Annual Report 1999: Research in the Department

Research Groupings
Research Grants 1999

Research Groupings

The Department structures its research activity around several broadly-defined research groups which were defined explicitly in their present form for the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise. These have rich and varying themes, given the continually-renewed research community of about 150, the overlapping memberships of the groups, and their external collaborations within and beyond the University and the discipline. The main members of these groups are outlined below, and their research grants and published research output in 1997 are listed in the following sections.

The Geography of the Space Economy

This group includes Bob Bennett, Stuart Corbridge, Mia Gray, Alan Hudson, David Keeble, Ron Martin, and Linda McDowell. Some of its activities are linked to those of the ESRC Centre for Business Research, where David Keeble (an ex-Assistant Directors) and Bob Bennett are particularly active.

The Geography of Development

Bill Adams, Bryon Bache, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Stuart Corbridge, Jim Duncan and Sarah Radcliffe create the core of this group, which has research interests in Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Melanesia.

The Human Geography of Europe

This group has research interests ranging across western and eastern Europe, including historical geography in France, and economic, demographic and political aspects of the region's geography. It includes Alan Baker, Bob Bennett, Gerry Kearns, David Keeble, Ron Martin, and Graham Smith, who directed The Post-Soviet States Research Programme in Sidney Sussex College from 1993.

Historical and Cultural Geography

Alan Baker, Jim Duncan, Robin Glasscock, Philip Howell, Gerry Kearns, Linda McDowell and Robert Mayhew form this wide-ranging humanities group.

Medical geography and population history

Andy Cliff and Gerry Kearns together create this group, and provide an opportunity for joint research with the Cambridge Unit for the History of Population and Social Structure.

Environmental issues and policies

Bill Adams, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Stuart Lane, Susan Owens, Steve Trudgill, Bhaska Vira and Liz Watson form a group with interests in environmental issues in both industrialised and developing countries. There are close links with the activities of the University's Committee for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, which is based in the Department.

Monitoring and Modelling Environmental Processes

This grouping includes Neil Arnold, Bryon Bache, Stuart Lane, Clive Oppenheimer, Keith Richards, Tom Spencer, Steve Trudgill, and Ian Willis. Tom Spencer acts as the Director of The Cambridge Coastal Research Unit, which was created in the Department in 1996 to investigate problems of coastal zone management.

Environmental Change

Neil Arnold, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Philip Gibbard, Clive Oppenheimer, Tom Spencer, and Chronis Tzedakis form this group, which is closely linked to The Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research. The Institute has initiated an inter-Departmental research project on Stage 3 of the Quaternary, which is providing a framework for collaboration within and beyond Cambridge; it has been planning further projects that may include one on volcanicity and climatic change.

GIS and Remote Sensing

Andy Cliff, Bernard Devereux, Clive Oppenheimer, Stuart Lane, and Keith Richards, together with Gareth Rees from the Scott Polar Research Institute, form a group with interests ranging from applications of a range of satellite sensors to epidemiological, land use, volcanological and glaciological studies to digital and analytical photogrammetry and terrain modelling.

