Name | College(s) | Summary of Research Interests |
Professor Myles Allen Professor of Geosystem Science | Linacre College | How human and natural influences on climate contribute to observed climate change and risks of extreme weather and in quantifying their implications for long-range climate forecasts. |
Dr Elizabeth Baigent University Reader in the History of Geography | Wycliffe Hall | History of cartography, history of exploration, history of travel, history of Scandinavia, biography, with special interest in how all of these things affect women. |
Professor Richard Bailey Associate Professor in Geochronology | St Catherine's College | Quaternary palaeoclimate; geochronology (particularly luminescence-based methods) associated with environmental change, archaeology and palaeoanthrolpology; modelling luminescence processes; observations and modelling of vegetation patterning and critical thresholds in semi-arid systems; critical thresholds in environmental systems. |
Dr Christian Brand Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the ECI and TSU | Linacre College | Transport, energy and climate change policy. Systems modelling. Carbon effects of walking and cycling. Socio-technical transitions towards low-carbon, energy efficient transport systems. Measurement and evaluation of policy measures and interventions. Christian encourages graduate projects that address current challenges in the fields of 'transport and health' and 'transport and energy'. For instance, the PASTA project is producing a stream of good survey and 'objective' data, which presents a great opportunity for an analytical mind to answer research questions on key determinants of active travel and its wider transport, health and carbon impacts. |
Dr Ben Caldecott Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance | Oriel College | Sustainable finance and investment topics, including: active ownership, adaptation finance, biodiversity and nature, carbon markets, climate and environment-related financial risks, climate finance, climate resilience, conservation finance, disclosure, divestment, ESG, financial conduct, financial regulation, green banks, green benchmarks and indices, green bonds, green taxonomies, impact investing, just transition, offsetting, public private partnerships, reporting, responsible investment, science-based targets, spatial finance, stewardship and engagement, stranded assets, sustainability-linked instruments, the carbon bubble, transition finance, and transition plans. |
Dr Katrina Charles Senior Research Fellow | Reuben College | Improving access to and sustainability of water supply and sanitation systems; Stimulating demand for sanitation; Fate and transport of viruses in the environment. |
Professor Simon Dadson Professor of Hydrology | Christ Church | Processes that link climate, hydrology, and geomorphology. |
Professor Patricia Daley Professor of the Human Geography of Africa | Jesus College | Sub-Saharan Africa, especially topics on issues of forced migration; humanitarianism; gender; militarism; violence and ethnicity; as well as on aspects of political ecology in relation to land tenure; natural resource exploitation; community management of natural resources; forestry; indigenous knowledge; and wildlife conservation. |
Dr Sarah Darby Associate Professor, ECI | No college affilication | The potential for demand response in electricity systems; electricity grids as dynamic socio-technical systems; smart metering; implications of 'smart grids' for daily life, governance and environmental impact; energy feedback and advice. |
Professor Danny Dorling Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography | St Peter's College | Issues of housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty. |
Dr Beth Greenhough Associate Professor in Human Geography | Keble College | Social implications of scientific innovations in the areas of health, biomedicine and the environment; Social, cultural and ethical processes through which humans and animals are made available as experimental subjects for biomedical research; New theoretical and methodological approaches within Geography better able to capture the material and affective dimensions of human-environment relations and how these are being reconfigured through biotechnological innovation. |
Dr Richard Grenyer Associate Professor in Biodiversity and Biogeography | Jesus College | Conservation - in particular conservation strategy, systematic conservation planning, biodiversity measurement and valuation. Biogeography, ecology and evolutionary ecology - particularly of mammals and plants. Phylogeography and phyloinformatics. |
Professor Jim Hall Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks | Linacre College | Water resource systems, flooding and adaptation to climate change. Resilience of infrastructure systems modelling and policy analysis. Decision making under uncertainty. Risk analysis. |
Dr Neil Hart Departmental Lecturer in Physical Geography and Career Development Fellow | Christ Church | Weather-climate interactions, particularly in the subtropical hydroclimates. Dynamical processes underpinning regional climate change. The upscale impact of convective hotspots on regional circulation. Climate dynamics of African regions. Extreme weather risks. |
Professor Cameron Hepburn Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and Professor of Environmental Economics | New College
St Edmund Hall | Environmental economics; specifically on the post-carbon transition, natural climate solutions, circular plastics, the energy revolution, integrating renewable energy, stranded assets and carbon budgets, carbon pricing. |
Dr Mark Hirons Departmental Lecturer and Director of the MSc/MPhil in Environmental Change and Management, ECI | No college affiliation | Mark is interested in addressing inter-linked social and environmental challenges through interdisciplinary research. He is broadly engaged with research that investigates issues of well-being, inequality and justice with respect to climate change and natural resource governance. He is interested how different values and knowledges interact with institutional and cultural contexts in driving the governance decisions which underpin environmental and social change across a range of scales. |
Professor Rob Hope Professor of Water Policy | No college affiliation | Water security, policy and poverty in Africa and Asia. Rural water policy, institutions and finance, including water payment behaviours and affordability. |
