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
Dr Ruth Little	Dr Judith Tsouvalis	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
Dr Charis Enns		Decolonising Human Wildlife Conflicts	BA / Leverhulme	Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
Dr Charis Enns		Mega-infrastructure and insecurities in sub-Saharan Africa	QR GCRF	Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
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 Sexual Relationships	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