Sustainable Environmental Development with Management Studies 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).

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

Dr Peter Hooda

Email: p.hooda@kingston.ac.uk

Research fields:

• Catchment water quality
• Trace metals in soils
• In-situ procedures for measuring labile metal species
• Automobile emission of pollutants
• Municipal and other organic waste recycling on farmed land
• Soil ingestion and human health

Recent publications:

• "Modelling Through Soil Transport of Phosphorus to Surface Waters from Livestock Agriculture at the Field and Catchment Scale" with M.B. McGechan and D.R. Lewis in Science of the Total Environment 344: 185-199, 2005
• "A Practical Examination of the Use of Geostatistics in the Remediation of a Site With a Complex Metal Contamination History" with R.J. Glavin in Journal of Soil and Sediment Contamination 14: 155-169, 2005
• "The Potential Impact of Geophagia on Human Mineral Nutrition" with C.J.K. Henry and T.A. Seyoum in: Proceedings of the 21st Conference of the European Commission on the Anthropology of Food (Oxford, 2005)

Dr Ted Hyett

Dr Ted Hyett gained his PhD from Imperial College, London. His teaching expertise includes financial risk management, environmental economics and global economics.

Andy Swan

Email: a.swan@kingston.ac.uk

Research areas:

• Numerical palaeontology
• Image analysis

Dr Martyn Waller

Email: m.waller@kingston.ac.uk

Research fields:

• Vegetation history
• Quaternary coastal/sea-level change
• Archaeobotany

Recent publications:

• "The Interpretation of Radiocarbon Dates From the Upper Surface of Late Holocene Peat Layers in Coastal Lowlands" with A.J. Long and J.E. Schofield in The Holocene, 16, 2006
• "Driving Mechanisms of Coastal Change: Sediment Autocompaction and the Destruction of Late Holocene Coastal Wetlands" with A.J. Long and P. Stupples in Marine Geology, 225, 63-84, 2006
• "The Interpretation of Fen Carr Pollen Diagrams: The Representation of The Dryland Vegetation" with H.A. Binney, M.J. Bunting and R. Armitage in Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 134, 197-218, 2005