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Department of Geography and Environmental Science, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 227, Reading, RG6 6AB, UK.
Geography and Environmental Science Staff
Academic Staff
Name |
Position |
Telephone |
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| Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako | Teaching Fellow in Human Geography |
+44 (0)118 378 3263 |
yaw.adjei-amoako@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Stuart Black |
Associate Professor in Environmental Radioactivity School Director for Teaching and Learning |
+44 (0)118 378 8646 |
s.black@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Nicholas Branch | Professor in Palaeoecology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 3266 |
n.p.branch@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Joanna Clark | Professor in Environmental Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6581 |
j.m.clark@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Hannah Cloke | Professor in Hydrology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6974 |
h.l.cloke@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Chris Collins | Professor of Environmental Chemistry |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8910 |
c.d.collins@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Udeme Dickson | Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry | u.j.dickson@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Sylvie Dubuc | Lecturer in Human Geography & Population Studies |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8657 |
s.dubuc@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Ruth Evans | Professor in Human Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7755 |
r.evans@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Rob Fry | Teaching Fellow in Geographical Information Systems |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7972 |
r.j.fry@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Hilary Geoghegan | Professor of Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8915 |
h.geoghegan@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Mike Goodman | Professor of Geography(Environment and Development) |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7686 |
m.k.goodman@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Thomas Grisaffi | Lecturer in Human Geography (Environment and Development) |
+44 (0)118 378 7496 |
t.grisaffi@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Sandy Harrison | Professor in Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles |
+ 44 (0)118 378 5258 |
s.p.harrison@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Alan Howard | Professor in Computational Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8763 |
a.howard@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Anna Jackman | Lecturer in Human Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 3934 |
a.h.jackman@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Sally Lloyd-Evans |
Associate Professor in Human Geography Deputy Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 5293 |
s.lloyd-evans@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Alison MacLeod |
Associate Professor in Physical Geography Deputy School Director for Teaching and Learning |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7909 |
alison.macleod@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Avril Maddrell | Professor in Human Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7756 |
avril.maddrell@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Frank Mayle | Professor in Tropical Palaeoecology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6260 |
f.mayle@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Hazel McGoff |
Lecturer in Environmental Science School Director of Academic Tutoring |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6743 |
h.j.mcgoff@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Steven Musson |
Professor of Geography Head of School |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6042 |
s.musson@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Jess Neumann | Lecturer in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
+ 44 (0) 118 378 8912 |
j.l.neumann@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Steve Robinson | Associate Professor in Soil and Water Biogeochemistry |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6075 |
j.s.robinson@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Shovonlal Roy | Associate Professor |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8944 |
shovonlal.roy@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Eirini Saratsi |
Teaching Fellow in Human Geography - Environment and Development |
+44 (0)118 378 6559 |
e.saratsi@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Maria Shahgedanova | Professor in Climate Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7745 |
m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Liz Shaw | Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6971 |
e.j.shaw@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Tom Sizmur | Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8913 |
t.sizmur@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Anne Verhoef | Professor of Soil Physics and Micrometeorology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6074 |
a.verhoef@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Andrew Wade |
Professor of Hydrology Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7315 |
a.j.wade@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Kevin White | Associate Professor in Environmental Remote Sensing |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7752 |
k.h.white@reading.ac.u |
| Dr Hong Yang | Associate Professor in Environmental Science |
+44 (0)118 378 7750 |
h.yang4@reading.ac.uk |
Research Staff
Name |
Position |
Telephone |
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| Dr Heou Maleki Badjana | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Hydrological Modelling |
+44 (0)118 378 3264 |
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| Joanne Beales | Landwise Research Project Administrator |
