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Academic staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 3263 yaw.adjei-amoako@reading.ac.uk
Dr Stuart Black

Associate Professor in Environmental Radioactivity

Head of School 

+44 (0)118 378 8646 s.black@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sophie Blackburn Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 5911
s.e.blackburn@reading.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Branch

Professor in Palaeoecology

Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science

+44 (0)118 378 3266 n.p.branch@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 Jonathan Dale Lecturer in Physical Geography  +44 (0)118 378 4837 j.j.dale@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Duddigan Lecturer in Environmental Science  +44 (0)118 378 5887 s.duddigan@reading.ac.uk
Professor Ruth Evans Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 7755 r.evans@reading.ac.uk
Dr Rob Fry Lecturer in Geographical Systems +44 (0)118 3787972 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
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 of Geography and Higher Education +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 +44 (0)118 378 5293 s.lloyd-evans@reading.ac.uk
Dr Alison MacLeod

Associate Professor in Physical Geography

School Director of 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
Dr Sabine Mayeux Lecturer in Human Geography   s.m.mayeux@reading.ac.uk
Professor Frank Mayle Professor in Tropical Palaeoecology +44 (0)118 378 6260 f.mayle@reading.ac.uk
Dr Hazel McGoff

Associate Professor 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

+44 (0)118 378 7753 s.musson@reading.ac.uk
Dr Jess Neumann Associate Professor +44(0) 118 378 8912 j.l.neumann@reading.ac.uk
Jim Ormond Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility   j.k.ormond@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 Nathan Salvidge Lecturer in Development Geography  +44 (0)118 378 5772 nathan.salvidge@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 Mike Simmonds

Senior Project Manager QUEST

Associate Professor

+44 (0)118 378 8853 m.j.simmonds@reading.ac.uk
Professor Tom Sizmur Professor 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
+44 (0)118 378 7315 a.j.wade@reading.ac.uk
Professor Hong Yang Professor in Environmental Science +44 (0)118 378 7750 h.yang4@reading.ac.uk

Research staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Trisha Bennett Community Liaison Officer   trisha.bennett@reading.ac.uk
Sophia Cain Science Coordinator   s.l.cain@reading.ac.uk
Sonia Duval Community Administrator, Whitley for Real Project +44 (0)118 3783271 s.duval@reading.ac.uk
Mary-Ann Egbudom Scientific Programmer and Data Manager   m.egbudom@reading.ac.uk
Tariq Gomma CPAR Peer Mentor   t.gomma@reading.ac.uk
Olivia Haas PDRA in Vegetation-Fire Interactions   o.m.haas@reading.ac.uk
Sofia Iogna-Prat De Medina-Rosales Research Assistant Microplastics in Soil   sofia.iogna-pratdemedina-rosales@reading.ac.uk
Mengmeng Liu Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Paleofire Analysis   mengmeng.liu@reading.ac.uk
Dr William Mills Leverhulme Early Career Fellow   w.f.mills@reading.ac.uk
Dr Alice Mpofu-Coles Community Led Research Pilot Research Assistant   alice.mpofu-coles@reading.ac.uk
Krishna Neupane CLRP Community Researcher   k.neupane@reading.ac.uk
Unis Nisa Whitley Community Technician - FoodSEqual   unis.nisa@reading.ac.uk
Dr Esther Oenga PDRA Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Geography & Environmental Science
  e.k.oenga@reading.ac.uk
Dominic Robson Data Analyst Migration   d.t.robson@reading.ac.uk
Georgina Tang Research Assistant in Plant Dynamics and Migration   georgina.tang@reading.ac.uk
Dr Imelda Uwase Postdoctoral Research Associate   i.uwase@reading.ac.uk
Dr Gabriel Yesuf Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Environmental Modelling. g.yesuf@reading.ac.uk
Guoxi Zhang Data Analyst   g.zhang@reading.ac.uk
Jierong Zhao Research Assistant in Speleothem Modelling
 
