Alison Reeves is a Reader in Environmental Science and Head of Geography, University of Dundee. She received her BSc in Oceanography and Meteorology in 1984 from Plymouth and her PhD in 1988, from Liverpool (Oceanography Laboratories). She worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant as part of the Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics Group, Centre for Research on Environmental Systems, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University from 1988 to 1991 before moving to the University of Dundee. She is an Editor for the international journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. Her current research interests are: NMR analysis of pollutant related residues in soils and sediments, sewage contamination in estuaries, density gradients and pollutant mobility in estuarine environments, disciplinary interactions: the impacts of disciplinary commitments on diffuse pollution policies. She is the College Head (College of Arts and Social Sciences) of Quality Assurance appointed in 2010.