Ian Fairchild is a geoscientist with broad interests in the geochemistry of the Earth’s surface, climate change and Quaternary and Neoproterozoic earth history. He employs this breadth of knowledge in teaching, in public outreach, and professional activities such as examining and research assessment. He is equally at home in the field and the laboratory with a wealth of ...

Dr Alam’s research focuses on understanding the chemistry of key atmospheric pollutants. His research involves interpreting laboratory and field measurements using numerical modelling, and improving the accuracy of chemistry within atmospheric models.

Dr Beverley Allan is an experienced teacher with an interest in Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Pollution and Climate Change.

Lauren Andres is an urban planner with substantive academic expertise in the field of human geography. Her fields of interest include the policies and governance process of urban and brownfield sites regeneration and broadly the understanding of the role of (temporary) creative uses and intermediaries in shaping spaces and making places. In addition she is also interesting in assessing the forms ...

Austin is an experienced teacher, researcher and writer who brings a passion for cities and urban life to all aspects of his professional work. He has played a leading role in development of planning education at the University of Birmingham and has established a research profile in the planning and regeneration of city centres and inner cities in Britain, Europe and North America.

Adam's research focuses on the ecology of bees, beetles, spiders and green roofs in urban and riparian systems. He is currently employed on the Open Air Laboratories project facilitating scientific learning in local communities.

Mike is Director of Learning and Teaching and Director of Undergraduate Studies at CURS. He is heavily involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and in research student supervision.

My research is in the field of Air Pollution / Atmospheric Chemistry - understanding the chemical processes which control the current and future composition of our atmosphere. We approach these problems through a combination of field measurements of atmospheric constituents, laboratory studies of specific systems, and modelling simulations for comparison with observations. See my ...

Ian is a micropalaeontologist who studies ostracods (microscopic Crustacea) and runs the Isotope lab. He uses microfossils to reconstruct past environments as diverse as the Jurassic seas of SW England to the late-Quaternary of the Black, Caspian and Aral seas. Ian also spends a lot of time working on Archaeological projects.

Dr Stefan Bouzarovski is a world-leading expert in energy and urban policy. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed research monograph Energy Poverty in Eastern Europe (Ashgate, 2007) and has advised a range of European governments, as well as the European Commission, on these matters.

Chris has been a lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Birmingham from 1994 and became Senior Lecturer from 2007.

Dr Xiaoming Cai has over 20 years experience of research in large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer and in urban street canyons, dispersion of air pollutants in urban environment, and numerical modelling of meso-scale systems.

Dr Lee Chapman’s research interests can be best described under the heading ‘the impact of weather and climate on the built environment.’ This covers a range of topics from the development of ‘dose-response’ models under the baseline climate to assessing the future impact of climate change on hard infrastructure. Areas of particular interest are urban and ...

Dr Julian Clark researches the political geographies of Europe, the political governance of natural resources, and the interrelations between political geography and political science. He has published widely on political geography and environmental governance, and has research monographs published with Oxford University Press and Routledge.

Professor Coaffee’s work focuses upon the interplay of physical and socio-political aspects of resilience in urban areas. In particular it has analysed the ability of businesses, governments and communities to anticipate shocks, and ultimately embed resilience within the built environment, the planning system and everyday activities. His work has been funded by a variety of UK ...

Dr Jirina Daskova is an expert on Tertiary palynology. Her research is focused on Tertiary pollen and spores and also systematical palaeobotany in Tertiary palynology.

Dr Delgado-Saborit is an expert in exposure assessment studies using different sampling and analytical techniques to characterize inhalation doses, personal exposures and environmental levels of air pollutants. She has expertise in chemical speciation for source identification. She has coordinated large projects involving recruiting and sampling with subjects, sampling in a wide range of indoor ...

Tom is a micropalaeontologist and paleoceanograher specializing in the study of fossil coccolithophore algae. His research interests are focused on the warm-climate states of the Paleogene period and include the evolution, systematics and ecology of coccolithophores. Tom has also worked on the paleoceanography and paleoclimates of large climate perturbations, including the Eocene/Oligocene ...

Warren Eastwood is a biogeographer and palaeoecologist who researches past environmental change for the last 25,000 years or so in the eastern Mediterranean region. His main specialism is elucidating natural versus human-induced vegetation change using pollen analysis (palynology). His research interests also include the impact of major volcanic eruptions and tephrochronology of volcanic ...

Dr. Deb Finn is funded at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences under a European Union Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship. She is part of the Water Sciences group and is hosted by Dr Alexander Milner. Her project is called “SHIRMAN” short for “SHIfting Range MArgiNs”, which refers to the expanding ranges of freshwater species (such as fish ...

Dr Golubchikov’s research focuses on the relationships between urbanisation and radical societal transformations such as particularly linked to: (a) post-socialist transitions and (b) post-carbon transitions. Much of this research has been grounded in urban political economy, as well as informed by international policy work at the intersection of energy and sustainable urbanism.

