SoGE Review 2013/14 - School of Geography and the Environment

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School of
Geography
and the Environment
REVIEW 2013/14
“
The School is an
energetic and multidimensional hub
of geographical
and environmental
research, teaching and
wider engagement. We
strive for excellence in
all our activities and
to make a difference in
the worlds we study.
“
Professor Sarah Whatmore
Head of School
Contents
1
From the Head of School
2
About us
10 Teaching
26 Research
48 People
Photo: Tom Weller www.tomwellerphotography.com
I am delighted to introduce the
first Annual Review produced for
the School of Geography and the
Environment (SoGE). It contains
some of the highlights in our
work over the past year and is
indicative of our commitment to
communicate our activities and
achievements more effectively
with our alumni, collaborators,
partners and supporters around
the world, as well as within the
academic community at Oxford
and beyond. Geography has long worked to
develop and combine the insights
and skills of the social and natural
sciences in order to understand,
and make a difference to, some
of the most pressing societal
and environmental challenges
of our time – from climate
change to social inequality.
Our work addresses such
issues not only in terms of
providing new evidence and data
relating to the management
of environmental systems
and aggregate populations
but, just as importantly, in
terms of better understanding
the experience of living with
environmental degradation
or poverty. While our subject
matter involves global processes
and addresses international
concerns, we work in many
different parts of the world and
have expertise amongst our
staff and students on regional
and local process variation and
the differentiation of impacts in
particular places. The School’s
interdisciplinary research centres
– the Environmental Change
Institute (ECI), Transport Studies
Unit (TSU) and Smith School of
Enterprise and the Environment
(SSEE) - further extend and
strengthen the knowledge and
skills base that informs our
research and the education we
provide to our undergraduate and
graduate students. Together we
are SoGE.
The School is an energetic
and multi-dimensional hub of
geographical and environmental
research, teaching and wider
engagement. We strive for
excellence in all our activities
and to make a difference in
the worlds we study. I hope
that some of this energy and
commitment is conveyed in these
pages and that you enjoy reading
them.
Head of School
SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 2013/14 1
“
For me geography is a
great adventure with
a purpose. So many
of the world’s current
issues – at a global
scale and locally – boil
down to geography, and
need the geographers
of the future to help us
understand them.
“
Michael Palin
President of the Royal
Geographical Society, 2011
About us
Ian Ashpole, the Radcliffe Meteorological Observer, measures rainfall during the wettest January on record.
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ACADEMIC STAFF
The School of Geography and the Environment is a dynamic, diverse,
interdisciplinary academic department at the University of Oxford
combining natural and social science interests and skills, underpinned by
Geography’s tradition of working across differing cultures. The School
is internationally recognized for the quality of its teaching, research and
wider engagement across the breadth of human and physical geography
and environmental studies.
The School’s ambition is to play a leading role in shaping the
international research agenda through ‘world-class’ research and
teaching across the breadth of the discipline; employing the very best
researchers and attracting excellent national and international students;
encouraging national, international and interdisciplinary research
collaborations; and engaging with others through policy, partnerships,
business and social enterprise. The School’s cross-cutting research
portfolio totalled £30million across more than 80 projects in 2013/14,
with projects and collaborations involving over 60 countries across
the globe. The School’s researchers actively engage in discussion on
environment, energy, transport, urban, and rural policies; in advising
local, national and international organisations; and in written and oral
contributions to government consultations.
The School provides world-class, multidisciplinary teaching. Our
Undergraduate Honour School provides undergraduate students
with research-led teaching across the breadth of human and physical
geography and environmental studies by internationally recognised
academic staff. Two hundred graduate students from a range of
nationalities make our International Graduate School one of the world’s
largest and most diverse in the discipline.
Based within the University’s Social Sciences Division, the academic
unit of Geography incorporates three affiliated research centres: the
Environmental Change Institute (ECI), the Smith School of Enterprise
and Environment (SSEE), and the Transport Studies Unit (TSU). In the
past year there has been an extensive refurbishment of our facilities
within the heart of Oxford’s Science Area. The School’s physical location
enables us to easily connect with many of the academic departments
and organisations with whom we collaborate. The School has also been
an active participant in fostering the Oxford University Networks for
the Environment (ONE), which link up over 1000 individuals within the
University on the themes of Biodiversity, Climate, Energy, Food and
Water.
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RESEARCHERS
500+
STUDENTS
£7.7M
RESEARCH
INCOME 2013/14
£15.7M
TOTAL INCOME
2013/14
£30M
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Organisational structure
SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY
AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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GRADUATE RESEARCH
PROGRAMMES
(DPHIL AND MPHIL)
100 Researchers
4 TAUGHT MSC PROGRAMMES
Biodiversity, Ecosystems & Conservation
Climate Systems & Policy
Landscape Dynamics
Technological Natures: Materials, Mobilities & Politics
Transformations: Economy, Society & Place
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Our history
1887
Halford John Mackinder
appointed the University‘s
first Reader in Geography
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MSc Biodiversity, Conservation & Management
MSc Environmental Change & Management
MSc Nature, Society & Environmental Policy
MSc Water Science, Policy & Management
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1899
Andrew John Herbertson
is appointed Assistant to
the Reader and Lecturer in
Regional Geography
1899
Plans for the School of Geography
are approved by Congregation
and Mackinder is appointed as the
first Head of School
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The School comprises the academic department of Geography
and the Environment, and three interdisciplinary research
centres: the Environmental Change Institute, the Smith School
of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Transport Studies
Unit. We provide teaching through our Undergraduate Honour
School and International Graduate School and a substantial
research programme which spans five thematic clusters across
the academic department and associated research centres. 1901
One-year diploma in
Geography is established
followed by Long Vacation
course for teachers of
Geography
eci
Environmental Change Institute
Professor Jim Hall
Director of ECI
[email protected]
www.eci.ox.ac.uk
Formed in 1991 through
benefaction, the ECI works
alongside partners in business,
academia and the community
to understand environmental
change and explore possible
responses to the risks and
opportunities it poses. With an
annual research income of £3.6
million in 2012/13, a portfolio of
50 active projects, 350 partners
and 60 researchers working
across 40 countries, the ECI is
an active and influential player in
environmental change science.
The ECI’s research is
interdisciplinary, both in outlook
and approach. ECI has a wellestablished track record in
relation to climate, energy and
ecosystems and a growing
expertise in relation to food and
water. ECI is a leading player
in number of large research
activities, including: the UK
Climate Impacts Programme
(UKCIP) which develops new
tools to link climate science with
stakeholders in business and
government in order to create
innovative adaptations to the
impacts of climate change; the
world’s largest citizen science
climate ensemble with 350,000
individuals running climate
simulations in order to better
understand regional climate
patterns; leaders of major EU
consortium programmes including
one on the impacts and risks of
extreme climate change; and
coordinators of a global ecological
monitoring programme across
remote forest locations in South
America, Africa and Asia. The
ECI’s full portfolio of projects
has led to academic papers and
citations totaling over 45,000
since 2000.
INCOME 2013/14
60
RESEARCHERS
in 1994. Through MSc in
ECM the ECI have successfully
trained over 600 upcoming
environmental leaders who
comprise a lively and increasingly
influential alumni community. The ECI is also home to the
MSc in Environmental Change
and Management (ECM), the
School’s first taught postgraduate
masters’ programme, established
1919
Henry Oliver Beckit is
appointed as Reader in
Geography
1905
Herbertson takes over as Reader
in Geography and is appointed
Professor in 1910
£4.7M
1922
The School of Geography
moves to Holywell House
on Mansfield Road, where
it remains until 2004
1923
The Herbertson Society
is established for
undergraduate students
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Transport Studies Unit
Professor David Banister
Director of TSU
[email protected]
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk
The Transport Studies Unit (TSU)
celebrated its 40th anniversary
in 2013. Since 1973 the TSU
has established an international
research reputation in the fields
of transport policy analysis,
the development of new
methodologies and behavioural
studies.
The TSU seeks to maintain
and enhance this reputation
for excellence in research and
to extend it into teaching,
leadership courses and
international collaborative
programmes of education
and learning. To this end, it
aims to be at the leading edge
in national and international
transport developments.
Particular emphasis is placed
on understanding the social,
economic and environmental
implications of transport and
mobility over both time and
space. The TSU's work ranges
in geographic scale from the
local to the global, and the full
spectrum of quantitative and
qualitative research techniques is
deployed.
The research conducted at
the TSU addresses transport
and mobility from different
thematic and methodological
perspectives. Four broad themes
can be identified – Energy and
Environment, Governance and
Public Policy, Culture and Society,
and Health and Wellbeing.
Most TSU staff are full-time
researchers working on specific
externally funded projects within
these research themes. In addition
to the core staff, it also hosts
a number of academic visitors
working more independently on
cross-cutting issues. There is also
an active group of international
DPhil students working with
individual staff.
£700K
INCOME 2013/14
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RESEARCHERS
TSU’s work is primarily judged
by the quality of its scholarship
and the range of peer reviewed
outputs, but the intended
audience is not only academic.
TSU often works directly with
international agencies, transport
policymakers, local authorities,
businesses and industry,
employers, non-governmental
organisations, and localities.
1933
The first Honour School class begins with
11 students enrolled. By 1939 over 100
undergraduates are reading Geography
in the Honour School. The School’s first
lecture theatre is built in 1938, and is
(briefly) the largest in the University
1932
The Honour School is established
with Major Kenneth Mason appointed
as the first Chair of Geography and
Fellow at Hertford College
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1935
The School takes over responsibility for the
Radcliffe Meteorological Station and its records
1953
E W Gilbert
becomes new
Professor of
Geography,
followed by
I J Gottmann
in 1968
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Professor Gordon L Clark
Director of SSEE
[email protected]
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk
The Smith School (SSEE) was
established with a benefaction by
the Smith family in 2008 with the
intention of promoting research,
teaching, and engagement with
enterprise (public and private)
on issues such as environmental
management, performance, and
innovation. The Smith School has three
research programmes:
Environmental Economics and
Policy – concerned with the
design and implementation of
economic policy initiatives that
affect or directly impinge upon
enterprise and the environment.
Enterprise Management and
Strategy – concerned with how
enterprises (for profit and notfor-profit) manage themselves
both with respect to their
environmental footprints and
liabilities and with respect to their
relationships with shareholders
and stakeholders with an interest
in the nexus between enterprise
and the environment.
Financial Markets and Investment
– concerned with how financial
institutions assess and value
the environmental strategies of
enterprises, translating shortterm investment opportunities
into a long-term commitment to
sustainable investment.
The Smith School also focuses on
three research themes including
natural capital, the financing
and provision of infrastructure,
and climate change and policy. It has a number of significant
external research partnerships
and business fellows, bringing
to the University people from
industry, consulting firms, and
related enterprises who have an
interest in promoting the goals
and objectives of the School.
£2.1M
INCOME 2013/14
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RESEARCHERS
In conjunction with the Saïd
Business School’s Executive
Education Board, it also offers a
variety of Executive Education
programmes to industry on a local,
UK and Europe, and international
basis ranging from certificates
to short-courses and MSc/MBA
classes.
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1971
The University agrees to a second
Chair in Geography, creating the
Halford Mackinder Professorship
J W House (1974-83)
David Harvey (1987-95)
Gordon L Clark (1995-2012)
Danny Dorling (current Chair)
1994
The MSc in Environmental Change
and Management is established
as the School’s first taught
postgraduate master’s programme
1991
The Environmental Change
1973
Unit (now Environmental
The Transport Studies
Change Institute) is
Unit (TSU) is established
established thanks to over
at the University with an
1,000 alumni contributions
endowment to Nuffield
through the Campaign for
College from the Chartered
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Oxford
Institute of Transport. TSU
moves to SoGE in 1995
Engagement
Engagement underpins virtually everything we do. We foster
influential relationships with stakeholders and those in power;
establish strategic research partnerships; hold prestigious
appointments; and we creatively disseminate and target our work.
We lead major consortia
We hold positions of influence on
government advisory boards
We provide the evidence
base for government
These include:
• Professor Jim Hall sits on the Adaptation
Sub-Committee of the Independent
Committee on Climate Change
• Professors David Thomas and Jim Hall are
‘Lead Experts’ in two foresight projects
• Professor Sarah Whatmore has been
appointed to the Social Science Expert Panel
of the Department of Food and Rural Affairs,
and Department for Energy and Climate
Change
• Professor Heather Viles sits on the panel
developing the National Heritage Science
Strategy for the next 25 years. Within the last 12 months we have
provided evidence and appeared
before the UK Government on key
issues including the Energy Green
Deal, the Arctic; and the economic
impacts of investing in light rail
systems and high speed trains. We influence global governance,
including: feeding directly into
all three working groups of the
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change 5th Assessment
reports; sitting on expert panels
relating to Reducing Emissions
from Deforestation and Forest
Degradation (REDD+) and the
World Economic and Social Survey. DO4Models
Diasporas,
migration
& identities
2004
The School moves into the
Oxford University Centre for the
Environment – the Dyson Perrins
laboratory on South Parks Road
2002-2004
Three further MSc programmes follow:
Nature, Society and Environmental Policy;
Biodiversity, Conservation and Management
and Water Science, Policy and Management
– resulting in one of the largest International
8 Schools in the world in the discipline.
Graduate
2007
The Geography Library (11,000
volumes) becomes part of the
Bodleian’s Radcliffe Science Library
We work with a global
network of partners
We liaise with our alumni
In 2013/14 600 alumni attended 16
tailored events put on by the School. This included three anniversary events
for our MSc Programmes and the
annual Herbertson Lunch. There were
also alumni drinks receptions across
the world in London, Beijing, Sydney
and New York. We worked in over 60 countries
with many partners in 2013/14.
Our Global
Ecological
Monitoring
Network links
up 65 forest
plots across
the tropics
in South America,
Africa and Asia.
We inform the public
through the press
We have a growing
online presence
Subscribe to eSoGE News:
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/
Follow us on twitter
@oxfordgeography
@ECIoxford
@TSUoxford
@TheSmithSchool
Like us on facebook:
Oxford School of Geography
and the Environment
UKCIP co-ordinate the EPSRC
Adaptation and Resilience in the
Context of Change Network –
bringing together stakeholders
involved in climate adaptation.
We provide
innovative
solutions
We host conferences and
public events
We use novel
ways of
portraying our
research like
www.Londonmapper.org.uk.
Our mw4d research initiative works in
rural Africa to provide mobile phone
technologies in the water sector to
improve water security and poverty.
More examples of
our wider impact
can be found
on the Oxford
University website. 100 public lectures, seminars
and conferences were put on by
the School last year including
an international conference on
Megafauna and Ecosystem Function
and the annual Allianz-Oxford
Pensions Conference.
We inspire new geographers
Since 2010, over 100 talented and
enthusiastic students from UK state
schools and colleges have attended the
University’s UNIQ Geography Summer
School programme. 45% of scholars
attending the Geography summer
schools in 2012 and 2013 went on to
gain places at Oxford.
2013
The Smith School of
Enterprise and the
Environment becomes
part of the School
2012
Professor Sarah Whatmore takes
over as the current Head of School
(see recent Head of School list to
right)
We are helping
to link Oxford’s
capacity across the
University
Members of the School
have a key role in fostering
the Oxford Univesity
Networks for the
Environment (ONE) and its
five underpinning networks
across biodiversity, climate,
energy, food and water. Heads of School since 1984
Professor Marjorie Sweeting (Acting Head 1983-84)
Professor Andrew Goudie (1984-95 )
Professor Ceri Peach (1995 -97)
Professor Colin Clarke (1997-02)
Professor Andrew Goudie (2002-03)
Professor Gordon L Clark (2003-08)
Professor David Thomas (2008-12)
Professor Sarah Whatmore (2012-)
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“
I am still grateful
for the education I
received at Oxford.