+44 (0)118 378 3289 |
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| Dr Matthew Cull | Postdoctoral Researcher in Ethics | m.j.cull@reading.ac.uk | |
| Sarah Duddigan | Research Assistant |
+44 (0)118 378 8970 |
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| Sonia Duval | Community Administrator, Whitley for Real Project |
+44 (0)118 378 3271 |
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| Dr Nathanael Harwood | Postdoctoral Research Assistant Plant Trait Modelling | n.d.harwood@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Danielle House | Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
+44 (0)118 378 3275 |
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| Dr Paul Lincoln | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Palaeofire | p.lincoln@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Will Maslanka | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Remote sensing |
+44 (0) 118 378 7285 |
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Senior Research Fellow |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8740 |
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| Dr Harry Pettit | David Robins Research Fellow in Urban Geography | h.g.pettit@reading.ac.uk | |
| Rhona Phipps | Project Manager | +44 (0) 118 378 7356 | r.a.phipps@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Marco Raczka | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Amazon Palaeoecology | m.f.raczka@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Xin Shu | Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Soil Biogeochemistry |
+44 (0)118 378 7896 |
x.shu@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Linda Speight | Postdoctoral Research Assistant Applied Flood Forecasting |
+44 (0)118 378 3291 |
l.j.speight@reading.ac.uk |
| Gerard Stewart | Communications Co-ordinator |
+44 (0)118 378 7902 |
g.w.stewart@reading.ac.uk |
| Joyce Ternenge | Project Officer |
+44 (0)118 378 3268 |
j.d.ternenge@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Gill Thornhill | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Palaeoclimate Model Evaluation | +44 (0) 118 378 8344 | g.thornhill@reading.ac.uk |
| Roberto Villegas-Diaz | Scientific Programmer and Data Manager | r.villegas-diaz@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Azin Wright | Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
+44 (0) 118 378 6557 |
azin.wright@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Gabriel Yesuf | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Environmental Modelling. |
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g.yesuf@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Lorna Zischka | Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Whitley for Real Project |
+44 (0) 118 378 3286 |
lorna.zischka@reading.ac.uk |
Postgraduate Research Students
Name |
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Project |
| Phillip Agredazywczuck | p.a.agredazywczuk@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Geochemical constraints on the hydrological restoration of groundwater-dependent wetlands in lowland catchments. |
| Henry Akinola | h.akinola@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Participatory Approach to Research Air Quality in Lagos State, Nigeria. |
| Paul Allen | p.allen2@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Reframing youth activism in a post pandemic community (with particular reference to the Whitley Young Researchers). |
| Dedy Antony | d.antony@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Factors affecting soil carbon storage at depth in agricultural systems in the UK. |
| Ellie Barbrook | e.barbrook@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Optimizing soil nitrogen (N) in babyleaf salad crops for sustainable crop production. |
| Selma Benyovszky | s.benyovszky@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Water-energy nexus in Algeria: the government water discourse and the role of the hydrocarbon sector. |
| Chloe Brimicombe | c.r.brimicombe@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Pan-African Heatwave Health Hazard Forecasting. |
| Merry Crowson | m.r.d.crowson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Capitalising on the Big Data era: establishing a multi-source monitoring framework for England's natural capital assets and flows. |
| Esmeralda Cruz-Silva | e.cruz-silva@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Pollen-based reconstructions of the vegetation and climate of the circum-Mediterranean region during the Holocene. |
| Jeff Da Costa | j.dacosta@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
The importance of nonlinearity in achieving climate resilience to hydrometeorological hazards. |
| Siobhan Dolan | s.dolan@pgr.reading.ac.uk | 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. |
| Exploring the Role of Citizen Science for advances in Urban Soil Management and Inspiring Sustainable Action. | ||
| Elaine Halliday | e.halliday@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Evaluating the impact of woodland management and drinking water abstraction on groundwater fed wetlands. |
| Lottie Hawkins | charlotte.hawkins@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Exploring the role of biochar to increase the sustainability of UK farming businesses. |
| Joseph Hirst | j.hirst@pgr.reading.ac.uk | The domestication of Amazon rainforests by pre-Columbian societies. |
| Mohammad Badsha Hossain | mohammadbadsha.hossain@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Family planning in Bangladesh: implementation and health impact. |
| Sazzad Hossain | mdsazzad.hossain@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Extended-range hydro meteorological forecasting for improved flood early warning in Bangladesh. |
| Madison Johnson | m.c.johnson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Safeguarding non-human heritage in the Anthropocene: an investigation of enthusiasm for rare heavy horse breeds. |
| David Kesner | d.kesner@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Understanding fire and vegetation feedbacks in response to environmental change during glacial and interglacial states. |
