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The CQR plays an important role in driving the international research agenda in Quaternary Science. The following is a list of recent and ongoing research projects that CQR staff have led and participated in:

High-resolution and long-term multi-proxy reconstructions of palaeoenvironmental change

1) NERC ‘RAPID’ Directed programme project for high-precision correlation of palaeoclimate sequences around the North Atlantic (NERC: Lowe & Rose)

2) Landscape evolution in Peru during the Late Quaternary (NERC, Royal Society, RGS: Branch, Kemp, Lowe)

3) Loess and palaeosol dating in Peru (NERC: Kemp)

4) Quaternary tephrostratigraphy of Europe for improved land-marine correlations (Leverhulme; EC 5th Framework: Branch, Lowe)

5) Quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from Beringia based on beetle records (Leverhulme: Elias)

6) The National Ice Age Network (ALSF: Schreve)

7) The Sahara Megalakes Project (The Society of Libyan Studies; The Great Man Made River Authority; RGS and the National Geographic Society: Armitage)

Hominid development on a global scale

1) RESET - Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions (NERC: Lowe, Gamble with the University of Oxford, Natural History Museum and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)

2) The prehistory of the dispersal of ancient humans to Britain and Europe, AHOB Projects I and II (Leverhulme: Candy, Rose, Schreve, Stringer)

3) Human evolution; encephalisation, group size and changing technology (British Academy Centenary Project: Gamble)

4) Synthesis of Palaeolithic/Mesolithic settlement records from Greece (AHRC: Gamble, Branch).

Environmental archaeology

1) The distribution and role of ‘Ushnus’ in South America (AHRC: Branch, Kemp, Willis)

2) Archaeoscape research consultancy (Branch)

3) Desert Migrations: People, Environment and Culture in the Libyan Sahara (The Society for Libyan Studies: Armitage).

Environmental change & management

1) The impact and perception of large herbivores in the sustainable management of wetland environments (RGS-IBG: Schreve)

2) Palaeofloods, climate change and flood risk assessment in Spain (EC 5th Framework: Thorndycraft)

3) Fluvial palaeohydrology, climate change, aquifer recharge and sustainability of water resources in ephemeral river basins (EC 6th Framework: Thorndycraft)