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Research

Research Projects

Current Projects

  • The Global Ecosystems Monitoring and Trait Study (GEM-TRAIT)
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the European Research Council (ERC); 2013-2018.
  • Research Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand
    Dr Tim Schwanen and Professor David Banister in collaboration with SPRU, University of Sussex, and the Business School at the University of Manchester. Financial support from the EPSRC's End User Energy Demand Programme; 2013-2018.
  • Enhancing Risk Management Partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters (Enhance)
    Professor Jim Hall in collaboration with 24 research partners. Financial support from the European Union FP7; 2013-2017.
  • CLEVER: Closed Loop Emotionally Valuable E Waste Recovery
    Dr Kersty Hobson in collaboration with the University of Bath. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2013-2016.
  • Current Policies and future scenarios for Asian elephant conservation
    Maan Barua. Financial support from the Elephant Family; 2013-2015.
  • Advanced analytics platform for behavioural finance research of pension decisions
    Prof. Gordon Clark. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2013-2014.
  • Hot spots of dust emission: identifying, measuring and modelling aeolian dust sources in the dry river valleys of Namibia
    Dr Giles Wiggs. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2013-2014.
  • Real time vehicle monitoring for energy efficiency in transport
    Dr Christian Brand and Dr Russell Layberry. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2013.
  • A meta analysis of bushmeat hunting in West and Central Africa
    Dr Shonil Bhagwat. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2013.
  • Assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in populous deltas
    Professor Paul Whitehead and Dr Fai Fung in collaboration with the University of Southampton. Financial support from the NERC; 2012-2016.
  • i-Coast - Integrated Coastal Systems
    Professor Jim Hall. Financial support from NERC; 2012-2016.
  • Alchemists of the Revolution? The politics of educated unemployed youth
    Professor Craig Jeffrey in collaboration with several partners. Financial support from the ESRC; 2012-2015.
  • Ivy on Walls Phase 2
    Professor Heather Viles. Financial support from English Heritage; 2012-2015.
  • Servicizing policy for resource efficient economy
    Prof. David Banister and Nihan Akyelken in collaboration with 10 partners. Financial support from the European Commission Framework Programme 7; 2012-2015.
  • The end of investment bank capitalism? Mapping the global securities industry.
    Dr Dariusz Wójcik. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2012-2015.
  • Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship
    Professor Myles Allen and Professor Jim Hall in collaboration with several faculties in Oxford including Statistics, Philosophy and Physics. Financial support from the Oxford Martin School; 2012-2015.
  • Impacts of Polar Geopolitics for UK Policy in the Arctic and Antarctic
    Dr Richard Powell. RCUK/ESRC Global Uncertainties Impact Support Grant; 2012-2013.
  • Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) Fellowship
    Roger Street. Financial support from the NERC; 2012-2013.
  • Living with pollution in rural China: an ethnographic perspective
    Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright. Financial support from The Leverhulme Trust; 2012-2013.
  • Loot: corruption in modern India
    Professor Craig Jeffrey. British Academy Mid Career Fellowship; 2012-2013.
  • Mobile water science for global development impacts
    Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2012-2013.
  • Qualifying carbon - building trust and credibility in REDD+ through reflexive, multi-level governance
    Dr Thomas Thornton and Dr Connie McDermott. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2012-2013.
  • The geopolitics of ethnic relations in Russia
    Dr Andrew Foxall. ESRC Early Career Fellowship from the ESRC; 2012-2013.
  • Towards an integrated carbon and health economic assessment tool for walking and cycling
    Prof. David Banister and Dr Christian Brand. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2012-2013.
  • Urban mining, toxic payload: transnational circuits of e-waste between Japan and China
    Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2012-2013.
  • Variation of carbon allocation with rainfall, temperature and elevation
    Prof. Yadvinder Malhi and Dr Toby Marthews. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2012-2013.
  • Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes
    Dr Connie McDermott in collaboration with several partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2011-2015.
  • Besafe - Biodiversity and ecosystem services: arguments for our future environment
    Dr Paula Harrison and Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from the European Commission; 2011-2015.
  • Diaspora youth: economic disadvantage, the construction of masculinity and inter-group relations
    Professor Linda McDowell in collaboration with the Oxford International Migration Institute as part of the Oxford Diasporas Programme. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2011-2015.
  • Geocarbons - An operational integrated global carbon observation and analysis system
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the European Commission; 2011-2014.
  • Long term dynamics of interdependent infrastructure systems
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from EPSRC; 2011-2015.
  • Does shifting carbon use efficiency determine the growth rates of intact and disturbed tropical forests? Gathering new evidence from African forests
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2011-2014.
  • Oxford climate research network stakeholder engagement initiative
    Professor Myles Allen. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2011-2014.
