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The list below includes all members of staff within the Department of Geography, and their current research interests
[ Professors | Visiting Professors | Professors Emeritus | Readers | Senior Lecturers | Lecturers ]
[ Research Fellows | Research Officers | Experimental Officers | PhD Students ]
[ Technical Assistants | Administrative Support ]
Professors 
David B. Clarke BA, PhD (V U Manc) FRGS
Urban culture and consumption; poststructuralism; postmodernism
Email or Web Page
Heaven Crawley BA, MA (Sussex), PhD (Oxford)
International migration especially forced migration; refugees; asylum; gender; childhood experiences of migration; public policy
Email or Web Page
Stefan Doerr Diplom (Tubingen), PhD (Swansea)
Hydrology; soil erosion; land degradation; soil water repellency; karst and pseudo-karst geomorphology
Marcus A. Doel
(Head of School ) BSc, PhD (Bristol)
Social and spatial theory; poststructuralism; cultural geography
Email or Web Page
Danny McCarroll BSc (Sheffield), PhD (Wales)
Geomorphology; reconstructing Quaternary environments and ice sheets; recent climate change recorded in tree rings
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Tavi Murray BSc PhD (Wales)
Glaciology, especially glacier dynamics and flow instabilities; glacier response to climate change; glacier geophysics.
Email or Web Page
F. Alayne Street-Perrott MA (Colorado), MA, PhD (Cantab), FRGS
Palaeoclimatology; palaeolimnology; tropical palaeoenvironments; stable isotopes; long-term changes in the carbon cycle in the tropics
Michael Sullivan MA (Oxon), PhD (Wales), DipSW, CQSW
Health and education policy; service-user responsiveness; personal social services; political parties; social policy; devolution; policy analysis
Rory P.D. Walsh MA, PhD (Cantab)
Tropical environments; hydrogeomorphology; climate change; river pollution; tropical rain forests
Email or Web Page
Professors Emeritus
David T. Herbert BA (Wales), PhD (Birmingham), DLitt (Wales), FRGS
Urban studies; social problems in urban environments; environmental criminology; leisure/tourism; heritage studies; imaginative geographies
Email
John A. Matthews BSc, PhD (London), FRGS
Holocene environmental change; dating techniques; arctic-alpine biogeography and geomorphology; the future of geography
Email or Web Page
Visiting Professors
Wayne K. Davies BSc, PhD (Wales)
Department of Geography, University of Calgary
Communities in cities; history of Welsh in Canada; urban system development policies
Atle Nesje BSc, PhD (Bergen)
Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen.
Quaternary geology; Holocene glacier and climate variations; palaeoclimate
Readers
Chris Barrow
Environment and development; land degradation; water resources
Email or Web Page
Felicia Hughes-Freeland PhD (SOAS)
Dance, performance, gender; ritual and media; cultural politics; visual anthrpology and visual ethnography; aesthetics and epistemology; anthropological theory; embodiment and society; Indonesia, South-East Asia
Sietse O. Los BSc (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), MSc, PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Global vegetation monitoring; vegetation climate interactions; remote sensing
Email or Web Page
Adrian J. Luckman (Head of Department) BSc, DPhil (York)
Microwave remote sensing of the land surface for environmental applications.
Email or Web Page
Peter North MA(Cantab), PhD (Sussex)
Environmental modelling; optical remote sensing of land and atmosphere
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Richard A. Shakesby BA (CNAA), PhD (Edinburgh)
Quaternary geomorphology; arctic-alpine geomorphology; land degradation
Senior Lecturers
Rosemary D.F. Bromley MA (Cantab), PhD (Wales)
Development of Latin American cities; urban regeneration, retailing and the disadvantaged consumer.
Email or Web Page
Siwan Davies BA (Oxford), MSc, PhD (London)
Environmental change; tephrochronology; ice cores; dating techniques
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Eleanor Fisher BA, MA, PhD (Hull)
Social anthropology, social development; poverty and vulnerability analysis; livelihoods analysis; knowledge issues; African development
R. Pyrs Gruffudd BSc, PhD (Loughborough)
Cultural geography and landscape; environmentalism
Email or Web Page
Keith H. Halfacree BSc (Bristol), PhD (Lancaster).
