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Department Of Geography
Research Centres
- Centre for Medical Humanities
- Centre for Social Justice & Community Action
- Culture-Economy-Life
- Geographies of Health and Wellbeing
- International Boundaries Research Unit
- International Landslides Centre
- Politics-State-Space
- Quaternary Environmental Change
- Social/Spatial Theory
- Tipping Points Research Project
- Urban Worlds
Research Groups
Human Geography
- Culture-Economy-Life (CEL)
- Geographies of Health and Wellbeing (GoHWell)
- Politics - State - Space (PSS)
- Social / Spatial Theory (SST)
- Urban Worlds
Physical Geography
Research Centres
Research Units
Research Expertise
- Coastal Evolution
- Earthquake Hazard
- Human Impacts and Coastal Hazards
- Land Uplift and Subsidence
- Late-Quaternary sea-level and environmental changes
Research Facilities
- Dedicated GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory
- Soil, sediment and micropalaeontology laboratory equipment
- Dedicated design and imaging unit
- Dedicated ICT support team
- Statistical and textual analysis
- Microscopy laboratory equipment
- Field survey and sampling equipment (DGPS, corers etc.)
- Specialist geo-technic and enivonmental laboratory equipment
- Wet and dry sediment analysis laboratory
- Stable isotope facility
- Audio-visual laboratory
- Air conditioned laboratory for high precision chemical analyses
- Geotechnical laboratory
- Microfossil preparation laboratory
- Sediment biomarker laboratory
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy
- Gas chromatographs
- High performance liquid chromatography
- Coulter laser particle granulometer x 2
- Particle shape analyser
- Gamma ray spectrometer
- Scanning UV-visible spectrometer
- Dionex DX500 ion chroatographs
- TOC analyser
- Elemental (C, H, N, S, O) analyser
- Climatic cabinet
- Geotek multi-core sensor
- Scanning facilities up to A0
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
- Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, law and policy, and theory
- 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
- Ethical Production in South Africa: Advancing a Cultural Economy Approach
- Evaluating the County Durham Worklessness and Health Support Programme, County Durham Primary Care Trust, £550,000
- Everyday Sanitation: A comparative study of Mumbai's informal settlements
- Fat Studies and Health at Every Size
- Geographical variation in the provision and use of health services
- Health and wellbeing impacts of welfare to work interventions on lone parents and their children, CSO Scotland, £60,000
- Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity, Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Grant, £1 million
- 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
- Rethinking the digital divide: the software-sorted society
- Rising Powers, Clean Development and the Low Carbon Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa, The
- Risk-based modelling of diffuse agricultural pollution
- ROBUST: Regeneration Of Brownfield Using Sustainable Technology, EPSRC, £1 million