  • Transport and accessibility in low income communities in the Recife metropolitan region
    Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with the University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Financial support from Brazilian National Science Research Council; 2011-2014.
  • TranSENDaNC: Transport and social exclusion: new directions and national comparisons
    Dr Karen Lucas and Dr Tim Schwanen in collaboration with the University of Ghent, Belgium and the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Financial support from EU Marie Curie International Researcher Exchange Scheme (IRSES); 2011-2014.
  • Eco-renovation: technology transfer events
    Jo Hamilton. Financial support from Oxford City Council; 2011-2013.
  • Examining the bioprotection value of plants and species on rocks and man made intertidal structures and to make pratical recommendations for their use
    Professor Heather Viles. Financial support from the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust; 2011-2013.
  • Fixing futures? Towards a comparative analysis of educated unemployed youth politics
    Professor Craig Jeffrey. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2011-2013.
  • Modelling the relationships between transport poverty and social disadvantage
    Dr Karen Lucas. Financial support from ESRC; 2011-2013.
  • New and emerging technologies - Smart Water Systems Phase 2
    Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from DfID; 2011-2013.
  • Merseytravel neighbourhood travel teams evaluation study
    Dr Karen Lucas. Financial support from the Merseytravel Passenger Transport Authority; 2011-2012.
  • The challenge of human-hazard interaction: documentation, social exposure and system resilience in the Gobi desert, Asia
    Dr Troy Sternberg. Financial support from the British Academy and the Royal Geographical Society; 2010-2013.
  • Large area effects of dry season and drought on the structure, composition and function of forests in the Western Amazon Basin
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi in collaboration with the University of Leeds. Financial support from the Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation; 2011-2012.
  • Oxford water security research network
    Professor Jim Hall. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2011-2012.
  • Climate change, deforestation and the future of African rainforests
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Waterloo Foundation; 2011.
  • Development of canopy observatory at Wytham Woods to monitor climate and understand long-term carbon balance of ancient semi-natural woodland
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from Natural England; 2011.
  • Low-carbon mobility futures
    Prof. David Banister, Dr Moshe Givoni and James Macmillen. Financial support from Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford; 2011.
  • Pre-cursor to the Virtual Observatory Initiative
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from CEH Oxford; 2011.
  • UK National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) - England Synthesis
    Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from Countryside Council for Wales, Defra, ESRC, NERC; Northern Ireland Environment Agency, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government; 2011.
  • Understanding the implications of climate change for woodland biodiversity and community functioning
    Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from the Forestry Commission, 2011.
  • Carbon monitoring through the SAFE project (Malaysia)
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from Rainforest Research SDN BHD; 2010-2015.
  • Macronutrients Cycles Programme
    Professor Paul Whitehead and Dr Jill Crossman. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2015.
  • DO4 Models: Dust observation
    Professor Richard Washington, Dr Giles Wiggs and Professor David S.G. Thomas in collaboration with University of Sheffield and Imperial College London and University of Cape Town; Financial support from NERC; 2010-2015.
  • ADEPT: Advanced dynamic energy pricing and tariffs
    Dr Sarah Darby in collaboration with the Oxford e-Research Centre. Financial support from EPSRC; 2010-2013.
  • Biological controls on soil respiration and its climatic response across a large tropical elevation gradient
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2013.
  • Building expertise: a system of professions approach to implementing sustainable strategies
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from EPSRC; 2010-2013.
  • CLIMSAVE: Climate change integrated assessment methodology for cross-sectoral adaptation and vulnerability in Europe
    Dr Paula Harrison with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2010-2013.
  • Fennec - The Saharan climate system
    Professor Richard Washington in collaboration with the University of Leeds, UCL, Imperial College London and the University of Reading. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2013.
  • Floods and droughts: environmental dynamics in the upper Zambezi Valley
    Professor David S.G. Thomas and Dr Sallie Burrough in collaboration with the Dept of Zoology, Oxford. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2010-2013.
  • Smart water systems
    Dr Rob Hope and Michael Rouse, in collaboration with Rural Focus Ltd. (Kenya) and ZamDex (Zambia). Financial support from DfID; 2010-2013.
  • Transport scenarios - drivers and limits
    Prof. David Banister in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark, KTH, Nordforsk, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Financial support from the Danish Technical University; 2010-2013.
  • UNITE: Uncertainties in transport project evaluation
    Prof. David Banister in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark, Aalborg University, Denmark Institute of Transport Economics, and Princeton University. Financial support from the Danish Technical University; 2010-2013.
  • Developments after a disaster: the tsunami, poverty, conflict and reconstruction in Sri Lanka
    Dr Kamal Kapadia. Financial support from the ESRC; 2010-2012.
  • Making environmental health subjects in contemporary rural China: contested illnesses, pollution and the 'good life'
    Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright. Financial support from the British Academy; 2010-2012.
