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Katherine Brickell, BA (London), MSc (Sussex), PhD (London), British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Gender; men & masculinities; youth; socio-economic transition; post-conflict; ‘home’/household; tourism; Cambodia; Vietnam

Mary Dengler, AB (Dartmouth College), PhD (London), Lecturer
Environment and society relations; environmental governance; collaborative management of natural resources, particularly water; empowerment of stakeholders; role of politics, science and local knowledge in environmental decision-making

Vandana Desai, BA (Bombay), BSL (Poona), MPA (Liverpool), DPhil (Oxon), Senior Lecturer.
Research interests include NGOs and civil society, community participation and slum housing, globalisation and gender roles, survival strategies of the poor; especially in India.

Klaus Dodds, BSc, PhD (Bristol), Professor of Geopolitics
Geopolitics and international relations, development theory, international politics of Antarctica and Southern hemispheric environmental and political co-operation

Dorothea Kleine, Staatsexamen (Munich), PhD (London), Lecturer in Human Geography
Globalisation, fair trade and ethical consumption; information and communication technologies in Latin America

David Lambert BSc, PhD (Cambridge) , Reader in Historical Geography
White Caribbean identities, the cultural politics of settler colonialism and geographical engagements with the "new imperial history" and postcolonial theory.

Alex Loftus, MA (Edin), MA (Queen's), DPhil (Oxon), Lecturer in Geography
Urban Political Ecology; Politics of Water; Urbanisation; Political Economy; Southern Africa

Duncan McGregor, BSc, PhD (Edin), Senior Lecturer
Interaction of geomorphology, soil nutrient status and agricultural systems in the humid tropics; remote sensing; the Caribbean, with particular reference to Jamaica; Brazil; Colombia. Watershed management in peri-urban Kumasi, Ghana.

Xingmin Meng, BSc (Xian), PhD (London), GDB and GIS Manager
Geographical information systems; environmental hazards; landslides and slope instability

Jay Mistry, BSc, PhD (Lond), Senior Lecturer
Natural resource management, tropical savannas, fire ecology and management, indigenous resource management, participatory geographies.

Shahid Qadir, BSc (Econ) (Lond), MSc (SocSci) (Soton), Editor of Third World Quarterly
International relations

David Simon, BA (Cape Town), BA (Reading), DPhil (Oxon), Professor of Development Geography and Head of Department
Development theory and policy, political economy of Third World , urbanisation and urban growth, especially sub-Saharan Africa; survival strategies of the poor; environmental problems and sustainability; regional integration and national development; transport; southern Africa, Ghana, SE Asia

Donald Thompson, BSc (Lond), Departmental Computer Analyst
Fluvial and hillslope processes in arid and semi-arid environments; related problems of agriculture and water supply in developing countries

Tim Unwin, MA (Cantab), PhD (Dunelm), Professor,
Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D); partnerships in development practice; rural development

Katie Willis, BA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon), Professor of Human Geography, Director of CEDAR
Gender, migration and development; transnationalism; health and wellbeing; Latin America; East Asia