Dr Handley-Sidhu is currently working with Dr Joanna Renshaw and Professor Lynne Macaskie on the EPSRC funded research consortium entitled ‘Biogeochemical application in Nuclear Decommissioning and waste Disposal’. This BANDD project explores using microbes and their bio-minerals to capture (immobilise) radioactive contaminant in a complex environmental system.

Stuart is an environmental chemist whose research addresses all aspects of the environmental sources, fate and behaviour of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). He has particular interests in human exposure to POPs with a focus on indoor pathways. He is also active in research that explores the environmental forensics utility of chirality.

Dr Harrington studies changes in fossil communities over space and time primarily using pollen and spores. He is expert on Cenozoic palynology with emphasis on palaeoecology and evolving interests in macroecology.

Roy Harrison’s research interests lie in the field of environment and human health. His main specialism is in air pollution, from emissions through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations to exposure and effects on human health. Much of this work is designed to inform the development of policy.

Dr Hilton is a research focused palaeobotanist and evolutionary plant biologist. His underlying goals are to increase the quantity of paleobotanical data included into evolutionary analyses and to improving the quality of existing fossil plant data. He is an Associate Editor for Palaeontologica Electronica, member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for Acta Palaeobotanica, Internet ...

Dr Phil Jardine’s research focuses on the maintenance of biodiversity in deep time. He is particularly interested in climatic controls on speciation, extinction and dispersal over different spatial and temporal scales, and in the application of ecological analytical techniques to the fossil record. He is an experienced palynologist, and has used the fossil pollen and spore record to study ...

Dr Jenkins is a Historical Geographer, with an interest in landscape change and people’s relationship with the past.

Dr Nikoleta Jones is working on the ESCALATE project (Evaluating local Social Capital effects on policy Adaptation to climate change in coastal zones) funded by the European Union Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship program. She is an expert in investigating the interactions between local social capital and environmental policy implementation.

Dr Phil Jones is a cultural geographer who focuses on issues related to the city.  His work deals with a number of research areas including urban regeneration, cycling and the arts.  He has a particular interest in research methods, including qualitative GIS, mobile interviewing and arts-based approaches.

Dr Nick Kettridge specializes in characterizing the ecohydrological resilience of ecosystems to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Much of his research focuses on peatlands; understanding the processes that control the provision of key ecosystem services within these environments, and quantifying their response to changing climatic conditions and extreme events such as fire and drought.

Megan’s research focuses on the linkages between geomorphology, hydrology and ecology. Her previous work has focused on the role of instream wood in the development of hydrogeomorphic complexity within recently deglaciated streams, using novel methods such as acoustic doppler technology and remote sensing. Currently, Megan is working as a Research Fellow with the Environment Agency, ...

Damian Lawler’s research is focused on links between fluvial erosion processes, fine sediment transport and catchment-scale hydraulics; urban river channel pollution dynamics; recent hydrological change in UK and North Atlantic rim environments; glacial river responses in Iceland. Most research has been funded by NERC and EPSRC. He is a member of NERC Peer Review College, 2009-12 and is a ...

Professor Jamie Lead’s research aims to understand nanoscale phenomena in the environment and he is interested in investigating natural nanomaterials, manufactured nanomaterials and their interaction. He is Director of FENAC (Facility of Environmental Nanoscience Analysis and Characterisation).

Dr Gregor Leckebusch is one of the foremost experts in the field of linking natural science research on meteorological and climatological extreme events with the estimation of natural hazards damage potentials. He played a key role in several national and international interdisciplinary projects dedicated to the assessment of natural and anthropogenic changes in extreme events and impacts of ...

Peter is interested in the interplay between people and place based social exclusion, how policies are designed to reduce poverty and increase competitiveness whilst reconciling the uneven trajectory and function of places. Peter has written and researched in the broad area of social exclusion with specific reference to housing markets analysis and regional planning. Peter’s policy research ...

Rob MacKenzie is an atmospheric scientist interested in problems at the interface of air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and climate. A great deal of his work has used specialist research aircraft to gather data which he interprets with the aid of atmospheric models of various kinds.

Professor Alexander Milner has been at the University of Birmingham for 15 years, where he was initially responsible for setting up the Environmental Science and Environmental Management degrees. He is now responsible for the Masters degree in River Environmental Management. His research involves river ecosystems in alpine and Arctic environments and has long term studies in Glacier Bay ...

Dominique Moran’s research and teaching is in the new sub-discipline of ‘carceral geography’, a geographical perspective on incarceration. She has recently completed an interdisciplinary ESRC-funded research project looking into women’s experience of imprisonment in contemporary Russia, is author of the forthcoming book 'Carceral Geography: Prisons, Power and Space'

Dr Catherine Muller is currently working on the NERC-funded ‘HiTemp’ project examining Birmingham’s urban heat island using a dense network of air temperature sensors. During her doctoral research, Catherine examined the impact of urban areas on clouds and precipitation using a range of remote sensing, in situ and lab techniques. In addition, she is heavily involved with ...