Rural issues; migration; politics; environmentalism; social spatialisation
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Natascha Kljun Dipl. Natw., PhD (ETH Zurich)
Boundary layer meterology; land-surface-atmosphere interactions; footprint modelling
Email or Web Page
Bernd Kulessa Diplom-Geophysiker (CAU Kiel), PhD (Aberystwyth)
Glaciology and near-surface geophysics
Email or Web Page
Neil Loader BSc (Wales), PhD (Cantab)
Quaternary environmental change; stable isotope analysis of peat, pollen and tree-rings; analytical technique development
Geraint Owen BSc (Leeds), PhD (Reading)
Sedimentology; geology; ancient fluvial environments
Email or Web Page
Nicola Piper BA (Vienna), MA, PhD (Sheffield)
International economic migration; governance and policy networks; the rights of migrants; gender issues
Iain Robertson BSc (Nottingham Polytechnic), MPhil (Bradford), PhD (Cantab)
Reconstructing Quaternary environments; dendroclimatology; radiocarbon dating
Email or Web Page
Suranjit K. Saha
Development policy and theory; regional and rural development; sustainable livelihoods
Richard G. Smith BA (Hull), PhD (Bristol)
Poststructuralism; global cities; world cities; globalization; urban theory; human geography
Email or Web Page
Lecturers
Paul Alton BSc (Sussex), PhD (Durham)
Remote Sensing; Environmental Modelling and Data Assimilation; Impact of climate change on vegetation
Email or Web Page
John F. Hiemstra MSc, PhD (Amsterdam)
Glacial geomorphology and sedimentology; Quaternary ice sheet reconstructions; Micromorphology
Email or Web Page
Kevin G. Rees BSc (Wales), MA, Ph.D. (Simon Fraser)
High-technology industries; corporate collaboration; patenting; regional economic development
Email or Web Page
Glaciology; Numerical modelling of ice sheets; Climate/ice sheet interactions
Research Fellows
Mary Gagen BSc (Birmingham), PhD (Wales)
RCUK Fellow, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant
Global environmental change; past climates; Quaternary geography; tree-ring science
Email or Web Page
Timothy D. James BScH (Queen's), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Leeds)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Changes in glacier geometry and extent in Svalbard; sea-level rise
Email or Web Page
Research Officers
Suzanne Bevan BSc (Reading) BSc (Open University) PhD Swansea.
Detecting and measuring environmental change using optical and microwave remote sensing.
Brian Barrett BSc (Adelaide), MSc (Adelaide), PhD (Leeds).
Postdoctoral Research Officer
RABID - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica
Per Bodin PhD (Kalmar University, Sweden)
NERC Research Officer
Modelling carbon and water fluxes
Adam Booth PhD (Leeds University)
GLIMPSE Research Officer
Glacio-geophyiscs – imaging ice structure with seismic and radar surveys.
Research Assistants
Marianne Hall PhD PhD (GU Gothenburg)
Modelling vegetation-atmosphere interactions and land-surface albedo
Experimental Officers
Tim Fearnside;BSc, Dip.Cartography (Glasgow). FBCartS
Senior experimental officer
Cartographic design; cartographic education
Email or Web Page
PhD Students
Sue Cook
Glacier outlet dynamics modelling; GLIMPSE
Email or Web Page
Jonathan McGovern
Ice sheet modelling; GLIMPSE
Email or Web Page
Laura Cordero Llana
Glacier mass balance, volume change and remote sensing; GLIMPSE
Email or Web Page
Technical Assistants
Philip Bevan
Research Laboratory Technician
Alan Cutliffe
Chief Technician
Nicola Jones BSc (Plymouth)
Cartographer
Anna Ratcliffe BA (Wales) Post-Graduate Diploma
Cartographic and Photographic Technician
Stephen Shaw BSc (Plymouth)
Systems Support Technician
Jonathan Woodman-Ralph
Dendro-technician
Administrative Support
Leighan Evans
Administrative Support Assistant (Human Resources)
Lindis Glover
Administrative Support Assistant (Research)
Gillian Oliver
Executive Assistant to the Head of School
Alison Royal
Administrative Support Assistant (Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught)