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Academic staff
Prof Tim Allott
Professor of Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Environmental hydrology; Peatlands; Palaeolimnology; Water quality; Environmental restoration
Dr Rob Bellamy
Presidential Fellow in Environment Studies
Research specialisms: Global environmental change and society; Science, technology and society; Social appraisal; Perception; Governance
Dr Joe Blakey
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: The political; Post-democracy; Environmental governance; Carbon accounting
Dr Richard Boothroyd
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Prof Stefan Bouzarovski
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Energy and fuel poverty; Infrastructure development; Urban spatial inequality; Multi-level governance; Social network analysis
Dr Alison Browne
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Everyday life; Water, energy, food, waste, plastics; Sustainable consumption and production; Governance and sustainability transitions; China, UK, Australia
Prof Noel Castree
Professor of Geography
Research specialisms: Political economy of environmental change; Theories of nature-society relations; Environmental expertise and knowledge politics
Dr Gareth Clay
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Peatlands; Wildfire; Terrestrial carbon cycling; Upland land management; Urban physical geography
Dr Christopher Darvill
Lecturer in Quaternary Environmental Change
Research specialisms: Quaternary science; Glacial geomorphology; Geochronology; Cosmogenic nuclide dating; Ice sheet reconstruction
Dr Matthew Dennis
Lecturer in Geographical Information Science
Research specialisms: Urban ecology; Landscape ecology; Social-ecological systems; Green Infrastructure; Nature conservation
Dr Martin Dodge
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Cartography; Urban history; Historical geographies of Manchester
Dr Jamie Doucette
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Geographical political economy; Labour geographies; Politics and space; Developmentalism and democratization
Dr Henrik Ernstson
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Urban political ecology; Postcolonial urbanism; Environmental expertise and knowledge politics; Political and social movements; Film-based ethnography
Prof James Evans
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Urban living labs; Sustainable cities; Smart cities; Urban governance; Mobile methods
Prof Martin Evans
Professor of Geomorphology
Research specialisms: Peatland erosion and restoration; Peatland geomorphology, biogeochemistry and ecosystem services; Natural Flood Risk Management (NFM) in upland environments
Dr William Fletcher
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography and Quaternary Science
Research specialisms: Mediterranean environments; Palaeoecology; Palaeoclimatology
Dr Aurora Fredriksen
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: More-than-human geographies; Affect and emotion; Wildlife; Feminist science studies; Environmental humanities
Dr Claire Goulsbra
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Dr Sarah Marie Hall
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Feminist political economy; Everyday life; Austerity and crisis; Social difference; Ethnographic and creative methods
Dr Angela Harris
Lecturer in Remote Sensing
Research specialisms: Earth observation; Vegetation dynamics; Ecosystem processes; Geospatial modelling; Peatland landscapes
Dr Caitlin Henry
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Feminist political economy; Social reproduction and care; Labour; Health; Everyday life
Dr Martin Hess
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Economic geography; Global production networks; Development and labour; Cultural political economy
Dr Jonathan Huck
Lecturer in Geographical Information Science
Research specialisms: Geographical Information Science; Humanitarian mapping; Machine learning; Spatial analysis; Participatory GIS
Dr Anna Hughes
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Palaeoglaciology; Geochronology; Glacial geomorphology; Quaternary science; Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing
Prof Philip Hughes
Professor of Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Quaternary science; Glacial geomorphology
Dr Ross Jones
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Moral geographies; Pedagogical methods; Controversial issues; Philosophy and ethics; Political economy
Prof Sarah Lindley
Professor of Geography
Dr Nate Millington
Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies
Research specialisms: Urban political ecology; Climate change; Water governance; Waste
Dr Jennifer O'Brien
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Mr Christopher Perkins
Reader in Geography
