Research projects in the Department
This is a global list of the 202 research projects currently being undertaken by members of the Department, listed by research cluster and then by group/theme.
The list below may also include a small number of archived projects. In due course, these will be listed separately.
Spaces of Economy & Society cluster
Geographical Foundations of Economic Performance
- Associational Governance
- Entrepreneurship Environments
- Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography
- HEI Entrepreneurial Architectures
- History of Chambers of Commerce
- Local and regional economic development in Britain
- LocoMotive
- Regional cultural economy, innovation and learning
- SME external relations and external supports
- The Competitive Performance of Regions and Cities
- The Economic Geography of Money and Finance
Landscapes of Work and Labour
Geographies of Social Welfare
- Exploring the links between the geographies of crime and health
- Geographical epidemiology: air quality and public health
- Geographies of domestic violence
- Methodologies for the analysis of spatial data
- The geography of crime and disorder: offences, offenders and victimization
Geographies of Gender
- Gender and Education within East Africa and the Caribbean
- Gendered Geographies of Regional Economies: Work-Life (Im)Balance and Socioeconomic Competitiveness
- Gendering the New Economy
- The gender gap in education
- Youth Culture and the Social Construction of Gender
Society, Environment and Development cluster
Circumpolar History and Public Policy
- Circumpolar Governance
- Field practices and environmental science in the Canadian Arctic, 1950-2000
- Gender and Nationalism in Indigenous Political Movements: A Comparative Study of Nunavut, Canada and Tuva, Russian Federation
- Institutions and Public Policy in the Field Sciences
- Maritime Geographies of Science
- Traplines and Tar Sands: An Ethnographic Analysis of Intersecting Economies in a Subarctic Indigenous Community
Polar Social Science and Humanities Group
- Healing interactions between shamans and clients (Kyzyl, Republic of Tuva)
- The nativeness of settlers: constructions of belonging in Soviet and contemporary Chukotka
Society & Environment
- Addressing Biodiversity Loss: Lessons from Climate Change
- Appraisal, Policy Learning and Sustainability: Towards a New Agenda
- Climate change and lawn growth
- Cultural constructions of nature
- Environmental management and nature conservation in agriculture catchments
- Knowledge and Power: Exploring the Science/Society Interface in the Urban Environment Context
- Social Laboratories: Engaging with public dimensions of nanobiotechnology
- The role and influence of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
Political Ecology
- Agricultural intensification in pre-colonial Melanesia
- Beyond Win-Win: Interrogating Ecosystem Services Dynamics
- Building Capacity to Alleviate Human-Elephant Conflict in North Kenya
- Conservation and Livelihoods
- Conservation Values
- Gaming and Biodiversity Conservation
- Histories of environmental concern
- Incorporating stakeholder perceptions in participatory forest management in India
- Institutions, agency and incentives in environment and development
- Institutions, Collective Action and Cooperation
- Institutions, natural resources and ecosystem services
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Conservation
- Land Reform, Land Tenure and Poverty
- Land Use Change and African-Palaearctic Migrant Birds
- Large Scale Conservation in Britain
- Microcredit in the UK: survey
- Negotiating Tradeoffs: Making Informed Choices about Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation
- Policy and governance in natural resource management
- Policy Implications of Common Property Resource Knowledge in India, Zimbabwe and Tanzania
- The conservation and restoration of nature
- The political ecology of conservation
Society & Development
- Changing Identification and Alliances in the Horn of Africa
- Culture and development: Geographies, actors and paradigms
- Development and Postcolonial governance
- Development Harnessing 'Tradition' - Uneasy Partnerships
- Geographies of national identities: space and social difference
- Geographies of Worker Empowerment in the New Economy: Labour Market Intermediaries in the Call Centre Industry (India and UK)
- Landscape, Culture and Development: Konso, Ethiopia
- Political economy of development in India
