Brief Career History

2005 - present
Chair in Glaciology and Leader of Swansea Glaciology Group. I am currently also Research Director for the School of the Environment and Society

2008
Walter Bean Visiting Professorship, University of Waterloo, Canada

2007-8
Bullerwell Lectures, British Geophysical Association, which are presented by an "outstanding, young British Geophysicist"

2007
Swansea University nomination for "Welsh Woman of the Year" (Science & Technology)

2007 - 12
Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, awarded to researchers of "exceptional quality" for research that will result in "changing of the traditional landscape of research disciplines"

2007
Awarded Polar Medal by HM Queen for "outstanding service to Polar Research"

2006
AGU Union Lecture, Near surface geophysics

2004 - 5
Chair in Glaciology, University of Leeds

2004 - 5
Leverhulme Research Fellowship, "Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica"

2002 - 4
Reader in Glaciology, University of Leeds

2000
British Geomorphological Research Group Warwick Award for "glaciological research, in particular the ground-breaking use of geophysical techniques"

1993 - 2002
Senior Lecturer and Lecturer, University of Leeds

Current research projects

• SLICES 2004-7. Changes in glacier geometry and extent in Svalbard: implications for sea level rise during the 20th and 21st centuries, NERC, with S. Barr, P. Clarke, M. King, J. Mills all Univ. Newcastle, A. Luckman Univ. Wales Swansea, T. Payne, J. Wadham Univ. Bristol, NE/B505203/1, £250k.
• Effect of the spatial variability of physical parameters on the rheology of temperate glaciers and their modelled response to climate change 2004-7. NERC, with B. Hubbard, Univ. Wales, Aberystwyth, H. Mader, Univ. Bristol, A. Endres, Univ. Waterloo, Canada, L.J. West, Leeds, NER/A/S/2002/01000, £188k.
• RABID 2004-9. Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream: Hot water drilling and downhole instrumentation, with A.M. Smith, BAS, NERC AFI GR3/G005B, £505k.
• GLIMPSE 2007-12. Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award, £800k.