Research projects
Our department is home to a number of funded research projects.
Our current research projects include:
| Lead staff member | Research associates | Project | Funder | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Grant Bigg | Jennifer Ross | NW Atlantic iceberg season forecast | Ocean Risk Initiative | Ongoing |
| Dr Miguel Kanai | Dr Janice Astbury | Breathing Infrastructures | British Academy | Ongoing |
| Dr Ruth Little | Agri-Environmental Governance Post-Brexit | ESRC | Feb 2019 - Nov 2021 | |
| Dr Andrew McGonigle | Dr Tom Pering | Development of sensors for NASA lunar program | NASA | Sep 2018 - |
| Dr Luke Temple | Non-party campaigning and digital technologies | BA / Leverhulme | Oct 2018 - Apr 2020 | |
| Dr Ophélie Véron | Prof Jenny Pickerill | Is the Alternative City a Just City? Geographies of Race, Class and Gender in Alternative Food Movements | ||
| Prof Peter Jackson | Dr Matt Watson, Rorie Parsons | Plastics: redefining single-use | EPSRC | 2019 - 2020 |
| Prof Chris Clark | Project team | PALGLAC: Palaeoglaciological advances to understand Earth's ice sheets | ERC | 2018 - 2023 |
| Dr Luke Whaley | The politics of believing: understanding how worldviews shape access to land and water in rural Uganda | GCRF | Jun 2019 - Jun 2021 | |
| Prof Frances Cleaver | Dr Luke Whaley (PDRA) | Hidden Crisis: Unravelling Current Failures for Future Success in Groundwater Supplies | NERC / ESRC / DFID | Apr 2015 - Mar 2020 |
| Prof Frances Cleaver | Brock Bersaglio (PDRA), Dan Brockington | Greenmentality: A Political Ecology of the Green Economy in the Global South | Research Council of Norway | May 2016 - Dec 2020 |
| Prof Frances Cleaver | Cristobal Bonelli (PDRA) | Transformations to Groundwater Sustainability (T2G2S) | NORFACE / EU / ESRC | Dec 2018 - Nov 2021 |
| Prof Richard Phillips | Dr Nafhesa Ali and Dr Kristina Diprose (PDRAs) | Storying Relationships: the stories and practices of young British Pakistani Muslims | AHRC | May 2019 - Nov 2019 |
| Dr Tom Pering | Degassing at Basaltic Volcanoes: The Multiple Vent Problem | Royal Society | 2018 - | |
| Dr Tom Pering | Resilience to volcanic hazards in developing countries | GCRF | 2019 - 2020 | |
| Professor Ed Rhodes | NSFGEO-NERC: Latest Pleistocene-Holocene incremental slip record of the Kekerengu-Jordan fault system, Northern South Island, New Zealand | NERC | 2018-2020 |