Who are we?

The Sustainable Uplands project is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project, drawing on the expertise of a wide variety of people.
For more details on any member of the team or organisation, click on the name or title.


Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Centre for Planning & Environmental Management, School of Geosciences

Mark Reed: Co-Principal Investigator of ESRC follow-on project (with Joe Holden) and Project Manager of original RELU project sharing PI responsibility.
Responsible for project management, stakeholder analysis and participatory scenario development


School of Geography

Joe Holden: Co-Principal Investigator on ESRC follow-on project and Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Responsible for project management, hydrological process understanding, water quality research, incorporating field data into biophysical models, GIS co-ordination and supervision

Sarah Buckmaster: Knowledge Exchange Officer on follow-on ESRC project. Responsible for dissemination of project results, knowledge exchange between academics and members of stakeholder and policy community, internal and external communication, outreach and publicity

Pippa Chapman: Co-Investigator on ESRC follow-on project and original RELU project. Responsible for nutrient flux and water quantity model, links to PESERA and carbon budget model

Nanlin Jin: Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on original RELU project. Expertise in Agent-based model (ABM) programming; analysis of results from ABM; link ABM outputs to hydrological, ecological, and economic simulations; develop and maintain Geographical Information System to visualise model outputs

Mike Kirkby: Co-Investigator on ESRC follow-on project and original RELU project. Expertise in biophysical modelling (erosion and water quantity model, PESERA); coordination of integrated modelling

Brian Irvine: Co-Investigator on ESRC follow-on project and original RELU project. Expertise in downscaling and adapting hydrological component of PESERA for UK uplands; incorporating scenarios into PESERA; GIS co-ordination



Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth & Environment

Klaus Hubacek: Co-Investigator on follow-on ESRC project and Principal Investigator of original RELU project. Responsible for project management in original RELU project; contributing to the development of an integrated modelling approach and scenario-development

Andy Dougill: Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Expertise in indicator identification, testing and selection; co-ordination of ecological fieldwork

Evan Fraser: Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Expertise in Grounded Theory Analysis; semi-structured interview checklists; participatory scenario development

Claire Quinn: Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on original RELU project. Expertise in participatory research in study sites including: semi-structured interviews, stakeholder analysis, social network analysis, agent-based model questionnaires and analysis of qualitative data; organisation of stakeholder-led site visits and focus groups; dissemination of results

Brad Parrish: Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Responsible for social learning evaluation

Lindsay Stringer: Co-Investigator on ESRC follow-on project and original RELU project. Expertise in indicator identification, testing and selection; knowledge mapping

Mette Termansen: Co-Investigator on ESRC follow-on project and original RELU project. Responsible for development of Agent-Based Model; contributing to the integrated modelling approach and modelling of scenarios

 

Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology

Bill Kunin: Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Responsible for improving current models assessment of primary productivity; assessment of applicability of model to non-peat areas; biodiversity model

Stephen Cornell: Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Responsible for development of metapopulation capacity and biodiversity models

Dan Chapman: Former Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on original RELU project (now at CEH). Responsible for development of metapopulation capacity & biodiversity models


Department of Geography

Tim Burt: Co-Investigator on ESRC follow-on project and original RELU project. Expertise in carbon budget model; nutrient flux and water quantity model


Department of Earth Sciences

Fred Worrall: Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Responsible for development of carbon budget model and its integration with wider biophysical model; water quality monitoring in upland streams to confirm applicability of model (developed in N. Pennines) to new upland areas; assessment of applicability of model to non-peat areas; water quality and peat hydrology


Department of Sociological Studies

Christina Prell: Co-Investigator on ESRC follow-on project and original RELU project. Responsible for questionnaire development for social network analysis (SNA); supervision of questionnaire administration; performing SNA; links between SNA and social learning; design of stakeholder-led site visits


Science and Technology Policy Research

Sigrid Stagl: Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Responsible for development of agent-based model (ABM); supervision of ABM programming; links between ABM
and social learning; short listing of indicators using multi-criteria decision aid


Jan Sendzimir: Co-Investigator on original RELU project. Responsible for conceptual and mediated modelling

Aletta Bonn: Advisor on ESRC follow-on project and original RELU project. Expertise in biodiversity modelling, ecology, knowledge & data transfer for stakeholder engagement and biophysical models


Funded by ESRC and the Rural Economy & Land Use Programme (co-sponsored by DEFRA and SEERAD with funding in-kind from Moors for the Future)