  • Penality and the social construction of gender in post-Soviet Russia: the impact on prisioners' relatives of their encounters with penal Russia
    Professor Judith Pallot and Dr Elena Katz. Financial support from the AHRC; 2010-2012.
  • Rainfall in the desert sand: groundwater recharge rates and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the southern Kalahari
    Dr Abi Stone. Financial support from the Royal Geographical Society; 2010-2012.
  • UNLOC: Understanding local and community governance of energy
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2012.
  • CARIBSAVE Climate change risk atlas
    Professor Mark New and Dr Murray Simpson. Financial support from DfID; 2010-2011.
  • Climate change, energy and transport
    Prof. David Banister and Dr Tim Schwanen in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen. Financial support from the UK Transport Research Centre; 2010-2011
  • CLIMATEGOV: Managing interactions between international agreements: dealing with diversity in global climate governance
    Dr Heike Schroeder. Financial support from the European Commission; 2010-2011.
  • EMBEDS: Embedding biodiversity adaptation principles
    Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from Defra; 2010-2011.
  • Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation - West Africa
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Dr Constance McDermott and Dr Lauren Coad with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2011.
  • Human adaptation to biodiversity change: building and testing concepts, methods, and tools for understanding and supporting autonomous adaptation
    Dr Tom Thornton in collaboration with the University of Kent. Financial support from DFID, NERC and ESRC; 2010-2011.
  • Investing social security assets in equities: an assessment of the procedures to prevent political interference
    Professor Gordon L. Clark. Financial support from the University of Toronto; 2010-2011.
  • Knowledges, resources and legal regimes: the new geopolitics of the polar regions
    Dr Richard Powell in collaboration with Royal Holloway, University of London. Financial support from the ESRC; 2010-2011.
  • Low carbon learning series
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from the High Commission of Canada; 2010-2011.
  • Oxfordshire United: from Wembley to Rio - inspiring a county to win the green gold
    Ian Curtis in collaboration with Oxford United Football Club. Financial support from the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts; 2010-2011.
  • Regional climate reports for east Africa, west Africa and Indo-Gangetic plain: current trends and future projections
    Professor Richard Washington. Financial support from the International Livestock Research Institute; 2010-2011.
  • Return of the wild: The biogeographies of European rewilding and cattle de-domestication
    Dr Jamie Lorimer in conjunction with Utrecht University. Financial support from the ESRC; 2010-2011.
  • Scenarios development component of the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) Programme
    John Ingram in collaboration the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and multiple research partners. Financial support from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP); 2010-2011.
  • Social impacts and social equity issues in transport
    Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with London School of Economics, University of Aberdeen, Newcastle University, and University of Warwick. Financial support from the ESRC; 2010-2011.
  • Stressed deserts: identifying tipping points in vegetation and wind erosion in response to increasing environmental pressure
    Dr Giles Wiggs. Financial support from the Royal Geographical Society; 2010-2011.
  • Human creativity: ecologies and practices of invention
    Professor Sarah Whatmore, Dr Charlotte Bates in conjunction with the Dept. of Archaeology, Oxford. Financial support from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation; 2010-2011.
  • The use of state-of-the-art models by policy makers to address global energy and environment challenges: the case of transport policy
    Dr Moshe Givoni and Eda Beyazit in conjunction with Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Financial support from the British Council; BIRAX: The Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership; 2010-2011.
  • Valuing, implementing and evaluating payments for ecosystems services in rural West Africa
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2011.
  • Visioning and backcasting for transport futures in Chinese cities
    Dr Jimin Zhao, Prof. David Banister and Dr Robin Hickman in collaboration with the Shandong University of Finance, Shandong Academy of Sciences, and Jinan Municipal Government, China. Financial support from the Centre for Studies in Property Valuation and Management Trust and the Oxford Martin School; 2010-2011.
  • BioFresh: Biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems: status, trends, pressures and conversation priorities
    Dr Paul Jepson in collaboration with multiple partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2009-2014.
  • UKERC - Energy demand
    Dr Nick Eyre in collaboration with the Universities of Bath, Aberdeen, UCK and Glasgow. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2014.
  • ARCC Coordination Network (ACN)
    UKCIP is a core partner. Financial support from EPSRC, LWEC and ERSC; 2009-2013.
  • Catchment change network: a professional development platform for decision-making for adaptation and uncertain environmental change
    Professor Jim Hall. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2013.
  • ARCADIA: Adaptation and resilience in cities: analysis and decision making using integrated assessment
    Professor Jim Hall in collaboration with UCL. Financial support from EPSRC; 2009-2012.
  • ARCC-Water: Adaptive and resilient water systems
    Professor Mark New and Dr Fai Fung in collaboration with HR Wallingford, Lancaster University, Exeter University, UCL and Loughborough University. Financial support from EPSRC; 2009-2012.