Dr Debbie Hopkins Associate Professor in Human Geography | Kellogg College | The mobilities of people, things and ideas; decarbonising the transport system; intersections of decarbonisation, equity and justice; mobile labour; gendered mobilities; climate change adaptation; urban flood risks. |
Dr Radhika Khosla Senior Research Associate in Environment and Energy, SSEE, and Research Director, Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development | Somerville College | Urban responses to climate change and urban sustainable development. Energy demand and services consumption (focus on the built environment). Climate change mitigation and socio-technical transitions. Developing countries and transitioning cities. Quantitative trends, policy, governance and institutional analysis. |
Dr Ian Klinke Associate Professor in Human Geography | St John's College | Geopolitics and political geography, Germany, the Cold War, military landscapes, biopolitics, far-right politics, intellectual history, European integration. |
Dr Sneha Krishnan Associate Professor in Human Geography | Brasenose College | Feminist/queer studies, cities in the global South, geo-and biopolitics, childhood and youth, colonial and postcolonial geographies, South Asia. |
Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright Professor of the Human Geography of China | St Cross College | Environmental justice, environmental health controversies, transition and social change in China, anthropological theory and ethnography. More specific topics: political ecology with particular interest in pollution and rural China, popular epidemiology and perceptions of risk, questioning the lay-expert divide, grassroots responses to health inequalities (especially in China and the developing world), cross-cultural environmental activism and environmental health activism, controversies in cancer epidemiology and lay cancer epidemiology. |
Professor Jamie Lorimer Associate Professor in Human Geography | Hertford College | More-than-human geographies. Cultures and politics of Nature, especially in relation to wildlife conservation and rewilding. Social studies of the microbiome. The cultures and politics of the Anthropocene. Animal studies and nonhuman charisma. Elephants. |
Dr Marc Macias-Fauria Associate Professor in Physical Geography | St Peter's College | Biogeosciences. Ecologist with a special focus on cold environments. Coupling of physical and biological systems over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Study of ecological and biogeographic processes through the use and interpretation of long-term and palaeoecological records, modelling, and remote sensing. |
Professor Yadvinder Malhi Professor of Ecosystem Science | Oriel College | Interactions between forest ecosystems, climate change and land-use change, including the utility of forest protection in mitigating climate change. Techniques applied in this research include plant ecophysiology, long term forest monitoring and short-term expeditions, forest micrometerological and flux measurements, manipulative experiments, and satellite remote sensing of intact forests and deforestation. His interests are global, but particularly focus on tropical forests, especially in the Andes and Amazon, and more recently on the woodlands of the Upper Thames. |
Dr Fiona McConnell Associate Professor in Human Geography | St Catherine's College | Political geography and critical geopolitics. Specifically the everyday construction of statehood and sovereignty in cases of tenuous territoriality (e.g. unrecognised/de facto states, exile governments, stateless nations). Theories of sovereignty, and the relationship between territory and authority. Theories of the state and the use of ethnographic methods to uncover everyday state practices. Diplomacy, minority communities and the UN system. |
Professor Derek McCormack Professor of Cultural Geography | Mansfield College | Geographies of: air/atmosphere; the body, performance and movement; affect and emotion; art, experiment, and creativity; material cultures. Social/cultural theories and philosophies of space and time, particularly non-representational theory and post-structuralism. |
Dr Constance L McDermott Associate Professor and Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Land Use Governance | Oriel College | The multi-scale governance of land use, forests and climate. This includes the political ecology of international state and market-based processes (UNFCCC REDD+, FLEGT, sustainability certification, Zero Deforestation initiatives) and their translation into national, regional and local contexts. It also includes exploration of community and grassroots networks and initiatives as alternative forms of collective action. |
Dr Janey Messina Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Science Methods | Green Templeton College | Quantitative health geography, medical geography, spatial epidemiology, disease ecology, geography of infectious diseases. |
Dr Jennie Middleton Associate Professor in Human Geography | St Anne's College | Jennie's research relates to three overlapping themes, all of which are underpinned by concerns with the relationships between theory, policy and practice: Geographies of mobilities; Care in the city; and Innovative methodologies for urban research. |
Dr Alex Money Director, Innovative Infrastructure Investment Programme, SSEE | St Catherine's College | Economic and financial geography. Investment models to improve sustainable development outcomes. Sector interests: water, energy, food, work, infrastructure. Thematic interests: investment pathways, ESG, alternative data. Specialist interests: sub-saharan Africa, earth observation, asset management. |
Dr Amber Murrey Associate Professor in Human Geography | Mansfield College | Decolonial political geographies and political ecologies. Politics of extraction and lived or embodied experiences of extraction, particularly in African societies and the global South. Geographies of resistance. Structural violence and geographies of violence. Decolonial thought and non-western epistemologies. Digital disruptions, cyber-protest and political geographies of the Internet. Queering development, post-development, decolonising development. Geopolitics of knowledge and movements to decolonise knowledge, particularly within universities or the social sciences. |
