Geography

Dr Alan Dixon

Expertise: Environment-development relationships and sustainable livelihoods in developing countries; Local institutions, local knowledge, and social capital in natural resource management; Wetland environments and the political ecology of wetland management; Sustainable development

Professor Nick Evans

Expertise: Agricultural Geography; Family Farm Businesses and Restructuring; Women in Farming; Farm Diversification and Pluriactivity; Rare Breeds of Farm Livestock / Animal Geography; Landscape

Current student projects:
• The Husbandry of Technology: past, present and future engagements by UK farm families

Dr Cheryl Jones

Expertise: Influence of freeze-thaw activity upon low-strength mudrocks; Site investigation; Geological conservation; Geological tourism; Geographical Information Systems

Current student projects:
• Modelling Landslide Susceptibility of a Complex Mudslide

Dr Ian Maddock

Expertise: Hydroecology; ecohydraulics; river management;

Current student projects:
• An evaluation of the spatial configuration and temporal dynamics of hydraulic river habitats
• Multi-scale patterns of turbulent flow in hydraulic river habitats: Towards an objective and ecologically relevant classification of physical biotopes

Dr David Storey

Expertise: Rural change and development; Territory and National Identity; Sport, place and identity

Dr Des McDougall

Expertise: Reconstructing former glaciers; the impacts of paraglacial reworking and its significance for the interpretation of the geomorphological record in upland Britain

Current student projects:
• Reconstruction of Younger Dryas Plateau Icefields in the Eastern Lake District: Geomorphological evidence and palaeoclimatic implications

Dr Fleur Visser
Expertise: Remote sensing of submerged aquatic vegetation in chalk steams; Application of field spectroscopy for submerged vegetation/algae detection; Application of Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) for vegetation mapping; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Causes of pluvial flooding; Soil erosion and sediment transport; Sediment budgets; Floodplain geomorphology and hydrology