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Senior Leadership Team

Professor Colm O'Cofaigh, Head of Department
Professor Anna Secor, Deputy Head of Department
Ms Deborah Morgan-Anderson, Departmental Manager
Professor Colin McFarlane, Co-Director of Research
Professor Alex Densmore, Co-Director of Research
Professor Ben Anderson, Director of Education
Professor Matt Brain, Director of Postgraduate Studies
Professor Jerry Lloyd, Director of Services
Dr Leonie Newhouse, EDI Lead
Professor Andrew Baldwin, Director of Undergraduate Admissions
Dr Karen Lai, Academic Lead on Global

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Academic Staff

Name	Title
Professor Colm O'Cofaigh	Professor/Head of Department
Dr Mildred Ajebon	Career Development Fellow
Professor Louise Amoore	Professor
Professor Ben Anderson	Professor
Dr Penelope Anthias	Associate Professor
Professor Sarah Atkinson	Professor
Professor Andrew Baldwin	Professor
Professor Michael Bentley	Professor
Dr Sam Berlin	Teaching Fellow
Dr Isabella Bovolo	Assistant Professor
Professor Matthew Brain	Professor
Professor Gavin Bridge	Professor
Professor David Bridgland	Professor
Professor Harriet Bulkeley	Professor
Dr Patrice Carbonneau	Associate Professor
Dr Caroline Clason	Associate Professor
Dr Fiona Clubb	Associate Professor
Dr Rachel Colls	Associate Professor
Dr Nicholas Cox	Assistant Professor
Professor Michael Crang	Professor
Professor Jonathan Darling	Professor
Professor Alexander Densmore	Professor
Professor Daniel Donoghue	Professor
Dr Simon Engelhart	Associate Professor
Professor David Evans	Professor
Professor Richard Hardy	Professor
Dr Paul Harrison	Associate Professor
Dr Silvia Hassouna	Career Development Fellow
Professor Rebecca Hodge	Professor
Dr Luke Jackson	Assistant Professor
Professor Stewart Jamieson	Professor
Dr Sarah Knuth	Associate Professor
Dr Karen Lai	Associate Professor
Professor Paul Langley	Professor
Dr Jessica Lehman	Associate Professor
Dr Noam Leshem	Associate Professor
Professor Jeremy Lloyd	Professor
Dr Andres Luque Ayala	Associate Professor
Dr Helen Mackay	Assistant Professor
Professor Bruce Malamud	Professor
Dr Ivan Markovic	Lecturer in Human Geography
Dr Lauren Martin	Associate Professor
Professor Erin Mcclymont	Professor
Professor Cheryl Mcewan	Professor
Professor Colin Mcfarlane	Professor
Professor Glenn Mcgregor	Professor
Dr Paola Moffa Sanchez	Assistant Professor
Professor Warwick Murray	Teaching Fellow
Dr Leonie Newhouse	Assistant Professor
Dr Marijn Nieuwenhuis	Assistant Professor
Dr Sam Nowak	Assistant Professor
Dr Rachel Oien	Teaching Fellow
Professor Marcus Power	Professor
Dr Sim Reaney	Associate Professor
Professor Dave Roberts	Professor
Professor Nick Rosser	Professor
Professor Anna Secor	Professor
Dr Alex Sexton	Assistant Professor
Professor Philip Steinberg	Professor
Professor Chris Stokes	Professor
Professor Peter Talling	Professor
Dr Laura Turnbull-Lloyd	Associate Professor
Professor John Wainwright	Professor
Professor Jeff Warburton	Professor
Dr Sophie Williams	Career Development Fellow
Professor Helen Wilson	Professor
Professor Sarah Woodroffe	Professor
Dr Yimin Zhao	Assistant Professor

Administrative Professionals

Name	Title
Joyce Blackett	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Catherine Burton	Senior Research Administrator
Esther Kisby	Assistant Project Manager (p/t) - UKANET Antarctic GPS
Deborah Morgan-Anderson	Departmental Manager
Lianne Percival	Operations Co-Ordinator
Kathleen Pickford	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Gabi Summers	Assistant Learning and Teaching Manager
Kathy Wood	Postgraduate Research Co-Ordinator
Dr Felicity Wray	Learning and Teaching Manager

Technical Professionals

Name	Title
Mrs Michele Allan	Senior Cartographic Technician
Mervyn Brown	Advanced Workshop Technician
Amanda Hayton	Analytical Experimental Officer
Michael Heslop	Intermediate Technician
David Hodgson	Senior Research Computing Technician
Christopher Longley	Geotechnical Experimental Officer
Mr Chris Orton	Senior Cartographic Technician
Dr Robyn Pinder	Laboratory Manager
Dr Eleanor Ross	Senior Manager (Technical Services & Facilities)
Neil Tunstall	Senior Geotechnical Experimental Officer
Martin West	Senior Analytical Experimental Officer
Aimee-Louise Wilkin	Advanced Teaching Technician

