Annual Report 2000: Research in the Department
Research Groupings
The Department's research activity focuses on four principal areas of human and physical geography, as defined in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, where the Department has established an international reputation. Within each of these areas the Department organises its research into twin themes. These have rich and varying subject matters, given the continually-renewed research community, 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 2000 are listed in the following sections.
(I) Society and Space
(a) Regional Political Economy: Theory, Applications and Policy
This group includes Bob Bennett, Mia Gray, Bob Haining, Davied Keeble and Ron Martin. The prime areas of interest for this group are business development and location, regional growth and performance, and labour and labour markets. Some of the research is linked to the Centre for Business Research (Keeble, ex-Assistant Director).
(b) Culture, History, Space and Place
The core of this group comprises Alan Baker, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Michael Bravo, Laura Cameron, Jim Duncan, Robin Glasscock, Phil Howell, Alan Ingram, Gerry Kearns, Sarah Radcliffe and Liz Watson. This group is concerned with the detailed analysis of European historical sources, and an inter-disciplinary interest in the social and cultural geographies of the colonial and post-colonial world.
(II) Environment and Society
(a) Environment, Development and Society
The major interest of this group is world area studies focusing on environment and development. Specific areas of research are African drylands, forest environments and the social dimensions of development. The members of this group are Bill Adams, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Michael Bravo, Dan Brockington, Mike Hands, Iris Möller, Sarah Radcliffe, Tom Spencer, Bhaska Vira and Liz Watson.
(b) Environmental Issues and Policies
This group comprises Bill Adams, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Michael Bravo, Dan Brockington, Francine Hughes, Sue Owens, Keith Richards, Olga Tutubalina, Steve Trudgill, Bhaska Vira and Liz Watson. This group is concerned with society's constructions of, and responses to, environments in both industrialised and developing countries. Principal themes include understanding the causes of environmental degradation, environmental politics and policy processes. There are close links with the activities of the University's Committee for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, which is based in the Department.
(III) Earth and Environmental Systems: Processes and Change
(a) Monitoring and Modelling Environmental Processes
This group combines research in glaciology, fluvial geomorphology and hydrology, coastal processes and volcanology. It includes James Brasington, Mike Hands, Francine Hughes, Sandra Luque, Iris Möller, Clive Oppenheimer, Gareth Rees, 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.
(b) Environmental Change
This group includes Harriet Allen, Neil Arnold, Phil Gibbard, Martin Head, Clive Oppenheimer, Keith Richards and Tom Spencer. The research undertaken by this group focuses on rapid climate change; the Quaternary history of large river systems in Europe; the thermohaline circulation of the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean climate and its global impact. There are links to The Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research.
(IV) Spatial Processes and Earth Observation
(a) Spatial Processes
Andy Cliff, Bernard Devereux, Bob Haining, Gerry Kearns and Dan Low-Beer make up this new research group. The main areas of research are spatial analysis with GIS and spatial processes in epidemiology, criminology and demography.
(b) Earth Observation
The research of this group involves the application of remote sensing to environmental modelling, mainly in snow, ice and pollution monitoring, hydrology, fluid dynamics, volcanic emmissions and coastal morpholgy. It comprises Neil Arnold, James Brasington, Bernard Devereux, Iris Möller, Clive Oppenheimer, Gareth Rees, Keith Richards, Tom Spencer, Olga Tutubalina and Ian Willis.