- Political transnationalism and development networks for indigenous people in Andean Ecuador and Bolivia
- Sustainable butterfly farming and collecting in Papua New Guinea
- The non-DAC states and the role of public perspectives in shaping the future of development cooperation
Environmental Processes cluster
Cambridge Volcanology Group
- A collection of JScripts for retrieval of gas column amounts using DOAS methodology
- Book: Eruptions that shook the world
- Climate and dust
- Climatic, palaeoenvironmental and human impacts of super-volcanic eruptions
- Hazards from airborne silicate microparticles
- Heterogeneous ice nucleation in atmospheric clouds
- Impacts of Mt. Erebus volcano (Antarctica) on the atmospheric environment
- Linking cloud microphysics and volcanic sedimentation
- Physico-chemical properties of tropospheric volcanic emissions
- Retrieval of aerosol properties from MICROTOPS II sunphotometer data
Atmospheric Processes
- Aerosols and Climate
- Air quality in airport approaches: impact of emissions from aircraft in ground run and flight
- Climate outlooks and Agent Based Simulation of Adaptation in Africa (CLOUD)
- Effects of Volcanoes in the Atmosphere
- Long-term weathering studies on St. Paul's Cathedral, London
- Stratospheric-Topospheric Coupling
Landscape ecology
- Biogeochemistry and Climate Change Research Training Network (GREENCYCLES)
- Geology, ecology, hydrology & management of Chalk springs
- GREENCYCLESII: Anticipating climate change and biospheric feedbacks within the Earth system to 2200
- Holocene environmental change in southern Portugal
- Monitoring Mediterranean ecosystem changes
- The use of airborne LiDAR to characterise Mediterranean forest communities
Cambridge Coastal Research Unit
- Coastal Settlements at Risk
- Establishing a global database of surface elevation change and accretion rates in coastal wetlands
- European approaches to managed re-alignment
- Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and its Lagoon: State of Knowledge 2003
- Mapping corals reef habitats in the Amirantes and southern Seychelles
- North Sea storm surges
- Quantifying the saltmarsh vegetation canopy
- The changing flora, fauna and sedimentation of the West Norfolk coast
- Understanding large-scale coastal morphology: a study of Winterton Ness, UK
- Wave dynamics over saltmarsh surfaces
Hydrology, Water and Landscape
- Discrete simulation systems for environmental modelling
- Effect of Climate and Land Use Change on River Hydrology of Thailand
- FLOBAR1 - Floodplain Biodiversity and Restoration
- FLOBAR2 - Floodplain Biodiversity and Restoration: Integrated natural science and socio-economic approaches to catchment management
- Integrating Agent-Based Models of Subsistence Farming with Individual-Based Models of Trees and Dynamic Models of Water Distribution
- River Basin Governance Research and Network (RiBaGo)
- The Cambridge Arsenic Project
Historical and Cultural Geography cluster
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
- Agrarian and demographic change in south-west Wales c. 1550-1750
- Agrarian output and population change in England c.1290-1450
- All poor, but no paupers: a Japanese perspective on the Great Divergence
- Census-taking and political economy in Britain, c. 1790-1840
- Determining the Demography of Victorian Scotland through Record Linkage
- Doctors, deaths, diagnoses and data: a comparative study of the medical certification of cause of death in nineteenth century Scotland
- Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition
- English Peasants and the Provision of Civil Justice 1275-1400
- English welfare practices and their demographic correlates c. 1600-1834)
- Health, Environment and Housing in Early Modern London
- Housing, mobility and the measurement of child health from the 1911 Irish census
- Illegitimacy and the poor law in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England
- In search of work. Labour migration and economic performance in England and the Netherlands, 1600-1900
- Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London
- Longevity changes and their determinants in England and her European neighbours c.1600-1900
- Measuring infant health in late-Georgian Northern England
- Mortality and life expectancy: King’s College, Cambridge c. 1441 – c. 1540
- Private Law and Medieval Village Society: Personal Actions in Manor Courts, c.1250-c.1350
