Dr Jon Radley PhD

Dr Jon Radley

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Honorary Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

For nearly 30 years Jon has worked as a geologist and natural scientist principally within the museum sector and has developed expertise in the public understanding and interpretation of science, collecting philosophies, and geoconservation. Jon also has a spare-time research profile, notably concerning the Lower and Middle Jurassic strata of central England, the non-marine Lower Cretaceous strata of southern England, and aspects of Early-Mid Triassic palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Qualifications

  • BSc (Oxford Polytechnic)
  • MSc (University of Keele)
  • MSc (University College London)
  • PgDip (University of Leicester)
  • PhD (University of Portsmouth)

Other activities

Jon is a keen cyclist and runner and has wide-ranging interests in the natural sciences.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Radley, JD & Coram, RA 2026, 'A Lower Cretaceous oyster reef (Cinder Member, Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset, southern England): biotic response to co-seismic sea-level rise?', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 137, no. 4, 101206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101206

Radley, JD & Coram, RA 2025, 'First record of Caedichnus spiralis Stafford et al., 2015, from the outer Severn Estuary, south-west Britain', Ichnos: an International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 277-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2025.2525770

Coram, RA & Radley, JD 2025, 'Fossils from the Triassic Otter Sandstone of Devon: discovery and research', Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, vol. 157, pp. 46-62. <https://devonassoc.org.uk/publications/transactions/>

Radley, J, Coram, RA, Hall, JR & Feneley, M 2025, 'Re-excavation and Interpretation of Key Sections in the Purbeck Group (Tithonian-Berriasian): Teffont Evias, Vale of Wardour, Wiltshire, England', Geoconservation Research, vol. 8, no. 1, 082509. https://doi.org/10.57647/j.gcr.2025.0801.09

Radley, JD & Coram, RA 2024, 'A Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) lake shoreline in Buckinghamshire, UK: Evidence from stromatolite distribution in the Purbeck Formation', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 135, no. 5, pp. 518-527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.08.001

Radley, J & Carpenter, S 2024, 'Echinoid grazing traces from the Cornbrash Formation (Middle Jurassic) at Lower Chatley Farm, near Woolverton, Somerset', Nature in Avon, vol. 84. <https://bristolnats.org.uk/resources/nature-in-avon/>

Radley, JD & Coram, RA 2024, 'Latest Jurassic–Early Cretaceous sedimentary cyclicity and events (Wessex Basin, southern England): A case of pulsed mantle convection?', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 135, no. 3, pp. 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.02.002

Ezcurra, M, Butler, R, Maidment, S, Sansom, I, Meade, L & Radley, J 2021, 'A revision of the early neotheropod genus Sarcosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) of central England', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 191, no. 1, pp. 113-149. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa054

Featured article

Coram, RA & Radley, JD 2025, 'Glimpses of ammonite lives' Geology Today, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 260-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12533

Webster, AJ, D'Arcy, G, Coram, RA & Radley, JD 2025, 'Jurassic jeopardy—life and death on an ancient seafloor' Geology Today, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 244-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12530

Radley, JD, Edmunds, M, Hemmings, G, Hollingworth, NTJ, Hollingworth, S & Larkin, NR 2025, 'Jurassic tracks and HS2: a twenty-first century journey' Geology Today, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 234-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12531

Radley, JD & Coram, RA 2025, 'Oxford: W.J. Arkell's coral city' Geology Today, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 251-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12532

Radley, JD & Coram, RA 2024, 'Lost seas, lakes, and lagoons: terminal Jurassic strata and environments in Buckinghamshire, English south midlands' Geology Today, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12459

Burley, SD, Radley, JD & Coram, RA 2023, '‘A hard rain's a-gonna fall’: torrential rain, flash floods and desert lakes in the Late Triassic Arden Sandstone of Central England' Geology Today, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 90-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12430

Coram, RA, Radley, JD & Webster, AJ 2023, 'Continental bookends—the arrival and departure of the Jurassic Sea in southern England' Geology Today, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 189-195. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12449