Outputs (69)

Managing leadership in the UK university: A case for researching the missing professoriate? (2010)
Journal Article

This article offers a critical review of literature dealing with the topic of educational management and academic leadership as applied to the role of the professor or professoriate in the UK. The review identified a range of leadership issues and as... Read More about Managing leadership in the UK university: A case for researching the missing professoriate?.

The role of local/lay flood knowledge in building community resilience: The case of the 2007 floods, Gloucestershire, UK (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Scrutiny reviews after the 2007 floods, UK (Cabinet Office 2008; DEFRA 2008) have highlighted different types of knowledges needed for effective flood risk management, along with knowledge gaps. This paper evaluates critically the changing nature of... Read More about The role of local/lay flood knowledge in building community resilience: The case of the 2007 floods, Gloucestershire, UK.

Changing flood risk: Longer-term flood patterns and generating characteristics in Scotland 1200 to present (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

New maximum recorded river flows on half of Scotland’s largest river systems since 1989 have triggered widespread research and policy interest as to whether extreme floods are becoming more frequent, and in the conditions that generate floods and ‘fl... Read More about Changing flood risk: Longer-term flood patterns and generating characteristics in Scotland 1200 to present.

Strength in diversity: Enhancing learning in vocationally-orientated, master's level courses (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Postgraduate education in geography, especially at the Master's level, is undergoing significant changes in the developed world. There is an expansion of vocationally oriented degree programmes, increasing recruitment of international students, integ... Read More about Strength in diversity: Enhancing learning in vocationally-orientated, master's level courses.

'The Muckle Spate of 1829': The physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands (2007)
Journal Article

On 3 August 1829, north-east Scotland recorded one of the most severe catastrophic floods in modern UK history. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's An account of the great floods of August 1829 in the province of Moray and adjoining districts (1830) provides a... Read More about 'The Muckle Spate of 1829': The physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands.

Use of multi-proxy flood records to improve estimates of flood risk: Lower River Tay, Scotland (2006)
Journal Article

Proxy flood records from sediment stacks in floodplain palaeochannels provide an opportunity to extend short instrumental records and thus improve current estimates of flood risk. The 'Bloody Inches' (a meander cutoff on the lower River Tay, Scotland... Read More about Use of multi-proxy flood records to improve estimates of flood risk: Lower River Tay, Scotland.

Co-learning: Re-linking research and teaching in geography (2006)
Journal Article

What might geography in 'the universities' look like if geographers seriously confronted the growing dichotomy between research and teaching? This challenge goes to the heart of 'the university' as a site of learning. The authors argue that the globa... Read More about Co-learning: Re-linking research and teaching in geography.

Historical and pooled flood frequency analysis for the River Tay at Perth, Scotland (2006)
Journal Article

Improved estimates of UK flood risk during a period of increased climatic variability place challenges on existing methods that rely on short instrumental records. This paper examines the value of using historical data (both documentary and epigraphi... Read More about Historical and pooled flood frequency analysis for the River Tay at Perth, Scotland.

Flood seasonality and generating conditions in the Tay catchment, Scotland from 1200 to present (2006)
Journal Article

The new maximum recorded river flows in Scotland since 1988 have triggered widespread interest in whether floods are becoming more frequent and in the conditions that generate floods of different magnitudes and frequencies. There are questions about... Read More about Flood seasonality and generating conditions in the Tay catchment, Scotland from 1200 to present.

The muckle spate of 1829 - Reconstruction of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish highlands (2003)
Book Chapter

On August 3rd 1829 north-east Scotland recorded the most severe catastrophic flood in modern UK history. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder’s An account of the great floods of August
1829 in the province of Moray and adjoining districts (1830) provides a detail... Read More about The muckle spate of 1829 - Reconstruction of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish highlands.

