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	Name and contact link	Area of Expertise
Political and Social
	Dr Philip Catney	Local, urban and environmental governance. Urban regeneration partnerships, community engagement, brownfield/contaminated land policy. Sustainable development and environmental risk issues.
	Professor Andrew Dobson	Environmental political theory, with special reference to the ideology of ecologism, and to the relationship between sustainability and democracy, justice and citizenship
	Dr Brian Doherty	The Politics of Environmental Movements; comparative analysis of environmental protest; international environmental NGOs (especially Friends of the Earth); and criminal prosecutions of activists.
	Professor Tim Doyle	Research around issues pertaining to politics and international relations of the environment.
‌	Dr Syed Bahar Ali Kazmi	I have done work in the following areas ( research and teaching). Sustainable Enterprise Sustainable Development Managing sustainability
	Dr Sherilyn MacGregor	Areas of research include: feminist and environmental political thought, citizenship theory, discourses of sustainability.
	Dr Deidre McKay	Migration, alternative and sustainable development and agricultural change, with regional expertise in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines and its indigenous peoples. Dr. McKay's publications explore people's place-based experiences of globalisation and development through fieldwork in the global South and studies of migrant communities from developing areas who have moved into Northern cities.
	Prof Farzana Shain	Currently researching children's understandings of peak oil with funding from the British Academy.
	Professor John Vogler	Theoretical & empirical aspects of the external policies of the EU (with special reference to sustainable development); international environmental politics, and international relations of climate change and Kyoto Protocol
	Dr Andrzej Zieleniec	Social space and spatial theories, urban sociology and geography, leisure and recreation, public parks and urban greenspace, everyday life, culture consumption, policy and practice in creating sustainable and "healthy" cities, classical and contemporary social theory.

Geoscience
	Dr Alix Cage	My research interests lie in high-resolution (centennial to millennial-scale) shelf-sea palaeoceanography, marine palaeoecology and geochronology during the Holocene (last ~ 11,500 years) and late-Holocene (last ~ 2,000 years). Shelf-sea and marginal marine environments can provide an important link between deep ocean and terrestrial records and could help us understand land-ocean interactions and how our climate is modulated by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
	Dr Nigel Cassidy	Near-surface environmental geophysics (magnetics, electrical/resistivity methods & ground penetrating radar, numerical modelling), contaminated land characterisation and remote sensing, geotechnical & geoenvironmental monitoring, soil characterisation.
	Dr Peter Knight	Glaciers, glacial landscapes and environmental change.

	Dr Zoe Robinson	Research interests in groundwater systems in glacial environments. In particular the geochemistry of these systems and the response of groundwater and surface water systems to changes in glacial extent.
	Dr Katie Szkornik	Sea-level change, coastal environments and geomorphology (especially coastal salt marshes), coastal management and environmental change (Quaternary and Holocene).
	Professor Peter Styles	UK Seismicity, (Natural and Mining Induced) and Global Seismicity, Tsunamis and their effects. Windfarm Microseismic and Infrasound Noise and Vibration. Mining Induced Subsidence, Coal, Salt, Chalk, Tin and the detection of underground cavities using microgravity Geological Disposal of Radioactive waste.
	Dr Jamie Pringle	General Research Field: Design, application and development of geophysical, surveying, sedimentary and digital data capture engineering techniques for near-surface environmental, geological, hydrological and forensic applications.
	Dr Ian Stimpson	Expert in geoconservation, geodiversity and Staffordshire geology. Chair of Geoconservation Staffordshire and on committees of Staffordshire Environment Partnership and GeoConservation UK. Experience of windfarm vibration characterisation, mining and shale gas fracking induced earthquake monitoring.
	Dr Sami Ullah	I am broadly interested in the biogeochemistry of nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) across a range of environments. This includes wetland, forest and cultivated soils and hyporheic sediments for water quality improvement, air and soil quality protection, C sequestration, ecosystem restoration and sustainable management of natural resources.
	Dr Richard Waller	Glaciers and permafrost environments, geodiversity and geoconservation, weather and climate, the Arctic.
	Rachel Westwood	Mathematical modelling of vibrations from wind turbines.
	Dr Joanna Wright	Ground source energy, contaminant hydrogeology especially emerging contaminants, water resources, especially water stress such as drought and low flows in streams.
Chemical
	Professor Mark Ormerod	My research is in the area of environmental sustainability, focusing on sustainable technology and environmental catalysis, with particular interests in solid oxide fuel cells and environmental catalysis, including hydrocarbon and biogas conversion, pollution abatement and utilisation of waste biomass.
	Dr Alexander Radu	development of small, simple, low-cost and user-friendly sensing platforms integrating chemo/bio sensors with digital communication devices. These devices could be used for in-situ measurements for application in environmental monitoring, control of water and food quality.
Ecological
	Dr Sarah Taylor	Woodland and forest ecology, forest management, invasive non-native species (in particular rhododendron), biosecurity and nativism, nature conservation, geoconservation and remote sensing.
	Dr Peter Thomas	Tree ecology (in particular tree growth, water uptake and seed production) and the response of vegetation (from cacti to trees) to landscape fires.
*Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology (CAEP)*
	Dr Srabasti Chakravorty	Broadly my research interests include on the post-adhesive, phenotypic, functional and transcriptional changes in endothelial cells, induced by Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells, in severe malaria.
	Professor Paul Eggleston	My research interests are in molecular entomology, particularly the molecular genetics of mosquitoes that transmit human disease and their complex interactions with the parasites and viruses that cause disease.
