Steve T Trudgill, BSc PhD

University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Robinson College

Biogeographer: environment and conservation, ecological values

Biography

Career:

1972-1975: University of Strathclyde Department of Geography
1975-1996: University of Sheffield Department of Geography.
- Lecturer 1975 - 1985
- Senior Lecturer 1985 - 1987
- Reader in Geography 1987 - 1996
1996-present: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
- Lecturer 1996 - 2003
- Senior Lecturer 2003 - present

Qualifications

BSc University of Bristol, Geography with Geology and Sociology (1968)
PhD University of Bristol, geomorphology, soils and water quality of Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean (1972)

Research

'Society, Environment and Development' and 'Environmental Processes'

The social engagement with nature.
Environmental management and nature conservation.
Ecological thought and values.
Application of ecosystem science to environmental management, and environmental education.

Current research students

2003 - : Andrew Casebow. Island agri-environment schemes

Former research students

98-01: A Jeffery, Climate change and lawns (jointly with Botanic Garden, University of Cambridge)
97-00: R McDowell, Processes controlling phosphorus release to run-off, prediction implications for agriculture management

Publications

Selected publications:

Trudgill, S. T., Jeffery, A & Parker, J. (2009). Climate change and the resilience of the domestic lawn. Journal of Applied Geography. Published on line August 27 2009. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.08.002
Trudgill, S. T. (2009). "You can't resist the sea": an insight into evolving attitudes and responses to coastal erosion at Slapton, S. Devon. Geography. 94 (1), 48 – 57.
Trudgill, S. T. (2008). Classics Revisited. Corbel, J., 1959. Erosion en terrain calcaire (vitesse d'érosion et morphologie). Annales de Géographie, 68, 97 – 120. Progress in Physical Geography, 32(6), 684-690. doi:10.1177/0309133308096756
Trudgill, S.T. (2008). Limestone Landforms, 1890-1965 in The History of the Study of Landforms Ed. Burt, T.P. et al., Ch 4, 107 -125.
Trudgill, S. T. (2008). A requiem for the British Flora? Emotional biogeographies and environmental change. Area., 40(1), 99 – 107. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2008.00790.x
Trudgill, S. T. (2007). Classics Revisited: Tansley, A.G. (1935). The use and abuse of vegetational concepts and terms. Ecology 16 (3) 284 – 307. Progress in Physical Geography, 31 (5), 501 – 507. doi:10.1177/0309133307083297
Trudgill, S. T. (2006). "Dirt Cheap" - cultural constructs of soil: a challenge for education about soils? Journal of Geography in Higher Education 30 (1), 7-14 doi:10.1080/03098260500499576
Trudgill, S.T. (2005). Encyclopaedia of Geomorphology, 30 entries. Ed. Goudie, A.S. Blackwell
Trudgill, S.T. (2003). Narratives of Nature. In: Eggebert, A. and Gould, P. Nature and Nation: Vaster than Empires Hastings Art Gallery
Trudgill, S.T. and Roy, A. (eds.) (2003). Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography: from what to why? Chapter 2. Meaning, knowledge, constructs and fieldwork in physical geography. Chapter 13. Conclusion: contemporary meanings in physical geography.
Trudgill, S. T. (2001). Psychobiogeography. Meanings of nature and motivations for a democratised conservation ethic. Journal of Biogeography, 28, 677-698. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00593.x
Trudgill, S.T., Viles, H.A., Inkpen, R., Moses, C., Gosling, W., Yates, T., Collier, P., Smith, D.I and Cooke, R.U. (2001). Twenty-year weathering remeasurements at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 26 (10): 1129-1142. doi:10.1002/esp.260
Trudgill, S.T. (2001). The Terrestrial Biosphere: environmental change, ecosystem science, attitudes and values Pearson
McDowell R, Trudgill, S. (2000). Variation of phosphorus loss from a small Catchment in south Devon, UK Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 79 (2-3): 143 - 157l doi:10.1016/S0167-8809(99)00154-1
Trudgill, S.T., Walling, D.E. and Webb, B.W. (eds.) (1999). Water Quality: processes and policy. Chichester: John Wiley
Trudgill, S.T. (1999). Environmental Education, Ethics and Citizenship Conference held at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 20 May, 1998. Introduction and Postscript. Ethics, Place and Environment, 2, 1, 81 - 82, 87 - 89
Trudgill, S.T. and Richards, K.S. (1997). 'Environmental science and policy: generalisation and context sensitivity' Transactions of the Institute of British geographers 22: 5-12

In preparation

Nature, Self and Place: Meanings of nature and narratives of environmental change.

Teaching

Geographical Tripos (Undergraduate level)

Part IB: Biogeography
Part II: The Social Engagement with Nature

External activities

Chair of the Environmental Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society - with the Institute of Bristish Geographers (1996 - 1999)
Member of the Executive Committee and Science and Education sub-Committee of the Field Studies Council. 1976 - 2003.
Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve Management Committee 1990 - 2005.
Editor, Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy and Geography. 2002 to date.
Editor Progress in Physical Geography 2003 to date
Member of the Editorial Board of the sixth form magazine Geography Review and environmental columnist
Advisor to David Waugh on the sixth form text Geography: an integrated approach.
Robinson College: Director of Studies for Geography; Chair of the Gardens Committee.