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Annual Report 2002: Research in the Department

Grants awarded in 2002

Principal Investigator Total / £ Sponsor Grant Title
Dr T Spencer / Dr I Moeller 14,561 NERC (Monks Wood) Wash Banks Flood Defence Scheme
Dr R Smith / Dr M Satchell 104,833 Wellcome Trust Medieval English hospitals GIS project
Dr T Spencer / Dr I Moeller 20,555 EC (sub-contract from Middlesex) Dinas Coast
Dr A McGonigle 105,894 NERC NERC Fellowship
Dr E Watson 5,992 Nuffield Understanding the challenges to governance and participation in Ethiopia
Dr P M Gray 82,655 EC FP5 The regional impact of the Information Society on employment and integration
Dr C Oppenheimer 112,678 EC FP5 DORSIVA
Dr R Smith 30,644 Wellcome Trust Spatial patterns of mortality and disease in a rural industrialising area of Sweden: the case of the nineteenth century Sundsvall parishes
Dr W G Rees 122,285 EC FP5 Barents “Balance”

Departmental Seminar Programme 2002

24 January Dr Bryn Hubbard (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) ‘Direct Measurement of basal sliding at temperate glaciers’
31 January Professor Danny Dorling (University of Leeds) & Dr Mary Shaw (University of Bristol) ‘Geographies of the agenda: public policy, the discipline and its funny turns’
7 February Dr Jane Wills (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London) ‘Strategies for trade union renewal in Britain today’
14 February Dr Brian Dade (University of Cambridge) ‘River process and form on multiple scales’
21 February Dr John Boardman (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) ‘Flooding and property damage in Sussex 2000-01: is this climate change?’
28 February Dr Mike Parnwell (University of Hull) ‘Coping with crisis in South-East Asia: social capital and sustainable livelihoods’
7 March Professor Ade Kearns (University of Glasgow) ‘The significance of neighbourhood in urban Britain’
25 April Professor John Rennie Short (Syracuse University) ‘Globalisation and the city: deepening the theory’
2 May Dr Noel Castree (University of Manchester) ‘Whose nature? Genetic ownership in the “biotech century”‘
9 May Dr Steve Hinchliffe (Open University) ‘Confronting our worldviews: computer-supported collaborative learning and transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability education’
23 May Professor Julian Dowdeswell (University of Cambridge) ‘Arctic glaciers and ice caps: past and present form and flow’
17 October Dr John L Cameron (University of Western Sydney-Hawkesbury) ‘Towards the place-responsive society: an Australian perspective’
31 October Dr Noel Castree (University of Manchester) ‘The epistemology of particulars’
14 November Professor Olav Slaymaker (University of British Columbia) ‘The role of physical geographers in the understanding of the Canadian Cordillera’
21 November Dr Harriett Bulkley (University of Cambridge) ‘Cities, climate protection and global environmental governance’
28 November Dr Sarah Radcliffe (University of Cambridge) ‘Indigenous movements in transnational circuits: Andean places and global spaces’