It has enabled me to
teach in Africa and
England, and has
given me a lifelong
interest in the world
around me
“
Margaret Young,
Undergraduate Student,
1946-1949
MSc students Jessica Thorn and Chase Sova (now doctoral students) undertake field work in
Kenya using participatory processes to estimate the cost of climate change adaptation in rural
communities.
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Photo: Neil Palmer CIAT
Teaching
6,000
Over 6,000 students have read Geography and related degrees at
Oxford, passing through the doors of one of the oldest Geography
departments in the UK. The first taught diplomas began under
Professor Halford Mackinder in the early 20th Century and evolved
30 years later into a full Honours School. By the end of the 1930s
there were over 100 undergraduates reading Geography at Oxford.
Our undergraduate programme is as popular as ever, recruiting
80 exceptional new undergraduate students per year. Oxford
Geography repeatedly appears among the leading departments in
subject league tables within the UK and beyond. In recent decades our postgraduate teaching has undergone a
major expansion. Over the last 20 years we have created four new
Masters programmes and substantially grown our doctoral training
programme. We are now one of the largest graduate schools in
geography and the environment internationally. Our combined
courses attract some of the world’s most talented minds and offer a
unique and invigorating opportunity for learning.
GEOGRAPHY
GRADUATES
1932
BA GEOGRAPHY
FOUNDED,
RECRUITING 100
EXCEPTIONAL
NEW STUDENTS
EACH YEAR
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PROGRAMMES
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ONE OF WORLD’S
LARGEST
GRADUATE
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Undergraduate Honour School
Dr Richard Bailey Director of Undergraduate Studies
[email protected]
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate/
The three-year BA programme
focuses on the inter-relationships
between society and the physical
and human environment. We
provide students with a diverse
teaching timetable, which includes
lectures, small tutorials, lab work
and fieldtrips. Our teaching is delivered by
outstanding academics and
researchers, who inspire and
equip students with the tools and
techniques required for critical
thinking across the breadth of
geography. The
teaching is also
closely aligned
with our
cutting-edge
research, thus
ensuring that
the most up
to date, realworld learning
is achieved.
Our students
The Undergraduate Honour
School has a balanced mix of
male and female students from
state and privately educated
schools. In 2012/13 we received
approximately four applicants for
every place awarded. 2013 Dissertation Prizes
Elizabeth Fitzgerald, winner, Dissertation
Prize of the RGS-IBG Biogeography
Research Group.
Aditi Arora, winner, Dissertation Prize
of the RGS-IBG Transport Geography
Research Group.
Helen Spooner, runner-up, Dissertation
Prize of the RGS-IBG Social and Cultural
Geography Research Group.
Hannah Smith, winner, Quaternary
Research Association Annual Dissertation
Prize.
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SUCCESS RATE
98%
GAINED 2:1 & ABOVE
IN LAST 5 YEARS
30%
GO ON TO FURTHER
STUDY
“
Although I am now
a lawyer, I remain a
geographer at heart
indeed it was in a
tutorial with Prof Rob
Whittaker that the idea
of environmental law as
a career first arose. The
combination of law and
geography has proved an
interesting combination
and my foundation in
geography continues to
prove valuable.
Elizabeth Hattan, 1987
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Our Undergraduate Honour School
is the home to Oxford’s BA in
Geography, a prestigious honours
programme that offers students
an intellectually stimulating
environment from which to gain
an integrated view of geography,
spanning issues and debates
across the human and physical
dimensions of the discipline. Course structure
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The first year of the BA in
Geography programme aims to
provide students with a strong
grounding in the key principles
underpinning the human and
physical geographical systems,
along with skills training in methods
and techniques. Students complete
four compulsory written papers,
which provide the building blocks
for years two and three. In the second year our students
begin to specialise by choosing two
foundational courses and three
specialist options in order to build
knowledge of key concepts in
physical, human and environmental
geography. The students are also required to
write a 12,000 word dissertation
on an independent research project
and sit final examinations to
complete the course.
Specialist Options
Human Geography
• Contemporary India
• Cultural Spaces and
Geographies of Nature
• European Integration
• Geographies of Finance
• African Societies
• Northlands: Peoples and
Politics
• Politics, Society and Economy
of China
• Spaces of Culture
• Transport and Mobilities
Physical Geography
“
In two terms the course has
already covered an enormous
breadth of subject matter…
there are so many topics
that were foreign to me upon
arrival, but now I feel like
I could actively engage in
discussion about them. It's a
really rewarding process.
“
Tallulah Le Merle, 2nd year student 2013/14
• Biogeography, Biodiversity
and Conservation
• Climate Change and
Variability
• Climate Impacts and
Adaptations
• Complexity
• Desert Landscapes and
Dynamics
• Forensic Geography
• Heritage Science and
Conservation
International Graduate School
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/
We recruit 100 postgraduate MSc students across four taught
programmes each year and a further 40 doctoral and MPhil research
students. All our postgraduate students undertake learning and training
in different aspects of nature-society relations.
Our postgraduate students are recruited from elite universities around
the world and from a diverse range of career experiences and academic
backgrounds, including the arts, sciences, business and humanities. It
is this diversity and quality, together with research-led teaching across
the breadth of the discipline by our world-class academics, that makes
our degree programmes an exceptional learning experience.
“
I was astonished that
80% of my fellow
students were lawyers,
engineers, ex-McKinsey
consultants, accountants
and from international
relations…. it was an
electrifying year
“
Postdoctoral researchers and graduate students are an integral part of
the School’s research culture. The International Graduate School (IGS)
continues to be one of the largest graduate schools in Geography and
the Environment in the world and plays a key role in developing and
sustaining the discipline.
Ayub Osman, Commercial
Director, Ericsson
(MSc ECM 2002/03)
Atlas of Action Our graduates go on to work on environmental issues all over the world. This “Atlas of Action” shows the
work destinations of alumni from three of our MSc courses. Mapping their engagement since graduation
was part of the recent 10th and 20th anniversary celebrations of these courses.
http://atlasofaction.appspot.com
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Masters
Programmes
Professor Giles Wiggs Director of Graduate Studies (Taught Programmes)
[email protected]
Our four MSc courses provide a
coordinated teaching programme,
consisting of core and optional
modules, specialist training
in research methods and
techniques, and field courses. The courses are assessed
through two coursework essays,
examinations and an independent
research dissertation. The programmes are delivered
by academic and research
experts from within the School
and enhanced with perspectives
from practitioners in industry,
government and NGOs who bring
a depth and variety to our unique
learning experience.
Our courses are all
interdisciplinary, bringing in
concepts and theories from
subjects such as economics,
physical and natural sciences,
politics, and law. We are
perhaps unique in that we
actively encourage students
without previous experience
of Geography to apply to our
masters programmes. Experience
shows us that having diverse
perspectives on the course
expands the students’ horizons
and enriches their learning. One of the core aims of all our
postgraduate courses is to
provide students with the ability
and flexibility to think across
existing disciplinary boundaries. Our masters programmes are
also part of the Oxford 1+1
programme which enables
exceptional students to combine
their MSc with the Oxford MBA.
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MSc in Biodiversity,
Conservation and Management
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/msc-bcm/
Biodiversity, conservation and management must
constantly adapt to retain its salience in policy and
society. This requires researchers and practitioners
trained in the biological, social and political
dimensions of conservation and with the ability to
think flexibly and innovatively at the intersection of
theory, policy and action. The MSc in Biodiversity,
Conservation and Management (BCM) syllabus is
forward looking and designed to equip students
with the conceptual tools and insights to ask
rigorous questions, think creatively and become
future leaders.
Core modules
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Conservation Landscapes
Conservation Biogeography
Conservation Governance
Ecosystems
Biodiversity Informatics
Conservation and Society
Environmental Economics and Policy
Research Design
Research Methods and Practical Exercise
“
BCM is a masterclass in the exploration of
conservation through multiple lenses. The
interdisciplinary nature of the programme,
drawing together the natural and social
sciences, combined with a fantastic exposure
to expert leaders and strong camaraderie
among fellow students from across the world,
make this course second to none. This MSc
gave me the experience, networks and focus
I needed to successfully found and grow a
conservation education charity, Action for
Conservation.
Dr Paul Jepson
Course Director
[email protected]
Teaching staff
Staff who taught on the programme in 2013-14
included:
• Dr Paul Jepson **
• Dr Richard Grenyer *
• Dr Meredith Root-Bernstein
• Dr Maan Barua
• Dr Pam Berry
• Dr Chris Doughty
• Dr Jamie Lorimer
• Prof Yadvinder Malhi
• Dr Constance McDermott
• Dr Thomas Thornton
• Prof Robert Whittaker
Our students
There have been over 250 BCM graduates since
2003, forming an impressive and active global
alumni network. Graduates of the programme are
enjoying careers in research, policy, management
and activism in the public, private and voluntary
sectors. Positions include: Environmental
Consultant for CIFOR Latin America, Living
Landscape Officer for the Wildlife Trust, Project
Officer for WWF-India, and Environmental Policy
Team Leader for Oxford City Council.
In October 2013 BCM celebrated its 10 year
anniversary with a reunion weekend.
Students on the 2013/14 course received
several studentships, including two from the
world’s most prestigious scholarship schemes: the
Commonwealth and Chevening programmes.
“
Hendrikus van Hensbergen (Class 2011/12)
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MSc in Environmental
Change and Management
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/msc-ecm/
The MSc in Environmental Change and
Management (ECM), established in 1994, was
our first postgraduate programme and is one of
Oxford’s most popular – in recent years we have
received over seven applicants for every place. The course aims to improve understanding of,
and responses to, environmental change through
interdisciplinary education. We teach students
to grasp the interdependencies between key
issues and challenges relating to climate change,
sustainable energy, ecosystem science and
conservation but also provide them with the tools
to deliver integrated solutions to society’s most
pressing environmental management problems. Core modules
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Welcome to the Anthropocene (Intro module)
The Earth System
Ecosystems
Human Systems and Environmental Change
Responding to Environmental Change
Climate Mitigation and Energy
Governing the Anthropocene
“
I decided to do ECM mid–career to refresh
the way I see and define environmental
problems and how we can contribute to
promoting the solution in the dynamic and
fragile world. As an environmental engineer,
I see the importance of combining technical
knowledge with social and policy approaches
as well as geographical perspectives in my
work. It was like an enlightening and inspiring
sabbatical year for me.
Dr Thomas Thornton
Course Director
[email protected]
Teaching staff
included:
• Dr Thomas Thornton **
• Prof Jim Hall *
• Dr John Ingram
• Prof Myles Allen
• Prof Cameron Hepburn
• Dr Pam Berry
• Dr Rachel James
• Dr John Boardman • Dr Chris Jardine
• Dr Patricia Daley
• Prof Yadvinder Malhi
• Dr Sarah Darby
• Dr Constance McDermott
• Dr Chris Doughty • Dr Alexander Otto
• Dr Nick Eyre
• Prof Judith Pallot
• Prof Robert Hahn
• Prof Richard Washington
Our students
Over 600 students have been trained on the
course since 1994, forming a powerful alumni
network of inspirational leaders and environmental
professionals. ECM alumni hold influential positions
in all sectors throughout the world, including
six positions at the World Bank; Assistant Vice
President of Deutsche Bank; Vice President of
Global Operations at BroadReach Healthcare;
Climate Change Advisor for Australian Prime
Minister’s Office; and Shadow Minister of Water and
Environmental Affairs in South Africa.
In 2013/2014 three quarters of ECM students
received scholarships to assist with their studies,
adding to the 250 students who were awarded
funding since 1994. Scholarships included the
elite Rhodes and Chevening programmes as well as
industry and charitable bursaries. The Environmental
Change Institute also awards the Andrew Goudie
Bursary and Boardman Scholarship, established
by the Institute in recognition of the role these
individuals played in forming the ECM MSc. The two
bursaries are partially funded by alumni from the
course.
“
Yuyun Ismawati, (Class 2010/11) First
recipient of the Gita Wirjawan Graduate Fellowship
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/msc-nseg/
The Nature, Society and Environmental Policy
(NSEP) course is grounded in the conviction
that responses to political and environmental
challenges requires researchers and practitioners
trained in the social sciences, with the ability
to think flexibly across disciplinary and sectorial
boundaries. The course enables students to develop
theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded
understanding of the dynamic relations between
environment, society and governance. From October 2015 the NSEP course will change
its name to the MSc in Nature, Society, and
Environmental Governance.
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Corporate Environmental Management
Economy and Development
Decision Theory
Governance, Politics and Policy
Nature and Society
Research Design
Research Methods and Practice
Science and Politics
Teaching staff
included:
• Dr Kersty Hobson **
• Dr Jamie Lorimer *
• Prof Gordon L Clark
• Prof Robert Hahn
• Prof Cameron Hepburn
• Prof Craig Jeffrey
• Dr Kärg Kama
• Prof Linda McDowell
• Dr Richard Powell
• Dr Tim Schwanen
• Prof Sarah Whatmore
• Prof Dariusz Wójcik
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Dr Kersty Hobson
Course Director
[email protected]
Our students
Students from the NSEP course progress onto
a number of careers in research and policy
development in the public, private and voluntary
sectors. We have alumni working throughout
the world in leading positions, including: Head
of World Europe Programme, British Council,
Berlin; Founding Director, Cultivate, UK; Head of
Education and Society, British Council Germany;
Programme Manager for Overseas Territories,
Royal Society for Protection of Birds; and CSR
Officer, Burberry.
“
The greatest strength of this course
is the way that it encourages
multidisciplinary ways of thinking about,
and doing, policy. Taking this masters
course has enabled me to approach
complex policy changes in a much
more holistic way than my science
background alone would have allowed.
Haley Bowcock,
(Class 2008-09)
Food Prices
Coordinator, Oxfam UK
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MSc in Nature, Society and
Environmental Policy
* Academic Director, ** Course Director
MSc in Water Science,
Policy and Management
Dr Katrina Charles
Course Director
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/msc-wspm/ [email protected]
Sustainable water management is an increasingly
complex challenge and policy priority facing global
society. The MSc in Water Science, Policy and
Management (WSPM) aims to equip the next
generation of water professionals with the blend of
skills necessary to make a significant contribution
to sustainable water management pathways across
competing priorities of water for ecosystems, food,
energy, economic growth and human consumption.
It achieves this by providing a critical understanding
of natural water science and the socio-economic,
political, cultural and institutional environments
within which water management decisions are made
Core modules
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Climate and Catchment Processes
Institutional Governance and Regulation
Modelling Environmental Systems
Water and Health
Water Policy, Politics and Law
Water Quality
Water Economics
4 OUT OF 5 WSPM
STUDENTS GO ON TO
WATER-RELATED POSTS
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The international exposure, academic
rigour, and analytical tools learnt from
the MSc Water Science, Policy and
Management remain significant in my
career”
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Swarni Kazi (Class 2007/8),
Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank
Teaching staff
included:
• Dr Katrina Charles **
• Dr Simon Dadson *
• Dr Richard Bailey
• Prof David Bradley
• Prof Mike Edmunds
• Dr Dustin Garrick
• Prof David Grey
• Prof Jim Hall
• Dr Rob Hope
• Dr David Johnstone
• Dr Christine McCulloch
• Prof Edmund Penning-Rowsell
• Prof Michael Rouse
• Dr Abi Stone
• Prof Richard Washington
• Prof Paul Whitehead
Our students
2013/14 marks the 10th year of the WSPM
course with over 220 students successfully
completing the course. Of these alumni, four out of
five are actively working in the water sector, spread
across more than 40 countries. They hold positions
of increasing water seniority across all sectors, in
organisations such as the World Bank, Food and
Agriculture Organization and UNICEF, through
development agencies, national governments,
water utilities, finance, law and enterprise, to
international NGOs and universities. In addition to the many funding opportunities
available to our students from a range of schemes,
the WSPM course benefits from a number of unique
water related bursaries such as the Africa Water
Stewardship Scholarship, established by the CocaCola Company in 2012 to help build the capacity
of outstanding African students. In 2013/14 there
were 12 scholarships funded out of 25 places.