  • Climate change, 'greening' of masonry and implications for the decay of built heritage and new build
    Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Queen's University Belfast. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2009-2012.
  • The dynamics and carbon implications of fires in the Andes
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2012.
  • Diagnosis and decision-making criteria to attenuate the effect of global change on biodiversity in the Congo Basin forests
    Professor Kathy Willis. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2012.
  • Blue-sky thinking for Oxfordshire County Council's Local Transport Plan III
    Dr Karen Lucas, Prof. David Banister, Dr Robin Hickman and Lara Scott. Financial support from Oxfordshire County Council; 2009-2011.
  • Climate solidarity evaluation
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Defra; 2009-2011.
  • Dangerous climate change assessment project
    Professor Mark New. Financial support from the Wallace Global Fund; 2009-2011.
  • Geographies of energy transition
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from ERSC; 2009-2011.
  • Local climate impacts profile
    Dr Chris West. Financial support from Oxfordshire County Council; 2009-2011.
  • LogMan: Logistics and manufacturing CO2 footprint
    Dr David Bonilla and Nihan Akyelken in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2009-2011.
  • Moving to a low carbon economy under different economic circumstances
    Dr Jimin Zhao. Financial support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Strategic Programme Fund; 2009-2011.
  • OPTIC: Optimal policies for transport in combination
    ; Prof. David Banister, Dr Moshe Givoni and James Macmillen in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2009-2011.
  • Sustainable behaviours and technology
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Electricite de France (EDF); 2009-2011.
  • Understanding the social impacts of UK climate policies
    Dr Christian Brand and Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Energy and University of Bristol. Financial support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation; 2009-2011.
  • AMAZONICA: Amazon integrated carbon analysis
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2008-2014.
  • iConnect: Impact of constructing non motorised networks and evaluating changes in travel
    Dr Christian Brand and Dr Tim Jones in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from EPSRC; 2008-2013.
  • CLUE: Social impacts of policy and climate change
    Dr Tom Thornton. Financial support from the US National Science Foundation; 2008-2012.
  • RAINFOR: Understanding of the carbon balance of Amazon forests
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi with multiple research partners. Financial support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; 2008-2012.
  • Quantifying carbon cycling research at Wytham Woods
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi and Terhi Riutta in collaboration with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Financial support from the Smithsonian Institution and HSBC Climate Partnership; 2008-2012.
  • Determining the rate of active faulting in Iran using a novel OSL approach
    Professor David Thomas. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2008-2011.
  • Environmental policy challenges for the 21st Century - centre for tropical forest science and policy
    Professor Diana Liverman and Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Oxford Martin School / James Martin Institute; 2008-2011.
  • Flood risk management consortium
    Professor Jim Hall in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2008-2011.
  • imeasure: energy monitoring tool
    Dr Russell Layberry and Catherine Bottrill. Financial support from the UK Energy Research Centre; 2008-2011.
  • Indigenous-State relations in Alaska and beyond: sustainable livelihoods, biocultural diversity and health since the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)
    Dr Tom Thornton. Financial support from the National Science Foundation; 2008-2011.
  • Interactions between climate, forests and land use in the Amazon basin
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; 2008-2011.
  • Quantifying the variation of woodland carbon dynamics and plant ecology in the upper Thames area
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Earthwatch Institute (Europe); 2008-2011.
  • SCaRSe: Spatial competition between railway stations
    Dr Moshe Givoni in collaboration with the Department of Spatial Economics and Free University Amsterdam (unofficial partner). Financial support from the European Commission; 2008-2011.
  • SMEasure: energy monitoring tool
    Dr Russell Layberry and Catherine Bottrill. Financial support from the UK Energy Research Centre and NERC; 2008-2011.
  • Sustainable agricultural production systems: the case of arabica coffee
    Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from Illycaffe spa; 2008-2011.
  • Visions of the role of walking and cycling in 2030
    Prof. David Banister, Dr Moshe Givoni and James Macmillen in collaboration with University of Leeds, University of East Anglia, University of Salford and University of Manchester. Financial support from the ESPRC; 2008-2011.
  • The geopolitics and governance of sovereign wealth funds
    Professor Gordon L. Clark and Dr Ashby Monk. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2008-2010.
  • Climate change, moisture regimes and decay of stone monoliths in southern England
    Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2007-2011.
  • Degree days for energy management
    Dr Russell Layberry. Financial support from the UKERC/BMT; 2007-2011.
  • RAPID-WATCH
    Professor Myles Allen in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2007-2011.
  • Sustainable fuel partnership
    Prof. David Banister in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank, International Energy Agency, ADB Institute. Financial support from the Asian Development Bank; 2007-2011.