	Professor Gordon Hamilton	I am a Life member of the International Society for Chemical Ecology (ISCE) and my main research interests are in the chemical ecology of insects of medical, veterinary and agricultural importance. Currently my work is focussed on understanding the complex chemical ecology of the sandfly vector of visceral leishmaniasis in South America, Lutzomyia longipalpis. I am also interested in the chemical ecology of Western flower thrips.
	Professor David Hoole	Diseases and pollutant effects on fish immunity; use of bioethanol byproducts in aquaculture; fish health checks and environmental impact surveys.
	Dr Paul Horrocks	I lead one of the six research groups within the Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine that study the biology of the human malarial parasite P. falciparum, its pathogenesis and transmission by the mosquito vector.
	Professor Hilary Hurd	My research interests are in the field of Parasite-Insect Interactions and mosquito stages of the malaria parasite and currently include: the involvement of apoptosis in malaria / mosquito interactions, the fitness effects of malaria parasites upon both susceptible and refractory mosquitoes, the identification and deployment of peptides that kill the human malaria parasite and the development of transgenic mosquitoes that are incompetent malaria vectors.
	Dr William Kirk	My main research interests are the biology and ecology of thrips, with a view to exploiting this knowledge to develop novel means of managing thrips as pests in agriculture and horticulture. I have also carried out research on the foraging behaviour and diseases of honey bees and have kept bees for many years. I am currently Vice-Chairman of the International Bee Research Association, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and Vice-President of the North Staffordshire Beekeepers' Association.
	Dr Rhayza Maingon	My research interests are in molecular parasitology and entomology, specifically on the leishmaniases including on genetic determinants involved in tipping asymptomatic infection into symptomatic disease.
	Dr Catherine Merrick	My research focuses on the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, with the goal of improving our understanding of the parasite’s basic biology and the impact of this biology on virulence. I use molecular genetics together with biochemical techniques to study this important disease-causing organism, which is now becoming increasingly tractable to molecular biologists.
	Dr Frederic Tripet	Arthropod-borne diseases are responsible for the deaths of millions of people per year. Research in my laboratory focuses on integrative biology of arthropods that transmit major human diseases. Our research projects combine studies in molecular ecology, ecological genomics, population genetics and behaviour in order to generate results of broad ecological importance that feed back on our understanding of vector population structure, pathogen transmission and vector control.
	Professor Richard Ward	Apart from two years working on mosquitoes I have focussed on Phlebotomine sand flies and their role in the transmission of leishmaniasis.
Education for Sustainability
	Dr Sharon George	Environmental science and green technology outreach. My research area is in high temperature materials chemistry, particularly corrosion and gas, liquid and solid interfaces. In particular I have researched the corrosion of refractory materials for the regenerators of glass furnaces. My PhD project focussed on the theromochemical corrosion mechanisms of cruciform alumina-zirconia-silica refractories.
	Dr Zoe Robinson	Zoe is Keele's Director of Education for Sustainability. Her research interests in this area include: Student perceptions of environmental citizenship; employability and sustainability linkages in ESD; sustainability course development; reflective learning in ESD; public engagement in climate change and sustainability.
	Dr Joanna Wright	Environmental science and green technology outreach.
Biodiversity
	Dave Emley	Wildlife, flora and fauna around Keele Grounds; Keele arboretum; County Recorder for Moths in Staffordshire.
Eco-Psychology
	John Hegarty	I recently introduced a new final-year option on "ecopsychology" which proved popular with students. This links to my current research collaboration with Fordhall Community Land Initiative, with whom I am looking at the ecopsychology of community land ownership. I have an ongoing interest in the idea of "nature-connectedness" and use this in my teaching for the MSc in Counselling Psychology to encourage trainee counsellors to incorporate "nature" into their person-centred counselling.
Green IT
	Prof Pearl Brereton	Green IT.
Mathematics
	Professor Jonathan Healey	My research is still concerned with instabilities in fluid flows, and has included thermal boundary layers, three-dimensional boundary layers and swirling jets. I use asymptotic techniques to develop theories in large-Reynolds number and long-wavelength limits, and also to obtain large-time descriptions of initial value problems for determining absolute and convective instability characteristics. I also use numerical methods for solving viscous and inviscid stability equation.
	Dr Maria Heckl	My latest research project is on noise produced by flames and vortices in combustion systems, in particular gas turbines.
Business and Management
	Professor Matthias Klaes	Working on the behavioural and methodological aspects of sustainable economics and finance, with related interests in the governance of carbon trading, and social finance / crowdfunding. Recent publications on these issues include 'Copenhagen, Cancún, and the Limits of Global Welfare Economics' (with D. Campbell, Economic Affairs, 2011).
	Emma Surman	My current research interests in this area take a critical perspective on consumption practices and particularly explore the links between production and consumption. I am currently undertaking research amongst allotment holders and in school gardens.
Humanities
	Anthony Carrigan	Research focuses on postcolonial literatures and cultures, looking especially at issues such as globalisation, economic development, and environmental change. My book Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment (Routledge, 2011) examines writings from islands in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean in relation to interdisciplinary tourism studies, showing how imaginative texts provide strategies for negotiating exploitative travel practices.
	Robert Gray	Currently working on monograph on rural society, landscape and environment in Hungary in the years before 1848. Previously worked on the 1848 revolutions and the liberal, nationalist reform movements of the nineteenth century, and the impact of the Enlightenment in Central Europe. Also interested in spatial history, historical geography and landscape and environmental history more broadly.
	Lydia Martens	Currently holds BA grant on Children and the Environment.
	Nigel Tringham	Completing an edition of the 1298 survey of the estates of the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and working on volume III of the multi-volume edition of the medieval documents of the vicars choral of York Minster. Work is also in progress on the origins of Stafford as a county town for the Oxford-based collaborative Early Shire Towns project.