)118 378 7909 [email protected]
Professor Avril Maddrell Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 7756 [email protected]
Dr Sabine Mayeux Lecturer in Human Geography   [email protected]
Professor Frank Mayle Professor in Tropical Palaeoecology +44 (0)118 378 6260 [email protected]
Dr Hazel McGoff

Associate Professor in Environmental Science

School Director of Academic Tutoring

+44 (0)118 378 6743 [email protected]
Professor Steven Musson

Professor of Geography

+44 (0)118 378 7753 [email protected]
Dr Jess Neumann Associate Professor +44(0) 118 378 8912 [email protected]
Jim Ormond Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility   [email protected]
Dr Steve Robinson Associate Professor in Soil and Water Biogeochemistry +44 (0)118 378 6075 [email protected]
Dr Shovonlal Roy Associate Professor +44 (0)118 378 8944 [email protected]
Dr Nathan Salvidge Lecturer in Development Geography  +44 (0)118 378 5772 [email protected]
Professor Maria Shahgedanova Professor in Climate Science +44 (0)118 378 7745 [email protected]
Professor Liz Shaw Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry +44 (0)118 378 6971 [email protected]
Dr Mike Simmonds

Senior Project Manager QUEST

Associate Professor

+44 (0)118 378 8853 [email protected]
Professor Tom Sizmur Professor in Environmental Chemistry +44 (0)118 378 8913 [email protected]
Professor Anne Verhoef Professor of Soil Physics and Micrometeorology +44 (0)118 378 6074 [email protected]
Professor Andrew Wade Professor of Hydrology
+44 (0)118 378 7315 [email protected]
Professor Hong Yang Professor in Environmental Science +44 (0)118 378 7750 [email protected]

Research staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Jo Anderson Community Food and Health Champion   [email protected]
Ellie Barbrook Senior Field and Laboratory Technician in Environmental Agricultural Science   [email protected]
Dr Trisha Bennett Community Liaison Officer   [email protected]
Matthew Burrows
  [email protected]
Sophia Cain Science Coordinator   [email protected]
Sonia Duval Community Administrator, Whitley for Real Project +44 (0)118 3783271 [email protected]
Mary-Ann Egbudom Scientific Programmer and Data Manager   [email protected]
Tariq Gomma CPAR Peer Mentor   [email protected]
Olivia Haas PDRA in Vegetation-Fire Interactions   [email protected]
Sofia Iogna-Prat De Medina-Rosales Research Assistant Microplastics in Soil   [email protected]
Mengmeng Liu Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Paleofire Analysis   [email protected]
Xin Liu Research Assistant in Environmental Reconstruction   [email protected]
Dr William Mills Leverhulme Early Career Fellow   [email protected]
Dr Giulia Mengoli Postdoctoral Research Assistant Sub-daily P model   [email protected]
Dr Alice Mpofu-Coles Community Led Research Pilot Research Assistant   [email protected]
Krishna Neupane CLRP Community Researcher   [email protected]
Unis Nisa Whitley Community Technician - FoodSEqual   [email protected]
Dr Esther Oenga PDRA Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Geography & Environmental Science
  [email protected]
Dominic Robson Data Analyst Migration   [email protected]
Georgina Tang Research Assistant in Plant Dynamics and Migration   [email protected]
Dr Imelda Uwase Postdoctoral Research Associate   [email protected]
Juliette Waterman Postdoctoral Research Assistant    [email protected]
Dr Gabriel Yesuf Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Environmental Modelling.
[email protected]
Guoxi Zhang Data Analyst   [email protected]
Jierong Zhao Research Assistant in Speleothem Modelling
 
[email protected]
Dr Lorna Zischka Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Whitley for Real Project +44 (0) 118 378 3286 [email protected]

