Academic staff
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Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako |
Lecturer in Human Geography |
yaw.adjei-amoako@reading.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)118 378 3263 |
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Lecturer |
Hydro‑climatology. Water resources management. Climate change impacts and adaptation. Drought risk assessment and planning. Hydrological modelling. Environmental regulation and sustainability. Agricultural water management. |
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Associate Professor in Environmental Radioactivity Head of School |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 8646 |
Isotope Geochemistry and its applications to past and present climate and environments. Geochronology (U-Series isotopes). Isotopes ecology to source and provenance plants and animals for interpretation of past environments. Isotopes in forensic science. |
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Lecturer in Human Geography |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 5911 |
Development geography. Political ecology, politics of scale. Disaster risk reduction, resilience and vulnerability. Post-disaster politics and risk governance. Climate change adaptation. Participation, local agency and resistance. |
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Professor in Palaeoecology |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 3266 |
Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate and environmental change in Peru, Italy and the UK. Climate resilience and food production in the Peruvian Andes: past, present and future. |
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Lecturer in Human Geography |
Environmental and Economic Geography. Markets and Commodities. Bio-economy. Geographical Theory. |
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Lecturer in Physical Geography |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 4837 |
Tidal wetland restoration. Coastal and estuarine management. Intertidal morphology. Unmanned aerial systems. |
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Lecturer in Environmental Science |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 5887 |
Application of organic matter amendments and impacts on soil health. Soil organic matter stabilisation and decomposition. Habitat restoration. Citizen science and community/stakeholder engagement. |
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Professor in Human Geography |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 7755 |
Geographies of children, youth and families, focusing on: Care, intersecting inequalities and wellbeing in transnational families. Young caregiving and family relations, disability, HIV and chronic illness. 'Bereavement', responses to death and inheritance. Young people’s and women’s land rights and food security in West Africa. Sibling relationships and child- and youth-headed households in East Africa. Participation of marginalised groups in research and policy. |
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Lecturer in Geographical Systems |
tel: +44 (0)118 3787972 |
Organising geophysical survey. Maintaining geophysical and surveying equipment and software. Processing data. The creation of graphical output such as geophysical interpretations and published detailed reports. |
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Professor of Geography |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 8915 |
Emotional-affective geographies. Museum geographies and heritage. Cultures of climate change. More-than-human geographies. Equity in higher education. Neurodiverse lives. |
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Professor of Geography (Environment and Development) |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 7686 |
Critical cultural geographies of food, humanitarianism and the environment. Political ecology and the politics of sustainable consumption. Digital politics and cultures. |
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Professor in Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 5258 |
Role of the land-surface, terrestrial biosphere and hydrological processes in modulating regional climates, past, present and future. Global vegetation modelling, with a specific emphasis on fire disturbance and vegetation emissions; analysis of plant traits with respect to climate, as a tool for developing improved representations of plant-functional types in global vegetation models; benchmarking of vegetation-model simulations. Reconstruction of past climate and environmental changes at continental to global scales; use of reconstructions in conjunction with climate-model experiments to diagnose the mechanisms of past climate and environmental changes; benchmarking of climate-model simulations. |
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Associate Professor in Human Geography |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 3934 |
Political geography. Feminist geopolitics. Digital geographies. Robotic geographies. Geographies of verticality and volume. Aeromobilities and geographies of airspace. |
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Lecturer in Physical Geography |
Land-atmosphere interactions. Hybrid ecohydrological modelling combining physics and machine learning. Satellite remote sensing of terrestrial evaporation. Self-reinforcing phenomena in the Earth system. |
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Professor in Human Geography |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 5293 |
Work, employment and the informal sector in the UK and developing countries. Gender, ethnicity and equal opportunities. Recent trends in urbanisation in developing countries. Regional interests - the Caribbean and Latin America. |
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Associate Professor in Physical Geography School Director of Teaching and Learning |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 7909 |
Abrupt past climate and environmental change during the Quaternary. Annually-resolved lake records. Sedimentology. Tephrochronology and volcanism. Integration of chronological techniques. |
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Professor in Human Geography |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 7756 |