Graduate Research
Programmes
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/programmes/
The School of Geography and
the Environment’s International
Graduate School comprises 140
DPhil and MPhil research students
undertaking innovative primary
research on topics that span
the breadth of the geography
discipline. Our students
Our research students are
embedded throughout the School,
in our labs, research teams, in the
field and networked with external
departments, organisations,
businesses and other universities. Their research spans the world,
with many of our students
undertaking extended overseas
fieldwork campaigns during their
DPhil. Current examples include: carbon trait measurements in the
Amazon rainforest; interviews on
the nature and extent of social and
generational change in rural India;
cultural heritage conservation; and
modelling of complex multi-scale
interdependent infrastructure in
the UK. See full list on p21.
Our doctoral students are
of an exceptional academic
standard. In 2013/14 research
undertaken by existing doctoral
students was published in over
60 peer-reviewed academic
papers. Increasingly our students
publish their theses through the
submission of 4 peer-reviewed
papers. This highlights the quality,
rigour and standard of their
research. 20
Professor Craig Jeffrey
Director of Graduate Studies (Research)
[email protected]
In 2013/14 we received 128
DPhil applications and 35 were
successful. Half of these students
are on fully funded scholarship
programmes, many of which are
from UK research councils (e.g.
NERC, ESRC) and consulates
(e.g. Clarendon, Commonwealth)
with others receiving additional
funding from organisations and
foundations all around the world. A number of our students are
also financed through industry
(Proceq,Thames Water, Arup,
CH2M Hill) which highlights the
relevance of our research within
the business sector. We offer
departmental funds for doctoral
students to carry out fieldwork
and attend key conferences to
help them network.
In 2013 we were selected to
form part of new NERC and ESRC
Doctoral Programmes which
enable us to provide fully funded
doctoral education to a number
of students from 2014. Oxford
participates in the £10 million
NERC Doctoral
Training Programme,
with the allocation
of 24 fully funded
places over the
next five years. The
funding is spread
across six academic
departments at the
University. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP
Student initiatives
In 2013/14 we hosted a number
of student-led conferences
organised by our doctoral
students and attracting worldclass speakers and experts. Recent examples include, a
conference on the Geographies
of Neoliberalism and Resistance
After the Crisis; and a one day
conference on Environment and
Development in Latin America.
Current Doctoral Research
The changing meaning of work, herding,
and social relations in Mongolia: a study
of value transformations and conditions
for social change. Ariell Ahearn-Ligham
Algal greening of sandstone heritage:
investigating the causes and impacts of
patchy colonisation. Samin Ahmad
Observed climate trends and projected
climate change over the Arabian
peninsula. Said Al Sarmi
The state's gendered understanding
of family and labour market in postcommunist transition. Anna Alekseyeva
Atmospheric mechanisms of mineral
aerosol emission and transport over the
central Sahara desert. Christopher Allen
Certified forest industry diversification in
the Bolivian Northern Amazon: escaping
the staple trap in the forest carbon era.
Rodrigo Arce
The interface between sustainable
cocoa production and remnant forest
conservation in south western Ghana.
Festus Asaaga
Realising the potential of work-time
reduction in the 'developed' world;
overcoming the perverse employer and
employee incentives that encourage
long work hours. Thomas Ashfold
Measuring the sustainability gap of
non-renewable resources extraction in
Ecuador, in the context of the transition
to a tertiary exporting economy. Pablo
Astudillo-Estevez
A multi-proxy analysis of climateinduced environmental change in southeast Arabia. Oliver Atkinson
Resilience and adaptive capacity: an
action research case study of food
systems within subsistence agricultural
and pastoral communities of the East
African coast. Meghan Bailey
The potential and challenges for the
nascent Indian off-grid solar power
sector. Jonathan Balls
Scopings and scrapings: subjectivity in
a non-representational geography of
artistic practice. Janet Banfield
Globalisation, gender and natural
resources: political ecologies of water,
land and livelhoods in transitional
Tajikstan. Elodie Behzadi
Thinking beyond carbon sinks: can
non-native communities and landscape
mosaics contribute to a holistic climate
change agenda in an Amazon frontier
zone? Aoife Bennett-Curry
Water resources adaptation decisions in
the context of climatic non-stationarity
and variability. Edoardo Borgomeo
Materials, markets, and the making of
South Australian wine: uncertainties,
vulnerabilities, valuation. Jeremy Brice
Oceanic assemblages: reconceptualising
geographies of climate adaptation.
Vanessa Burns
Preventative conservation of
archaeological sites. Strategies to reduce
the impact of climate change on exposed
archaeological remains: reburial and
shelters. Cristina Cabello Briones
The stranding of environmentally
unsustainable assets: drivers,
consequences and responses.
Benjamin Caldecott
Saving energy and saving water:
a comparative study in policy and
regulation. Iliana Cardenes Trujillo
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RESEARCH
STUDENTS
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APPLICANTS FOR 35
PLACES IN 2013/14
£10Million
NERC DOCTORAL
TRAINING
PROGRAMME
ACROSS SIX
DEPARTMENTS OVER
FIVE YEARS
60
PEER REVIEWED
PUBLISHED
PAPERS BY CURRENT
DPHIL STUDENTS IN
2013/14
A study of the UK’s market based
fisheries policy. Emma Cardwell
Optimal pathways to sustainable national
infrastructure systems. Robert Carlsson
Rising seas, surprising storms:
temporalities of climate and catastrophe
in Vermont, New York and the Florida
Keys. Becky Catarelli
Transferability of the Slow City concept
to small shrinking cities in Japan.
Heuishilja Chang
Costing community based adaptation to
climate change. Abrar Chaudhury
Understanding the relationship between
the leaf life cycle and Earth Observationderived indices in Amazonian rainforests.
Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
Education, class, and youth: young
people's experiences of private higher
education in Singapore. Yi'En Cheng
Mobilities and socio-spatialities in the
Aerotropolis: Dallas-Fort Worth and New
Songdo City. Lisa Choi
Developing a generalised methodology
for integrating climate change into
freshwater systematic conservation
planning. Jonathan David
Mobilizing bodies: difference, power and
ecology in urban cycling practices.
Anna Davidson
Sustainable management under changing
conditions: enhancing the adaptive
capacity of social-ecological systems in
tropical forest landscapes.
Tahia Devisscher
A social-ecological systems analaysis
of rescaled water governance in South
Africa. Kathleen Hansen
Dismantling 'irrationality' of geoeconomic thinking in central and eastern
Europe. Tomoyuki Hashimoto
The micropolitical ecology of
environmental health and organic food in
Islamabad. Saher Hasnain
Heritage conservation and urban
revitalization in China. Shuaishuai He
Black and Blue: Policing and community
resistance in neoliberal Britain.
Adam Elliott-Cooper
'Local, loyal and constant'? On the
dynamism of terroir in sustainable
agriculture. Rory Hill
The role of landslides in the Peruvian
Andes in determining forest ecology and
carbon transport. Kathryn Clark
The role of geography, institutions and
networks in determining the formation
and survival of trade relationships for
African firms exporting to new markets.
Jakob Engel
Re-thinking connectivity in conservation:
a lively bio-geography of three woodland
mammals in England and Wales.
Timothy Hodgetts
Reconciling food security across scales.
Christopher Coghlan
Being-in-the-air: atmosphere in artscience projects. Sasha Engelmann
Developing a framework for social and
environmental boundaries in small island
developing states. Megan Cole
How the Internet and social networks
influence the development of Chinese
and Russian environmental nongovernmental organisations.
Irina Fedorenko
Environmentalism of (post)
developmental states: the politics,
cultures, and geographies of ecotourism
in South Korea. Myung-Ae (Chloe) Choi
Adaptation to climate change and
the role of bio-cultural interactions:
supporting positive change in Amazonian
indigenous communities.
Claudia Comberti
Under Mount Roraima: the conservation
and development of a sacred landscape.
Daniel Cooper
The role of Ficus trees in tropical
countryside conservation biogeography.
Eden Cottee-Jones
Termite assemblage structure and
function in lowland tropical forests.
Cecilia Dahlsjo
Urban Greenland: a spatial analysis of
Nuuk's evolving labour market.
Michael Dangerfield
The effect of atmospheric deposition on
water quality in Lake Victoria.
Andrew Dansie
A carbon market for the Gulf - the
development of an optimal carbon
trading platform to regulate carbon
emissions in the Gulf cooperation council.
Justin Dargin
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International partnerships and
decision-making processes in e-waste
governance: a comparative study of
China and France. Carlo Ferri
Financial analysis of rural water
sustainability in Africa. Timothy Foster
Global risks to food supplies of correlated
droughts. Franziksa Gaupp
Flood risk reduction through innovative
public-private partnerships. Linda Geaves
REDD+ as an alternative for poverty
alleviation in Ghana and Peru.
Gonzalo Griebenow
Market based incentives and fisheries
management - are we targeting the right
stakeholders to make them work?
Alexis Gutierrez
The functional diversity of tropical
forests and their sensitivity to drought.
Agne Gvozdevaite
Governance frameworks for responsible
investing: the case of sovereign
sponsored funds.
Heather Hachigian
The devolution of climate change funding
to developing country governments: a
case study of Rwanda's National Fund for
Climate and Environment. Ryan Hogarth
Vulnerability and adaptation to climate
change in China. Xi Hu
By the people, for the people: integrating
citizen and research science into
decision-making and policy formation for
climate change adaptation in London and
Mexico City. Anna Hushlak
Nutrient cycling in altered tropical forest
ecosystems, Malaysian Borneo.
Takeshi Inagawa
The economic geography of
institutional investment in clean energy
infrastructure.
Christopher Kaminker
Assessment of agricultural diversity
among women small-scale farmers
during different seasons in Vihiga and
Mumias districts in Kenya.
Mary Kanui
Study of recent climate trends and
projections in the Nepal Himalaya,
using observations and climate model.
Jagadishwor Karmacharya
Climate change and urbanisation integrated assessment and decisionmaking. Ashley Kingsborough
Energy transformation, social implication
and interaction with energy efficiency.
Scott Macdonald
Toru Kubo
2nd Year DPhil candidate
Learning to serve time: an investigation
into how the construction of working
class masculinity impacts on the life
chances of the young men who invest in
it. David Maguire
Technology innovation and policy
instruments to advance lowcarbon transport and renewable
energy use in developing Asia
The projected rapid growth in oil consumption amongst
developing Asian economies will exacerbate national and global
energy security concerns, worsen the countries’ balance of
payments, and contribute adversely to climate change. My
research seeks to help alter this trend by examining the potential
contribution of sustainable transport technologies and policies, in
particular focusing on the innovative use of electric vehicles (EVs)
as distributed energy storage devices for renewable power.
Considering the unique usage patterns of vehicles – mainly driven
in the mornings and evenings but parked through the majority of
peak electric load hours – and the natural fluctuation of wind and
solar availability, EVs and renewables could be a perfect match.
I recently presented this concept at the 2014 Asia Clean Energy
Forum and aim to work with interested international and local
organizations to find potential early adopters in the region.
Transparency and corporate governance:
a comparative study of shale gas
controversies in the US and UK. Irem Kok
In-between aspirations: educated youth
and social change in Nepal. Andrea Kölbel
Post-Keynesian financial spaces, places,
and flows: measuring and visualizing
financial services in the United States.
Nicholas Kreston
Technology innovation and policy
instruments to advance low-carbon
transport and renewable energy use in
developing Asia. Toru Kubo
Building labour power against global
capital: a case study from the shop floors
and shantytowns of Bangalore.
Ashok Kumar
Marginalized street traders or strategic
entrepreneurs? Social networks, political
structures and Kolkata’s young street
vendors. Tanya Kumar
Foreign direct investment in the Russian
cereal sector. Christopher Lander
Stressed deserts: quantifying resilience in
semi-arid landscapes. Michelle Lanzoni
Alternative food networks in the UK and
US. Alex Littaye
Prospects for intergenerational equity in
sub-saharan Africa. Sarah-Jane Littleford
Residential Demand Response (DR) in the
UK: the potential in low carbon energy
transformation, social implication and
interaction with energy efficiency.
Yingqi Liu
Global and local issues of Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POPs): processed
based modelling in river basins. Qiong Lu
Comparing energy efficiency in China and
India. Yuge Ma
How can we maximise the contribution
of carbon finance mechanisms to deliver
biodiversity co-benefits to species and
ecosystem conservation?
Ewan Macdonald
Investigating the changes and effects in
travel behaviour in response to physical
interventions for walking and cycling.
Lucy Mahoney
Resilience and adaptative capacity of
customary conservation practices in
Malaysian Borneo. Ashley Massey
Analysing, modelling and mitigating
the impact of habitat destruction and
fragmentation on species diversity: a
global perspective. Thomas Matthews
Development and testing of a coupled
vegetation/sediment-transport model
for southern African environments.
Jerome Mayaud
The economic governance of global
commodity markets. Sarah McGill
Flood risk management in the context
of non-stationarity: an exploration using
stochastic simulation.
Balqis Mohamed Rehan
Corporate water risk and return.
Alex Money
Food futures: scenarios as
transformational tools for improved
sustainability, decision making, social
learning and collective adaptive capacity
in an era of climate change.
Shauna Monkman
The interplay between the REDD+
mechanism and forest-related
institutions in Indonesia. Mari Mulyani
Lifescapes of a pipedream: a mixed-tape
of structural violence, resistance and
struggle in two towns along the ChadCameroon oil pipeline. Amber Murrey
Neoliberalized visions? Times and spaces
of ESD theories and practices, in relation
to youth futures. Grace Mwaura
India's sacred and mundane cattle: gods,
hybrid-beasts and scavengers. Kelsi Nagy
Evaluating change in travel and
carbon following implementation of
physical infrastructure for pedestrians
and cyclists: a case study of Cardiff
Connect2. Andre Neves
New connections: middle class youth
activism in Delhi. Gregory Ortiz
New developments in household
energy efficiency policy in the UK: a
consideration of the effect of increasing
decentralisation and local energy
governance on householders and the
role of community-led initiatives in
supporting householder's engagement
with the energy system. Sarah Parker
Examining community-based climate
change adaptations, environmental
stewardship and effective learning
corridors across indigenous and local
knowledge banks, researchers, NGOs,
governance, policy-makers and funding
streams. Emilie Parry
Youth strategies and generational change
in rural Gujarat, India. Viresh Patel
Justice issues in transport policies.
Rafael Pereira
Geopolitical Arctic(s). Indigenous
representations of geo-power: the case
of the Sahtu Denes. Brice Perombelon
Deconstructing discourses on peace
among local civil society groups in
Burundi and the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC). Rowan Popplewell
Modeling tree carbon allocation, gas and
energy exchange in the Amazon through
functional structural models.
Nicolas Raab
Droughts in future climate change in the
United Kingdom. Muhammad Rahiz
The pathway to a sustainable enegery
infrasturcture system.