Research Staff

Name	Title
Dr Omar Althuwaynee	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Tagele Aschale	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Diego Astorga De Ita	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Megan Baker	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr SJ Bennett	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Sage Brice	Assistant Professor (Research)
Sophia Brown	MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Alexander Campolo	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Matthieu Cartigny	Associate Professor (Research)
Dr Thomas Chudley	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Anna Cutmore	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Elizabeth Dingle	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Erin Harvey	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Maximilian Hepach	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Georgia Hole	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Matthew Hunt	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Zhongxuan Li	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Thembi Luckett	Addison Wheeler Research Fellow
Dr Grant Macdonald	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Aya Nassar	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Grace Nield	Post Doctoral Research Associate
Dr Guy Paxman	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Lauren Pretorius	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Md Rahman	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Ludovico Rella	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Anna Rix	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Amy Robson	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Laura Schoenberger	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr David Small	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Charlotte Spencer Jones	Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr Ewan Wakefield	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Connor Watt	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Tais Yamasaki	Postdoctoral Research Associate

International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU)

Name	Title
Elizabeth Buxton	External Relations and Marketing Manager

Nomis

Name	Title
Sinclair Sutherland	Project Manager, Nomis
Peter Henderson	System Developer, Nomis
Dr Nithya Nair	Application Developer

Emeritus Staff

Name	Title
Peter Atkins	Emeritus Professor
Professor Mike Blakemore	Emeritus Professor
Timothy Burt	Emeritus Professor
Sarah Curtis	Emeritus Professor
Ian Evans	Emeritus Reader
Robert Ferguson	Emeritus Professor
Nicola Gregson	Emerita Professor
Ray Hudson	Emeritus Professor
Antony Long	Emeritus Professor
Professor Joe Painter	Emeritus Professor
Ian Shennan	Emeritus Professor
Ian Simmons	Emeritus Professor

Honorary Research Staff

Name	Title
Dr Robert Houseago	Honorary Fellow
Mr James Innes	Honorary Fellow
Martin Pratt	Honorary Professor

Research Student

Name	Title
Ihsan Abualrob	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Irene Arputharaj	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Cristina-Ioana Balaban	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Elinor Baldwin	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Tom Bartles-Smith	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Ritwika Basu	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Cecile Blouin	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Harry Blundell	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Will Burton	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Carlo Ceglia	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Pietra Cepero Rua Perez	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Jiao Chen	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Lianchao Chen	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Haoxu Chen	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Chung-Yen Cheng	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Jing Chu	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Yas Cole	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Julia Costescu	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Thale Damm-Johnsen	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Katherine Deakin	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Belen Desmaison Estrada	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Leah Edwards	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Afsana Esha	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Cheng Fang	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Joaquim Gaignard	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Yiorgos Galanis	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Robbie Gilmore	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Sophie Granville	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Burag Gurden	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Rosie Haffenden	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Tilly Hall	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Alex Hall	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Junyi Hao	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Shababa Haque	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Joshua Harley	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Hakan Hazzard	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Eleanor Maedhbh Honan	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Ruizhe Hong	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Huixuan Huang	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Helen James	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Holly Jenkins	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Georgina Jenkins	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Sophie Kenmare	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Edmund Lea	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Yuanyin Li	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Zhuhua Li	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Shufan Liang	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Ying-Tong Lin	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Ellery Littlewood	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Baichuan Liu	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Charlotte Lock	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Caitlin MacKinlay	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Jack Marchant	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Emmy Martin	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Katie Meddins	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Hannah Moore	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Hannah Morgan	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Anna Okada	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Mel Oliveira Guirro	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Ian Pawlby	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Rebecca Pearl-Martinez	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Claire Penny	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Cecilia Prichard Jones	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Deborah Priss	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
David Pybus	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Owen Riley	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Amy Robson	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Erin Robson	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Alena Sakovich	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Leonard Schliesser	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Paul Seckl	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Anwesha Sharma	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Siewying Shee	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Chi-Chi Shi	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Jay Sinclair	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Anil Sindhwani	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Marcin Stanek	Research Postgraudate (PhD)
Grace Summers	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Xin Wei Andy Tan	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Muh Taufiqurrohman	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Shubham Tiwari	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Gelin Wang	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Nawal Ali Watali	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Matilda Weatherley	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Eliot Weir	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Cecily Wells	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Matthew Wiecek	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Kaitlin Wood	Research Postgraduate (MRes)
Holly Wytiahlowsky	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Jingshu Xia	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Shuyue Xie	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Sheng Xuan	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Fauziah Yuniarti	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Yuzhe Zang	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Yuan Zhang	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Lin Zhang	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Cecilia Zhu	Research Postgraduate (PhD)
Yasmin Zhuang-Mackie	Research Postgraduate (PhD)

Taught Postgraduate

Name	Title
Mr. Micah Baermann	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Tianyu Bai	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Amy Batey	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Alfred Bennett-Wallis	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Eleanor Boden	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Ellen Boylan	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Lauren Britchfield	Taught Postgraduate
Mx Andy Renae Buckridge	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Joe Buss	Taught Postgraduate
Mrs. Laurena Curt	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Jiaqi Fu	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Zihan Guo	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Hari kant Gupta	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Rainer Hayer	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. James Kamau	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Zippy Kariuki	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Yongyi Ma	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Jess Ostler	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Thomas Pearson	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Alexander Potts	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Eleanor Pringle	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Will Putt	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Lizzie Rutherford	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Benjamin Shearer	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Amber Shen	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Jianqi Shi	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Yi-Chun Tan	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Qing Tong	Taught Postgraduate
Mr. Alfred Vadon	Taught Postgraduate
Miss. Nan Wang	Taught Postgraduate
Ms. Miao Zhang	Taught Postgraduate
Ms. Yinan Zhang	Taught Postgraduate