Postgraduate research students

Name Email Project
Abraham Akyala [email protected] Gender and Water in Nigeria.
Isaac Afram [email protected] Towards Net-Zero Chocolate: Carbon and Nutrient Budgets for Compost  Use in Cocoa Farms.
Ellie Barbrook [email protected] Optimizing soil nitrogen (N) in babyleaf salad crops for sustainable crop production.
Zoe Bateman [email protected] Developing an integrated toolkit for the assessment of peatland degradation.
Aslihan Benlioglu [email protected]
Microplastic Pollution in Soil.
Selma Benyovszky [email protected] Water-energy nexus in Algeria: the government water discourse and the role of the hydrocarbon sector.
Merry Crowson
[email protected] Capitalising on the Big Data era: establishing a multi-source monitoring framework for England's natural capital assets and flows.
Charlie Davies [email protected]  Impact of Holocene land use and climate change upon Brazil’s Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot.
Siobhan Dolan [email protected] Landslide Early Warning Systems: A new approach to landslide EWS using global scale hydro-meteorological tools with a consideration of EWS introduction to post-colonial societies.
Oliver Jolezya Hasimuna [email protected] Heavy Metal Contamination in Three Culturable Tilapia Fish Species and Its Effect on Fish and Human Health
Robert Hindson [email protected]
Evaluating changes in Holocene and Anthropocene biodiversity and healthiness of English Peatlands.
Sumit Kumar [email protected] Governance for resilience and sustainable living: navigating urban and transboundary flood risk in India.
Clare Lewis [email protected] Meteosunamis in a changing climate: the future of coastal vulnerability and resilience.
Qiao Li
[email protected]
Assessing the evolution of supraglacial lakes and their effects on glacier melt in the High Mountain Asia using remote sensing.
Geoff Lovett [email protected] Modelling the impact of planting choices and management on the delivery of multiple ecosystem services by domestic gardens.
Connor Mackenzie [email protected] Interactions between vegetation and wildfires.
Sharon Mandipe [email protected] Image Velocimetry for Quantifying River Flow
Catherine Martinez [email protected] Green Carbon Sequestration: Using plants to fix C(O2) deep under ground.
Gaia Mortier [email protected]

A Day in the Lice: Recreating Past Human and Animal Life Histories Using Arthropod Ectoparasites in Museum and Archaeological Collections.

Daisy O'Neill [email protected] Predicting the ecological and societal impacts of species on the move with climate change in the UK.
Isaac Ogundare [email protected]
Household and Community level Adaptation to Climate Change Practices in Southwest Nigeria.
Omofolawe Otun [email protected]
The effect of intercropping on soil health.
Chris Pesso  [email protected] High resolution mapping of fine sediment and pollutants throughout large river cross sections with innovative uncrewed survey boats; supporting improved flux estimation, habitat assessment and bathing water safety.
Victoria Robinson [email protected] Atomic Archaeology - Improving In-Situ Detection Methods for the Identification and Mapping of Sub-Surface Features.
Megan Sherlock [email protected] The impact of planting choices on the delivery of multiple ecosystem services by domestic gardens.
Lucia Snyderman [email protected]
 The Pelican Brief”: Using environmental archives to establish ecological baselines for UK wetland biodiversity restoration.
Saule Suleimenova [email protected]
Modelling soybean yield response to the different irrigation scenarios and small-holder farmers’ adaptation to climate change in south-eastern Kazakhstan.
Robyn Woronka [email protected] A geographical 'sense of place' can be reflected in a film, but does it consider the audience's perception of the place and the reality for the local community?

Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff

Name Position Email
Professor Brian Alloway Emeritus Professor [email protected]
Professor Paul Bardos Visiting Professor [email protected]
Dr Sophie Bowlby Visiting research Fellow [email protected]
Emeritus Professor Max Coleman Emeritus Professor [email protected]
Professor Simon Dadson Visiting Professor  
Professor Brian Goodall Emeritus Professor [email protected]
Professor Penny Hirsch Visiting Professor  
Professor Jane McCarthy Visiting Professor  
Professor Andy Moffat Visiting Professor [email protected]
Emeritus Professor Stephen Nortcliff Emeritus Professor [email protected]
Professor Margaret Oliver Emeritus Professor [email protected]
Professor Richard Skeffington Emeritus Professor [email protected]
Emeritus Professor Paul Whitehead Emeritus Professor [email protected]
Professor Alan Wild Emeritus Professor
Professor Peter Worsley Emeritus Professor [email protected]
Athena SWAN Silver Award
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