Jose Ramirez Mendiola
Climate change and high-impact weather
events: implications for water resource
and agriculture in Bangladesh.
Ruksana Rimi
Generation NGO: youth and development
in urban India. Sahar Romani
Surveying contextual echoes:
foundations for a doxastic geography.
Dane Rook
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Enhancing regional palaeoenvironmental
records through analysis of Late
Quaternary sand ramp accumulation.
Alexandra Rowell
A systematic framework for integrated
climate change adaptation planning:
considerations from a politicaleconomics perspective . Chase Sova
Corporate engagement for sustainable
business in development. Yukie Saito
Reducing the risk of failure in
interdependent national infrastructure
network systems. Scott Thacker
Avoiding deforestation and the
geography of law in the Brazilian
Amazon. Caroline Schmidt
Reconstructed meanings of gender
violence in postwar Freetown and
Monrovia. Kerrie Thornhill
Geo-urban attunements: Reykjavík,
convection, genius loci.
Matthew Shepherd
Space and practice in the geosciences.
Rachael Tily
Claiming the Satellite City: Conceptions
of livelihood and ownership in Cairo’s
occupied youth housing estates.
Nicholas Simcik-Arese
The role of institutional investors
in equity market development and
corporate governance: evidence from
China. Laura-Marie Töpfer
Chase Sova
2nd Year DPhil candidate
A systematic framework for
integrated climate change
adaptation planning: considerations
from a political-economics
perspective.
I work with a team of four Oxford University PhD Students on
a multidisciplinary CCAFS project called Systemic Integrated
Adaptation (SIA). The project includes partners from the
International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia,
and a host of in-country partners in Ghana and Nepal.
I look at the way that climate change adaptation policies are
being developed in the agricultural sectors of Ghana and Nepal. I
examine who is making decisions in these contexts, how agendas
are being set, and the impact that this has on preferred adaptation
options for small-scale farmers in those countries.
The project involves four PhD students, each with their own
disciplinary background. My ‘lens’ of the project is political, while
the others look at finance, sociology, and ecology. It is among the
first interdisciplinary studies of climate change adaptation in the
agricultural sector. Specific to the political perspective, adaptation
policy is a new and emerging area of study. Understanding how
those policies are developed and identifying who benefits from
them in our study countries is a strong contribution to the field.
My work on policy has been presented at international climate
change conferences (COP 19 in Warsaw) and in other technical
forums of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC).
Occupants interaction with retrofitted
homes and its impact on energy use.
Marina Topouzi
Katrin Wilhelm
On the rebound: developing a
geographical understanding of Jevons'
Paradox. Thomas Turnbull
Non-destructive analysis
techniques for heritage stones
in-situ
US public pension funds internal
capabilities: searching for an alternative
financial culture. Michael Urban
Assessment of forest ecosystem services
under climate and land use change
scenarios in Chile. Rocio Urrutia
Student environmentalism in China: new
generation, new values? Charlotte von Mangoldt
Modelling the impacts of glacial
recession in the Himalayas on the Terai
region of Nepal. Gareth Walker
Discontinuous innovation and pathways
towards green and sustainable
transportation future. Liwen Wang
Pathways to international financial centre
formation with Chinese characteristics: a
view from Shanghai. Xiaoyang Wang
Cooperation or conflict in transboundary rivers with the emergence.
Kevin Wheeler
Non-destructive analysis
techniques for heritage stones in-situ
Katrin Wilhelm
Pacific crabapple (Malus fusca) as
a model species to investigate the
interactions between cultural and
biological diversity on the Pacific Coast
of North America.
Victoria Wyllie de Echeverria
Assessment and governance of urban
infrastructure for meeting the challenges
of climate change - case studies of
London and Beijing. Yin Yang
Upgrading informal settlements: an
evaluation of South Africa's strategy and
a framework for comparative analysis.
Alexandra Yannias
Long term planning of options for
sustainable national infrastructure
provision. Katherine Young
3rd Year DPhil candidate
I work at architectural heritage
sites like the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford or the excavation site in
Pompeii. For architectural heritage stone is a key building material,
yet there is a pressing need for preservation as recent research
illustrates that the rate of stone deterioration is rising rapidly.
The determination of the degree and cause of decay forms the
basis for making decisions on whether and how quickly remedial
action has to be undertaken. To investigate the degree of stone
decay non-destructive testing methods are particularly useful as
no sample taking is required, they are cost efficient and can be
applied frequently with great spatial coverage.
A range of non-destructive methods are well established
in laboratories, however gaps in research still exist in their
application on-site. Conservators on-site are mostly confronted
with heritage stones with largely unknown history and
inhomogeneous weathering patterns, which are not simulated
through the experimental design in the laboratory.
Therefore, with my research I develop methodologies for the
on-site application of non-destructive methods and with them
investigate degrees of decay and determine deterioration rates
of heritage stones. The results enhance the understanding of
deterioration processes and contribute to a more sustainable and
informative conservation practice.
Sustainable water management for water
and food security in a changing world:
a comparative study between arid rural
communities of China and India.
Haiyan (Helen) Yu
The role of soil as a method for
conserving cultural stone ruins: effects
of physical and chemical characteristics
on stone weathering. Noreen Zaman
Resistance to industrial pollution in rural
China. Guanli Zhang
Impact assessment of different
utilization scenarios for Pure Electric
Vehicles (PEV) on China's transport
system and power grid. Zichen Zhang
“
Geographical issues are
at the heart of humanity’s
future prospects. From how
physical geography has
become central to the study
of climate change, through
to how human geography
reveals growing social and
economic inequalities,
geography covers those
subjects that matter most
for people and the planet
“
Professor Danny Dorling,
Halford Mackinder Professor,
during his Inaugural Lecture,
Feb 2014
Research
Hong Zhang measures the moisture content in bricks for an English Heritage project run by the Oxford Rock
Breakdown Laboratory.
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£7.7Million
The School of Geography and the Environment is Oxford’s distinctive
centre for interdisciplinary geographical and environmental research
and a world leader in the discipline. We carry out cutting-edge
research that addresses societal and environmental problems and
examine the relationship between human societies and their physical
surroundings.
Using the tools of natural and social sciences we seek to get a
deeper understanding of complex systems that surround us and
make active contributions to the development of geographical
theory and practice. We achieve this through our impressive
research portfolio, valued in excess of £30 million and with a yearly
income exceeding £7 million. Approximately 80 projects are active
at any time.
We actively embrace the academic diversity of the Geography
discipline with a tradition of working across different research
cultures. In 2013/14 we worked in over 60+ countries with
many partners. From the deserts of Mongolia, to the skyscapes of
London, from the canopy of Amazonia to penal colonies in Russia, our
works takes us to places and practices at the heart of contemporary
geographical issues.
Research within the School is carried out by 50+ academics and
100+ research staff, and through collaborations with our graduate
student community and a range of visiting researchers. Our Visiting
Research Associates programme brings over 120 academics from
around the world to the School in order to share of ideas and
network among the broader global research community.
Research within the School is organised around five clusters that
span the discipline: • Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation;
• Climate Systems and Policy;
• Landscape Dynamics;
• Technological Natures: Materialities, Mobilities and Politics;
• Transformation: Economy, Society and Place.
Linking these clusters are cross-cutting themes of governance,
measurement, mobilities, nature of change and temporalities, which
facilitate interactions between the research clusters and the wider
school.
2013/14
RESEARCH
INCOME
£30Million
TOTAL
RESEARCH
PORTFOLIO
150
ACADEMICS &
RESEARCHERS
INTERNATONAL
PARTNERS
ACROSS 60
COUNTRIES
400+
PEER REVIEWED
PUBLICATIONS
PER YEAR
Biodiversity, Ecosystems
and Conservation
Research cluster
The Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation research
cluster addresses scientific and social science dimensions
of ecological and biogeographical systems functioning.
Photo: Andy Shenkin
Our principal themes of interest are:
• Biodiversity: macroecology; island biogeography;
diversity theory; in which areas our work involves
multi-scale ecological and evolutionary approaches to
understanding patterns in biodiversity;
• Ecosystems: ecosystem dynamics; understanding
what makes contemporary ecosystems; and how
they may be affected by direct human pressures and
global atmospheric change;
• Conservation: conservation biogeography;
conservation governance; biodiversity and climate
adaptation; conservation and traditional ecological
knowledge.
Academic staff
Dr Pam Berry *CLI
Senior Research Fellow, ECI
Dr Chris Doughty
Departmental Research Lecturer
Dr Richard Grenyer
Associate Professor in Biodiversity
Professor Yadvinder Malhi *CLI Professor of Ecosystem Science
Cluster coordinator
Published highlights of 2013/14 include a paper in PNAS on the
functional biogeography of oceanic islands, led by Prof Robert
Whittaker. Prof Yadvinder Malhi edited a special edition of Plant,
Ecology and Diversity on the Ecosystem Dynamics of Amazonian
and Andean Forests, and was an author in a Nature cover paper
on drought sensitivity of the Amazonian carbon balance. Prof
Robert Whittaker is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Biogeography.
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Dr Paul Jepson *TECH
Director, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and
Management
Dr Thomas Thornton *CLI
Associate Professor
Director of the MSc in Environmental Change
and Management
Professor Robert Whittaker
Professor of Biogeography
* Affiliated with multiple clusters
BIODIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEMS AND CONSERVATION CLUSTER
Selected projects
reptilr.org - A worldwide
resource for reptile
biogeography
reptilr.org (in development) is an
online collaborative GIS portal
for sharing and editing the global
distribution data for the worlds
reptiles (snakes, lizards and turtles).
Underlying the website will be a
variety of macroecological and
conservation science outputs, and a
study of the worldwide distributed
network of herpetological expertise.
Dr Richard Grenyer; Fell Fund; 20142015.
SAFE and Bali - Biodiversity
and Land-Use Impacts on
Tropical Ecosystem Function
The Stability of Altered Forest
Ecosystems project (SAFE) explores
how forest biodiversity and
ecosystem function vary along a
gradient from intact forests (Maliau
Basin), through to logged forest,
fragmented forest and oil palm
plantations in Malaysian Borneo.
Prof Yadvinder Malhi; NERC; 2013-2015.
RAINFOR, AFRITRON
and T-FORCES: carbon
observations and analysis
A series of forest inventory networks
in Amazonia and Africa and SE Asia.
Prof Yadvinder Malhi; EU, NERC, Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation and the
European Research Council; 2011-2017.
Global Ecosystem Monitoring
network (GEM)
An international effort to measure
and understand forest ecosystem
functions and traits, and how these
will respond to climate change.
Prof Yadvinder Malhi, multiple funders
across various projects.
Conservation through
poverty alleviation: enabling
sustained yield forestry in
Belize
Prof Yadvinder Malhi; DEFRA: Darwin
Initiative; 2014-2017
GEM-TRAIT: The global
ecosystems monitoring and
trait study
The GEM network team has
collected extensive data on the
carbon cycle of forests along the
Andes to Amazon transect since
2009. In 2013, the GEM-TRAIT
project will focus on the same plots
along the elevational transect, with
the overall goal to collect primary
data on tree functional diversity.
Prof Yadvinder Malhi; European Research
Council; 2013-2018.
ECOLIMITS - Ecosystem
Limits to Poverty Alleviation
This project is looking at the
interaction between ecosystem
exploitation and poverty in the
cocoa-farming landscapes of Ghana
and the coffee-farming landscapes
of Ethiopia.
Prof Yadvinder Malhi; NERC/DfiD; 20132016.
ECOFOR: Biodiversity and
ecosystem functioning in
degraded and recovering
Amazonian and Atlantic
forests
Examination of the links between
biodiversity and ecosystem function
along forest disturbance gradients in
Brazil. The work will involve installing
intensive monitoring plots in both
sites, and collected information
on plant traits and also bird
communities.
Prof Yadvinder Malhi; NERC; 20132017.
Exploring the potential of
genus-wide genome diversity
in trees to mitigate tree
health threats
A genetic study of ash tree species
with a social science study of
possible ways to enhance tree health.
Dr Paul Jepson; BBSRC; 2014-2017.
BioFresh: Biodiversity of
freshwater ecosystems:
status, trends, pressures and
conversation priorities
Leader of two components of this
multi-partner eco-informatics
project which aims to raise the policy
profile of freshwater biodiversity and
develop a stronger evidence-base
for policy responses. These are the
Dissemination and Communication
work package and the development
of a climate vulnerability index.
Dr Paul Jepson; European Commission;
2009-2014.
BESAFE: Biodiversity
and ecosystem services:
arguments for our future
environment
An investigation of how much
importance people attribute to
alternative arguments for the
protection of biodiversity and
in particular how this relates to
ecosystem services.
Dr Paula Harrison and Dr Pam Berry;
European Commission; 2011-2015.
OPENNESS:
Operationalisation of natural
capital and ecosystem
services: from concepts to
real-world applications
A translation ofthe concepts of
Natural Capital and Ecosystem
Services (ES) into operational
frameworks that provide tested,
and tailored solutions for integrating
ES into land, water and urban
management and decision-making.
IMPRESSIONS: Impacts
and risks from higher-end
scenarios: strategies for
innovative solutions
A project to advance understanding
of the consequences of highend climate and socio-economic
scenarios and to evaluate how such
knowledge can be embedded within
effective and integrated adaptation
and mitigation decision-making.
Full list of projects and publications at: www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/
Cluster highlights
Understanding the
impact of high-end
climate scenarios
Current trends in greenhouse gas emissions show that
limiting global warming to the international target of 2°C
is likely to be difficult without radical emission reductions.
The EU-funded IMPRESSIONS project, coordinated by
Dr Paula Harrison from the ECI, is investigating highend climate change impacts and adaptation (i.e. beyond
2°C) across a range of sectors and scales - including the
impacts on biodiversity.
Over 60 scientists are working intensively with a wide
range of stakeholders over a 5-year period to improve
understanding of high-end climate change scenarios,
their potential impacts, the ability of adaptation options
to reduce vulnerabilities, and the potential synergies and
trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation.
Ultimately, the project will provide reliable scientific
information on these uncertain, but potentially high-risk,
scenarios of the future to decision-makers to inform
adaptation planning. www.impressions-project.eu
Global conference on
the consequences of the
extinction of the world’s
megafauna
In March 2014 SoGE hosted a major international
conference “Megafauna and ecosystem function:
from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene”. Debates
around the causes of the extinctions have been going
on for a long time, but less attention has been paid
to understanding the environmental implications and
possible responses of these extinctions. The conference sought to address this by exploring the
following themes: Did Pleistocene megafaunal extinction
cause large scale ecological and biogeochemical
changes? How does a possible human role in these
extinctions alter our perception of the history of
human relationships with nature? What echoes
do contemporary ecosystems carry of these lost
megafauna? What lessons can be learnt in the context
of ongoing megafaunal loss? And what are the potential
challenges and ethics of “bringing back” megafauna?
The conference received substantial media attention and
will lead to two special issues of academic papers and a
book due in 2015. oxfordmegafauna.weebly.com
BioFresh:
The network
for global
freshwater
biodiversity
Dr Paul Jepson led the science
dissemination work-package of a
the EU-funded project - Biofresh
- which culminated in 2014
with a successful Brussels ‘Water
Lives’ science-policy symposium
(www.waterlives.eu). Other
key outputs include a video podcast (http://vimeo.com/90238692), the
launch of a ground-breaking online data and information platform (www.
freshwaterbiodiversity.eu) and the transfer of our popular Freshwater blog
(www.biofreshblog.com) to a new EU project. Experience gained during this
project has informed research and teaching on interplay of science and policy.