- 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
- 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, BUPA Foundation, £130,000
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
- Reconstructing intermediate water temperature response to Pliocene - Pleistocene climates
- 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
Staff
Teaching Staff
- Professor Peter Atkins
- Professor Louise Amoore
- Dr Ben Anderson
- Professor Sarah Atkinson
- Dr Jennifer Bagelman
- Dr Andrew Baldwin
- Professor Clare Bambra
- Professor Mike Bentley
- Dr Louise Bracken
- Professor Gavin Bridge
- Professor David R. Bridgland
- Professor Harriet Bulkeley
- Professor Tim Burt
- Mrs Joanne-Marie Cairns-Nagi
- Dr Felicity Callard
- Dr Patrice Carbonneau
- Dr Jamie Casford
- Dr Angharad Closs Stephens
- Dr Rachel Colls
- Dr Nicholas J. Cox
- Professor Michael A. Crang
- Professor Sarah E. Curtis
- Professor Alexander Densmore
- Professor Danny Donoghue
- Dr Christine E. Dunn
- Professor Stuart Elden
- Professor David J.A. Evans
- Mr Nicholas Felstead
- Dr Niko Galiatsatos
- Professor Nicky Gregson
- Dr Richard J. Hardy
- Dr Christopher Harker
- Dr Paul Harrison
- Dr Robert Hilton
- Dr Kathrin Hörschelmann
- Dr Rebecca Hodge
- Professor Ray Hudson
- Dr Jim Innes
- Dr Paul Langley
- Dr Jerry Lloyd
- Professor Antony Long
- Dr Gordon MacLeod
- Professor Phil Macnaghten
- Professor Simon Marvin
- Dr Erin McClymont
- Dr Cheryl McEwan
- Dr Colin McFarlane
- Professor Colm O'Cofaigh
- Professor Rachel Pain
- Professor Joe Painter
- Professor Dave Petley
- Professor Marcus Power
- Dr Sim Reaney
- Professor Jonathan Rigg
- Dr Dave Roberts
- Dr Nick Rosser
- Dr Robert Shaw
- Professor Ian Shennan
- Dr Krithika Srinivasan
- Professor Lynn Staeheli
- Dr Chris Stokes
- Dr Divya P. Tolia-Kelly
- Professor John Wainwright
- Dr Jeff Warburton
- Dr Sarah Woodroffe
Secretarial Staff
- Mrs Freda Denby
- Mrs Joyce Blackett
- Mrs Christine Bones
- Mrs Nicola Bramfitt
- Mr Brett Cherry
- Miss Freya Copley-Mills
- Ms Veronica Crooks
- Mrs Ann Dobson
- Mrs Sharon A. Gibson
- Dr Shirley A. Goodyer
- Ms Diane Greaves
- Ms Janet Hampson
- Dr Adam Holden
- Ms Bethan Kelly
- Mrs Anne E. Madden
- Ms Linda Marchant
- Ms Deborah Morgan
- Miss Lianne Percival
- Ms Lisa Tempest
- Mr John P. Thompson
- Miss Kathy Wood
Technical Staff
- Mr Steven Allan
- Mrs Michele L. Allan
- Mr Mervyn Brown
- Ms Alison Clark
- Mr Frank Davies
- Ms Amanda Hayton
- Mr David Hodgson
- Mr Chris Longley
- Miss Kathryn Melvin
- Mr Chris Orton
- Mr Matthew Perks
- Mrs Jean Swales
- Mr Neil Tunstall
- Miss Samantha Waugh
- Mr Paul West
- Mr Martin D. West
Research Staff
- Dr Ashraf Afana
- Dr Andrea Armstrong
- Dr Natasha Barlow
- Dr Matthew Brain
- Dr Louise Callard
- Dr Alison Copeland
- Dr Aurora Elmore
- Dr Marek Ewertowski
- Dr Ed Garrett
- Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite
- Dr Caspar Hewett
- Dr Frances Hillier
- Dr Stewart Jamieson
- Dr Joshua Kirshner
- Dr Anna Krzywoszynska
- Dr Eleanor Maddison
- Dr Martin Margold
- Mr Timothy Marjoribanks
- Dr David Marshall
- Dr David Milledge
- Miss Emma Norman
