Prof  Jamie Woodward - Personal details

Role: Professor of Physical Geography

Email: Jamie.Woodward@manchester.ac.uk

Tel: 0161 275-3625

Websites

• School of Environment and Development

BSc (Aberystwyth); PhD (Cambridge)

• Aberystwyth University (1983-86) BSc in Geography
• University of Cambridge (1986-90) PhD in Quaternary Research
• University of Exeter (1990-93) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography

I am a geomorphologist with particular interests in the nature and impacts of Quaternary environmental change in the Mediterranean region and the Nile basin. A good deal of my work takes place in close collaboration with archaeologists and I am interested in the theoretical and practical interface between geography, geoscience and archaeology. I am currently working on two projects in the Nile Valley of Northern Sudan with archaeologists from the British Museum exploring the relationship between human activity and environmental change over the last 10,000 years or so. This work is funded by the Australian Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. You will find a report on some of our work from the 2011 field season here. I am also working closely with colleagues at the Manchester Museum on the new Ancient Worlds galleries which are due to open in late 2012. I have been the Editor of Geoarchaeology: An International Journal since 2007. I took up a Readership at Manchester in 2004 after seven years in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. In 2008 I was awarded a personal chair – the first in Physical Geography at the University of Manchester. We set up the Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology Research Group in late 2004 and this cluster forms a key part of Physical Geography research and teaching at Manchester.

• Environmental impacts of climate change in the Nile Basin over the past 30,000 years. Australian Research Council, Discovery Award (2008-2011) $251,800. Collaborators: The University of Adelaide; Aberystwyth University; The University of Manchester; University of Bergen

• Health and diet in ancient Nubia through political and climate change. The Leverhulme Trust (2009-2012) £213,233. Collaborators: The British Museum; The University of Manchester; The University of Durham; Aberystwyth University

• Woodward et al. (2011) New Records of Holocene Flooding in the Desert Nile. 17th INQUA Congress (International Union for Quaternary Research), Bern, Switzerland, July 20–27

• Keynote Paper: Woodward, J.C. (2011) Quaternary Change and Palaeohydrology: Recent Advances from the Mediterranean. Palaeohydrology: Learning Lessons from the Past. Annual Meeting of the UK Quaternary Research Association, Liverpool, January 4–6 (Invited Paper)

• Woodward, J.C. et al. (2010) Records of Holocene Flooding in the Nile Valley of Northern Sudan. International Conference on Landscape Archaeology, Egypt and the Mediterranean World. Cairo, Egypt, September 19–21 (Invited Paper)

• Keynote Paper: Woodward, J.C. (2009) Pleistocene Glaciation in the Mediterranean: Past, Present and Future Research. 7th International Meeting on Global Continental Palaeohydrology. GLOCOPH-Israel 2009, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, October 25th to November 3rd (Invited Paper)

• Woodward, J.C. et al. (2008) Glacial Activity and Catchment Dynamics in Northwest Greece: Long-term River Behaviour and the Slackwater Sediment Record for the Last Glacial to Interglacial Transition. 39th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Austin, Texas, October 10–11 (Invited Paper). Published in Geomorphology.

• Editor of The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean (2009) published by OUP
• Consultant for BBC series Rivers (2009) with Griff Rhys Jones
• Member of International DFG Excellence Initiative Panel assessing Geoscience Research Proposals and Graduate Schools in German Universities, Bonn, 2011 
• May 2007 to present: Editor of Geoarchaeology: An International Journal
• May 2001 to December 2011: Journal of the Geological Society of London. Editor for geomorphology and Quaternary environmental change and member of the editorial board
• Co-organiser, 4th International Palaeoflood Workshop, Crete (June 2007) with Aberystwyth University. Papers from that conference have been published in a special issue of Global and Planetary Change (2010): Advances in Palaeoflood Science.
• September 2010: Radio 2, Simon Mayo Show - Waterfalls!