| Karolina Krupska | k.u.krupska@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Forecasting floods from intense rainfall and predicting their impact on bathing waters. |
| Clare Lewis | clare.lewis@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Meteosunamis in a changing climate: the future of coastal vulnerability and resilience. |
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Sabine Mayeux |
Food Justice in the City: Austerity, Citizenship and Creative Urban Space. | |
| Get your water out of my lounge: Understanding institutional constructions and public perceptions of flooding and flood risk management. | ||
| Faith Mitheu | f.k.mitheu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | A model for impact-based flood early warning in Uganda. |
| Alice Mpofu-Coles | a.mpofu-coles@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Identity, Transnationalism and Resilience Among the Young Zimbabwean Diaspora in UK. |
| Camilla Negri | c.negri@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Developing risk-based approaches to modelling phosphorus contamination in agricultural catchments. |
| Joy Ommer | j.ommer@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Reducing risk to hydrological extremes with Nature-based Solutions. |
| Henny Omosigho | h.omosigho@pgr.reading.ac.uk | How do earthworms and soil microbial communities interact to determine the fate of organic matter amendments to soil? |
| Daisy O'Neill | d.oneill@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Predicting the ecological and societal impacts of species on the move with climate change in the UK. |
| Sarah Parker | s.parker@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Reconstruction of monsoon dynamics during the late Quaternary using speleothem data and model simulations. |
| Roweena Patel | r.patel@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Energy transfer in marine ecosystems based on phytoplankton size structure from satellite remote sensing |
| Ayla Paul | a.paul@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Provenance, governance, and traceability of UK honey: combining stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry, trace element analysis and pollen identification. |
| Gabrielle Powell | g.b.powell@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Evaluating the multiple functions of woodlands for natural flood management (NFM). |
| David Richardson | d.s.richardson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Verification and diagnostics of ensemble-based earth-system models. |
| Victoria Robinson | v.a.robinson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Atomic Archaeology - Improving In-Situ Detection Methods for the Identification and Mapping of Sub-Surface Features. |
| Zarina Saidaliyeva | z.saidaliyeva@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Assessment of snow, glacier and permafrost melt contributions to runoff in the Tien Shan using isotopic analysis. |
| Precarious lifescapes and informality: a gendered and generational analysis of young informal workers in urban Tanzania. | ||
| Luke Sweeney | l.sweeney@pgr.reading.ac.uk | The Impact of Anthropogenic Land-use Changes on Fire Regimes During the Holocene. |
| Phillip Taiwo | o.p.taiwo@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Forecasting the influence of climate change on harmful algal growth through biogeochemical modelling. |
| Daniel Teeling | d.l.a.teeling@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Quantifying responses to abrupt climate change in the Andes, South America: Empirical data and model synergies. |
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Sarah Thoma |
Examining the relationship between environmental and societal change during the past 1000 years. | |
| Rachael Thornley | r.h.thornley@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Using Sentinel satellite remote sensing data to monitor the state of grasslands across a range of management intensities. |
| Helen Titley | h.a.titley@pgr.reading.ac.uk | The predictability of fluvial flooding from tropical cyclones. |
| Mark Turner | m.g.turner@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Rapid climate change in the last glacial period: the evidence from pollen records. |
| Maureen Wanzala | m.a.wanzala@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Understanding the Mechanisms of Flood Modelling and Forecasting of Historical Events to Inform Flood Early Warning in Kenya. |
| Robyn Woronka | r.woronka@pgr.reading.ac.uk | 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? |
| Ervin Zsoter | e.zsoter@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Understanding global flood hazard climatology for improved early flood warning. |
Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff
Name |
Position |
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Professor Brian Alloway |
Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Brian Goodall |
Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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| Professor Richard Skeffington | Emeritus Professor | r.a.skeffington@reading.ac.uk |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Alan Wild |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Peter Worsley |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Paul Bardos |
Visiting Professor |
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| Professor Simon Dadson | Visiting Professor | |
| Professor Penny Hirsch | Visiting Professor | |
| Professor Jane McCarthy | Visiting Professor | |
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Professor Andy Moffat |
Visiting Professor |
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| Professor Margaret Oliver | Visiting Professor | |
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Visiting Research fellow |
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| Dr Macarena Cardenas | Visiting Research Fellow | |
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Dr James Ormond |
Visiting Research Fellow |
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