Research specialisms: Performative and playful mapping; Mapping technologies and cultural practices; Island studies
Dr Saska Petrova
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Vulnerability and precarity; Gender and infrastructure; Environmental governance; Rural and peri-urban communities; Post-colonial political ecologies
Dr Natalie Ross
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Feminist research methods and an ethics of care Fisheries policy making and fishing communities
Prof James Rothwell
Professor of Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Environmental pollution; Green infrastructure; Peatlands; Hydrology
Dr Peter Ryan
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Dr Kate Scott
Presidential Fellow in Environment Studies
Research specialisms: Climate change mitigation; Sustainable consumption and production; Input-output analysis; Resource efficiency/circular economy; Energy geographies
Prof Fiona Smyth
Deputy Dean and Vice Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students
Ms Kathleen Stokes
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Urban infrastructures; Urban governance and citizenships; Labour and social reproduction; Waste; Everyday life/politics
Dr Abi Stone
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Quaternary science; Drylands; Geochronology (luminescence, U-Th); Geoarchaeology Hydrogeology
Prof Erik Swyngedouw
Professor of Human Geography
Dr Cristina Temenos
Lecturer in Urban Geography
Research specialisms: Urban geography; Policy mobilities; Political geography; Social movements; Drug policy, health inequalities, and austerity
Prof Kevin Ward
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Economic governance; Infrastructure and cities; Policy mobilities; Public finance; Urban and regional political economy
Dr Saskia Warren
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Creative urban economies; Migration and belonging; Muslim identities, Islamophobia and racism; Gender and feminist geopolitics
Prof Jamie Woodward
Professor of Physical Geography
Research specialisms: River histories; Mediterranean geomorphology; Microplastics in river catchments; Geoarchaeology; Ice Age environments
Research associates and fellows
Dr Danielle Alderson
Research Associate
Dr Jamie Anderson
Research Associate
Dr Janice Astbury
Research Associate
Dr Ben Bell
Research Associate
Research specialisms: Quaternary science; Environmental and climate change; Pollen geochemistry; Cedrus atlantica
Dr Nina Moeller
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Research specialisms: Political ecology; Food regimes and biogenetic resource politics; Amazon; Ethnography; Post-development
Dr Anna Molter
Research Associate
Research specialisms: Geographic information sciences; Environmental and spatial epidemiology; Public health; Exposure assessment and modelling; Air pollution
Dr Emma Shuttleworth
Research Associate
Research specialisms: Hydrology and geomorphology; Peatlands and UK uplands; Landscape restoration and natural flood management; Sediment and contaminant dynamics; Science communication
Dr Mark Usher
Simon Research Fellow
Research specialisms: Urban nature and ecology; Water politics and governance; State, territory and citizenship; Infrastructure and transitions; Governmentality and biopolitics
Dr Kelly Watson
Research Associate
Research specialisms: Evaluation and valuation practices; Urban learning; Health and wellbeing; Smart cities; Built environment and infrastructure
Technical and professional support staff
John Moore
Senior Technical Operations Manager
John is responsible for managing the six physical geography laboratories, analytical instruments and environmental field monitoring equipment. This includes ICP-OES, ICP-MS, IC, TOC, Laser Granulometer, Elemental Analyser, and one of only three UK-based ITRAX Core Scanners.
Tom Bishop
Laboratory Technician
Tom was an undergraduate at Manchester, and wrote his doctoral thesis at the University of Southampton in 2009. He has been a laboratory technician since 2014. He is a member of the Institute of Science and Technology, as well as the Quaternary Research Association, and is a fellow of Royal Geographical Association.
Jonathan Yarwood
Laboratory Technician
Jonathan is an operator of our various laboratory equipment, principally the ICP-MS, ICP-OES, TOC-V, CHNS, and IC, as well as Itrax and Nex-CG XRF analysers. He also works out in the field, assisting with operation of field equipment with coring and geochemistry, and piloting our Q-Pod UAV.
Martin Kay
Research Technician
Martin works on the Protect-NFM project, which focuses on optimising natural flood risk management options in headwater catchments. This involves installing weirs and automated logging systems to monitor peatland hydrology. Martin was formerly a submariner, medic and field archaeologist, and is a keen footballer, cyclist and martial arts student.