Our people
We have a large number of staff within the Department of Environment and Geography.
Find contact details and explore who does what.
Dr Oliver Andrews
Research interests:
- Catalysing adaptation and resilience
- Climate change
- Ocean modelling
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Research interests:
- Wildlife dispersal of antimicrobial resistance
- Impacts of environmental contaminants on wildlife
- Biodiversity and ecosystems services
- Woodland management and biodiversity;
- Animal ecology and behaviour
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Research interests:
- Sustainable cities and neighbourhoods
- Urbanisation, poverty and inequality
- Livelihood and environmental change
- Ecosystem services
- Agricultural development and food security
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Research interests:
- Effects and risks of emerging chemical contaminants in the natural environment
- Methods for monitoring pollution in cities
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Research interests:
- Food and climate change
- Transforming food systems
- Environmental and nutrition impacts of dietary options
Research interests:
- Quality of life
- Planning and the built environment
- Age-friendly housing and built environments
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Research interests:
- Indoor air quality
- Numerical modelling of air pollution chemistry in the indoor environment
- Indoor air pollution
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ENV/326
Research interests:
- Chemistry of indoor environments
- Computational and physical chemistry
- Air chemistry modelling
- Lung exposure to pollutants
- Far-UVC photochemistry
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Research interests:
- Measurements and modeling of air pollution
- Exposure assessment of stressors/ pollutants
- Waste to energy conversion using the thermo-chemical conversion pathway
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Research interests:
- Low-carbon economic transitions
- Environmental innovation and societal transitions
- Energy research and social science
- Climate change
- Sustainability management
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Research interests:
- African Food Systems
- Climate Change Adaptations in Dryland Farming Systems
- Soil science
- Climate change
- Environmental sustainability
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Research interests:
- Modelling air pollution
- Climate change impacts on arable crops
- Modelling land surface exchange processes
- Agricultural adaptation to climate change
- Air quality mitigation policy
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/environment-geography/Ioan Fazey2-218x327.jpg)
Research interests:
- Supporting systemic change and transformations for new kinds of regenerative futures
- Action oriented research and transdisciplinary methods to support change
- Transforming formalized knowledge creation systems and institutions
- Designing transformational approaches and business models
- Transformational capacity building and education
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ENV/030
Research interests:
- Sea-Level studies
- Sedimentology
- Microfossil analysis
- Hazards of subduction zone earthquakes, tsunamis, and sea-level rise
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Research interests:
- Recent accelerations of sea-level rise
- Rapid sea-level change during interglacials
- Quantitative methods of sea-level reconstruction using microfossils
- Patterns of Holocene isostatic crustal movement
- High-precision dating techniques for sea-level reconstruction
ENV/030
Research interests:
- The relationship between inequality and sustainability in South Asia
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ENV/137
Research interests:
- Urban inequality
- Everyday and embedded structural inequalities at city level.
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Research interests:
- Chemical, biological and physical processes of natural systems
- HPC
- Sedimentology
- Physical oceanography
- Palaeobiology
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Research interests:
- Effects of earthworms on soil chemistry
- Ecosystem services
- Evolution to carbon cycling
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Research interests:
- Geography pedagogies in higher education
- Accessibility of science and environmental change
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Research interests:
- Flood risk management
- Disaster risk management
- Climate change adaptation
- Nature based solution
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Research interests:
- Relationships between the human and environmental systems
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Research interests:
- The relationships between resource governance, urban and environmental conflict
- The economic and political geographies of low-carbon transition
- Regional development
- Urban histories and climate responses
- Progressive localism
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ENV/036
Research interests:
- Interaction between capital, society and nature in the Anthropocene
- How society makes sense of anthropogenic environmental changes
- Corporate sustainability
- Sustainable finance
- Non-state actor responses to environmental change
Research interests:
- The post-growth and degrowth economics
- Post-capitalism
- Alternative economies
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Research interests:
- Climate change
- Tropical ecology
- Conservation
- Tropical Ecosystem dynamics
- Ecosystems
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Research interests:
- Conservation ecology and biodiversity
- Land use modelling
- Pollution impacts to biogeochemistry
Research interests:
- Mountain ecosystems and their response to environmental change
- How soil organisms cycle carbon and nutrients
- How snow cover exerts an effect on energy in mountain ecosystems
Dr Ollie Moore
ENV/030
Research interests:
- Investigating the cycling of bioessential elements in soils and marine sediments
- Investigating the rates at which minerals weather within subsurface bedrock fractures
- Applying mineral-water interface research to the understanding of global element cycles
- Development of novel proxies for palaeo ocean redox and biogeochemical cycling
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Research interests:
- Social dimensions (e.g. perceptions, policies, ethics, responsibility) of energy
- Climate change
- Geoengineering
Research interests:
- the controls on the dynamics of glaciers and ice-sheets
- Ground-based and airborne RES techniques in exploring englacial and subglacial environments
- Thermal evolution of small Arctic glaciers
- Supraglacial environments
Professor Laura Robinson
Research interests:
- Understanding the processes that govern climate using geochemistry
- Timing of Pleistocene climate change events
- Palaeoclimate reconstructions
- Deep-sea coral paleo-biogeography
- Impact of weathering on the ocean and climate
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Research interests:
- Analysing the links between climate, resource consumption, the economy and development
- Effects of policies aimed at reducing resource use and environmental pressures
- Economy
- International trade and development
Research interests:
- Reconstruction of past sea level changes
- Environmental reconstruction of coastal areas; how these influence cultural development
- Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction using pollen and diatom analyses
Research interests:
- Sustainable healthcare
- Developing tools to identify/manage chemical risks to society and the environment.
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Research interests:
- The links between livelihoods and environmental change
- Science, policy and environmental governance
- The practical and policy mechanisms that can advance sustainable development
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Research interests:
- Using archaeological techniques to assess the sustainability of human-environment interactions
- Historic agricultural systems in eastern Africa.
- Applied archaeology
- The human modification of landscapes
- Long-term sustainability
Research interests:
- Resilience in food systems
- Sustainability and the agri-food sector
- Environmental, economic and social costs of enhanced transport systems
- Environment, society & governance
- Mapping social and knowledge flows in ecosystems
Dr Thomas Timberlake
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Research interests:
- Environmental problems driven by economic factors
- Strategic behaviour of natural resource users/managers in a temporal-spatial context
- Dynamic optimisation of natural resource management
- Relationship between trade and global environmental change driven by invasive species
- Strategic interactions in environmental cooperation at local and international scale
Molly Watson
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Research interests:
- Environment and human health
- The protective value of ecosystems
- Vulnerability and resilience in relation to environmental hazards
- Wildlife disease and wildlife management
- Implications of political and land use change for climate risk
Robert Wild
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Research interests:
- Analytical chemistry
- Environmental toxicology