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  2. About us
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  4. Research
  5. Postgraduate Research Student Funding Opportunities
  6. Leverhulme Living With Waste Doctoral Programme
  7. Leadership Team

Leadership Team

Kate Spencer, Project Lead

Kate is professor of environmental geochemistry. Her research is interdisciplinary and she works with geomorphologists, modellers, oceanographers, engineers, and ecologists to provide the fundamental science to help manage sediment and pollutants in coasts, estuaries and lowland rivers. She has also worked with material scientists and engineers to develop innovative approaches to examine the microscale structure of sediments to help predict their transport and how coastal salt marshes respond to storm events. She has been president of the Estuarine and Coastal Science Association and provided expert advice to Defra, the Environment Agency, the United Nations and the environmental sector on issues associated with sediment pollution, sediment management and historic landfills. 

Jeremy Schmidt, Project co-lead

Jeremy is a reader in environmental geography. His research focuses on water, energy, and ethics on a planet increasingly shaped by anthropogenic forces. His recent book, Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planeary Politics in Alberta, turns on questions of large underground releases of bitumen in the Alberta oil sands.

Kiera Vaclavik, External Engagement Lead

Professor Kiera Vaclavik is the Director of the Centre for Childhood Cultures. Her expertise centres on creative repurposing for and with children, past, present and future, with particular interests in storytelling, clothing and adaptation.

Stuart Grieve, Training Lead

Stuart is a reader in physical geography, and a geomorphologist who specialises in high resolution remote sensing to quantify landscape change. His recent work has focused on the monitoring of waste erosion from coastal landfill and the development of novel waste monitoring techniques.

Flurin Eisner, Well-being and EDI Lead

Flurin is a lecturer in green energy and sustainable engineering. His research focusses on solar-driven approaches to tackle waste from two directions: developing sustainable energy devices with lower end-of-life burden, such as organic photovoltaics, and driving waste remediation through novel engineering approaches, such as photocatalysis.

 

 

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