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Jim Rose holds the established Gordon Manley Chair of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.  Distinctions include the award of the Murchison Award and the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society.

Editorial duties include is Editor-in-Chief of Quaternary Science Reviews and is on the editorial boards of a number of other international journals including Boreas, Quaternary Research and Quaternary International. 

Past and current appointments include President of the Quaternary Research Association, British Representative to the INQUA Congress, Chairman and member of a number of UK Natural Environment Research Council Committees, a member of Council of the Royal Geographical Society and Deputy Chair of Review panels for Research Assessment in the UK and the Netherlands, Scientific Advisor to Natural England

Research interests cover a wide range of Quaternary science and process geomorphology and sedimentology: (glacial sediments and bedforms, palaeohydrology, palaeopedology, displaced shorelines, glacial stratigraphy of the British Isles, Early and Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy of Eastern and Midland England, and Northern Europe region, climate and environmental change through the Last interglacial/ Last glacial in Europe, environmental change and Human occupance of Britain).  Highlights of this research include the introduction of the bedform concept to glacial geomorphology, recognition of the scale of river activity in relation to short-term climate change in Europe and Borneo, introduction of palaeosols to the British Quaternary stratigraphy and a major revision of the Early and Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy of Britain.  Recent work has been involved with early Middle Pleistocene landscapes, the discovery of the Bytham River and the recognition of the presence of Humans on the British land area over 750,000 years ago.

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