Gender. Emotional-affective geographies. Deathscapes. Sacred mobilities. Place, landscape and heritage. Historiography. Charity shops as socio-cultural spaces. |
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Professor in Tropical Palaeoecology |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 6260 |
Millennial, Holocene and Quaternary-scale interactions between pre-Columbian societies, climate change, fire, and tropical ecosystems in tropical South America, especially Amazonia. Key techniques: analysis of fossil pollen, charcoal, and phytoliths from lake sediments and soils. |
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 6743 |
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Professor of Geography School Director of Academic Tutoring |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 7753 |
Local government austerity in the United Kingdom. The local politics of infrastructure investment. The relationship between the University of Reading and its local community. Urban renewal and town centre regeneration. |
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Associate Professor |
tel: +44(0) 118 378 8912 |
Flood risk management and community preparedness. Working with Natural processes / natural flood management. GIS and cartography. Landscape ecology. Science communication. |
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Jim Ormond |
Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility |
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Lecturer in Human Geography |
Digital Geographies. Geographies of Health & Wellbeing. Emotional & Embodied Geographies. Geographical Information Science. Biosocial. |
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Professor in Soil and Water Biogeochemistry |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 6075 |
The role of agriculture in the degradation of water quality. Reducing the transfer of nutrients from agricultural land to surface waters. The effect of organic amendments on soil nutrient dynamics and water quality. Biogeochemical processes in soil that regulate phosphorus dynamics in periodically flooded soils. The use of remote sensing and Earth observation to identify and model critical source areas and pathways of pollution in agricultural catchments. Nutrient cycling in organic farming systems. |
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Professor |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 8944 |
Satellite remote sensing and bio-optical modelling. Satellite remote sensing applications to fish dynamics and fisheries. Dynamical systems, ecological modelling, and eco-evolutionary dynamics. Biogeochemical modelling and remote sensing of ocean carbon and bio-diversity. Data assimilation in ecosystem models. |
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Lecturer in Development Geography |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 5772 |
Precarious urban livelihoods. Urban spaces. Spatial and temporal livelihood mobilities. Digital technologies. Geographies of youth. Mobile GPS. |
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Professor in Climate Science |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 7745 |
Climate change and variability predominantly in the extratropical Eurasia and in mountains. Mountain cryosphere, glacier change and climate-glacier interactions. Impacts of climate change on water resources in glaciated catchments and arable agriculture downstream. Water stable isotopes and their use in assessments of water resources. Evolution of glacier lakes, glacier lake outbursts floods, and debris flows. Meteorological forecasts for early warning and disaster risk management. Impacts of light-absorbing impurities on snow and glacier melt with emphasis on desert dust. Adaptation to climate change. |
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Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 6971 |
Microbial ecology and function of the rhizosphere and below-ground plant-microbe interactions. Impacts of organic pollutants on soil microorganisms. Microbial ecology of xenobiotic biodegradation. |
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Professor in Environmental Chemistry Joint Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 8913 |
Soil organic matter biogeochemistry. Improving soil health by applying organic amendments. The impact of environmental change on soil biogeochemical cycles. |
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Professor of Soil Physics and Micrometeorology Joint Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 6074 |
Anne's major interest is the exchange of heat, water vapour, CO2 and momentum between soil, vegetation and atmosphere as well as soil physical processes, including the flows of water, heat and gases. In most of her projects, detailed micrometeorological, soil physical, plant physiological and remote sensing data are combined with land surface models and/or soil models for a range of applications. |
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Professor of Hydrology |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 7315 |
Mountain water resources and their relationship with downstream agriculture to promote sustainable use of water given climate and crop production change. Novel technologies for high-resolution flow and water quality monitoring to determine biogeochemical processes and pollutant fate. National and catchment scale water quality assessment and modelling, with an emphasis on ecosystems services, and a reduction of the impacts on freshwaters of agricultural production and effluent disposal. Determination of how the land-surface and Atmospheric Rivers interact to cause UK winter floods. |
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Professor in Environmental Science |
tel: +44 (0)118 378 7750 |
Air Pollution. Water Pollution. Carbon Cycle. Climate Change. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). GIS and RS applications in Environmental Science. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Environmental Science and Geography. |
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Research staff
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Matthew Burrows |
PAR Communications and Project Officer |
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Sophia Cain |
Science Coordinator |
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Dr Timothee Corchia |
Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) in Land Surface Modelling |