  • Expert assistance in the area of transport, emissions, environment and scenario building
    Prof. David Banister, Dr Christian Brand and Dr Moshe Givoni in collaboration with European Environment Agency, Transport Research Laboratory and IFOK, Berlin. Funded by the European Environment Agency and the Transport Research Laboratory; 2006-2011
  • Ivy on walls - biodeterioration or bioprotection?
    Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with English Heritage. Financial support from English Heritage; 2006-2011.
  • TROBIT: Tropical biomes in transition
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi and Professor Mark New with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC; 2006-2011.
  • SuperGen: How will the electricity network function if there are millions of small scale distributed electricity generators?
    Dr Brenda Boardman and Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from EPSRC; 2005-2013.
  • cRRescendo: Combined rational and renewable energy strategies in cities, for existing and new dwellings to ensure optimal quality of life
    Dr Brenda Boardman and Dr Nick Eyre with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2005-2011.
  • Restoring native biological diversity in the Galapagos Islands
    Professor Kathy Willis. Financial support from NERC; 2005-2011.
  • UK Climate Impacts Programme
    Professor Diana Liverman and Dr Chris West. Financial support from the Defra; 2005-2011.
  • UKERC: Energy demand
    Dr Nick Eyre and Dr Christian Brand in collaboration with the University of Bath, University College London and University of Aberdeen. Financial support from NERC; 2004-2014.
  • UKERC - The Meeting Place
    Dr Brenda Boardman, Dr Nick Eyre and Jennifer Otoadese with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC; 2004-2014.
  • Damp towers: Understanding and controlling the ingress of driven rain through exposed walls
    Professor Heather Viles, Dr Mona Edwards and Dr Troy Sternberg in collaboration with English Heritage. Financial support from English Heritage; 2004-2012.
  • Soft wall capping as a conservation method for ruined monuments
    Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with English Heritage. Financial support from English Heritage; 2004-2011.

Recent Projects

  • Climate change drivers - key attributes
    Dr Chris West. Financial support from Department of Energy and Climate Change; 2010.
  • RECCE: The resilience of ecosystems to environmental change
    Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with the University of Nottingham. Financial support from Defra; 2010.
  • Andes carbon stocks
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Blue Moon Fund, Inc.; 2009-2010.
  • Building resilience to climate change (UKCIP)
    Dr Chris West. Financial support from Oxfordshire County Council; 2009-2010.
  • Carbon sticks and flux in the Congo basin
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; 2009-2010.
  • Climate risk case study: Muelles el Bosque project
    Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from Climate Risk Management Ltd; 2009-2010.
  • Development of building energy and carbon management software tool for business and research
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2010.
  • Development of a methodology to quantify UV-B flux through time using UV-B absorbing compounds contained in fossil Pinus spp. sporopollenin
    Professor Kathy Willis. Financial support from NERC and John Fell Fund; 2009-2010.
  • Expert assessment of dangerous climate change for natural and agro-ecological systems
    Professor Mark New. Financial support from the UK Meteorological Office; 2009-2010.
  • Global financial turmoil and the geography of stock markets: information and prices in Hong Kong, London and New York
    Dr Dariusz Wójcik. Financial support from the British Academy; 2009-2010.
  • Impacts of climate change on Burham Beeches
    Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from the City of London; 2009-2010.
  • INTRA-SIM: Oxfordshire and Swindon
    Dr Robin Hickman and Prof. David Banister in collaboration with Halcrow. Financial support from Oxfordshire County Council, Swindon Borough Council and the UK Department for Transport; 2009-2010.
  • Knowledge and evidence review of the social distributional impacts of climate change policies for transport
    Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with AEA Technology and Transport and Travel Research Limited. Financial support from the UK Department for Transport; 2009-2010.
  • Transport systems in a low carbon society
    Prof. David Banister with multiple research partners. Financial support from the Japanese Institute for Transport Policy Studies; 2009-2010.
  • Understanding the factors influencing the practical application of the UKCP09 to land management for environmental benefit
    Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with HR Wallingford and Cranfield University. Financial support from Defra; 2009-2010.
  • Benefits realisation: improve awareness of Wake on Lan
    Dr Nick Eyre and Howard Noble, OUCS. Financial support from Joint Information Systems Committee; 2009.
  • CABE: Sustainable cities, transport chapter
    Dr Robin Hickman and Prof. David Banister in collaboration with Halcrow. Financial support from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; 2009.
  • Ghana hospitals power systems
    Dr Chris Jardine. Financial support from the Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation; 2009.
  • Human displacement, forced migration and climate change: exploring the politics of rights, sovereignty and citizenship
    Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from the ERSC; 2009.
  • Monitoring and evaluating low carbon communities network
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Low Carbon Communities Network; 2009.
  • Nepal climate scenarios
    Professor Mark New. Financial support from DfID; 2009.