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BIODIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEMS AND CONSERVATION CLUSTER
Do large animals
play a special
role in the
ecology of the
planet?
Most people don’t realize that until
10,000 years ago most of the
planet looked like a modern African
savanna with large animals abundant
everywhere.
Our research suggests that their loss
may have led to a decrease in global
ecosystem services and that the loss
of these services may have a very
long time scale. For instance, even
though many of these extinctions
happened so long ago, we are
probably still feeling the effect, and
ecosystem services may continue to
decrease into the future due to these
past extinctions.
We hope to be able to calculate
the ecosystem services that large
animals provide and quantify their
real value, in order to aid their
conservation.
Our studies
show that 15%
of global carbon
emissions are
absorbed by
tropical forests.
Photo: Jake Bryant www.envirofoto.com
Recent research by Dr Chris Doughty
suggests that large animals do play
a special role in the ecology of the
planet and that they may act like
nutrient arteries. If you remove the
large animals, nutrients are less well
distributed. This is important because
most large animals went extinct over
10,000 years ago and those that
remain are in rapid decline.
Monitoring network for the
world’s tropical forests
Professor Yadvinder Malhi and his research team are involved in exploring
the functioning of the biosphere and its interactions with the atmosphere
across the world’s tropical forests. Our research addresses fundamental
questions about ecosystem function and dynamics, whilst at the same time
providing outputs of direct relevance for conservation and adaptation to
climate change. We have established a pioneering monitoring network of over 60 sites
across the forests of Africa, Asia, Amazonia and the Andes. At each of
the sites, local partners collect data from the forest to show how it is
functioning over time. In the Andes we have a 3000 meter elevation
transect which is revealing new insights into the impact that climate
change is having on the forests. Analysis of this data has shown that even
pristine tropical forests are changing in response to temperature changes. They are currently increasing in biomass and absorbing approximately 15%
of global carbon dioxide emissions. Recent studies have also shown that
the carbon sink is “switched off” in Amazonia during increasingly frequent
drought events.
Over the last 10 years, Professor Malhi has received £multi-million
funding for tropical forest monitoring. This includes grants from NERC, the
European Research Council and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
for the ambitious monitoring programme. gem.tropicalforests.ox.ac.uk
Climate Systems and Policy
Research cluster
The Climate Systems and Policy research cluster
spans the climate change discourse, from
understanding and forecasting the physical system
and impacts to assessing policy options in response
to the changes. Our principal themes of interest are:
• Physical climate and biogeochemical
processes: Research focuses on improving
our understanding of fundamental processes
in key Earth-system tipping elements and
climate change hotspots, including mineral
aerosols in the land-surface-atmosphere
system, biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem
dynamics in tropical forest systems, processes
of variability and change in African climate,
changes in global and regional hydrological
cycles, and climate processes in the Himalaya
and Andes.
• Impacts and adaptation to climate change:
Research aims to improve the scientific basis for
impacts/adaptation assessment and decision
making. This includes evaluation of fitness
for purpose of climate model data, climate
downscaling, development of novel methods
for assessment of impacts of climate change,
especially biodiversity and water resources,
and adaptation, with a focus on robust decision
making and challenges posed by large climate
changes.
• Mitigation policy and science: Attention is on
more radical carbon reductions and shorter time
scales, with major implications for both energy
systems and management of carbon sinks,
and on establishing stronger socio-political
theoretical understanding of mitigation and
governance at a range of scales from Earthsystem to local community.
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Academic staff
Professor Myles Allen
Professor of Geosystem Science
Dr Nick Eyre
Jackson Senior Research Fellow
Professor Jim Hall
Professor of Climate and Environmental Risk,
Director of the Environmental Change Institute
Professor Richard Washington *LAND
Professor of Climate Science
Cluster coordinator
Professor Paul Whitehead
Professor of Water Science
Key outputs for 2013/14
include leading contributions
to the IPCC 5th Assessment
reports. We also produced
a landmark collection of
papers on international water
security, risk and society in
the Philosophical Transactions
A of the Royal Society. Prof
Richard Washington published
a key paper on Congo basin
rainfall climatology in Phil.
Trans. R. Soc. B.
CLIMATE SYSTEMS AND POLICY CLUSTER
Selected projects
FENNEC
An international, multi-platform
observational, modelling and satellite
climate research programme in the
central Sahara featuring 200 hours
of flying time in the instrumented
BAe-146 research aircraft.
The project aims to unlock the
knowledge gap in climate processes
within this key region as they limit
climate model performance.
Prof Richard Washington; NERC; 20102013.
CLARIFY
CLARIFY will deploy the
instrumented BAe-146 research
aircraft in the SE Atlantic in the
winter of 2016 to measure the
semi-permanent low cloud and its
interaction with aerosols in order to
reduce one of the key uncertainties
in climate change models.
Prof Richard Washington; NERC; 20142018.
EUCLEIA: European climate
and weather events:
interpretation
This project will develop the means
to provide reliable information
about extreme weather and climate
risks using event attribution across
Europe.
Prof Myles Allen; European Union FP7;
2014-2017.
MARIUS: Managing the risks,
impacts and uncertainties of
droughts and water scarcity
A project to introduce a riskbased approach to drought and
water scarcity in order to inform
management decisions and prepare
households.
Prof Jim Hall; NERC; 2014-2017.
iCOAST - Integrated Coastal
Sediment Systems
A project to help forecast what the
UK’s coastline will look like in the
future, up to 100 years’ time.
ENHANCE: Enhancing Risk
Management Partnerships for
catastrophic natural disasters
This project aims to improve the
resilience of society to catastrophic
natural hazards through new riskmanagement partnerships.
Prof Jim Hall; European Union FP7;
2013-2017.
The Infrastructure Transitions
Research Consortium (ITRC)
Research, models and decision
support tools to enable analysis
and planning of a robust national
infrastructure system. The research
addresses major challenges for the
energy, transport, water, waste and
ICT systems sectors.
Prof Jim Hall and Dr Nick Eyre; EPSRC;
2011-2015.
CREDIBLE
A consortium to bring together
scientific and industrial experts in
natural hazards and uncertainty
assessment.
Oxford Martin Programme on
Resource Stewardship
Working across the sciences, social
sciences and humanities to radically
rethink global resource stewardship.
Profs Myles Allen and Jim Hall; Oxford
Martin School; 2012-2015.
Attributing impacts of external
climate drivers on extreme
weather in Africa (ACE)
This project looks at whether and
to what extent climate change is
already affecting the magnitude
and frequency of extreme weather
events on the African continent. It
also investigates the impacts of such
extreme weather events on river
flow and crops.
Prof Myles Allen and Dr Simon Dadson;
NERC; 2013-2018.
Climateprediction.net
A distributed computing project to
produce predictions of the Earth’s
climate up to 2100 and to test the
accuracy of climate models. The
Weather@Home experiment allows
us to simulate models at a regional
scale.
Prof Myles Allen; NERC; 2002 onwards.
World Weather Attribution
In partnership with Climate Central,
the World Weather Attribution
project will seek to assess
immediately after an extreme
weather event occurs, whether
climate change played a role.
Prof Myles Allen; Climate Central;
2014-2016.
Building expertise: a system
of professions approach to
implementing sustainable
strategies
This project explores the role of the
building professions in the UK and
France in delivering a comprehensive
low carbon refurbishment of the
existing housing stock.
Dr Nick Eyre; EPSRC; 2010-2014.
UKERC - Energy Research
Centre Phase 3
We remain a core partner in the next
5-year programme of the UKERC.
Drs Nick Eyre and Sarah Darby;
The Research Councils’ UK Energy
Programme; 2014-2019.
UKERC - Energy Demand
theme and The Meeting Place
During phases 1 and 2, ECI
coordinated the Energy Demand
theme of the UK Energy Research
Centre and hosted the Meeting
Place – a hub for energy related
networking events and conferences.
Dr Nick Eyre; The Research Councils’ UK
Energy Programme; 2009-2014.
EVALOC
Evaluating the impacts, effectiveness
and success of DECC2-funded low
carbon communities on localised
energy behaviours.
Drs Nick Eyre and Sarah Darby; ESRC;
2011-2014.
Cluster highlights
Contributing
our science to
the IPCC 5th
Assessment
reports
Our climateprediction.net team ran
a citizen science project involving
33,000 computer model simulations
in spring 2014 to assess the effects
of global warming on the probability
of wet winters in southern England. The resuts reported a small but
statistically significant increase in such
events. This is one example of how we are
improving methods of attributing rare
events to external climate drivers
using distributed computing to run
large ensamble climate models. Through Professor Myles Allen’s
work on climate ensembles, and
that of others in the department
we are feeding this science into
the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) process - the
worldwide channel through which
climate science is communicatied to
the global policy community. Dr Nick
Eyre also fed in our insights on climate
policy and energy use in buildings to
the IPCC’s work.
www.climateprediction.net
Climate change
is ‘making
extreme rainfall
in England
more likely’.
climateprediction.net
study, 2014
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Mapping the
circulation over
the Sahara
The NERC project Fennec is a major climate science programme led by
Oxford (Prof Richard Washington) involving four other UK universities and
researchers in France, Germany, Algeria and Mauritania. The heat-low region
of the central Sahara is a key component of the West African Monsoon on
which hundreds of millions of people depend. It is also the location of the
largest mineral aerosol loadings on the planet in the northern summer. Within
SoGE, Sebastian Engelstaedter, Christopher Allen, Richard Washington and
Ian Ashpole helped to establish and then analyse the very first comprehensive
data to be recovered from this key region. Their pioneering work has drawn
attention to numerous unknown but critical features of the circulation over
the Sahara. fennec.ouce.ox.ac.uk
Assessing the UK’s infrastructure
under uncertainty
Under the direction of Professor Jim Hall, the ECI lead the 5 year, £4.7million
Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC). Spanning the energy,
transport, water, waste and IT sectors, the ITRC delivers research, models
and decision support tools to enable analysis and planning of a robust
National Infrastructure system. In 2013/14 after 3 years of research, the
National Infrastructure System Model (NISMOD) has been developed,
enabling the first National Infrastructure Assessment to take place. The
assessment will allow better planning and design of infrastructure systems
and techniques for analysing the risk and performance. www.itrc.org.uk
CLIMATE SYSTEMS AND POLICY CLUSTER
Priority Research Questions
for the UK Food System
Dr John Ingram, the ECI’s Food Systems Programme Leader,
recently led a multi-stakeholder exercise to identify the “Priority
Research Questions for the UK Food System”. The project, part
of the UK Global Food Security (GFS) Programme, determined
these priorities with the aim of improving the overall system’s
efficiency and effectiveness, thereby complementing many
other studies that have focussed on food production.
Encompassing the wide range of ‘world views’ of different
stakeholder communities, the project identified the priority
question for 10 food system ‘topics’, and the ‘top’ five questions
for different communities. Questions mainly fell into one of
three types: technical (e.g. How can the fat, sugar, preservative
and salt content of foods be reduced without compromising
palatability and safety, and minimising waste?); institutional
(e.g. How can mismatches between formal risk assessments
and public perception be resolved for technologies that could
improve food system efficiency?); and behavioural (e.g. Which
intervention would be most effective in achieving changes in
consumption decisions for specific contexts and decisions?).
GFS funders are now developing a call for research.
The developing field of energy
and time
Monitoring and
Evaluation of climate
interventions
The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
continues to be at the forefront of international
approaches to climate change. Recent outputs
include a series of reports on monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) of adaptation, in collaboration
with SEA Change, a global Community of
Practice for monitoring and evaluation of
climate change interventions. The reports
look at existing M&E resources, and provide
reviews, guidance and information that will help
development professionals and practitioners to
identify the materials and approaches that will
help them most.
The reports have been well-received and have
led to further opportunities. The work has
been presented at Adaptation Futures 2014
in Fortaleza, Brazil and the writing team has
co-edited a special issue of ‘New Directions for
Evaluation’. UKCIP is continuing to take a leading
role in M&E development, including participation
in activities with the European Environment
Agency. www.ukcip.org.uk
Energy systems that use very high levels of variable renewables will be
needed to address climate change, but pose huge new challenges in
matching energy supply and demand in real time. Under Dr Nick Eyre, the
ECI’s Lower Carbon Futures programme has brought to bear its expertise
in energy demand on this key problem. Key outputs in the last year include
analyses of the potential for load shifting in time - ‘demand side response’,
the tariffs that might promote this and the implications for both carbon
emissions and energy security. In this developing field of energy and time,
we have also made important research contributions of the
timing of energy efficiency measures and the implications for
winter peak load of the electrification of heat and transport,
both in the UK and globally.
250 years
of weather data.
Our Radcliffe Meteorological Station
provides longest-running series of
rainfall & temperature data in the UK
and was used to confirm that 2013
was the UK’s wettest winter on record.
Landscape Dynamics
Research cluster
The Landscape Dynamics cluster is investigating how
the physical environment shapes the earth and impacts
society - through research, fieldwork and lab-based
analysis. Our principal themes of interest are:
• Landscape Processes: Research focuses on
a) land/atmosphere interactions in dryland
regions with specific emphasis on investigating
multi-scale controls on aeolian dynamics and
environmental controls on rock breakdown; and b)
geomorphology and heritage preservation through
analysis of biological and weathering impact on
landscapes and historic structures.
• Long-term landscape dynamics: We use a range
of field and laboratory methods to address critical
questions in the long term (102-106 years) evolution
of arid environments (drylands) where a range of proxy
data sources indicate that their extent has fluctuated
markedly during the Quaternary period. Academic staff
Dr Anna Arizzi
EU Marie Curie Research Fellow
• Dryland environments: Several cluster research projects
address landscape dynamics in arid lands. Work includes
sand transport, dune mobilization, rock breakdown, past
environmental changes, natural hazards, climate impact
and the intersection of human and natural systems. Dr Richard Bailey
Associate Professor in Geochronology
• Human-landscape interaction: Research on climate,
hazards, drought, dust and soils are examples of how
landscape forces may influence livelihoods, communities,
economics and ultimately governance.
Dr Sallie Burrough
Trapnell Research Fellow in African
Environments
Members of the cluster (Dr Peter Bull, Prof David Thomas, Prof Giles Wiggs and
Prof Heather Viles) contributed to the
1st edition of Treatise on Geomorphology
in 2013, described as ‘authoritative
14-volume synthesis of the state
of the discipline by many top-flight
geomorphologists from across the world.
Professor David Thomas is co-editor of
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Cluster coordinator
Dr Peter Bull
Associate Professor in Physical Geography
Dr Simon Dadson *CLI
Associate Professor in Physical Geography
Professor David Thomas *CLI
Professor of Geography
Professor Heather Viles
Professor of Biogeomorphology and Heritage
Conservation
Professor Giles Wiggs
Professor in Aeolian Geomorphology
LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS CLUSTER
Selected projects
Quantifying changes in the
resilience of ecological/
environmental dryland
systems using new high
resolution high-parameter
datasets from Kew
An attempt to quantify changes in
the resilience of terrestrial ecological
systems using a combination of
empirical and theoretical approaches,
with a focus on dryland systems.
Dr Richard Bailey; Fell Fund; 2014-2015.
Megalake records of Kalahari
climate change: testing the
asynchrony of African Humid
Periods
This research pioneers the use of
leaf-wax isotopes in the Kalahari
basin. The aim is to reconstruct
rainfall patterns over the last 20,000
years in central Southern Africa,
testing theories of long-term climate
dynamics on the African continent.
Dr Sallie Burrough; National Geographic;
2013-2014.