jierong.zhao@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 Email Project
Abraham Akyala a.akyala@pgr.reading.ac.uk Gender and Water in Nigeria.
Isaac Afram i.afram@pgr.reading.ac.uk Towards Net-Zero Chocolate: Carbon and Nutrient Budgets for Compost  Use in Cocoa Farms.
Ellie Barbrook e.barbrook@pgr.reading.ac.uk Optimizing soil nitrogen (N) in babyleaf salad crops for sustainable crop production.
Zoe Bateman z.bateman@pgr.reading.ac.uk Developing an integrated toolkit for the assessment of peatland degradation.
Aslihan Benlioglu a.benlioglu@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Microplastic Pollution in Soil.
Selma Benyovszky s.benyovszky@pgr.reading.ac.uk Water-energy nexus in Algeria: the government water discourse and the role of the hydrocarbon sector.
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.
Charlie Davies c.a.davies@pgr.reading.ac.uk  Impact of Holocene land use and climate change upon Brazil’s Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot.
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.
Robert Hindson r.hindson@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Evaluating changes in Holocene and Anthropocene biodiversity and healthiness of English Peatlands.
Sumit Kumar sumit.kumar@pgr.reading.ac.uk Governance for resilience and sustainable living: navigating urban and transboundary flood risk in India.
Clare Lewis clare.lewis@pgr.reading.ac.uk Meteosunamis in a changing climate: the future of coastal vulnerability and resilience.
Qiao Li
qiao.li@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Assessing the evolution of supraglacial lakes and their effects on glacier melt in the High Mountain Asia using remote sensing.
Geoff Lovett g.l.lovett@pgr.reading.ac.uk Modelling the impact of planting choices and management on the delivery of multiple ecosystem services by domestic gardens.
Connor Mackenzie c.mackenzie@pgr.reading.ac.uk Interactions between vegetation and wildfires.
Sharon Mandipe s.mandipe@pgr.reading.ac.uk Image Velocimetry for Quantifying River Flow
Catherine Martinez c.martinez@pgr.reading.ac.uk Green Carbon Sequestration: Using plants to fix C(O2) deep under ground.
Gaia Mortier g.mortier@pgr.reading.ac.uk

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

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.
Isaac Ogundare i.ogundare@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Household and Community level Adaptation to Climate Change Practices in Southwest Nigeria.
Omofolawe Otun o.r.otun@pgr.reading.ac.uk
The effect of intercropping on soil health.
Chris Pesso  c.d.pesso@pgr.reading.ac.uk 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 v.a.robinson@pgr.reading.ac.uk Atomic Archaeology - Improving In-Situ Detection Methods for the Identification and Mapping of Sub-Surface Features.
Megan Sherlock m.sherlock@pgr.reading.ac.uk The impact of planting choices on the delivery of multiple ecosystem services by domestic gardens.
Lucia Snyderman l.snyderman@pgr.reading.ac.uk
 The Pelican Brief”: Using environmental archives to establish ecological baselines for UK wetland biodiversity restoration.
Saule Suleimenova s.suleimenova@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Modelling soybean yield response to the different irrigation scenarios and small-holder farmers’ adaptation to climate change in south-eastern Kazakhstan.
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?

Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff

Name Position Email
Professor Brian Alloway Emeritus Professor b.j.alloway@reading.ac.uk
Professor Paul Bardos Visiting Professor r.p.bardos@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sophie Bowlby Visiting research Fellow s.bowlby@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Max Coleman Emeritus Professor m.l.coleman@reading.ac.uk
Professor Simon Dadson Visiting Professor  
Professor Brian Goodall Emeritus Professor b.goodall@reading.ac.uk
Professor Penny Hirsch Visiting Professor  
Professor Jane McCarthy Visiting Professor  
Professor Andy Moffat Visiting Professor a.j.moffat@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Stephen Nortcliff Emeritus Professor s.nortcliff@reading.ac.uk
Professor Margaret Oliver Emeritus Professor m.a.oliver@reading.ac.uk
Professor Richard Skeffington Emeritus Professor r.a.skeffington@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Paul Whitehead Emeritus Professor p.g.whitehead@reading.ac.uk
Professor Alan Wild Emeritus Professor
Professor Peter Worsley Emeritus Professor p.worsley@reading.ac.uk
Athena SWAN Silver Award