  • Freightvision: Freight transport foresight 2050
    Dr David Bonilla and Nihan Akyelken with multiple reseearch partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2008-2010
  • OxTran: Oxford transport network
    Dr Moshe Givoni, Lara Scott, Dr Karen Lucas and Prof. David Banister. Financial support from John Fell Fund; 2008-2010.
  • A study on the potential role of soil organic carbon in the value of site and national REDD projects
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from Conservation International Foundation; 2008-2009.
  • Developing country level climate profiles
    Professor Mark New and Dr Carol McSweeney. Financial support from National Communications Support Programme (NCSP) and the UN Development Programme; 2008-2009.
  • Environmental legacy of the Beijing Olympics
    Dr Jimin Zhao in collaboration with Oxford Martin School; 2008-2009.
  • Governing climate change beyond the international regime: city actions in China
    Dr Jimin Zhao. Financial support from the John Fell Fund and Oxford Martin School; 2008-2009.
  • Governing climate change in global cities: a case study of Beijing
    Dr Jimin Zhao in collaboration with Beijing Academy of Environmental Sciences, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change; 2008-2009.
  • Mapping and quantifying post-fire carbon budget in Amazonia
    Dr Luiz Aragao. Financial support from NERC; 2008-2009.
  • Multiple use water systems for poverty reduction
    Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from the World Bank Water and Sanitation Programme; 2008-2009.
  • North east climate change biodiversity study
    Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with AEA and KBA. Financial support from AEA Technology Plc; 2008-2009.
  • Palaeolithic mega-lakes and early human occupation of the Kalahari, southern Africa
    Professor David Thomas. Financial support from the Royal Geographical Society; 2008-2009.
  • Planning for sustainable travel
    Dr Robin Hickman and Prof. David Banister in collaboration with Halcrow and Oxford Brookes. Financial support from Commission for Integrated Transport; 2008-2009.
  • Scientific careers in a clustered 'knowledge economy': Oxford case study
    Dr Sarah Dyer. Financial support from John Fell OUP Research Fund; 2008-2009.
  • Separating soil respiration into autotrophic and hetertropic components in Peruvian montane rain forest
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2008-2009.
  • Strategies of ignorance: mapping the political uses of uncertainty within medicine
    Professor Andrew Barry and Dr Linsey McGoey. Financial support from ESRC; 2008-2009.
  • Sustainable rural water supply in Mozambique
    Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; 2008-2009.
  • Task force on energy efficiency and urban development
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Simon Fraser University; 2008-2009.
  • The contribution of products to meeting UK climate change targets
    Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Defra; 2008-2009.
  • The impacts of long droughts on water resources
    Dr Chris West. Financial support from HR Wallingford; 2008-2009.
  • Reconnaisance trip - Biomass and carbon stocks in the tropical forests of Gabon
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the World Wildlife Fund UK; 2008.
  • Burning for biodiversity
    Dr Kate Parr in collaboration with the University of Pretoria, Charles Darwin University and South African National Parks. Financial support from the Trapnell Fund, Rufford Small Grants Foundation, John Fell Fund and National Geographic Society; 2007-2010.
  • Domestic energy feedback
    Dr Nick Eyre and Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from ERSC; 2007-2010.
  • Environmental knowledge controversies: science, democracy and expertise
    Professor Sarah Whatmore and Dr Catharina Landström in collaboration with the University of Durham and University of Newcastle. Financial support from Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) Programme (ESRC, NERC, BBSRC), 2007-2010.
  • Landscape in Western Ghats
    Professor Kathy Willis and Dr Shonil Bhagwat. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2007-2010.
  • Low carbon ICT
    Dr Nick Eyre and Howard Noble, OUCS. Financial support from Joint Information Systems Committee; 2007-2010.
  • Chronology of glacial deposits from the UK
    Dr Richard Bailey in collaboration with Royal Holloway, University of London and University of Gloucestershire. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2007-2009.
  • Climate and ecosystem dynamics in an Andean to Amazon transect
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi and Professor Mark New in collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, San Antonio Abad and Wake Forest University. Financial support from NERC, Moore Foundation, Microsoft Research and the John Fell Fund; 2007-2009.
  • Climate governance post-2012: options for EU policy-making
    Harro van Asselt in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2007-2009.
  • ESA - Biomass
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the European Space Agency; 2007-2009.
  • Feedback on energy use
    Dr Sarah Darby. Financial support from the UK Department For Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; 2007-2009.
  • How do global cities mitigate climate change?
    Dr Heike Schroeder in collaboration with the University of Durham. Financial support from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; 2007-2009.
  • Subverting stereotypes: Asian women's political activism in the UK - a comparison of Grunwick and Gate Gourmet
    Professor Linda McDowell in collaboration with University of Leeds. Financial support from the AHRC; 2007-2009.
  • Theorising carbon markets and development
    Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2007-2009.
  • Visioning and backcasting for transport in London
    Dr Robin Hickman and Prof. David Banister in collaboration with Halcrow and Space Syntax. Financial support from UrbanBuzz and HEFCE; 2007-2009.