Changing Land-Atmosphere
Feedbacks in Tropical African
Wetlands
This research project aims to
quantify the feedbacks between
tropical African wetlands and
climate in order to answer questions
such as: How does the presence
of tropical wetlands affect rainfall
at the regional scale? Are wetland
emissions of CH4 strongly dependent
on seasonal and inter-annual
hydrological variability? How will
wetland seasonality and associated
emissions of CH4 alter under
environmental and climate change
scenarios?
Dr Simon Dadson; NERC; 2011-2014.
Gobi Hazards
The Gobi desert is home to over 25
million people, many pastoralists,
in Mongolia and China. This project
explores the temporal and spatial
dynamics of recent natural hazards,
mainly drought and dzud, through
analysis of climate and remote
sensing data, human and livestock
consequences, and variable
responses and interventions at
local, regional and national levels.
The overall aim is to provide an
integrated analysis of drought and
dzud in the Gobi, with a view to
informing policy interventions at a
time of rapid economic, political and
environmental change in the region.
Ivy on Walls
This project (funded by and
carried out in association with
English Heritage) aims to provide
a balanced assessment of the
biodeteriorative and bioprotective
roles of ivy growing on historic
walls across England.
Environment, civilisation and
collapse: understanding early
human histories in the Indian
sub-continent
This seedbed project will investigate
and date new palaeoenvironmental
archives in northwest India in order
to test hypotheses regarding the
influence of climate change on
the establishment and demise of
civilisations (including the Harappan)
in the mid-late Holocene.
Prof Heather Viles and Dr Anna Arizzi;
EC Marie Curie Fellowship; 20132015.
Prof David Thomas, Dr Nick Middleton,
Dr Henri Rueff and Dr Troy Sternberg;
Leverhulme Trust; 2012-2015.
Prof David Thomas and Dr Julie Durcan,
Fell Fund; 2014-2015.
DO4 Models: Dust observation
The aim of this research is to collect
the first dust source-area process
data tailored to climate model gridbox resolution from targeted remote
sensing and fieldwork in order to
develop a new generation of model
dust emission schemes.
Prof Richard Washington, Dr Giles Wiggs
and Prof David Thomas; NERC; 20102015.
Prof Heather Viles; English Heritage;
2012-2015.
NatuRALiMe - Naturally
Durable: Developing and
testing the resilience
of innovative natural
admixtures for lime-based
conservation mortars
Investigation of the long-term
effects that natural and sustainable
admixtures have in mortars, an
essential aspect of a correct repair
intervention.
Assessing health,
livelihoods, ecosystem
services and poverty
alleviation in populous
deltas
This project aims to provide policy
makers with the knowledge and
tools to enable them to evaluate
the effects of policy decisions on
people’s livelihoods.
Prof Paul Whitehead; NERC; 20122016.
Macronutrients Cycles
Programme
A £9.5 million NERC funded
programme to quantify the scales
(magnitude and spatial/temporal
variation) of N and P fluxes and
nature of transformations through
the catchment under a changing
climate and perturbed C cycle.
Prof Paul Whitehead and Dr Jill
Crossman; NERC; 2010-2015.
Cluster highlights
Deserts and Drylands:
Debating the social and
physical issues across
40% of the world’s
surface
Deserts and drylands are dynamic environments that
encompass 40% of the globe and support two billion
people. Over millennia, present arid and semi-arid zones
have experienced major climate and environmental
changes that have shaped current environments.
Current environmental processes are relatively poorly
understood, as are the environmental limitations for
rapidly growing human populations. Environmental
processes, climate change, geopolitics, development,
land degradation, population growth and conflict are
issues beyond any singular disciplinary perspective, but
the School of Geography and the Environment has long
played a major role in both cutting-edge desert research
and facilitating an integrative perspective on drylands.
In autumn 2014 SoGE hosted the 20th Windy Day
meeting, a research forum for aeolian scientists that
attracts UK and international participation and which
first took place here in 1993. The School has also held
a series of conferences exploring the physical and social
dynamics of global drylands.
The 3rd Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference
will take place in April 2015. This provides a forum for
researchers and those interested in desert and dryland
environments and societies to present, discuss and
debate dryland themes and research.
The environmental
responses and thresholds
we have identified are
highly relevant both for
understanding past climate
change and for future
landscape management.
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Floods and droughts
of the upper Zambezi
Valley, Zambia
In central southern Africa, little is known about the
long-term stability of the savanna ecosystems, their
response and resilience to climate trends and changing
land-use practices. Peat deposits and fossil dunes in
the upper Zambezi valley have provided an important
6,000 year window on landscape and ecosystem
dynamics in the Kalahari basin allowing us to identify
phases of prolonged drought as well as wetter periods
characterised by relative landscape stability. A recent grant by the Leverhulme Trust has enabled Dr
Sallie Burrough, Professor David Thomas and Professor
Kathy Willis (Zoology) to explore these landscapes.
Using fossil pollen and charcoal they have been able to
assess the relative importance of climate and fire to
changing vegetation patterns from thousands of years
ago to the present day. The environmental responses
and thresholds identified in this research are highly
relevant both for understanding past climate change
and for future landscape management.
LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS CLUSTER
Changing
conservation
practices: ivy on
the walls
Ivy has long been seen as a
nuisance at historic sites, capable of
damaging vulnerable stonework and
obscuring important architectural
details, and so it is frequently
removed. However, the lack of
proper scientific information on
how to remove ivy successfully and
whether or not it causes damage
(or indeed could protect walls from
other agents of deterioration) has
hampered the development of
appropriate management strategies
based on real conservation needs.
As site management costs rise,
and budgets are cut, there is a real
need to find out whether ivy needs
to be removed (and if so, how), or
whether ivy can aid conservation
(and if so, how it should be
managed).
Professor Heather Viles and Dr
Martin Coombes are working with
English Heritage to provide answers
to these questions, based on
observations on a range of historic
walls in Oxford and southern England
and in-depth studies of ivy-clad
test walls at Wytham Woods. The
project is not only producing papers
in the scientific literature, but also
improved technical advice for the
managers of historic sites.
Ivy not only
provides colourful
foliage but also
provides walls with
weather-proofing
and protection
from the effects of
pollution.
Modelling
the effect of
surface water
on regional
climate
Dr Simon Dadson and
partners have developed a
new climate model in order
to understand the extent
to which lakes, rivers and
flooding affect climate. The model uses historical
river flows, rainfall, storms
and flooding data from
river gauges and satellite
observations. Using a case
study around the river Niger,
where monsoon flooding is
widespread, the models are
able to simulate flooding in
regions were there is little
data available. The outputs
can be used by water
authorities to assess water
availability in given climatic
circumstances and better
understand regional trends.
Dust observations:
a new method for
improving climate
models
DO4 Models: Dust Observations, led by
Professor Richard Washington, is an example
of research that plays to the strengths of a
department like SoGE which has the internal
capacity to link across sub-disciplines – in
this case climate and geomorphology.
The rationale for the project hinges on the
need for weather forecasting and climate
models to represent the movement of dust
storms accurately in time and space.
Existing climate models simulate the
movement of dust with idealised wind-tunnel
measurements made several decades ago. Our research sets to radically improve the
model specifications of the dust’s movement
by acquiring the first set of field observations
made at a scale suited to models.
From intensive fieldwork in Botswana (on
Sua Pan) and in the picturesque river valleys
of the Namib coast, Dr James King, Dr Giles
Wiggs, Prof Richard Washington, Prof David
Thomas and researchers from the University
of Cape Town (Dr Frank Eckardt – Oxford
alumni) now have the most comprehensive
data set with which to improve and crucial
model uncertainty.
Technological Natures:
Materialities, mobilities and politics
Research cluster
Our work is distinguished by a two-fold commitment
to: (a) developing novel conceptual resources,
grounded in empirical research, for understanding the
practices, devices, and techniques through which the
natures of the worlds we inhabit are technologically
articulated and; (b) contributing substantively to the
re-imagining of politics, publics, and policies adequate to the
complexity of these articulations.
• Materialities: Our work here centres on how the ‘matter’
of different spaces of collective life is imagined, fabricated,
and transformed. Photo: Martin Solli
The Techological Natures cluster is involved in research
to develop new understandings of society, politics and
publics by examining how the ecologies of social life,
even those that appear most ‘natural’, are articulated
through forceful events, material arrangements and
bodily experiences.
Academic staff
Professor of Transport Studies,
Director of Transport Studies Unit
Dr Beth Greenhough
Associate Professor in Human Geography
• Mobilities: Our work here centres on understanding
how the organization and experience of movement and
mobility shape contemporary lived worlds. Dr Kersty Hobson
Departmental Lecturer and Director, MSc in
Nature, Society and Environmental Policy
• Politics: Our work here centres on reformulating political
spaces based upon a radical reframing of who and what
counts as a participant in the shaping of political life.
Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright *TRANS
Associate Professor in the Human Geography
of China
Dr Jamie Lormier
Dr Derek McCormack
Dr Richard Powell *TRANS
Highlight publications from 2014 include a number of books on: regulating
transport in europe; transport and climtate change, polar geopolitics; and
experiences and experiments in affective spaces. We also lead the editorial
board of influential journals, including Environment and Planning A (Prof
Sarah Whatmore), Transport Reviews, and Built Environment (Prof David
Banister), and Journal of Transport Geography (Tim Schwanen).
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Dr Tim Schwanen
Cluster coordinator
Professor of Environment and Public Policy
Head of School
TECHNOLOGICAL NATURES CLUSTER
Selected projects
TRANSFORuM
A European consortium to provide a
fresh approach to implementing four
key goals from the European 2011
Transport White Paper.
Prof David Banister and Dr Karen
Anderton; European Union FP7; 20132014.
Everyday mobilities of visually
impaired young people
Development of a mobile video
methodology to examine the
relationship between travel
infrastructures and mobility practices
of visually impaired young people.
Prof David Banister; Fell Fund; 20142015.
Servicizing policy for resource
efficient economy
The aim of SPREE European
consortium is to identify potential
‘Servicizing Policies Packages’ and
simulate their effect on absolute
decoupling of economic growth and
resource use, within three sectors:
water, mobility and agri-food.
Prof David Banister; European Union FP7;
2012-2015.
Current policies and future
scenarios for Asian elephant
conservation
A multi-sited ethnography of
elephant conservation in India and
the UK and the role of animals as
participants in cosmopolitanism.
Dr Maan Barua; Elephant Family; 20132015.
Impacts of Polar Geopolitics
for UK Policy
This grant supports a range of impact
activities (Knowledge exchange with
policy makers) resultant from ESRC
research on the geopolitics of the
Polar Regions.
Exploring how laboratory
animal technologists put
ethics into practice
A compilation of in-depth interviews
and participant observation to
understand how laboratory animal
technologists ‘do the right thing’ or
put animal welfare and ethics into
practice through developing their
professional skills and sensitivities.
Dr Beth Greenhough; Wellcome Trust;
2013-2015.
The legacies of the
repatriation of human
remains
The use archival and ethnographic
methods to explore how repatriation
is put into practice and what happens
to repatriated remains.
Dr Beth Greenhough; AHRC; 2013-2016.
CLEVER: Closed Loop
Emotionally Valuable E Waste
Recovery
This project will focus on the design
of a function-oriented business model
which shifts focus from designing
physical projects to designing and
system of products and services
which incorporates both the service
and ownership. Dr Kersty Hobson; EPSRC; 2013-2016.
Monitoring and Evaluation for
Sustainable Communities
A knowledge exchange project to
piloted Monitoring and Evaluation
processes with Low Carbon
Community Groups in the UK.
Dr Kersty Hobson and Jo Hamilton; Higher
Education Innovation Fund; 2013-2016.
Urban mining, toxic payload:
transnational circuits of
e-waste between Japan and
China
An investigation into how ‘e-waste
subjects’ are forged out of the
circulation and processing of
electronic waste in China and Japan.
Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright; Fell Fund;
2012-2013.
Towards an historical
geography of Arctic
exceptionality
This project examines the emergence
of notion of Arctic exceptionality and
its links to developing conceptions of
environment and culture during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Involves research in
Greenland, Denmark and Canada.
Dr Richard Powell; British Academy/
Leverhulme Small Grant; 2014-2015.
Greenland and theories of
environment and society
An investigation of the development
of ideas around space, landscape
and environment in Greenland
with a scoping study of archives in
Greenland, Denmark and London.
Dr Richard Powell; Fell Fund; 2014-2015.
Centre on Innovation and
Energy Demand (CIED)
A collaboration of the Universities
of Sussex, Manchester and Oxford,
CIED studies low-energy innovations
in multiple domains, including urban
mobility, from a sociotechnical
perspective.
Dr Tim Schwanen and Prof David Banister;
EPSRC; 2013-2018.
TranSENDaNC: Transport and
Social Exclusion
A series of high level exchanges
between researchers on transport
disadvantage and social exclusion.
Dr Tim Schwanen and Dr Karen Lucas;
EU Marie Curie International Researcher
Exchange Scheme; 2011-2014.
Dr Richard Powell; Research Council’s UK/
ESRC; 2013-14.
Cluster highlights
Developing new ideas
about space, landscape
and environment in the
Arctic
A 19-month project by Dr Richard Powell is examining the
development of the idea of Arctic exceptionality and its
links to conceptions of environment and culture during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Across the social sciences, many scholars have deployed
Arctic peoples and environments as evidence in wider
theorisations about space, law and culture, including those
involved in the formalisation of the academic disciplines of
geography, anthropology and sociology. In many recent
discussions about the geopolitics of the Circumpolar
Region the consequences of these conceptualisations have
been seriously neglected. The research investigates the development of ideas about
space, landscape and environment in the Arctic in the work
of two key intellectuals, Franz Boas (1862-1942) and
Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933). In doing so, it examines
the dialogue of these scholars with, and their subsequent
marginalisation from, the ‘geographical canon’. Archival
research is being undertaken in Copenhagen (Denmark),
Nuuk and Ilulissat (Greenland), and Philadelphia (US).
Elephants’ geographies:
society, politics and
conservation
How does an engagement with animals’ geographies
reorient our understandings of society, politics and space? What implications does this scholarship have in terms of
conservation practice and state policies on resource use? These questions are at the core of an 18-month research
project on elephant conservation carried out by Dr Maan
Barua. Drawing upon ethnographic and ‘more-than-human’
methodologies, the project evaluates current scenarios and
future prospects for elephant conservation in India. Two
widespread international conservation tools are the focus
of its evaluation: corridors and compensation schemes. By
foregrounding elephants’ geographies, the project seeks
to reinvigorate conservation policy and develop novel
appreciations of nonhuman lifeworlds for an extended
human geography.
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How are
spaces
created
for and
by
moving
bodies?
This is the question
that animates a
recent book by Dr
Derek McCormack. In
Refrains for Moving Bodies: Experience and Experiment
in Affective Spaces, published by Duke University Press
(2013), Dr McCormack examines a range of practices,
technologies and genres, including dance, theatre
design, music video, and radio commentary, in which
the affective relations between moving bodies and
spaces are central.
Drawing upon participatory research in some of
these practices, in addition to the insights of social
theory and philosophy, the book shows how spaces
for moving bodies are not just targets of critique and
analysis, but can offer opportunities for social scientists
to experiment with the affective and bodily basis of
thinking. As a contribution to the broader interest in
affect and emotion within the social sciences, this
research also opens up new connections between
the concerns of geographers and researchers in the
performing arts and humanities.
Return of the Wild?
Dr Jamie Lorimer has recently completed an ESRCfunded project examining the burgeoning interest in
rewilding in European nature conservation. Rewilding
proposes a paradigm shift in conservation practice,
focusing on the return of absent species and functions
through landscape scale interventions. The project
sought to place these enthusiasms in some historic and
political context. It examined the use of Heck cattle.
