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RAE2008 identified a majority of our research as being internationally outstanding or internationally recognised.
Our research and knowledge transfer activities are concentrated in the following areas:
Sustainability - particularly community carbon reduction and community energy schemes (Roy Alexander, Tammy Hunt)
Environmental change - e.g. the distribution and dynamics of biological crusts and their potential as sensors of climate change (Roy Alexander, Jane Bevan)
Hazard processes and management - especially slope instability, tsunami (Servel Miller, Derek France, Debbie Rowe)
Pedagogy - a focus on the use of new technologies in teaching, assessment and feedback (Derek France, Chris Ribchester, Katharine Welsh) and on teaching ethics (Ruth Healey, Chris Ribchester)
In 2010 Derek France was awarded a 3-year National Teaching Fellowship project from the Higher Education Academy to 'Enhance Fieldwork Learning" (Derek France, Katharine Welsh). To read more about the project and to get involved in activities, visit the website: http://www.enhancingfieldwork.org.uk
Socio-economic aspects of international development - community recovery from conflict, utilisation of refugee skills in host countries, impacts of globalisation (Gill Miller, Ruth Healey, Martin Evans, Kirsten Bessemer).
There are emphases on the UK, dryland regions, and developing areas of the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Staff maintain close links with colleagues in a number of overseas institutions (particularly in Spain, the Caribbean, Egypt and Vietnam). Our research is conducted by nine full-time academic staff, two research assistants and five postgraduate research students.
The department has a number of research programmes in carbon reduction and management. We provide survey and analysis for the Ashton Hayes Going Carbon Neutral project and also work with a range of organisations and community groups locally, nationally and internationally.
Research facilities include a postgraduate office and new soils and geomatics laboratories with a range of analytical equipment and high level GIS and Image Processing systems. The department also offers an innovative work-based Masters programme in Urban ‘Regeneration for Practitioners', with related research/consultancy activity (Martin McNally).