Dr Imma Oliveras Departmental Research Lecturer in Ecosystems Science and Deputy Programme Leader on Ecosystems | Oriel College | Vegetation-fire/drought-climate interactions, disturbance ecology, pyrogeography, fire ecology, earth observation applied to monitor and detect environmental change impacts on the terrestrial biosphere. Stability and resilience of ecosystems. |
Dr Anna Plyushteva Departmental Research Lecturer in Transport Studies | St Antony's College | Geographies of urban transport and mobility; Qualitative and mixed research methods in transport geography; Transport and mobility from the perspective of gender and the household; Night-time urban mobilities; Links between commuting practices and workplace social relations; Sociological and anthropological perspectives on how we pay for transport services; Cities and mobilities in South-Eastern Europe. |
Professor Gillian Rose Professor of Human Geography | St John's College | Geographies of contemporary visual culture, digitally-produced images and visual methodologies. I'm particularly interested in how new forms of digitally-mediated imagery and practices are emerging in both popular practices and in new design professions; in smart cities; and in critical modes of investigating and theorising these shifts. Also critical urban geography, histories of visual and other cultural practice, and critical cultural geographies more broadly. |
Dr Tim Schwanen Associate Professor in Transport Studies, Director of the TSU | St Anne's College | The everyday mobility of people, goods and information, and in particular: transitions to low carbon mobility and living in cities, with a specific focus on questions of social justice and governance; the rise and governance of smart, shared or autonomous mobility; the interactions between transport infrastructure development and socio-spatial inequalities; the effects of urban contexts on individuals' practices and experiences of mobility; the relationship between mobility, power and subject formation. |
Dr Louise Slater Associate Professor in Physical Geography | Hertford College | Flood processes; rivers; fluvial geomorphology; hydrology; climate; computation. Research topics: Detection and attribution of changes in flood processes and hydrological extremes (e.g. disentangling climatic versus land cover drivers); understanding and predicting how river channels and their networks adjust dynamically to shifting land cover and climate regimes; developing new statistical, mathematical or machine learning approaches for better forecasting major hydro-climatic events in the future. Research methodologies: data-driven, computer-based analyses; data science, statistical modelling, machine learning, satellite remote sensing. |
Dr Linda Speight Departmental Lecturer in Physical Geography | Hertford College | Linda is a hydrometeorologist whose research seeks to develop early warning systems to improve disaster risk management, particularly for flooding. She is interested in global flood forecasting, surface water flood forecasting, ensemble forecasts, impact-based forecasts, risk communication, decision making and climate resilience. |
Professor David S.G. Thomas Professor of Geography | Hertford College | Quaternary environments in the low latitudes, especially Africa; luminescence dating applications; aeolain systems; land degradation and human-environment interactions in drylands and Africa; climate change impacts and adaptation. |
Dr Alex Vasudevan Associate Professor in Human Geography | Christ Church | Critical urban geography: alternative urbanisms, radical politics and the geographies of protest: contemporary urbanisation and precarious living: the history of squatting and its relationship to broader currents in contemporary urban thinking: spatial theory and experimentation: cultural geographies of artistic practice: historical and cultural geographies of performance. |
Professor Heather Viles Professor of Biogeomorphology and Heritage Conservation | Worcester College | Geomorphology and environmental change (especially in arid and karst environments); building stone deterioration and conservation; weathering and rock breakdown (especially in arid, coastal, karst and other extreme environments); rock breakdown on Mars and other planets. |
Professor Richard Washington Professor of Climate Science | Keble College | African climate science; climate change and variability in Africa; rainfall variability and prediction in Africa; mineral aerosol (dust) production and transport in Africa. |
Dr Lisa Wedding ssociate Professor in Physical Geography | Worcester College | Lisa has a special interest in applying a geospatial approach at the intersection of science and policy to solve environmental problems. Her overall approach to research and problem solving weaves together theoretical approaches from the disciplines of landscape ecology, conservation biology and applies geospatial analytical tools and techniques. Lisa's applied seascape ecology research has focused on field-based ecological data collection and spatial modeling efforts in both tropical and temperate marine environments. Her current research is focused on combining remote sensing and analytical tools to track rapid change in these marine regions, in order to help identify risks of potential tipping points and illuminate ocean policy solutions. |
Professor Robert J. Whittaker Professor of Biogeography | St Edmund Hall | Island ecology and biogeography; conservation biogeography; diversity theory; macroecology. I have particular interests in the islands of the Macaronesian biogeographic region, and in themes connected with habitat island ecology and using islands as model systems in conservation. |
Professor Giles Wiggs Professor of Aeolian Geomorphology | Brasenose College | Measuring and modelling aeolian processes in deserts with an emphasis on aeolian sediment transport; sand dune dynamics; dynamics of aeolian dust; desert geomorphology; and low latitude environmental change. Research techniques include fieldwork in southern Africa, Middle East, Central Asia and Australia in combination with wind tunnel and computer modelling. Enquiries concerning any aspect of desert geomorphology are welcomed. |
Professor Dariusz Wójcik Professor of Economic Geography | St Peter's College | Geographies of finance, economic geography, financial centres and global cities (including Shanghai and Dubai), emerging market economies, corporate governance, environmental finance (including carbon markets), varieties and models of capitalism, geography of advanced business services (including finance, law, management consultancy and accountancy). |