Departmental Research Projects

Human Geography

• Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC)
• Challenges of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia, The
• Contested Borders: Non governmental public action and the technologies of the war on terror
• Data Wars: New Spaces of Governing in the European War on Terror
• Deepening Ethical Engagement and Participation in Emerging Nanotechnologies (DEEPEN)
• Designing and Consuming: objects, practices and processes
• Designing out Fatness
• Durham - CMI Knowledge Exchange Laboratory, The
• Evaluating the County Durham Worklessness and Health Support Programme
• Fat Studies and Health at Every Size
• Geographical variation in the provision and use of health services
• Health, life insurance and financial inclusion
• Housing for health
• InCluESEV - Interdisciplinary Cluster on Energy Systems, Equity and Vulnerability
• Migration, Health and Wellbeing: Comparative Perspectives from Britain and France
• Multispeed Cities and the Logistics of Living in an Information Age
• Pathways of Housing Wealth and Well-being: precipitants and consequences of mortgage equity withdrawal in BHPS and HILDA
• Politics of Chinese engagement with African development: Case studies of Angola and Ghana, The
• Politics, public policy and population health
• Rethinking the digital divide: the software-sorted society
• Risk-based modelling of diffuse agricultural pollution
• ROBUST: Regeneration Of Brownfield Using Sustainable Technology
• Rural-urban dynamics in a globalising world: Changing livelihoods and settlement patterns in frontier regions of Africa and Asia
• Sources of Resilience to Adverse Social Environments
• Spiritual Machines? Debating the moral dimensions of new technologies
• Strategic Science: Research Intermediaries and the Governance of Innovation
• Systematic review of the health and well-being impacts of welfare to work interventions on lone parents and their children
• Tackling Inequalities in Obesity
• Trading places: The complex economy of housing markets
• Transnational Climate Change Governance
• Urban Transitions: Climate change, global cities and the transformation of socio-technical systems
• Waste of the World
• Winners and losers in contrasting labour markets? Socio-economic and spatial inequalities in the population health effects of economic recession and economic growth

Physical Geography

• Accelerated upland erosion following recent wildfire damage, Northern Lake District
• Asian Monsoon climate variability
• Boulby Geoscience
• British National Space Centre (BNSC) Customer Partner Project
• Climate Change and Glacier Dynamics in the Caucasus and the Mountains of Southern Siberia
• Coastal Behaviour and Rates of Activity (COBRA)
• Constraining Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Balance Using Salt Marsh Sediment Sequences
• Debris Flow Fan Dynamics (2008 - 2011)
• Deglacial history of the southeast sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum, The
• Determination of a new Global GPS-derived surface velocity field and its application to the problem of 20th Century sea-level rise, The
• Direct Measurement & Sampling Of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth: Multidisciplinary Investigation Of Life In Extreme Environments & West Antarctic Ice Sheet History
• Flow structures and flow partitioning at river channel bifurcations
• Fluid dynamics and bed morphology of large natural open-channel confluences: 3D field quantification and numerical modelling, The
• ForestSAFE
• Fragile Crescent, The: Settlement Change during the Urban Transition
• Generation, preservation and prediction of sandy braided alluvium: an integrated ground penetrating radar, digital photogrammetry and probabilistic modelling approach
• Geochronology and dynamics of the western sector of the Greenland Ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum, The
• Glacial and climate history of South Georgia, sub-Antarctic
• Glacial Retreat in Antarctica and Deglaciation of the Earth System (GRADES - QWAD)
• Identification and characterisation of ice stream sticky spots: an improved understanding of ice stream basal mechanics and shut-down
• IGCP 449 / 518
• IGCP 495
• Improved models of West Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment through new crustal motion data
• Interaction between the ocean, atmosphere and ice sheet dynamics along the Greenland margin
• International Landslide Centre
• Land and sea-level changes around Britain
• Landslide assessment and flood erosion risk from the North Yorkshire floods
• Marine Geophysical and Geological Investigations of Late Quaternary Ice Sheet History and Sedimentation on the Greenland continental margin
• Microscale modelling of debris flow super elevation
• Millennial-scale history of the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
• Monitoring Programme for the Whitby TV mast site
• Monsoon climate, sea-level change and major cultural changes in the Yangtze lowlands, China
• Numerical testing of hypotheses for the recent thinning and acceleration of Greenland outlet glaciers
• Peat mass movements and geomorphological impacts of extreme rainfall
• Production in aquatic peri-urban systems in South East Asian
• Reconstructing ice sheet history using relative sea-level (RSL) observations and modelling
• Reconstructing ice stream behaviour during marine ice sheet collapse
• Recurrent Holocene palaeoseismicity and associated land / sea level changes in the Greater Anchorage Area
• Streamlined bedrock terrain and fast ice flow, Jakobshavns Isbrae, West Greenland: implications for ice stream and ice sheet dynamics
• Swale-Ure Washlands Project, The
• Teesmouth Sediment, Enteromorpha and Water Flux Study
• Terrestrial record of former Arctic ice streams: elucidating the controls on ice stream location and vigour, The
• Testing the instability mechanism for subglacial bedform production
• Thinning History of The Foundation - Thiel Trough Ice Stream: A Key Control On Deglaciation of The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Weddell Sea embayment
• Three-dimensional quantification of coherent flow structures in large alluvial channels: a new approach using multibeam sounding.
• Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea Embayment: constraints on West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics
• Understanding contemporary change in the West Antarctic ice sheet
• Understanding Marine Ice Stream Retreat Using Numerical Modelling and Geophysical Data