Sustainability, Environment and Change MSc: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing teaches this course. The Faculty's wide selection of undergraduate and postgraduate courses covers a diverse range of subject areas, from aerospace to geography; from maths and computing to biotechnology; and many more. Our collaborative set-up provides new opportunities for our students, and we design our courses with industry professionals to ensure you stay up to date with the latest developments.

Geography, Geology and the Environment

The School of Geography, Geology and the Environment prides itself on the high quality of its teaching, as recognised by the excellent and satisfactory awards in various subject reviews undertaken by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council.

The School has invested in developing its labs for both teaching and research, including:

• facilities for environmental monitoring, geology, geochemistry, and mapping/GIS/computing; and
• specialist instrumentation laboratories (eg nuclear metrology; laser raman spectroscopy; and 3D mapping).

Kerry Brown

Title: Course director for Sustainability, Environment and Change MSc
Email: k.brown@kingston.ac.uk 

Research fields: Kerry's research focuses on understanding the consequences of global environmental change, particularly in developing countries in the tropics. One over-arching theme seeks to model natural resource use in agrarian, subsistence societies in Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs).

Professor Gavin Gillmore

Title: Head of School
Email: g.gillmore@kingston.ac.uk 

 

 

 

Research fields:

Gavin's research focuses on:

• the link between radon and health;
• geology and caves;
• abandoned mines; and
• ecotoxicology.

This includes assessments of health risk for archaeologist and earth scientists working in such environments. It also incorporates geohazards – specifically the role that radon can play in assessing earthquake activity and hence risk and the link between earthquakes, radon and tides. 

Dr Stuart Downward

Email: s.downward@kingston.ac.uk

Research fields:

• Applied fluvial geomorphology and river-channel restoration
• Historical river-channel change and riverine classification
• River management

Recent publications:

• 'Information From Topographic Survey' in Changing River Channels, ed. A.M.Gurnell and G.E. Petts (John Wiley and Sons, 1995)
• 'A Methodology for Quantifying River Channel Planform Changes Using GIS' with A.M.Gurnell and A. Brookes in IAHS Procedings and Publications 224: Variability in Stream Erosion and Sediment Transport (IAHS Publication, 1994)
• 'Channel Planform Change on the River Dee Meanders, Holt to Worhtenbury, 1876-1992' with A.M. Gurnell and R. Jones in Regulated Rivers, Research and Management, Vol 9, 187-204, 1994