Flood warning, warning response and planning control issues associated with caravan parks: The April 1998 floods on the lower Avon floodplain, Midlands region, UK (2002)
Journal Article

This paper evaluates the inherent exposure of caravan parks on floodplains to flood risk and the vulnerability of residents in the aftermath of the April 1998 floods in the Midlands, UK. It considers flood warning dissemination and response, flood im... Read More about Flood warning, warning response and planning control issues associated with caravan parks: The April 1998 floods on the lower Avon floodplain, Midlands region, UK.

Holocene gorge excavation linked to boulder fan formation and frost weathering in a norwegian alpine periglaciofluvial system (2002)
Journal Article

Landform-sediment-process assemblages associated with four gorges and their corresponding downstream boulder fans in the alpine periglaciofluvial system of the Storutla river, Jotunheimen, southern Norway, are described. The potential volume of frost... Read More about Holocene gorge excavation linked to boulder fan formation and frost weathering in a norwegian alpine periglaciofluvial system.

Geomorphological and hydrological assessment for the restoration of floodplain woodland: The Ettrick Water, Scottish borders (2001)
Book Chapter

A sediment budget approach to inform sustainable habitat management for lampreys: the Endrick Water catchment (2001)
Book Chapter

Alpine debris-flows in Leirdalen, Jotunheimen, Norway, with particular reference to distal fans, intermediate-type deposits, and flow types (1999)
Journal Article

The landforms and deposits associated with AD 1996 debris-flows at three sites in the low-alpine zone, Jotunheimen, southern Norway, are described and analyzed. Parallel levées, composed of diamicton, occur on the valley-side slopes but distinct fron... Read More about Alpine debris-flows in Leirdalen, Jotunheimen, Norway, with particular reference to distal fans, intermediate-type deposits, and flow types.

Snow-push processes in pronival (protalus) rampart formation: Geomorphological evidence from Smorbotn, Romsdalsalpane, southern Norway (1999)
Journal Article

It is demonstrated that pronival (protalus) ramparts can be formed by a snow-push mechanism and need not accumulate in the conventional manner as a result of supranival processes. Ridges in pronival positions up to 1.2 m high and of unequivocal snow-... Read More about Snow-push processes in pronival (protalus) rampart formation: Geomorphological evidence from Smorbotn, Romsdalsalpane, southern Norway.

Periglacial patterned ground on the Styggedalsbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, southern Norway: Micro-topographic, paraglacial and geoecological controls (1998)
Journal Article

Several types of periglacial patterned ground have developed rapidly in the frost-susceptible sediments of degraded 'annual' moraines deposited between c. AD 1930 and 1973 on the glacier foreland of Styggedalsbreen, western Jotunheimen, Norway. Detai... Read More about Periglacial patterned ground on the Styggedalsbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, southern Norway: Micro-topographic, paraglacial and geoecological controls.

Channel form, bed material and sediment sources of the Sprongdøla, Southern Norway: Evidence for a distinct periglacio-fluvial system (1998)
Journal Article

A geomorphological and sedimentological case study is made of the Sprongdøla, a medium-sized river flowing in a predominantly bedrock channel in the mountains of southern Norway. Particular attention is given to bed material characteristics and poten... Read More about Channel form, bed material and sediment sources of the Sprongdøla, Southern Norway: Evidence for a distinct periglacio-fluvial system.

Fieldwork in the undergraduate geography programme: Challenges and changes (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper provides a critical commentary on issues facing fieldwork in undergraduate geography programmes in the 1990s, with particular reference to the UK but with many principles applicable to other areas of fieldwork provision, for example in Nort... Read More about Fieldwork in the undergraduate geography programme: Challenges and changes.

Student involvement with the regionally important geomorphological site (RIGS) scheme: An opportunity to learn geomorphology and gain transferable skills (1996)
Journal Article

This paper outlines student involvement with a conservation project which aims to develop a Regionally Important Geological/Geomorphological Site network (RIGS) at a county level in the UK. The local RIGS scheme is administered through the Gloucester... Read More about Student involvement with the regionally important geomorphological site (RIGS) scheme: An opportunity to learn geomorphology and gain transferable skills.