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Dr. Peter G. Knight

Title:	Senior Lecturer in Geography
Phone:	(+44) 01782 7 34304
Email:	p.g.knight@keele.ac.uk
Location:	William Smith Building : WS 1.40
Role:	Physical Geography Course Director SPGS Director of Learning and Teaching
Contacting me:	By e-mail, phone, or in my office.

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I studied Geography at the Universities of Oxford (BA Hons, 1980-1983) and Aberdeen (PhD, 1984-1987) before coming to Keele as a lecturer in 1987. I am currently Course Director for Physical Geography and Director of Learning and Teaching for the School of Physical and Geographical Sciences. I have won Keele’s “Individual Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching” and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in 2008. I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Chartered Geographer.

See also my personal website or follow me on twitter @PKGeog or @PeterGKnight

I am a Geographer with a particular interest in Glaciology and Geomorphology, and since 1984 I have combined field research in areas such as Greenland and Iceland with experimental work in the low-temperature laboratory. My work focuses on how glaciers entrain debris into their basal layers and how that “basal ice” affects glacier behaviour and glacial landforms. The work has received funding from The Royal Society, The Leverhulme Trust and the Natural Environment Research Council, and has been published in major international journals including Nature, Quaternary Science Reviews, The Journal of Glaciology and Geology.

Peter Knight in the field I have written textbooks for both undergraduate and A-level students, contributed chapters to several Earth Science encyclopaedias, and edited a major research volume called “Glacier Science and Environmental Change”. As a Geographer I am particularly interested in evidence that can be drawn from the spatial distributions of phenomena to help us understand the world around us, and in the complex links that bind together different aspects of our physical environment.

I am also interested in relationships between the physical environment and cultural media such as film, music and literature, and in exploring the boundaries between art and science in Geography.

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