Research Grants 1999

Investigator	Sum (£)	Sponsor	Title
Dr A Baker	£4,690	British Academy	Leisure-related Voluntary Associations in France
Prof RJ Bennett	£245,666	Leverhulme Trust	Personal Research Fellowship.
Dr D Brockington	£68,000	British Academy	Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Dynamics and Politics of Grazing Management.
Dr D Brockington	£4,150	British Academy	The Dynamics and Politics of Grazing Management.
Prof AD Cliff	£95,686	Leverhulme Trust	Disease in War, 1850-1990: Geographical Patterns, Spread and Demographic Impact.
Prof AD Cliff	£4,992	Nuffield Foundation	Geographic Diffusion of Ethnic Identity: United States 1840-1970.
Dr S Corbridge	£89,995	DFID	Development Indicators, research cycle management, and sustained improvement in livelihoods of rural poor
Dr SF Corbridge	£47,573	Natural Resources International Ltd	NTFP Marketing in Eastern India
Dr SE Corbridge	£207,750	ESRC	Rural Poverty, the Developmental State and Spaces of Empowerment in West Bengal and Bihar, India.
Dr BJ Devereux	£125,000	BNSC LINK	Remote Sensing of Land Use and Transport Interaction
Dr P Gibbard	£317,972	European Community	BALTEEM
Dr PL Gibbard	£25,305	NERC	Environmental and Climatic Evolution in the Southern Alps in the early Pleistocene Lacustrine Sequence of Leffe
Dr PL Gibbard	£24,816	NERC	Hologene Environmental Changes in South-East Thailand.
Dr RE Glasscock	£3,500	Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne	Central Taxation in England c. 1190-1690
Dr RE Glasscock	£1,000	Cumberland & Westmorland Antiq & Arch Society	Central Taxation in England c. 1190-1690
Dr R Glasscock	£205,524	ESRC	Records of Central Government Taxation in England 1190-1690
Dr RE Glasscock	£100,903	ESRC	Records of Central Government Taxation in England 1190-1690
Dr R Glasscock	£408,151	AHRB	Records of Central Government Taxation in England 1190-1690
Dr RE Glasscock	£103,372	Leverhulme Trust	Taxation in England 1190-1620
Mr MR Hands	£576,511	European Commission	Alley Cropping as a Sustainable Alternative to Shifting Cultivation - Phase III - Honduras
Dr A Hudson	£4,925	Nuffield Foundation	Organizing NGO's Transnational Advocacy
Dr A Hudson)	£8,500	DFID	Organising NGO's Transnational Advocacy
Dr SN Lane	£16,094	NERC	Application and Testing of a Two Dimensional Sorting and Transport Model for Gravel-Bed Rivers
Dr SN Lane	£151,230	NERC	Application of Large Eddy Simulation for understanding Natural River Flow
Dr SN Lane	£106,817	EPSRC	Automated Close-Range Photogrammetry for Determination of the Roughness of Flume Channel Surfaces
Dr RL Martin	£33,557	ESRC	The Geography of Private Shareholding: Mapping “Popular Capitalism” in Britain
Dr R Mayhew	£42,100	British Academy	Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Dr L McDowell	£2,542	Rowntree Foundation	White Working Class Masculinity in Insecure Times
Dr C Oppenheimer	£15,449	NERC	Chemical Evolution of the Soufriere Hills Volcanic Plume, Montserrat
Dr C Oppenheimer	£35,431	NERC	Field Measurement of Volcanic Gas Concentration Ratios and Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy
Dr SE Owens	£3,000	Japan Foundation Endowment	Participation in Japanese Environmental Policy Making
Dr SA Radcliffe	£128,943	ESRC	We are all Indians: Ecuadorian and Bolivian Transnational Indigenous Communities
Prof KS Richards	£238,831	European Commission	Floodplain Biodiversity and Restoration
Dr GE Smith	£38,860	Leverhulme Trust	Russian Diaspora in NE Estonia, E Ukraine and N Kazakhstan
Dr JH Smith	£69,612	Huntingdon District Council	Sustainable Communities
Dr T Spencer	£45,000	Halifax General Insurance Services Ltd	Coastal Settlements at Risk
Dr T Spencer	£20,666	University College London	Crouch/Roach Wave and Tide Contract
Dr T Spencer	£10,298	UCL	Foreshore Recharge Monitoring - Shotley
Dr T Spencer	£418	Young Associates	NMBAQC Sediment Sample
Dr T Spencer	£7,172	University of Hull	Particle Size Analysis
Dr T Spencer	£1,157	Marine Biological & Chemical Consultants	Sediment Analysis
Dr T Spencer	£11,579	Environment Agency	Sediment Analysis
Dr T Spencer	£3,200	RGS	Shoals of Capricorn Marine Programme
Dr T Spencer	£1,760	Environment Agency	Vegetation Monitoring in the Wash
Dr T Spencer	£36,821	Environment Agency	Wave Attenuation over Saltmarshes
Dr PC Tzedakis	£159,147	NERC - Advanced Research Fellowship	Linking High-Resolution Long Continental and Marine Records of Quaternary Environments
Mr B Vira	£63,639	LSE/Wellcome Trust	The Future of India
Dr IC Willis	£102,679	NERC	3-D Patterns of Stress and Velocity in Glaciers