Qualifications:

Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Brighton, UK (1995).

PhD, ‘The origin and implications of microsolutional features on the surface of limestone’, Queen’s University Belfast, UK (1994).

BSc (Honours) Geography (1st Class), Queen’s University Belfast, UK (1989).

Previous appointments:

Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Visiting Research Fellow (1991-1992)

University of Brighton, Lecturer in Geography (1993 – 1995)

University of Sussex (1995 – 2018, appointed Professor of Geomorphology 2015)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Visiting Academic (2008)

Editor in Chief, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (2022-).

NERC Peer Review College (2020 – present).

Assistant Scientific Editor (Engineering Geology), Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology  (2017- 2021).

Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (2015 – 2017).

Co-lead, with Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Emodnet Geology Coastal Behaviour, Phases I – V  (2013 – present)

Honorary Treasurer and elected member of the Executive Committee of British Society for Geomorphology (BSG; 2011 – 2015).

Chair of Finance Sub-Committee, BSG (2014).

Invited Expert Member, European Commission DG Maritime and Fisheries’ Marine Observation and Data Expert Group (MODEG; 2010 – 2014).

External Examining

• BSc Geography, Queen’s University of Belfast, 2016 – 2020
• BSc Geography, University of Nottingham, 2012 - 2017
• MSc Environmental Management, University of Nottingham (UK and Malaysia campus), 2012 – 2017
• BSc Geography, University of Portsmouth, 2010 - 2014
• MSc Coastal and Marine Resource Management, University of Portsmouth, 2010 – 2014

PhD external examiner, UCL, QUB, Portsmouth University, Oxford University, Glasgow University, University of Aukland.

My research focuses on rock coast erosion dynamics, beach sustainability and understanding the impacts of environmental and climate change on coastal environments to assess coastal resilience and vulnerability.