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Dr Esmeralda Cruz Silva |
PDRA in Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction |
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Ruijie Ding |
Postdoctoral Research Assistant n EEO Carbon Allocation Modelling |
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Dr Md Hanif |
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Soil and Crop Sciences |
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Rajsekhar Kandala |
Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Senior Research Fellow |
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
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Senior Research Fellow |
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Dr Esther Oenga |
PDRA Participatory Action Research (PAR) |
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Dr Regina O'Kelley |
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Wildfire Management |
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
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Dr Boya Zhou |
PDRA in EEO Vegetation Modelling |
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Dr Lorna Zischka |
Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Whitley for Real Project |
tel: +44 (0) 118 378 3286 |
Postgraduate research students
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Project |
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Towards Net-Zero Chocolate: Carbon and Nutrient Budgets for Compost Use in Cocoa Farms. |
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Ellie Barbrook |
Optimizing soil nitrogen (N) in babyleaf salad crops for sustainable crop production. |
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Predicting harmful algal toxins in the ocean through satellite data assimilation into a novel biogeochemical model. |
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Sophia Cain |
A holistic assessment of fire, ecosystem services and human health to derive mutually beneficial management solutions. |
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Impact of Holocene land use and climate change upon Brazil’s Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot. |
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Heavy Metal Contamination in Three Culturable Tilapia Fish Species and Its Effect on Fish and Human Health. |
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Evaluating changes in Holocene and Anthropocene biodiversity and healthiness of English Peatlands. |
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Saniya Jojan |
Do Novel Biopesticides pose a risk to non-target terrestrial invertebrate species? |
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| Baneet Kaur | b.kaur@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Holocene environmental history of the seasonally-flooded savannas of Amazonian Bolivia |
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Sumit Kumar |
Governance for resilience and sustainable living: navigating urban and transboundary flood risk in India. |
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Martin Lao |
Managing single-use plastic packaging towards achieving a circular economy perspective. |
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Assessing the evolution of supraglacial lakes and their effects on glacier melt in the High Mountain Asia using remote sensing. |
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Sharon Mandipe |
Image Velocimetry for Quantifying River Flow. |
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Green Carbon Sequestration: Using plants to fix C(O2) deep under ground. |
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Isaac Ogundare |
Household and Community level Adaptation to Climate Change Practices in Southwest Nigeria. |
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Steven Orito |
Beyond nitrogen and the nodule: How rhizobial trait diversity enhances crops, soil and environmental health. |
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The effect of intercropping on soil health. |
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Chris Pesso |
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. |
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| Joelyn Han Philip |
j.philip@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Vegetation-fire interactions in Africa during the Holocene. |
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The impact of planting choices on the delivery of multiple ecosystem services by domestic gardens. |
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The Pelican Brief”: Using environmental archives to establish ecological baselines for UK wetland biodiversity restoration. |
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William Thurston |
Restoring tidal wetlands in the upper estuary. |
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Julia Westwood |
Biodiversity from space: integrating in situ phytoplankton image data, satellite ocean colour and AI to advance our view of surface ocean ecology. |
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Ben Wilkins |
Quantifying Contributions of Mountain Cryosphere Components to Groundwater Recharge Using Isotopic Analysis. |
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Ning Yan |
Climate Acclimation of the Carbon Allocation Patterns in Global Dominant Forest Woody Trees and Potential Climate Feedback. |
Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff
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Professor Brian Alloway |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Paul Bardos |
Visiting Professor |
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Visiting research Fellow |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Simon Dadson |
Visiting Professor |
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Professor Brian Goodall |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Penny Hirsch |
Visiting Professor |
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Professor Jane McCarthy |
Visiting Professor |
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Professor Andy Moffat |
Visiting Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Margaret Oliver |
Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Alan Wild |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Peter Worsley |
Emeritus Professor |