People
Core staff
Andrew Allan
- Role: Director
- Areas of expertise: National water law: legal frameworks for water resources management; climate change adaptation; flooding; irrigation; stakeholder engagement.
Associates
Dr Ana Bastida
- Affiliation: CEPMLP
- Areas of expertise: Water governance; Water and society; Water resource management; Water security; Water scarcity and drought; Sustainability.
Dr Andrew Black
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Hydrology: flood risk and flood management; impacts of rewilding on water catchments; retreating glacier systems; use of historical records in hydrology.
Dr Irena Connon
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Coastal environments; Contaminants of emerging concern; Disaster risk management; Energy; Flood risk management; Human health and wellbeing; Pollution; Sustainability; Transboundary water issues; Urban environment; WASH; Water and society; Water governance; Water quality; Water resource management; Water scarcity and drought; Water security.
Dr Simon Cook
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Glaciology, geohazards, geomorphology: glacial, fluvial and mass movement processes; response of glacial environments to climate change, including water security, geohazards and risks posed by deglaciation.
Professor Alastair Dawson
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Coastal environments.
Professor Sue Dawson
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Hazard geoscience: extreme coastal change, including tsunamis and storms and their onshore sedimentological signature.
Dr Thomas Dyer
- Affiliation: Science and Engineering
- Areas of expertise: Energy; Pollution; Sustainability; Urban environment; Construction materials.
Mr Georges Gharios
- Affiliation: Law
- Areas of expertise: Agriculture and irrigation; Climate change; Water and society; Water governance; Water resource management; Water security.
Dr Sarah Halliday
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Hydrochemical monitoring and modelling: links between instream and wider catchment processes; impact of environmental change on hydrochemical processes and implications for achievement of legislative standards.
Dr Sarah Hendry
- Affiliation: Law, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: National water law: legal frameworks for water resources management; water rights and abstractions; water quality and pollution control; governance and regulation of water services.
Professor Nick Hopkins
- Affiliation: Psychology, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: The social psychology of group behaviour; social identities; political communication and mobilisation; the framing of social problems; intergroup conflict.
Ms Tanya Jones
- Affiliation: Law
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Glaciology; Water scarcity and drought.
Dr Rebecca Koomen
- Affiliation: Psychology
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Sustainability; Human behaviour.
Professor Tania Kovats
- Affiliation: DJCAD
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Coastal environments; Ecology; Transboundary water issues; Water and society; Water governance; Disaster risk management; Flood risk management; Human health and wellbeing; Meteorology; Pollution; Water and sanitation services; Water in art and culture.
Dr Elizabeth Lakin
- Affiliation: Education and Social Work
- Areas of expertise: Agriculture and irrigation; Ecology; Human health and wellbeing; Sustainability; Urban environment; Water and society; Water quality; Climate change; Outdoor learning and education generally.
Professor Carol MacKintosh
- Affiliation: School of Life Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Human health and wellbeing; Contaminants of emerging concern; Water governance; Water quality.
Dr Alexandra Morel
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Agriculture and irrigation; Ecology; Sustainability; Remote sensing and GIS.
Professor Graeme Morton
- Affiliation: History and Archives & Information Studies
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Human health and wellbeing; Meteorology; Urban environment; Water and sanitation services; Water and society.
Dr Dumiso Moyo
- Affiliation: Architecture and Urban Planning
- Areas of expertise: Sustainability; Urban environment; Water and sanitation services; Water and society; Water governance; Water security;.
Dr Moray Newlands
- Affiliation: Civil Engineering
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Disaster risk management; Contaminants of emerging concern; Geomechanics and geotechnics; Pollution; Sustainability; Water resource management; Water scarcity and drought; Water security; Urban environment; Energy;Economics and Finance.
Professor Colin Reid
- Affiliation: Law, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Environmental law: environmental concerns in the regulation of hydro-electric dams; environmental information regulations; biodiversity; payment for ecosystem services; environmental regulation after Brexit.
Professor Andrea Ross
- Affiliation: Law, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: National law: sustainable development law; environmental law and planning.
Professor John Rowan
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Water resources and river basin management: erosion and sedimentation issues; environmental change; governance and ecohydrology.
Dr Beverley Searle
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science
- Areas of expertise: Human health and wellbeing; Sustainability.
Professor Chris Spray
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Ecology; Flood risk management; Water governance; Water resource management; Water and society; Conservation of Wetland Biodiversity.
Dr Dejan Stjepanovic
- Affiliation: Politics and International Relations
- Areas of expertise: Transboundary water issues; Water governance; Water security.
Dr Sergei Vinogradov
- Affiliation: Law, School of Social Sciences
- Areas of expertise: Environmental and natural resources law: water security and international law of water resources; ocean governance; energy security and transnational energy infrastructures.
Mrs Carolin Vorstius
- Affiliation: Geography and Environmental Science
- Areas of expertise: Climate change; Hydrology; Pollution; Sustainability; Water and society; Water governance; Water quality; Water resource management; Water scarcity and drought; Water security.
Dr Sean Whittaker
- Affiliation: Law
- Areas of expertise: Sustainability; Climate change; Disaster risk management; Flood risk management; Water governance.