- Reconstituting families and their demographic behaviour in intra- and extra-mural London parishes c.1650-1750
- Reconstructing fertility and child mortality in Tanzania 1883-1961
- Studying the Stayers – an investigation of the immobile population of Long Melford, Suffolk 1550-1861
- The contribution of the National Health Service to gains in quality adjusted life expectancy: lessons from the past and implications for the future
- The historical geography of illegitimacy in Carinthia, Austria, from 1880 to 1950
- The Historical Geography of the English Hospital 1100-1655
- The nature of parochial registration in England, 1538-1837
- The occupational context of family formation in England, c.1600-1850
- The occupational structure of Britain 1379-1911
- The Occupational Structure of Nineteenth Century Britain
- The origins and significance of Catalan industrialisation, c.1680-1829
Historical and Cultural Geography
- Colonial Medical Practice in Nineteenth Century Ceylon
- Colonialism and Cultural Change in Mid-Nineteenth Century Highland Ceylon
- Culture and Politics in Suburban New York
- Geographical processes and disease emergence
- Historical Geographies of the Regulation of Prostitution in Britain and the British Empire
- Historical geography of Sámi hunting society in northern Sweden
- Historical geography of war and disease
- Imperial Subjects: Geography, Geopolitics and Halford Mackinder
- Social Relations between Humans and Other Animals in Victorian Britain
- Technologies of Biopower and Discipline in Nineteenth Century Ceylon Prisons
- The depopulation of Melanesia: an assessment of epidemiological versus psychological factors, and the work of W.H.R. Rivers
- The Geographical Imaginary of Irish Identities: Nation, Diapsora and Cosmopolis
- The Geography of Bare Life
- World Geography of poliomyelitis
Glaciology and Quaternary Science cluster
Glaciology and Climate Change
- Changing Thermal Regime of Polythermal Glaciers
- CryoSat-2
- Evaluating the potential of high-resolution airborne remote sensing for glaciology
- Extreme Experiments: A comprehensive plan to validate Cryosat in the Arctic and Antarctic
- Geometry and Mass Balance Changes of Langjökull, Iceland
- Glacial Sedimentary Processes in Iceland
- High-resolution distributed modelling of the surface energy balance of valley glaciers
- Investigating basal conditions and flow dynamics on Vestfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard
- Modelling Mass Balance of Svalbard Glaciers
- Modelling the influence of glacier hydrology on the dynamics of large ice sheets
- Spaceborne measurements of Arctic glaciers and implications for sea-level change
- Supraglacial, Englacial and Subglacial Hydrology of Glaciers and Ice Sheets
- The Greenland Ice Sheet: How fast is it changing, and why?
Glacimarine Environments Group
- Geophysical and Geological Investigations of Sedimentation and Ice-Ocean Variability on Arctic Continental Margins
- Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin of the West Antarctic
- Ice-Rafted Debris on the Antarctic Continental Margin and the Dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Marine geological processes and sediments beneath floating ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica: investigations using the Autosub AUV
Polar Landscape & Remote Sensing Group
- Air pollution and ground disturbance in the Russian Arctic
- BALANCE: Global Change Vulnerabilities in the Barents Region: Linking Arctic Natural Resources, Climate Change and Economies.
- Development of a phenological correction algorithm for remote sensing of industrial impact on high-latitude vegetation. Case study: Noril'sk, Northern Siberia
- Environmental Risk Assessment in the Arctic
- Geometry and scale-dependence of an Arctic glacier
- Northern Hemisphere snow cover
- Peasant Response to Development and Reform in Iceland 1700-1870
- The Tundra-taiga interface
- Vulnerability of European reindeer husbandry to global change
Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group
- Drainage development, thermokarst activity and periglacial landscape change in Southern England
- Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic evolution of the Baltic Sea basin during the Last Interglacial (Eemian, Mikulino)
- Preliminary observations on the stratigraphy of the Son river sediments: the YTT, seasonality and post-eruptive river response
- The Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments of the Cambridge District