Honorary staff

Professor Ian Fairchild

Professor Ian Fairchild

Emeritus Professor

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ian Fairchild is a geoscientist with broad interests in the geochemistry of the Earth’s surface, climate change and Quaternary and Neoproterozoic earth history. He employs this breadth of knowledge in research and public outreach including geoconservation in the West Midlands. He is equally at home in the field and the laboratory with a wealth of experience in glacial ...

Telephone
0121 414 6165
Email
i.j.fairchild@bham.ac.uk

Dr Trevor Faulkner

Dr Trevor Faulkner

Honorary Research Fellow

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr Trevor Faulkner is a karst geomorphologist with a special interest in the speleogenesis of karst caves in sedimentary and metamorphic limestones and their relationships to Quaternary glaciations. He has pioneered a multi-disciplinary research approach involving glacial erosion, deglacial and interglacial processes, isostatic uplift, neotectonics, seismicity, and limestone dissolution at low ...

Email
t.faulkner@bham.ac.uk

Professor John Gunn

Professor John Gunn

Honorary Professor

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

John Gunn is a multi-disciplinary scientist working on a single rock – limestone – and on the karst environments that form on limestone. He is also an active speleologist and is involved in cave exploration and underground research. His research interests include: conservation and management of cave and karst geoheritage and resources; the hydrogeology of karst; the evolution of karst ...

Telephone
+44 (0)7890 291333
Email
j.gunn.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Neville Hollingworth

Dr Neville Hollingworth

Honorary Research Associate

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr Neville Hollingworth is an expert field geologist with a penchant for finding exceptional fossils. His discoveries in the UK have caught the attention of the national media. As some of his finds are new to science these have been published in collaboration with staff from the School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Email
neville.hollingworth@stfc.ac.uk

Dr Jon Radley

Dr Jon Radley

Honorary Research Fellow

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

For nearly 30 years Jon has worked as a geologist and natural scientist principally within the museum sector and has developed expertise in the public understanding and interpretation of science, collecting philosophies, and geoconservation. Jon also has a spare-time research profile, notably concerning the Lower and Middle Jurassic strata of central England, the non-marine Lower Cretaceous ...

Email
j.d.radley@bham.ac.uk

Dr Alan Thomas

Dr Alan Thomas

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Since retiring in 2010, Alan Thomas has maintained collaborative research activity in various aspects of Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy, palaeontology and palaeoenvironments.

Email
a.t.thomas@bham.ac.uk