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Admissions & college affairs
Parent category: University Affairs
Professor Tim Burt
Professor, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41870
Master, Hatfield College
Telephone: 42611 (Office) 42624 (Home)
Dean for Environmental Sustainability, Greenspace
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42601
Specialist expertise:
- college admissions
- general environmental issues
- geomorphology
- nitrate
- phosphate
- pollution transport in agricultural catchments
- recent climate history
- river hydrology and geomorphology
- soil conservation and buffer zone management
- weather observation
Dr JP Cassidy
Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religion
Principal, St Chad's College
Specialist expertise:
- Canadian affairs
- Church of England
- college affairs & funding
- ethical issues in medicine
- medical ethics
- religion in North America
Dr Peter J. Collins
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Centre for 17th-Century Studies
Course Leader, Health and Human Sciences
Specialist expertise:
- admissions of disabled applicants
Mr Richard Emborg
Director of the Student Recruitment & Admissions Office, Student Recruitment and Admissions Office
Specialist expertise:
- Undergraduate Admissions