Dr Vlad Mykhnenko plays a role in the advancement of geographical political economy, typically described as the study of modern capitalist social formations as spatially and temporally uneven and highly differentiated systems, and of their impact on people and the environment.

He is particularly interested in the interplay of economic geography, comparative political ...

Dr Simon Pemberton has wide-ranging interests in urban and rural policy; community planning; social inclusion, urban regeneration management, state spatiality and the geography of state power and the policies and politics of managed migration. In this respect, following completion of his BSc and PhD in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Simon initially managed an urban ...

Dr Saska Petrova is a social environmental scientist with a special interest in community transitions as they relate to natural resource management, energy consumption, social justice and governance.

Ian Phillips is best known for writing the most comprehensive account of the 1973 Isle of Man Summerland fire disaster. He gained his BSc Geography degree from the University of Birmingham in 1995, before continuing at the University to complete an MSc in Meteorology and Climatology and a PhD in Geography. Ian has been on the teaching staff of the University since September 1999. He is ...

Dr Imran Rahman is an integrative palaeobiologist with experience in traditional palaeontology, computed tomography, molecular biology and bioinformatics. His research is focused on the origin of animal phyla, particularly the early evolution of echinoderms. He has a strong background in computational approaches, especially three-dimensional visualization techniques.

Joanna is a microbiologist and radiochemist with extensive experience of research into microbial interactions with radionuclides and metals, working at the interface between microbiology and analytical & radio-chemistry. She is one of the very few people in the UK who is experienced in both microbiology and the chemistry of transuranic and fission product elements, and has the skills required ...

Dr Michael Rivett is a Senior Lecturer in Contaminant Hydrogeology in the Water Sciences research groupwith a specialist field-scale research interest in the transport and remediation of organic contaminants in groundwater and contaminated land systems. He has published extensively on chlorinated solvents, DNAPLs and urban contamination and has additional on-going research interests in hyporheic ...

Rob is an experienced social researcher with a strong track record of applied research of urban planning issues with a particular focus on housing and neighbourhood development and management.

Jon Sadler is a biogeographer and ecologist who focuses on species population and assemblage dynamics in urban and riparian environments. His research involves interdisciplinary science using a combination of detailed field studies and field experimentation. His work emphasizes the links between environmental variability and species responses, with particular emphasis on urbanisation and ...

Over the last 20 years Dr Sambrook Smith has been investigating the linkages between river processes and sedimentology at scales ranging from individual pores within a river bed up to km-long bars in some of the Worlds largest rivers. Research aims to generate new, generic and quantitative understanding of how rivers function across these scales. This is facilitated by development of ...

Dr Schofield specializes in the seismic and field interpretation of intrusive and extrusive sequences in volcanic terranes and their interaction with hydrocarbon systems.

The combination of seismic and field studies has allowed him to make key links between seismic and sub-seismic scale issues, in particular dealing with aspects of igneous compartmentalization in a ...

Dr Zongbo Shi is an expert in Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry and Global Biogeochemical Cycles. He is currently funded by the NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) fellowship scheme and he also holds a Birmingham University Fellowship.

Dr Carl Stevenson is a structural geologist with a focus on the emplacement and subsurface distribution of igneous and volcanic rocks. His research uses rock magnetism, geophysics and petrology to determine the large-scale geometry and internal architecture of intrusions and has led to breakthroughs in understanding magma transport and accommodation in the Earth’s crust. This work has ...

John Tellam’s main research interests are in inorganic, surface-interacting, solute and particle transport in groundwaters, with a particular emphasis on sandstone aquifers.

Professor Valsami-Jones’ research interests focus on understanding reactivity at the nanoscale, particularly interactions of nanoparticles with pollutants and biota and biomineralisation processes. She has carried out research on the interaction of a variety of carbon- and metal-based nano-objects with biota in vitro and in vivo and has pioneered novel methods of labelling ...

As a result of over-exposure to various sorts of environmentally minded economists and engineers during his formative years, Dan has developed into a trans-disciplinary socio-environmental scientist (also known as a classical geographer). His research area is sustainable natural resource management and his work to date has mainly focused (a) on sustainable land use and ecosystem services, and (b) ...

Dr Walls is an environmental social scientist whose research interests revolve around
charting public perceptions of, and responses to, technological risk and examining the public policy responses to such risks. This involves an exploration of how contemporary risk governance attempts to manage uncertainties that plague many contemporary environmental and technological issues (e.g nuclear ...

Dr James Wheeley is a carbonate sedimentologist and micropalaeontologist addressing deep time (Palaeozoic) palaeoclimatic and palaeoecological problems with stable and radiogenic isotopes. He is currently working on NERC and Royal Society supported projects in this area. He is also involved in the European funded VISE (Vertebrate ISotopes and the Environment) research project into the oxygen, ...

Dr Jianxin Yin is one of the experts in the field of atmospheric aerosol monitoring and characterisation. She has gained tremendous experiences during the past 13 years of research on use of modern aerosol field monitoring and modern laboratory analytical equipment and on air quality data analyses and modelling.