Find an expert
Welcome to the Durham University Media Guide to Expertise, a resource for journalists seeking informed comment on a wide variety of topical issues.
To find an expert in a specialist area, please use the 'search' facility to search by keyword or expert surname.
Environment
- Economics & management
- Education & awareness
- General issues
- Human impact
- Landscape & buildings
- Plants & agriculture
- Pollution
- Renewable energy
- Seas & rivers
- Weather & climate
- Wildlife
Dr Charles Augarde
Reader, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42504
Deputy Head of Faculty (Postgraduate), Faculty of Science
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42504
Durham X-ray Centre
Specialist expertise:
- civil engineering, tunnels, bridges
- computer modelling
- Earth building (using earth materials to create walls, rammed earth, conservation of old earth buildings)
- geotechnical engineering, ground conditions, tunnelling
Professor Mike Bentley
Professor, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41859
Professor / Cluster Convenor, Quaternary Environmental Change
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41859
Specialist expertise:
- Antarctic subglacial lakes
- Antarctica
- Glaciers and ice sheets
- South America and Patagonia
Dr Jonathan Miles-watson
Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Department of Theology and Religion
Specialist expertise:
- Mythology
- North India
- Religious Capital
- Sacred Space
Prof Paul Sillitoe
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Specialist expertise:
- International development, esp natural resources
- Natural resources management
- Oceania - esp. New Guinea
- Subsistence farming
- Sustainable development
- Tribal peoples.
Dr João Trabucho-Alexandre
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42304
Specialist expertise:
- Greenhouse climates
- Palaeoceanography
- Sedimentology
- Shale
Dr Jeff Warburton
Reader, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41952
Specialist expertise:
- Damage caused by flooding and landslides in mounatain areas, particularly the UK
- Peat erosion and recent environmental change in the uplands