- Dr Katie Oven
- Dr Raksha Pande
- Dr Volha Piotukh
- Dr Gareth Powells
- Dr Katie Thomson
- Dr Laura Turnbull
- Dr Jon Warren
- Dr Pippa Whitehouse
- Dr Victoria Wood
International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU)
Nomis
- Mr Sinclair Sutherland
- Mr Roland Ascroft
- Mr Peter Dodds
- Mr Spencer Hedger
- Mr Peter Henderson
- Dr Mark Ireland
Emeritus Staff
- Professor G.H. Blake
- Professor Michael J. Blakemore
- Dr Ian S. Evans
- Professor Rob Ferguson
- Professor Brian Roberts
- Professor Ian G. Simmons
- Professor Alan Townsend
Honorary Research Staff
- Dr Farid Ahamed
- Dr Sara Fuller
- Joan Kenworthy
- Dr Ann Le Mare
- Dr Wish Mitchell
- Dr Bruce Scholten
- Dr Geoff Whitman
- Dr Yongqiang Zong
Research Student
- Mr Gerald Aiken
- Miss Semra Akay
- Mr Abdulrahman Al-ali
- Miss Gail Anderson
- Mr Mohammad Ansari
- Miss Stela Arar
- William Bainbridge
- Miss Samantha Barnwell
- Mr Simon Beer
- Ms Roman Belete
- Mario Berti
- Miss Hannah Bickerdike
- Miss Matilda Biddulph
- Mr Martin Brader
- Miss Gillian Bryant
- Miss Rachel Carr
- Mr William Christiansen
- Mrs Elizabeth Cochrane
- Miss Clare Collingwood
- Miss Lindsay Coyle
- Miss Lauren Craven-niemczyk
- Mr Benjamin Cullen
- Mr Christopher Darvill
- Miss Sophie Davison
- Mr William Dickens
- Brendan Doody
- Dr Tim Dowson
- Mr Ross Dunstone
- Ms Madhumita Dutta
- Ms Raihana Ferdous
- Miss Rosemary Fewings
- Matt Finn
- Mr James Glover
- Siti Haji-mohamad
- Miss Esther Hitchen
- Mr Muhammad Huq
- Mr Liaqat Hussain
- Miss Katy Hutton
- Miss Inese Jansone
- Mr Abdul Khan
- Mr Mark Kincey
- Mr Sean Knox
- Mr Ankit Kumar
- Miss Wasana La-orngplew
- Mr Timothy Lane
- Mr Thomas Lawrence
- Miss Charlotte Lee
- Mr Kyuteg Lim
- Miss Chaoqun Liu
- Mr Andres Luque
- Miss Ruth Machen
- Ms Gaja Maestri
- Mr Abu RJ Mahmood
- Miss Carly Maynard
- Ms. Naomi Maynard
- Ms Micaela Mazzei
- Mr Anthony Mclean
- Miss Abigail Mcniven
- Ms Janice Metcalfe
- Mr Bertie Miles
- Miss Laura Mitchell
- Mr John Morris
- Miss Nuala Morse
- Mr Christopher Murphy
- Miss Sasiwimol Nawawitphisit
- Mr Mike Norbury
- Mr Nathaniel O'Grady
- Mr Robert Parker
- Miss Alex Peters
- Mr Boris Popov
- Mr Philip Prescott
- Miss Catriona Purcell
- Mr David Pybus
- Miss Louise Rayne
- Mrs Nahid Rezwana
- Miss Elizabeth Richardson
- Mr Philip Robinson
- Mr Nicholas Rush-Cooper
- Mrs Hanna Ruszczyk
- Miss Patsy Ryan
- Mr Iman Sadrvaghefi
- Mr Joseph Sambali
- Mr Joy Sanyal
- Mrs Bernadine Satariano
- Mr James Searle
- Miss Jayne Sellick
- Mr Bishnu Sharma
- Mr Jonathan Silver
- Ms Pammi Sinha
- Mr Graham Stenson
- Mr Daniel Stern
- Mr Rob Storrar
- Mr Matt Strzelecki
- Mr Peter Swan
- Ms Lucy Szablewska
- Mr Michael Tan
- Mr Matthew Tancock
- Mr Jitendra Thakur
- Miss Sophie Tindale
- Mr Adam Trueman
- Mrs Britta Turner
- Mr Jose Vigil
- Mr Jonathan Warner
- Miss Siobhan Whadcoat
- Mr Jack Williams
- Mr Laurence Williams
- Mr Matthew Wootton
- Mr Chien-Cheng Wu
- Mr Jiajie Zhang
Taught Postgraduate
- Ms Lara Bezzina
- Mr David Brown
- Mr Peter Forman
- Ms Kumiko Hino
- Miss Emma Kindell
- Mr Samuel Newbould
- Mr Andrew Telford