  • Nottingham reducing emissions
    Dr Chris West. Financial support from the Carbon Trust; 2007-2008.
  • SPAR
    Professor Rob Whittaker. Financial support from the European Commission; 2007-2008.
  • Vulnerability and adaption of food systems to global environmental change
    Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from the ERSC; 2007-2008.
  • GECAFS: Global environmental change and food systems
    Professor Diana Liverman and John Ingram in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC and the United Nations; 2006-2011.
  • MILLENNIUM: European climate of the last millennium
    Professor Myles Allen with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2006-2010.
  • Women in the Russian penal system: the role of distance in the theory and practice of imprisonment in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia
    Professor Judith Pallot in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde and University of Birmingham. Financial support from the ESRC; 2006-2010.
  • A detailed assessment of ecosystem carbon dynamics along an elevation transect
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2006-2009.
  • QUERCC: Quantifying and understanding ecosystems role in the carbon cycle
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC; 2006-2009.
  • Quest LGM to present
    Professor Kathy Willis. Financial support from the NERC; 2006-2009.
  • RUBICODE: Rationalising biodiversity conservation in dynamic ecosystems
    Dr Paula Harrison in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2006-2009.
  • Tyndall Phase 2: Research Programme 1: Informing international climate policy
    Professor Diana Liverman and Professor Mark New in collaboration with the University of East Anglia. Financial support from Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research; 2006-2009.
  • Tyndall Phase 2: Research Programme 4: Climate change and development
    Professor David S.G. Thomas and Professor Richard Washington; in collaboration with the University of East Anglia and University of Reading. Financial support from Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research; 2006-2009.
  • Forest conservation
    Professor Kathy Willis. Financial support from the European Commission; 2006-2008.
  • Fossilised hebivore middens
    Professor David Thomas. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2006-2008.
  • Land degradation in Tanzania
    Professor Kathy Willis. Financial support from the AHRC, 2006-2008.
  • MACIS: Minimisation of and adaptation to climate change impacts on biodiversity
    Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with multiple partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2006-2008.
  • Men's work, women's work, body work: restructuring class and gender relations
    Professor Linda McDowell. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2006-2008.
  • Oxfordshire Climate-X-Change
    Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from Defra; 2006-2008.
  • Scientific ecotourism and post-colonial encounters with wildlife
    Professor Sarah Whatmore and Dr Jamie Lorimer; Financial support from the ESRC; 2006-2008.
  • Consensus of collision? A site-specific approach and the integrating methodologies for the historic environment
    Professor Heather Viles. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2006-2007.
  • Downstream carbon trading
    Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust; 2006-2007.
  • 'Locating technoscience: geographies of science, technology and politics' ESRC Research Seminar Series
    Professor Sarah Whatmore in collaboration with UCL, University of Cambridge and University of Sussex. Financial support from the ESRC; 2006-2007.
  • Water ecosystems and poverty reduction under climate change
    Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from DfID; 2006-2007.
  • Assessing the impacts of the recent Amazonian drought
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2006.
  • GeNet: Gender inequality in production and reproduction priority
    Professor Linda McDowell, Dr Sarah Dyer and Dr Adina Batnitzky in collaboration with Universities of Cambridge, Essex, LSE and City. Financial support from the ESRC; 2005-2010.
  • 21st Century Schools
    Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from the James Martin Institute; 2005-2009.
  • Rapid, catastrophic decay of building limestones
    Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with Queen's University Belfast and City University, London. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2005-2009.
  • Social geography of secondary school catchment areas in Cape Town
    Dr Tony Lemon in collaboration with the University of Cape Town. Financial support from the Oppenheimer Fund; 2005-2009.
  • African palaeoclimate: the dating of palaeo-shoreline deposits and other geomorphic features, in Southern Africa, associated with past changes in surface hydrology
    Dr Richard Bailey and Professor David S.G. Thomas. Financial support from NERC; 2005-2008.
  • A market-led response to domestic bird trade in Indonesia
    Dr Paul Jepson and Dr Richard Ladle in collaboration with Burung Indonesia, Indonesian Bird Association and Nielsen Indonesia. Financial support from Darwin Initiative and the Dept. of Environment, Transport and the Regions; 2005-2008.
  • APPLES: Alleviation of poverty through the provision of local energy services
    Dr Brenda Boardman with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2005-2008.
  • Climate impact on building design
    Dr Chris West. Financial support from the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and UK Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; 2005-2008.
  • Consumer action groups: social contestation and sustainable consumption
    Professor Sarah Whatmore in collaboration with French and Belgian research teams. Financial support from ADD programme of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France; 2005-2008.
  • African Environment Programme seminar series
    Dr Patricia Daley and Dr Henny Osbahr. Financial support from ESRC/NERC; 2005-2007.
