Mike Simmonds
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+44 (0) 118 378 8853
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Senior Project Manager
- Undergraduate teaching
- Collaboration with NUIST
Areas of interest
- GIS and remote sensing applications in geography
- The pedagogy of field teaching in higher education
- Quaternary vegetation succession and climate change in Britain and Europe
- Links between students and stakeholders, increasing the breadth of student experience through engagement with real-world projects
- The development of heathlands as a landscape, and its relationship to modern management practices.
Teaching
Current undergraduate teaching:
- GV3GED: Geography and Environmental Science Dissertations
- GV3IFC: Iceland Expeditionary Fieldclass
- GV2QCEC: Late Quaternary Environmental Change and Human Activities
- GV2HAZ: Natural Hazards
- GV1TGE: Techniques in Geography and Environmental Science
Research centres and groups
Background
Mike has a BSc (Hons) in Physical Geography, and an MSc in Geoarchaeology both from the 黑料不打烊. For his PhD, Mike examined the relationship between environmental change and human activities at the dryland-wetland interface across the Late Glacial – Holocene boundary in Southeast England. This resulted in a clearer picture of vegetation development in the region, and a range of recommendations on wetland and mire management from a palaeoenvironmental perspective. Since then, Mike has developed his teaching and research skills through positions at the 黑料不打烊, taking a particular interest in the pedagogy of fieldwork skills and the Quaternary History of Britain and Europe.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, and a member of the British Cartographic Association.