People

Meet the academic, teaching and professional services staff, as well as PhD students, within the School of Geography and Sustainable Development.

If you would like to contact the School, please see the contact page for details.

Dr Mary Abed Al Ahad

Associate Lecturer in Population and Health Geography

SA

Mr Sanny Afable

Research Fellow

Dr Elina Apine

Lecturer in Development Geography

Dr Fernando Benitez-Paez

Lecturer in Spatial Data Science

Data Fusion, Urban Analytics, GIScience, Science of Movement, Spatial Analysis

Mr George Biddulph

Associate Lecturer

Research Coordinator

Dr Ale Boussalem

Lecturer in Human Geography

Geographies of race and racism; intersectionality; queer geographies; queer of color critique; qualitative methods

Dr Hon Chim Chiu

Associate Lecturer in Physical and Environmental Geography

Dr Edward Christie

Research and Engagement Fellow

SC

Dr Sarah Christison

Research Fellow

Dr Lydia Cole

Lecturer

Peatlands; Forests; Environmental Geography; Ecosystem management; Carbon management; Interdisciplinary studies; Science communication

Dr Tom Cowton

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Glaciers; Ice sheets; Fjords; Physical geography; Environmental change

Dr Althea Davies

Director of Impact

Senior Lecturer

Dr Urska Demsar

Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research)

Senior Lecturer

Dr Dr Cyril Effiong

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Dr Kathryn Fredricks

Associate Lecturer in Sustainable Development

Dr Jessica Hope

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer (Education and Research Focused)

Miss Kuoshi Hu

Research Fellow - Connecting Generations Family Project

Dr Katherine Keenan

Senior Lecturer in Demography/Population Geography

Senior Lecturer; Deputy Director (Training) of the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science

Prof Hill Kulu

Director of Research

Professor of Human Geography and Demography

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Mr Darren Lightfoot

SafePod Network Manager

Dr Xi Lu

Research Fellow in Oceanography/Glaciology

Dr Julia Mikolai

Lecturer in Quantitative Population Geography/Demography

Children; partnerships; fertility; residential mobility and housing; cross-national comparison; longitudinal data and methods

Dr Louise Reid

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development and Geography

Dr Christopher Schulz

Lecturer in Sustainable Development (Critical Economic Dimensions of Sustainability)

environment and development; environmental values; water governance; ecological economics; political ecology

Dr Matthew Sothern

Head of School of Geography and Sustainable Development

Senior Lecturer

Dr Tim Stojanovic

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development and Geography

Dr Richard Streeter

Senior Lecturer

Tephra (volcanic ash); soil erosion in high-latitudes; socio-ecological systems in the Holocene; Iceland

Dr Charlotte van der Lijn

Associate Lecturer in Spatial Data Science

data visualisation; deprivation; mental maps; spatial accessibility; urban design; urban housing

Prof Rehema White

Professor

Professor (Education and Research Focused)

Dr Rachel Z Wilkie

Research Fellow - Connecting Generations Community Resilience Project (Quantitative)

Dr TJ Young

Lecturer in Physical Geography

Geophysics; Glaciology; Geospatial Analysis; Remote Sensing; Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

Dr Dan Robins

Honorary Research Fellow

Mr Graeme Sandeman

Honorary Research Fellow

Cartographic Design; Graphic Design; Publication Artwork

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Adarsh -

SBA

Sanny Boy Afable

EA

Elizabeth Agyekumwaa

SFA

Seyedeh Faezeh Alavi

AA

Adam Anthony

CB

Chenoa Beedie

CB

Christopher Blake

JACS

Juan Andres Changoluisa Segovia

MC

Mugdha Chimote

MC

Madeleine Clarkson

AD

Aysegul Dogan

AG

Attiyeh Ghalamboran

JH

Joshua Hazelbower

BK

Brian Kipruto

NM

Nour Matar

CM

Cathilyn McIntosh

CM

Christopher Murray

KS

Katherine Shen

WS

William Spicer

AZ

Aijie Zhang

YZ

Yajie Zhu

Mrs Natalie Connell

Mrs Natalie Connell

Lead School Administrator (Teaching)

Mrs Claire Forbes

Mrs Claire Forbes

School Administrator (Finance and Research)

Miss Samia Gallo

Miss Samia Gallo

Lead School Administrator (Teaching)

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Mrs Susan Hopkin

School and Teaching Coordinator

Mrs Marie MacRae

Mrs Marie MacRae

School Administrator (Reception and Teaching)

Mrs Helen Olaez

Mrs Helen Olaez

Lead Administrator (Research)

GS

Mrs Gillian Sterkenburg-McGrath

Technician

Ms Emily Stratton

Senior Technician in Physical and Environmental Geography

Technician in Physical and Environmental Geography