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I am a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Academic Course Leader for BSc Ecology and Environmental Science. I teach across the Geography, Ecology and Environmental Science, Wildlife Conservation Biology, Biology and Zoology courses, with specific focus on environmental change, palaeoecology, coasts and sea level.
My research specialisms are in reconstructing Quaternary environmental change and palaeoecology. My primary research interests are in the use of microfossils, particularly diatoms, to reconstruct environmental and relative sea-level changes. Much of my work involves field data collection and laboratory analysis, and I have extensive field experience in the UK and overseas, including Arctic and tropical regions.
My recent research is focused on relative sea-level changes in western Scotland since the last glaciation. Reconstructing the extent and timing of ice sheet and relative sea-level changes provide analogues of how contemporary systems may respond under changing climate conditions. I am also interested in understanding more recent landscape changes, and using diatom records to help inform conservation practice.
I have wide-ranging teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including class-based teaching, laboratory and computer practical teaching, and field teaching (day, residential, and overseas), as well as supervising and examining postgraduate research.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
Sea Level and Coastal Change (SLaCC) Group Coordinator
I lead and teach across a range of modules on undergraduate programmes in Geography and Biosciences.
Main areas of module leadership and teaching include: research and fieldwork methods in Geography and Ecology and Environmental Science, practical laboratory and data handling skills, Earth systems and processes, overseas fieldwork, sea-level change and coasts, paleoecology, pollution and remediation, and dissertation development and supervision.
I am an experienced supervisor of student research projects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Principally my research is interested in Quaternary environmental change. My research focuses on using biological proxies, particularly diatoms, to reconstruct and understand environmental change in different contexts and time scales. This includes looking at current and former coastal environments to reconstruct environmental and sea-level changes, as well as looking at contemporary lake environments to reconstruct environmental conditions to help understand climate and landscape change.
I am a co-PI on a collaborative NSFGEO-NERC grant “NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: How important are sea-level feedbacks in stabilizing marine-based ice streams?”
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