Research Grants 2000
|
Total |
Sponsor |
Grant Title |
|
| Dr W.M. Adams | £97,750.00 | DFID | Policy Implications of Current Knowledge on CPR Management |
| Prof R.J. Bennett | £266,898.00 | Leverhulme Trust | Personal Research Fellowship |
| Prof A.D. Cliff | £4,992.00 | Nuffield Foundation | Geographic Diffusion of Ethnic Identity: United States 1840-1970 |
| Dr S.E. Corbridge | £207,750.00 | ESRC | Rural Poverty, the Developmental State and Spaces of Empowerment in West Bengal and Bihar, India |
| Dr S.E. Corbridge | £47,573.22 | Natural Resources Inter Ltd | NTFP Marketing in Eastern India |
| Dr P.L. Gibbard | £24,816.00 | NERC | Hologene Environmental Changes in South-East Thailand |
| Dr P.L. Gibbard | £25,305.00 | NERC | Environmental and Climatic Evolution in the Southern Alps in the early Pleistocene Lacustrine Sequence of Leffe |
| Dr R.E. Glasscock | £408,151.00 | AHRB | Records of Central Government Taxation in England 1190-1690 |
| Dr R.E. Glasscock | £103,372.00 | Leverhulme Trust | Taxation in England 1190-1620 |
| Dr R.E. Glasscock | £101,570.84 | ESRC | Records of Central Government Taxation in England 1190-1690 |
| Dr R.E. Glasscock | £3,500.00 | Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle UT | Central Taxation in England c. 1190-1690 |
| Dr R.E. Glasscock | £1,000.00 | Cumberland & Westmorland Antiq & Arch Society | Central Taxation in England c. 1190-1690 |
| Dr A. Hudson | £8,500.00 | DFID | Organising NGO's Transnational Advocacy |
| Dr A. Hudson | £4,925.00 | Nuffield Foundation | Organizing NGO's Transnational Advocacy |
| Dr S.N. Lane | £104,000.00 | EPSRC | Automated Close-Range Photogrammetry for Determination of the Roughness of Flume Channel Surfaces |
| Dr S.N. Lane | £16,094.00 | NERC | Application and Testing of a 2 Dimensional Sorting and Transport Model for Gravel-Bed Rivers |
| Dr S.N. Lane | £151,230.00 | NERC | Application of Large Eddy Simulation for understanding Natural River Flow |
| Dr R.L. Martin | £33,557.00 | ESRC | The Geography of Private Shareholding: Mapping “Popular Capitalism” in Britain |
| Dr R. Mayhew | £42,099.71 | British Academy | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship |
| Dr L. McDowell | £2,542.18 | Rowntree Foundation | White Working Class Masculinity in Insecure Times |
| Dr I. Möller | £1,760.00 | Environment Agency | Vegetation Monitoring in the Wash |
| Dr I. Möller | £1,157.80 | Marine Bio & Chem Cons | Sediment Analysis |
| Dr C.M. Oppenheimer | £15,449.00 | NERC | Chemical Evolution of the Soufriere Hills Volcanic Plume, Montserrat |
| Prof K.S. Richards | £238,831.23 | EC | Floodplain Biodiversity and Restoration |
| Dr G.E. Smith | £39,850.00 | Leverhulme Trust | Russian Diaspora in NE Estonia, E Ukraine and N Kazakhstan |
| Dr J.H. Smith | £69,612.33 | Huntingdon District Council | Sustainable Communities |
| Dr T. Spencer | £9,494.06 | University of Hull | Particle Size Analysis |
| Dr T. Spencer | £20,665.75 | UCL | Crouch/Roach Wave and Tide Contract |
| Dr T. Spencer | £418.98 | Young Assoc | NMBAQC Sediment Sample |
| Dr T. Spencer | £12,771.29 | Environment Agency | Sediment Analysis |
| Dr T. Spencer | £45,000.00 | Halifax General Insurance Services Ltd | Coastal Settlements at Risk |
| Dr T. Spencer | £10,298.00 | UCL | Foreshore Recharge Monitoring - Shotley |
| Dr P.C. Tzedakis | £198,034.77 | NERC Fellowship | Advanced Research Fellowship: Linking High-Resolution Long Continental and Marine Records of Quaternary Environments |
| Dr I.C. Willis | £312,679.00 | NERC | 3-D Patterns of Stress and Velocity in Glaciers |