Academic staff
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 School Director of Laboratories and Field Equipment |
+44 (0)118 378 8646 | s.black@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Sophie Blackburn | Lecturer in Human Geography | s.e.blackburn@reading.ac.uk | |
| Professor Nicholas Branch |
Professor in Palaeoecology Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science (Job Share) |
+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 Udeme Dickson | Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry | u.j.dickson@reading.ac.uk | |
| Siobhan Dolan | Lecturer in Physical Geography |
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| 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 Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science (Job Share) |
+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 3785293 | 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 |
| 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 3786042 | 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 |
| 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 Nathan Salvidge |
Lecturer in Human Geography |
nathan.salvidge@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Mike Simmonds | Senior Project Manager QUEST | +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
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+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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Trisha Bennett | Community Liaison Officer | trisha.bennett@reading.ac.uk | |
| Matthew Burrows | Policy Communications Manager | m.j.burrows@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Blessing Chidimuro |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Isotope Ecology/Archaeology | b.chidimuro@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Selva Dhandapani | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Soil Biogeochemistry | +44 (0)118 378 4727 | s.dhandapani@reading.ac.uk |
| Sonia Duval | Community Administrator, Whitley for Real Project | +44 (0)118 3783271 | s.duval@reading.ac.uk |
| Helen Griffith | Postdoctoral Research Assistant Global Floods Modeller | helen.griffith@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Gavkhar Mamadjanova | Research Fellow | g.mamadjanova@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr William Mills | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | w.f.mills@reading.ac.uk | |
| Alice Mpofu-Coles | Research Assistant | alice.mpofu-coles@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Esther Oenga | PDRA Participatory Action Research (PAR) Geography & Environmental Science |
e.k.oenga@reading.ac.uk | |
| Dr Marco Raczka | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Amazon Palaeoecology | m.f.raczka@reading.ac.uk | |
| Paarbrahm Singh | Research Assistant | p.p.singh@reading.ac.uk | |
| Georgina Tang | Research Assistant in Plant Dynamics and Migration | georgina.tang@reading.ac.uk | |
| Joyce Ternenge | Project Officer | +44 (0)118 378 3268 | j.d.ternenge@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Gabriel Yesuf | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Environmental Modelling. | 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 | Project | |
|---|---|---|
| Phillip Agredazywczuk | 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). |
| Ellie Barbrook | e.barbrook@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Optimizing soil nitrogen (N) in babyleaf salad crops for sustainable crop production. |
| 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. |
| Chloe Brimicombe | c.r.brimicombe@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Too Hot to Handle: The Global Impact of Extreme Heat. |
| Luci Corbett | l.j.corbett@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Acute Oak Decline (AOD): Detecting and understanding thresholds and feedback through soil microbial process indicators. |
| 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. |
| Nerea Ferrando | n.ferrandojorge@pgr.reading.ac.uk | 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. |
| Theodore Keeping | t.r.keeping@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Nowcasting the Risk of Wildfire |
| 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. |
| Hanqing Lin | hanqing.lin@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
Effect of heavy metals on carbon source utilization and DNA of soil microorganisms. |
| Sabine Mayeux | s.mayeux@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Food Justice in the City: Austerity, Citizenship and Creative Urban Space. |
| 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. |
| Andra Serban | a.serban@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Evaluating the ability of human communities and environmental systems to adapt and recover to Late Holocene climate change in the Peruvian Andes. |
| Saule Suleimenova |
s.suleimenova@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
Modelling soybean yield response to the projected climate scenarios in south-eastern Kazakhstan. |
| Phiala Mehring | phiala.mehring@pgr.reading.ac.uk | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Yicheng Shen | yicheng.shen@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Optimality approaches linking fire-related plant traits and ecosystem responses to climate change. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Jessica Underwood | j.c.j.underwood@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
Using simple spectral technology to engage farmers in building soil health to enhance environmental outcomes. |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
