Geography
Academic Staff
| Name | Job Title |
| Professor Simon Armitage | Professor of Quaternary Science, Director of the Centre for Quaternary Research (CQR) |
| Professor Simon Blockley | Professor of Quaternary Science, Head of Department |
| Professor Ian Candy | Professor of Physical Geography, Vice Dean for Education & Student Experience, Deputy Head of Department |
| Dr Eleanor Cotterill | Lecturer in Human Geography (TF) |
| Professor Vandana Desai | Professor of Development Geography |
| Dr Mike Dolton | Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Senior Tutor / Student Wellbeing Lead, MSc Sustainability & Management Programme Lead, Deputy Chair of Department Postgraduate Assessment Board |
| Professor Veronica della Dora | Professor of Human Geography, Director of the Social, Cultural & Historical Geography research group (SCHG) |
| Professor Felix Driver | Professor of Human Geography, Director of the Royal Holloway Centre for the Geohumanities (CGH) |
| Dr Gwilym Eades | Lecturer in Human Geography, Second Deputy Chair of Departmental Undergraduate Assessment Board |
| Dr Sasha Engelmann | Reader in GeoHumanities, Postgraduate Research Student Lead |
| Dr Stefan Engels | Lecturer in Physical Geography |
| Dr Peter French | Senior Lecturer in Geography, Chair of Departmental Undergraduate Assessment Board |
| Professor David Gilbert | Professor of Urban and Historical Geography, Student Representation Lead |
| Professor Harriet Hawkins | Professor of GeoHumanities, Research Lead |
| Professor Innes M. Keighren | Professor of Historical Geography |
| Dr Celia Martin-Puertas | Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow |
| Dr Ian Matthews | Senior Lecturer in Quaternary Science, MSc Quaternary Science Programme Lead, Deputy Chair of Department Postgraduate Assessment Board |
| Dr Alice Milner | Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Impact Lead |
| Professor Jay Mistry | Professor of Environmental Geography, Research Ethics Lead |
| Dr Diego Molina | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Professor Oli Mould | Professor in Human Geography, MSc Global Futures and MRes Programmes Lead, Deputy Chair of Department Postgraduate Assessment Board |
| Dr Sofie Narbed | Lecturer in Human Geography |
| Dr Adrian Palmer | Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Laboratory, Infrastructure & Field Lead, Operations Manager for Omnidrome |
| Dr Laurie Parsons |
Reader in Human Geography, Environment & Social Change Programme Lead |
| Dr Chris Satow | Lecturer in Physical Geography, School Outreach Officer |
| Professor David Simon | Professor of Development Geography |
| Dr Rachael Squire | Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Undergraduate Recruitment Lead |
| Dr Varyl Thorndycraft | Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Teaching Excellence Lead |
| Dr Amy Walsh | Lecturer in Physical Geography, Careers & Employability Lead |
| Professor Katie Willis | Professor of Human Geography, Undergraduate Education Lead |
Research Staff
| Name | Job Title |
| Dr Alice Carter-Champion | Research Assistant in tephrochronology |
| Dr William Hayes | PostDoctoral Research Associate in Fire Governance |
| Dr Will Jamieson | Research Fellow - ERC-funded Think Deep Project |
| Dr AM Kanngieser | EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow |
| Kate Lewis Hood | ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Harry Owen | Post Doctoral Research Associate in physical Geography |
| Cinzia Sandri | Research Project Administrator - ERC-funded Think Deep Project |
| Dr Cathy Smith | PostDoctoral Research Associate in Indigenous & Local Knowledges |
| Kapil Yadav | PostDoctoral Research Associate in Fire, Livelihoods & Biodiversity |
Technical Staff
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Mr Raymond Aung Computing and Website Manager Email: Raymond.Aung@rhul.ac.uk |
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Mrs Katy Flowers Laboratory Technician Tel: 01784 443566 Email: katy.flowers@rhul.ac.uk |
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Dr Claire Mayers Technical Operations Manager Tel: 01784 443808 Email: claire.mayers@rhul.ac.uk |
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Dr Marta Perez Fernandez |
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Jen Thornton |
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Mr Iñaki Valcarcel Laboratory Technician Tel: 01784 444683 Email: jose.valcarcel@rhul. ac.uk |
Affiliated Staff
| Name | Title |
| Dr Adam Badger | Honorary Research Associate |
| Professor Milford Bateman | Honorary Research Associate |
| Dr Eleanor Brown | Honorary Research Associate, Landscape & Geodiversity, Natural England |
| Professor Melissa Butcher | Honorary Research Associate, Mobility, Globalisation, Cultural change, Identity, Belonging, Adaptation, Urban Studies |
| Oliver Carpenter | Honorary Research Associate |
| Sophia Chann | Honorary Research Associate |
| Dr Caroline Cornish | Honorary Research Associate, Geographies of museums and collecting, Plant Humanities |
| Professor Edward Derbyshire | Emeritus Professor |
| Professor Clive Gamble | Honorary Research Fellow, Early humans, Prehistoric migration, Palaeolithic archaeology |
| Dr Olga Hannonen | Honorary Research Associate |
| Dr David Haygarth CEnv, MEI, VR | Honorary Lecturer, Head of Energy and Sustainability, Royal Holloway University of London |
| Professor Ian Henry | Honorary Lecturer |
| Dr Rupert Housley | Honorary Research Associate |
| Dr Andy Howard | Honorary Research Associate, Landscape Research & Management |
| Professor John Lowe | Emeritus Professor of Geography |
| Professor Mark Nesbitt | Visiting Professor, Research Leader of Economic Botany, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Dr André Reyes Novaes | Honorary Research Associate, Assistant Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) |
| Dr Roula Pappa | Honorary Research Associate, Curator of Fossil Mammals, Natural History Museum |
| Susan Robertson | Honorary Research Associate |
| Professor Jim Rose | Emeritus Professor of Geography |
| Professor Ola Söderström | Honorary Research Associate |
| Professor Chris Stringer | Visiting Professor |
| Dr Mark Thorpe | Honorary Research Associate, Director, Truth Consulting |
| Professor Tim Unwin | Emeritus Professor of Geography, and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in ICT4D |
| Dr Kim Walker | Honorary Research Associate |
| Dr Ronda Zelezny-Green | Honorary Research Associate, Panoply Digital, ICT4D |