These animals were back-bred by two zoologists
working with Nazi patronage to be hunted in the
annexed territories of Eastern Europe. They survived
the war and back-breeding has recommenced. This
breed is emerging as a popular tool for naturalistic
grazing in abandoned agricultural landscapes, some of
which are in the same areas of Eastern Europe in which
they were formerly hunted.
TECHNOLOGICAL NATURES CLUSTER
The pioneering flood modelling by
an environmental competency group
in Pickering, North Yorkshire, has
been taken up in local flood risk
management and in national policy.
Environmental Competency
Groups doing science differently
Researchers from the Technological Natures cluster are involved with the
interdisciplinary project, MaRIUS (Managing the risks of droughts and
water scarcity), which aims to interrogate the politics of knowledge by
studying expertise, controversies and vernacular knowledge relating to
drought and water scarcity.
Professor Sarah Whatmore and Dr Catharine Landström are tracing expert
networks knowledge in the UK in order to map controversies triggered by
drought and water scarcity and situate the modelling of drought and water
scarcity impacts in the project in relation to other knowledge practices.
We are also undertaking ethnographic fieldwork to explore local impacts of
drought and water scarcity and residents’ perceptions. We will work with
environmental competency groups in order to make vernacular knowledge
and practitioner experiences bear on scientific modelling. The MaRIUS environmental competency group activity builds on previous
success with the method in the ‘Environmental Knowledge Controversies:
The Case of Flood Risk Management’ project, led by Sarah Whatmore,
which pioneered Environmental Competency Groups as a way of engaging
the public with flood inundation modelling. The pioneering flood modelling
by an environmental competency group in Pickering, North Yorkshire,
has been taken up in local flood risk management and in national policy.
The upstream bund storage option
invented to protect Pickering from
floods has now been implemented and
trialled more widely by the Forestry
Commission. Defra have also used this
project as a demonstration scheme for
local flood management.
Transforming
the resource
efficiency and
competitiveness
of the European
transport system
The Transport Studies Unit is a
core partner in the TRANSFORuM
project, a 2-year FP7 project that
brings together 11 leading research
institutions from nine EU countries.
The project has developed a unique
platform to engage key stakeholders
from all areas of the European
Transport sector in developing a
common view and strategies for
implementing the 2011 European
White Paper on Transport goals.
TRANSFORuM follows a matrix
approach in order to understand
to identify the challenges, barriers,
trends, opportunities and win-win
potentials associated with delivering
four of the White Paper goals - urban
mobility, high speed rail, information
and technology systems in transport
and freight – in parallel.
www.transforum-project.eu
e-waste is not only a
technical or ecological
problem to be managed
but also deeply rooted
in social relations,
economic opportunities
and cultural contexts.
Transformations: Economy,
Society & Place
Research cluster
The Transformations cluster seeks
to better understand contemporary
economic, social and political changes,
at multiple spatial scales, from the
household to the global economy.
Building on our existing expertise
in the geography of finance, work
and employment, gender, class
and ethnicity, governance, social
justice and social change in both the
developed and developing worlds, the
cluster explores both institutional and
life-cycle change, inter-generational
equity and commitment, and
mobilities expressed in the geography
of economic, social and cultural
processes.
• Institutional and life-cycle change
• inter-generational equity
• new class and gender divisions;
and mobilities expressed in the
geography of economic, social
and cultural processes in and
beyond the UK, including in India
and parts of Africa.
Academic staff
Dr Katrina Charles
Departmental Lecturer and
Course Director, MSc in Water
Science, Policy and Management
Professor Gordon L. Clark
Director of the Smith School for
Dr Patricia Daley
Associate Professor in Human
Geography
Professor Danny Dorling
Halford Mackinder Professor of
Geography
Dr Sabine Dörry
EU Marie Curie Research Fellow
Professor Robert Hahn
Professor of Economics
Professor Cameron Hepburn
Professor of Economics
Dr Robert Hope
Departmental Research Lecturer and
Associate Professor
Professor of Development Geography
Dr Fiona McConnell *TECH
Geography
Cluster coordinator
Professor Linda McDowell
Professor of Human Geography
Recent books have been published on: working lives in
Britain post 1945; inequalities in wealth and housing
in the UK; soverign wealth funds; and keywords for
modern India, among others. Our academics also coedit a number of journals, including: the Cambridge
Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (Linda
McDowell) and Eurasian Geography and Economics
(Judith Pallot).
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Professor Judith Pallot
Professor of the Human Geography
of Russia
Dr Johanna Waters
Geography
Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Professor of Economic Geography
TRANSFORMATIONS CLUSTER
Selected projects
The Superannuation Research
Alliance
The Australian superannuation
industry has produced the fourth
largest pool of funds under
management in the world and
hosts the fourth largest investment
management industry. While these
funds auger well for the future of
the Australian retirement system,
they raise questions for industry
participants and policy makers. These questions focussing on two
key themes: superannuation and the
economy and; the transition and post
retirement phase form a research
project lead by a consortium of
global university research leaders.
Prof Gordon L. Clark and Dr Maurizio
Fiaschetti; 2013- 2016.
Advanced Analytics Platform
for Behavioural Finance
Research of Pension Decisions
Analysis of the impact of events
on the pattern of behaviour as well
as its correlates during a period
characterised by significant financial
turmoil.
Prof Gordon L. Clark and Dr Maurizio
Fiaschetti; Fell Fund; 2014-2015.
Insuring against rural water
risk in Africa
Examines how insurance and financial
instruments can be applied to tackle
rural water risks in Africa.
Dr Rob Hope; ESRC; 2013-2015.
Rural water sustainability
New and effective solutions to ensure
improved reliability and sustainability
for community handpumps that
provide drinking water to the poorest,
most marginalised people.
Dr Rob Hope; UNICEF; 2014-2016.
New Mobile Citizens and
Waterpoint Sustainability
Longitudinal study of the poverty and
institutional effect of smart handpump
technology at scale in Kenya.
Dr Rob Hope; ESRC; 2012-2015.
Wireless Water
Comparative regional analysis of the
mobile water payment initiatives in
urban East Africa to understand utility,
user and policy implications.
Dr Rob Hope and Patrick Thomson; Skoll
Foundation; 2013-2014.
Groundwater Risks and
Institutional Responses for
Poverty Reduction
This project aims to characterise
biophysical and socio-economic
dimensions of groundwater risk
to inform improved institutional
responses to promote growth and
poverty reduction in Kenya.
Dr Rob Hope; NERC; 2013-2014.
Sharing resource propserity
This programme aims to create a
transformational change in the
university’s ability to lever its diverse
expertise to address trade-offs
between environmental
sustainability, human development
and economic transformation posed
by the extractives industry.
Dr Rob Hope and Dr Caitlin McElroy; Fell
Fund; 2014.
The Implications of Climate
Change and Environmental
Challenges
Exploring the possible implications of
climate change for the financial sector,
for banks in general and, to the extent
possible for specific impacts on RBS.
Prof Cameron Hepburn; RBS; 2014.
Alchemists of the revolution?
The politics of educated
unemployed youth
A detailed ethnographic study in three
areas of South Asia (India, Nepal and
Sri Lanka) which aims to get a better
understanding educated unemployed
young people’s political practices.
Diaspora youth: economic
disadvantage, the construction
of masculinity and inter-group
relations
Bringing a generational lens to focus
on the effect of the rise in youth
unemployment on the political
mobilisation and civil engagement of
marginalised young men with different
family migration histories.
Prof Linda McDowell; Leverhulme Trust;
2011-2015.
Penality and the Social
Construction of Gender in
Post-Soviet Russia: the impact
on prisoners’ relatives of their
encounters with penal Russia
investigate the impact on the
women who were ‘left behind’
when their husbands and sons are
incarcerated in Russia’s remote penal
colonies and how the experiences of
women today compare with those of
previous generations.
Professor Judith Pallot; AHRC; 20102013.
The end of investment bank
capitalism? Mapping the global
securities industry
A study into investment banking
as a central part of the securities
industry from an economic geography
perspective, by investigating its
size, structure, position, agency,
contribution, location, as well as its
crisis and future.
Prof Dariusz Wójcik; Leverhulme Trust;
2012-2015.
Securities markets,
international financial
centres, and regional
resilience.
A comparative analysis of
Luxembourg and Singapore as
strategic nodes in investment funds
global production networks.
Professor Dariusz Wójcik; EC Marie Curie
Fellowship; 2013-2015.
Prof Craig Jeffrey; ESRC; 2012-2016.
Cluster highlights
Alchemists of the
revolution: The political
practices of educated
unemployed youth in
Nepal, India and Sri Lanka
A research team led by Professor Craig Jeffrey have conducted a total of over four years' of
ethnographic field research in South Asia between them, asking young people about their
social and political lives.
The work has informed government and NGO policy in South Asia, for example, through a
survey conducted by Gellner and Snellinger, and is also the basis for a series of video and
media productions on youth globally. A recent documentary film about the research - Lifelines
- produced by Dr Jane Dyson, is being used by the ESRC as a model for effective impact. www.lifelinesfilm.com.
Diaspora youth: economic
disadvantage, masculinity and
intergroup relations
Senior business
figures address
sustainability
Professor Linda McDowell leads a Leverhulme Trust funded study
into young men without work or in precarious and casual forms of
employment. Its aim is to assess the social and political implications
of insecurity for young working class men of colour and/or those
born outside the UK.
In 2013 the Smith School of Enterprise
and the Environment launched the second
phase of their innovative Business Fellows
Programme. The programme focuses on
the relationship between business and
major social and environmental challenges
of the early twenty-first century, and the
actionable change required to address these
challenges. It brings together invited senior
figures whose professional success depends
on addressing these challenges, and provides
them with three types of opportunity: a)
structured solution-oriented interaction
with their peers, b) engagement with next
generation senior managers and leading
academics, and c) individual research and
learning.
In the harsh world of high youth unemployment, cuts in welfare
programmes and hardening public attitudes to in-migration, as well
as the rise of anti-Islamic feeling in the UK following 9/11 and 7/7,
young men are often blamed for their own insecurity.
Researchers have been working in Luton and Swindon, ‘ordinary’
towns in the south of the UK which were identified as youth
unemployment hotspots in 2011, interviewing young men from
different diasporic communities to assess how they construct a
sense of themselves as masculine in the face of unemployment, their
reactions to hardship and whether and how they allocate blame and
develop relations of conflict or cooperation with other young men
from different backgrounds.
The research is based on qualitative methods and is set within
a number of theoretical debates, not only about economic
restructuring but also those that address the performativity
of identity. It has important policy implications for connections
between labour market and social security programmes, as well as
for youth hardship, early parenting and drug use.
www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/diasporas-youth.shtml
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Reflecting on the programme, Business
Fellow Katie Wyle, Global Sustainability
Director at Mars underlined that: “the
programme is important as it brings together
business and academia to answer the
fundamental questions we are all trying to
address: how do we grow, whilst decoupling
our environmental impacts and maximising
our social impacts”.
TRANSFORMATIONS CLUSTER
Inaugural lecture
on the inequalities
in wealth in Britain
today
In the prestigious Examination Schools of
Oxford University, among an invited audience
of over 400 and under portraits of King
George III and Emperor William II, Professor
Danny Dorling presented his inaugural lecture
as Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography
on 'Geography, Inequality and Oxford'.
His talk outlined
how geography is
increasingly important
for revealing
inequalities - over the
last third of a century,
inequalities in health
and wealth have
been rising and rising
fastest in the last 5
years. The last period
in recent history
when we enjoyed
relative equality was back in the 1970s - the
time when Danny himself was living and being
schooled in Oxford.
Danny Dorling published a book on the housing
crisis in 2014 called All that is Solid. He
suggests that housing is the defining issue of
our times and the solution to the housing crisis
is to overcome inequality, rather than building
more homes, as is widely assumed. In the harsh world
of high youth
unemployment...
young men are often
blamed for their own
insecurity.
Smart water systems
Dr Rob Hope leads an interdisciplinary research group with
colleagues in Engineering Science that designs, tests and
evaluates how mobile technologies are disrupting social, political,
financial and environmental systems to promote water security
and reduce poverty. One strand of the work examines the role
of ‘smart handpumps’ in Africa which provide a global-first,
real-time monitoring system of rural water supplies to measure
observed water delivery against policy targets; develop improved
maintenance systems; and promote accountability in government
and donor behaviour.
The ‘New Mobile Citizens and Waterpoint Sustainability’ project
(ESRC, 2012-15) examines how smart handpumps affect existing
social arrangements for community water management in rural
Kenya and the wider dialect between citizens and the state. Using
data from the smart handpumps communities have benefited from
an order of magnitude reduction in downtime between handpump
failure and repair. New institutional models that share risk are
being tested with detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis
of the distributional impacts and institutional responses from
communities, government, donors and the research community.
Related projects are testing insurance-based approaches to
manage water risks, quantifying health impacts along with
analysis of groundwater systems shared by competing irrigated
agricultural and mining companies. The research is funded by
ESRC, NERC, DFID and a new grant with UNICEF establishing a
longer term and regional partnership in East and Southern Africa.
www.oxwater.co.uk
A social atlas of London
Londonmapper was created by
Professor Danny Dorling and
Dr Ben Hennig and provides
over 300 maps of unbiased
information on London’s social,
environmental and economic
issues. The aim is to give people
information on things they care
about. They can then use the
information to campaign or
lobby, or if they are academics
or policymakers, they can use
it for research, to teach, or to
help them make better informed
decisions.
The Londonmapper map above
shows the total increase in the
value of housing sold in England
in 2012/13 is £33.7 billion, of which £11.2 billion was made in
London. www.londonmapper.org.uk
“
Professor Jim Hall is a member of the UK Independent
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation
“
People
Being awarded
the Leverhulme
Prize is an
extremely exciting
recognition of
distinction and
an opportunity
to make faster
progress with my
research.
Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright
800
MEMBERS OF
THE SCHOOL
The School has doubled in size in the last 20 years and is now a
community of over 800 people including: 50 academic staff and
college lecturers; 100 researchers; 45 professional, management
and administration staff; 250 international graduate students;
270 undergraduates; and an ever-expanding network of 120
visiting research associates. We also actively connect with many
of our 7,000 alumni, spread across 100 countries.
We recruit and train the very best researchers from every corner
of the world. The quality of their research can be demonstrated by
their achievements: in 2013/14 we published over 400 academic
peer-reviewed papers, books and book chapters. This included
many influential journals, for example, Science, Nature and PNAS. We were also pleased to see a number of early-career researchers
honoured with prestigious fellowships. Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright was awarded the Leverhulme Prize in order to carry out an
ethnographic study into living with pollution in rural China. In
2014 we received two British Academy postgraduate fellowships,
awarded to Dr Maan Barua and Dr Joe Gerlach. Maan will examine
how people’s relations with animals have bearings on Indian
modernity, while Joe will examine micropolitics around mining
in Ecuador. We also have two EU Marie Curie Research Fellows
within the Oxford Rock Breakdown Laboratory looking at aspects
of weathering and rock breakdown in natural environments. 150
ACADEMICS &
RESEARCHERS
AWARDED
PRESTIGIOUS
FELLOWSHIPS
IN 2013/14:
LEVERHULME,
MARIE CURIE
AND BRITISH
ACADEMY
We were also pleased to announce the election of Professor
Sarah Whatmore as Fellow of the British Academy earlier this
year. Other achievements of note include: Professor Craig
Jeffrey was awarded Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences;
Dr Patricia Daley was selected for the James Blaut Award by the
Association of American Geographers; Professor Judith Pallot was
awarded the 2013 Heldt Prize and Dr Richard Powell received
the RGS-IBG Gill Memorial Award for research on historical and
Polar geography.
