Dr Jane Bevan
Lecturer
Biography
Janes interests lie within the Earth and Environmental Sciences, taking a Geoecological approach to investigating spatial and temporal patterns of terrestrial vegetation. She manages local, UK and international fieldwork and laboratory spaces for Geography and Environment activities. She has played a lead role in developing fieldwork programmes and laboratory spaces. And has responsibility for providing leadership in fieldwork Health & Safety. Jane is working to reduce fieldwork carbon footprints and ensuring our fieldwork is sustainable and inclusive.
Teaching and Supervision
Janes teaching is focused on Biogeography and embedding fieldwork, laboratory skills and carbon literacy into the curriculum. She leads the following residential fieldwork experiences: • First year residential fieldwork to Betws-y-coed • End of second year expedition to Jostedalsbreen, Norway • Final year BSc Geography field visit to AlmerÍa province, southeast Spain Jane is Module Leader for: - · HU4204 Researching Environments - · HU5992 Geographical Experiential Learning - · GE6021 International Fieldwork Experience: Physical Geography And contributes to teaching on the following modules: · HU4202 Earth and Environment · HU5203 Environmental Change: Minutes to Millennia · HU5200 Geographical Research: Methods and Geomatics · GE6001 Dissertation (project supervision) · GE6017 Anthropocene
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Jane is an experienced field and laboratory researcher with wider interests in contemporary environmental change, and the impacts of land use and the climate emergency on the Earth’s vegetation and soils. • Sustainable fieldwork and carbon reduction • Experiential Learning in Fieldwork • Geoecology of semi-arid environments, in particular biocrust dynamics • Ecosystem succession of coastal sand dunes • Biogeography of glacial forelands • Forest ecosystems