  • Hope and oil: an ethnographic exploration of the emergent oil operation in São Tomé e Príncipe
    Professor Andrew Barry and Dr Gisa Weszkalnys. Financial support from John Fell OUP Research Fund and British Academy; 2005-2007.
  • BodEx 2005 - A multidisciplinary study of the 'dustiest place on earth'
    Professor Richard Washington and Dr Sebastian Engelsteadter, in collaboration with UCL, Birkbeck College London, Salford University and Direction des Ressources en Eau et de la Météorologie, N'Djamena. Financial support from the Gilchrist Educational Trust and the Royal Geographical Society; 2005-2006.
  • Long-term ecology of sacred groves in the Western Ghats of India
    Professor Kathy Willis and Dr Shonil Bhagwat. Financial support from the British Ecological Society; 2005-2006.
  • Mopane woodlands and mopane worms
    Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from DfID; 2005-2006.
  • Reducing the environmental impact of housing
    Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from the Royal Commission of Enviromental Pollution; 2005-2006.
  • Target monitoring of atmospheric pollution and climate change impacts on biodiversity
    Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; 2005-2006.
  • Vegetation history and reconstruction of prehistoric landscapes in north China
    Professor Kathy Willis. Financial support from the Royal Society; 2005-2006.
  • Building market transformation
    Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2004-2009.
  • ENSEMBLES: Ensemble based predictions of climate changes and their impacts
    Professor Myles Allen and Professor Mark New in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2004-2009.
  • UKERC: Demand reduction
    Dr Brenda Boardman and Catherine Bottrill. Financial support from the ERSC; 2004-2009.
  • Accelerated tree growth in Amazonia: ecological changes and environmental drivers
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2004-2008.
  • Dryland change: past, present, future (IGCP500)
    Professor David Thomas and Dr Matt Telfer. Financial support from UNESCO; 2004-2008.
  • Why do different Amazonian forests grow at different rates?
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2004-2008.
  • BRANCH: Biodiversity requires adaptations in north west Europe under a changing climate
    Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with English Heritage and others. Financial support from the European Commission; 2004-2007.
  • PAN-AMAZONIA: Project for the advancement of networked science in Amazonia
    Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the European Commission; 2004-2007.
  • US public sector pension funds and urban revitalization
    Professor Gordon L. Clark, Dr Tessa Hebb, Dr Terry Babcock-Lumish and Lisa Hagerman. Financial support from the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations; 2004-2007.
  • Climate change in the developing world: across the southern African climate gradient
    Professor David Thomas. Financial support from the University of East Anglia; 2004-2006.
  • Low base flows and livelihoods
    Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from DfID; 2004-2006.
  • Geography of capital markets
    Dr Dariusz Wójcik. Financial support from Jesus College, Oxford; 2004-2006.
  • Wittenham Clumps heritage landscape project: future landscape scenarios
    Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with the Northmoor Trust and Stockholm Environment Institute. Financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund; 2004-2006.
  • Prehistoric human impact on the African rainforest
    Professor Kathy Willis, Dr Terry Brncic and Dr Elinor Breman. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust, Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, Clarendon Fund, CoForChange and British Ecological Society; 2003-2006.
  • Technical and social evaluation of photovoltaics
    Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from BOC Group; 2003-2006.
  • The Internet gift economy: a study of socio-technological change in the US film industry
    Dr Andrew Currah. Financial support from the ESRC; 2003-2006.
  • Chronology, Adaptation and Environment of the Middle Palaeolithic in northern Africa
    Professor David Thomas in collaboration with the University of Aberystwyth and the Libyan Palaeolake Project. Financial support from the NERC; 2002-2007.
  • Geography of corporate governance
    Professor Gordon L. Clark, Dr Tessa Hebb and Dr Dariusz Wójcik in collaboration with Maastricht University. Financial support from the European Science Foundation; 2002-2006.
  • Indian minority identity and post-apartheid transformation in South Africa
    Dr Tony Lemon. Financial support from the Oppenheimer Fund; 2002-2006.
  • MONARCH: Modelling natural resource responses to climate change
    Dr Pam Berry and Dr Paula Harrison in collaboration with ADAS (Phase 1 only), British Trust for Ornithology (Phase 1 only), and CABI Bioscience (Phase 2 and 3). Financial support from English Nature and others; 1999-2006.
  • Forests and chases of England and Wales c. 1500 - c. 1850: towards a multi-disciplinary history
    Dr John Langton and Dr Graham Jones. Financial support from the Marc Fitch Fund and St John's College Oxford; 1998-2009.
  • Land degradation in the Karoo, South Africa
    Professor John Boardman in collaboration with the Universities of Cape Town, Leicester, Coventry, Aberdeen and Rhodes University. Financial support from NERC, the Trapnell Fund and the Oppenheimer Fund.