Academic Staff
Dr Thomas Jellis *
Departmental Lecturer in Human
Geography
Professor Myles Allen
Professor of Geosystem Science
Dr Paul Jepson
Course Director, MSc in Biodiversity,
Conservation and Management
Dr Richard Bailey
Associate Professor in Geochronology
Director of the Transport Studies Unit
and Professor of Transport Studies
Dr Peter Bull
Associate Professor in Physical
Geography
Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright
Associate Professor in the Human
Geography of China
Dr Jamie Lorimer
Geography
Professor Giles Wiggs
Professor of Aeolian Geomorphology
Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Professor of Economic Geography
College Lecturers
and Affiliated
Academic Staff
Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Professor of Ecosystem Science
Dr Ken Addison
College Lecturer
Dr Fiona McConnell *
Geography
Dr Elizabeth Baigent
University Reader in the History of
Geography
Professor Gordon L. Clark
Director of the Smith School of
Dr Derek McCormack
Geography
Dr Pam Berry
College Lecturer and Researcher
Dr Simon Dadson
Associate Professor in Physical
Geography
Professor Linda McDowell
Professor of Human Geography
Dr Katrina Charles *
Departmental Lecturer and Course
Director, MSc in Water Science, Policy
and Management
Dr Patricia Daley
Geography
Professor Danny Dorling
Halford Mackinder Professor of
Geography
Dr Chris Doughty
Departmental Research Lecturer
Dr Beth Greenhough *
Geography
Dr Richard Grenyer
Associate Professor in Biodiversity and
Biogeography
Professor Robert Hahn
Director of Economics, SSEE
Professor Jim Hall
Director of the Environmental Change
Institute and Professor of Climate and
Environmental Risks
Professor Cameron Hepburn
Professor of Environmental
Economics,SSEE
Dr Kersty Hobson
Departmental Lecturer and Course
Director, MSc in Nature, Society and
Environmental Governance
Dr Rob Hope
Associate Professor
Professor of Development Geography
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Professor Mark New **
Professor Judith Pallot
Professor of the Human Geography of
Russia
Dr Richard Powell
Associate Professor of Human
Geography
Dr Tim Schwanen
Associate Professor
Professor David S.G. Thomas
Professor of Geography
Dr Tom Thornton
Senior Research Fellow and
Associate Professor, and Director,
MSc Environmental Change and
Management
Professor Heather Viles
Professor of Biogeomorphology and
Heritage Conservation
Professor Richard Washington
Dr Johanna Waters
Geography
Head of School and Professor of
Environment and Public Policy
Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Professor of Biogeography
Dr Brenda Boardman
Emeritus Research Fellow
Professor John Boardman
Emeritus Professor
Professor Jim Briden
Emeritus Professor
Professor Colin Clarke
Emeritus Professor of Geography
Professor W. Mike Edmunds
Visiting Professor
Professor Allan Fels
Visiting Professor
Professor Andrew Goudie
Emeritus Professor of Geography
Professor David Grey
Visiting Professor
Professor Richard Jones
Visiting Professor
Dr John Langton
Dr Tony Lemon
Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith
Director of Energy Research,
University of Oxford
Dr Nick Middleton
College Lecturer
James Palmer
Tutorial Fellow
Professor Ceri Peach
Emeritus Professor of Social
Geography
Professor Deborah Phillips
Visiting Professor
Dr Percival Cho *
Researcher in Ecosystems, ECI
Dr Bradley Garrett **
Researcher in Technological Natures
Professor Paul Whitehead
Visiting Professor
Dr Hee Sun Choi **
Researcher, ECI
Dr Lorraine Wild
Academic Administrator and College
Lecturer
Christopher Coghlan *
CCAFS Policy Guidance Co-ordinator,
ECI
Dr Dustin Garrick **
Researcher in Comparative Water
Policy and Economic Analysis
Research Staff and
Programme Leaders
Teresa Connolly **
Communications Officer, BioFresh
Project
Dr Martin Coombes
Researcher, Ivy on Walls Project
Dr Nihan Akyelken
Researcher in Economic and Political
Geography, TSU
Dr Jill Crossman
Researcher, Macronutrient Cycles
Programme
Dr Liana Anderson
Researcher in Land Cover Dynamics
and Carbon Emissions, ECI
Dr Sarah Darby
Researcher in Lower Carbon Futures,
ECI
Dr Karen Anderton
Researcher in Low Carbon Policy and
Governance, TSU
Dr Gerard Dericks *
Researcher in Stranded Assets
Programme, SSEE
Dr Anna Arizzi *
Researcher, NatuRALiMe Project
Dr Sabine Dörry *
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Dr Ian Ashpole *
Researcher, Fennec Project
Clare Downing
UCKIP Climate Adaptation Science
Officer, ECI
Jennifer Aston **
UKERC Meeting Place Project and
Events Officer, ECI
Emily Barbour *
Researcher in Hydrology
Dr Maan Barua
Research and Teaching Fellow
Dr Pranab Baruah
Researcher, ITRC Project, ECI
Dr Lisa Bentley
Dr David Bonilla
Researcher in Transport, Energy and
Economics, TSU
Dr Christian Brand
Researcher in Transport, Carbon and
the Environment, ECI and TSU
Dr Sallie Burrough
Trapnell Research Fellow in African
Environments, ECI
Dr Gianbattista Bussi *
Researcher, POLL-CURB Project
Ben Caldecott
Programme Director, Stranded Assets
Programme, SSEE
Dr Paula Carmona-Quiroga *
Marie Curie Fellow
Dr Robert Dunford
Researcher in Biodiversity and Climate
Adaptation, ECI
Dr Julie Durcan
Researcher in Landscape Dynamics
Dr Jane Dyson
Researcher Alchemists of the
Revolution Project
Dr Sebastian Engelstaedter, Researcher
Fennec Project
Dr Nick Eyre
Leader of Energy Research Programme:
Lower Carbon Futures, ECI
Dr Tina Fawcett
Researcher in Energy and Lower
Carbon Futures, ECI
Dr Helen Gavin *
Project Manager, MaRIUS Project, ECI
Dr Joe Gerlach
Research and Teaching Fellow
Anita Ghosh
Food Systems Programme Manager,
ECI
Dr Cécile Girardin
Dr Gregory Goldsmith **
Researcher, ECI
Dr Philipp Grünewald
Oxford Energy Network Coordinator,
ECI
Jo Hamilton
Researcher, EVALOC and UNLOC
Projects, ECI
Dr Abby Hardgrove **
Researcher in Oxford Diaspora
Programme
Dr Paula Harrison
Researcher in Biodiversity, ECI
Dr Karsten Haustein
Researcher, DO4 Models Project
Victoria Hayman
UKCIP Knowledge Exchange and
Co-ordination Officer, ECI
Dr Ariella Helfgott *
Researcher, CCAFS Programme, ECI
Dr Benjamin D. Hennig
Researcher in Spatial Data Analysis and
Geovisualisation
Fiona Hewer *
UKCIP Information and Legacy Officer,
ECI
Dr Mark Hirons *
Researcher, ECOLIMITS Project, ECI
Dr Maurizio Fiaschetti *
Researcher in Statistical and
Econometric Modelling, SSEE
Dr Dhana Hughes
Researcher, Alchemists of the
Revolution Project
Caralampo Focas **
Marie Curie Fellow, TSU
Dr John Ingram
Leader, Food Systems Programme, ECI
Tim Foster *
Research Assistant, SSEE
Dr Matt Ives *
Researcher in Infrastructure Systems
Modelling, ECI
Tara Garnett
Food Climate Research Network
Leader, ECI
Dr Rachel James
Researcher in Climate Modelling for
Climate Services, ECI
Dr Kathryn Janda
Researcher, Social and Technical
Dimensions of Changing Building
Practices, ECI
Dr Chris Jardine
Researcher, Solar Photovoltaics,
Microgeneration, Energy Policy, ECI
Katie Jenkins
Urban Systems Modeller, ECI
Kay Jenkinson
UKCIP Communications Specialist, ECI
Emma Jones **
Manager UKERC, ECI
Dr Kärg Kama *
Teaching and Research Fellow
Dr Elena Katz *
Researcher, Penality and Ethnicity in
Russia Project
Dr Gavin Killip
Researcher, Energy / Lower Carbon
Futures, ECI
Dr James King **
Researcher, DO4 Models Project
Dr Peter Wynn Kirby **
Researcher, Urban Mining, Toxic
Payload Project
Dr Ian Klinke
Researcher, German Geopolitics and
the Geographies of Eastern Europe
Johanna Koehler
Researcher, Water Programme, SSEE
Dr Panagiotis Koulelis *
Researcher, Ecosystems, ECI
Dr Catharina Landström *
Researcher, MaRIUS Project
Dr Russell Layberry
Researcher, Energy Modelling, ECI
Dr Sen Li *
Researcher, OPENNESS and
IMPRESSIONS Projects, ECI
Duncan MacDonald-Korth *
Researcher, Opacity and Market Abuse
in Global Finance
Dr Toby Marthews
Researcher, Environmental Modelling
(Ecosystems and Hydrology), ECI
Dr Neil Massey
Researcher, Climate Programme, ECI
Ruth Mayne
Researcher, Lower Carbon
Communities, ECI
Karyn McBride **
Social Architect and Partnerships
Manager, ECI
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Dr Constance McDermott
Oxford Martin School Researcher,
Forest Governance, ECI
Dr Uri Roll *
Researcher, Biodiversity, Ecosystems
and Conservation
Dr Rachel McDonnell **
Researcher, Water Governance, Policy
and Science
Dane Rook
Dr Caitlin McElroy
Researcher, Social and Environmental
Conflicts of the Mining Industry, SSEE
Karis McLaughlin
Oxford Water Network Coordinator,
ECI
Jeremy McDaniels **
Dr Patrick McSharry
Researcher, Catastrophe Risk
Financing, SSEE
Dr Jennie Middleton *
Researcher, Mobilities and Human
Geography, TSU
Dr Meredith Root-Bernstein **
Career Development Fund
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Henri Rueff
Researcher, Climate Hazards in the
Gobi Desert Project
Dr Norma Salinas Revilla
Research Assistant in Ecosystems, ECI
Dr Christopher Shaw
Knowledge Exchange Fellow, ECI
Dr Alexander Shenkin
Mike Simpson *
Researcher, CREDIBLE Project, ECI
Dr Daniel Mitchell *
Researcher, ACE Africa Project, ECI
Phil Sivell *
ARCC Network Science Officer, ECI
Dr Lisa Mol**
Researcher, Landscape Dynamics
Alison Smith *
Researcher, OPENNESS and
IMPRESSIONS Projects, ECI
Dr Sam Moore
Researcher, Tropical Carbon Dynamics,
ECI
Dr Alexandra Morel
Researcher, ECOLIMITS Project, ECI
Maliha Muzammil *
CCAFS Policy Guidance Co-ordinator,
ECI
Dr Andre Neves
Research Assistant, TSU
Dr Alexander Otto
Researcher, Climate Decisions, ECI
Dr Friederike Otto
Researcher, climateprediction.net
Project, ECI
Dr Amanda Snellinger
Researcher, Alchemists of the
Revolution Project
Dr Sarah Sparrow
Researcher, Climate, ECI
Dr Abi Stone **
MSc Teaching Fellow
Dr Troy Sternberg
Researcher, Climate Hazards in Asian
Drylands
Roger Street
UKCIP Technical Director, ECI
Patrick Thomson
Researcher, Water Programme, SSEE
Dr Raghav Pant
Infrastructure Network Analyst (ITRC),
ECI
Dr Martino Tran
Oxford Martin School Researcher in
Energy and Environment, TSU
Jennifer Pate **
UKERC Meeting Place Project and
Events Officer, ECI
Alexis van Lennep *
Dr Julia Patrick **
Project Manager, ECI
Dr Andres Payo
Coastal Systems Modeller, iCOAST
Project, ECI
Patrick Pringle
UKCIP Adaptation Scientific Officer, ECI
Dr Terhi Riutta
Joost Vervoort
CCAFS Scenarios Officer, ECI
Dr Michael Viehs
Researcher, Corporate Finance, SSEE
Dr Pete Walton
Oxford Climate Network Coordinator,
ECI
Dr Machilu Zimba
Project Co-ordinator GIVRAPD Project,
SSEE
Management,
Technical and
Administrative
Support Staff
Simon Abele
Research Officer (Spatial Data
Analysis)
Louise Allcock **
Administrative Assistant, SSEE
Amanda Diener
PA to Professor Gordon L. Clark, SSEE
Saroj Shrestha
IT Support Officer
Dianne Donald **
Head of Administration and Finance
Anna Simpson
Administrative Assistant for the Food
Security Team, ECI
Dr Mona Edwards
Laboratory Manager
Stephanie Ferguson
Knowledge Exchange Officer (UKCIP),
ECI
Patrizia Ferrari
Events and Engagement Co-ordinator,
SSEE
Deborah Strickland
Information and Communications
Officer
Annette Vaneeden *
Receptionist (Afternoon)
Iryna Vink
Undergraduate Coordinator
William Griffith *
Project Facilities Manager
Karen West
Finance Assistant
Richard Holden
Deputy Head of Administration and
Finance
Chris White
Information and Communications
Manager
Abigail Johnston
HR Officer
Milembe Wilkinson
Human Resources Assistant
Angelika Kaiser *
Programmes Manager, SSEE
Gillian Willis
Research Officer
Daniel Baltzer *
Development Officer, SSEE
Sue King
PA to the Director of ECI and the
Director of Energy Research, ECI
Silke Zahrir **
PA to Dr Nicky Eyre and LCF Office
Administrator, ECI
Dr Christine Baro-Hone
Alumni Relations Officer
Sarah King *
Finance and Research Assistant
Hong Zhang
Research Technician
Sue Bird
Reader Services Librarian Geography,
Bodleian Libraries
Tom King **
IT Officer
Ailsa Allen
Cartography and Graphics Officer
Jane Applegarth
Administrative / Project Assistant to
the Ecosystems Programme, ECI
Joan Arthur
ECI Office Co-ordinator, ECI
Dr Szilvia Bajkan *
Luminescence Laboratory Technician
Verena Blum
Finance Officer
Jan Burke
Personal Assistant to Head of School,
Prof. Sarah Whatmore
Matthew Burn **
Facilities and Services Manager
Geoff Calvert
IT Manager
Tim Churchouse
IT Assistant
Malene Clausen *
Admin. Assistant and PA to Dr Nick
Eyre, ECI
Elaine Craig *
Executive Education Programmes
Coordinator, SSEE
Ian Curtis
Development Officer
David Dancer **
Building Services Technician
Sarah Davidson
MSc Coordinator (BCM and NSEP)
Miriam Mendes
ITRC Programme Manager, ECI
Joe Milkovic
Building Facilities Technician
Sally Mullard
UKCIP Administrative Assistant, ECI
Ussanee Namthong
MSc Coordinator (ECM and WSPM)
Donna Palfreman
Receptionist (Morning)
Sally Pepperall
PA to Professor David Banister, TSU
Emily Read
Administrative / Project Assistant to
the Ecosystems Programme, ECI
Helen Rivers
Senior Human Resources Officer
Hannah Rowlands
Communications Officer for
climateprediction.net project, ECI
Ruth Saxton
Research Degrees Coordinator
Jeannie Scott **
Receptionist (Afternoon)
* Joined during 2013–14
** Left during 2013–14
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