Professor James Rose CGeog

Biography

Occupation: Chair of Geography Employer: Royal Holloway Memo: Jim is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and a Visiting Research Fellow at the British Geological Survey, having previously held the Gordon Manley Chair of Geography at RHUL, and been head of Department at RHUL and Birkbeck, University of London. Jim has a BA and DSc in Geography from the University of Leicester and is recipient of the Murchison Award and Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society and Coke Medal from the Geological Society. He has also been elected as an Honorary Member of the Quaternary Research Association and Life member of INQUA. Jim's main research interests focus on Quaternary Science with special reference to glacial history of Britain and northern Europe, palaeosols, Quaternary river development, environmental and sea-level change of the Mediterranean region and the climate and environment of early Humans in northern Europe. He is also heavily involved in studying the processes of cold climate Geomorphology and Sedimentology. He has been a member and Deputy Chair of the Geography Panel of the HEFCE RAE in 1996 and 2001 respectively, and was Deputy Chair of the Earth Sciences Panel for the Netherlands Universities Research Assessment Exercise in 2002. Jim was Editor-in-Chief of Quaternary Science Reviews for 14 years until 2008 and is now Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of Quaternary International, Boreas and Journal of Quaternary Science. Currently he is a member of the Natural England Science Advisory Committee.