Kevin Edwards - Curriculum Vitae#
POSTS
- 1972 Tutorial Fellow (Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen)
- 1975 Lecturer in Environmental Reconstruction (Department of Geography, The Queen’s University of Belfast);
Research Member of the Palaeoecology Centre
- 1980 Lecturer in Biogeography (School of Geography, University of Birmingham); 1990 Senior Lecturer; *1992
Reader in Palaeoecology
- 1996 Professor of Palaeoecology (Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield); *1996
Head of Department
- 2000-17 Professor in Physical Geography (Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen)
- University of Cambridge: Institute Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute (2019-); Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (2019-); Fellow Commoner, Clare Hall (2020-)
HONORARY POSTS
- 1983 Honorary Research Associate (Limnological Research Centre, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis)
- 2002- Adjunct Professor (Doctoral Faculty of The Graduate School and University Center, PhD Program in
Anthropology, The City University of New York)
- 2002- Research Associate (The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute [now part of the James Hutton Institute]],
Aberdeen)
- 2007-09 Visiting Researcher, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen
- 2007- Adjunct Chair in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen
- 2018- Emeritus Professor in Physical Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen
DISTINCTIONS
- 1999 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- 2002 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2005 UK delegate to the XVth Viking Congress, Cork, Ireland
- 2007 The de Boer Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Hull
- 2007 South West of England Quaternary Lecturer (Universities of Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth)
- 2009 UK delegate to the XVIth Viking Congress, Reykjavík, Iceland
- 2010 Gordon R. Willey journal prize from the American Anthropological Association
- 2011-12 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall and Visiting Scholar, The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge
- 2012 Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
- 2012 Christensen Fellow, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
- 2012 133rd Rhind Lecturer, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland/Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2013 UK delegate to the XVIIth Viking Congress, Shetland
- 2015 Annual Lecturer, School of the Human Environment, University College Cork
- 2017 UK delegate to the XVIIIth Viking Congress, Copenhagen/Ribe, Denmark
- 2018 Coppock Research Medal and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS (past and present)
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- Environmental Archaeology
- Environmental History and Global Change book series published by I.B. Tauris (London and New York).
- Journal of Archaeological Science
- Journal of the North Atlantic
- Landscapes
- Mediaeval Scandinavia
- Palynology
- Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
- Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports (SAIR)
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh/Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
PUBLICATIONS
>300 items – mostly refereed journal papers and book chapters
GRANT INCOME
~£ 3.50 million
RAE 2008
Member of the Geography and Environmental Studies UK national panel for the Research Assessment Exercise (2005-08)
REF 2014
Member of the Geography, Environment Studies and Archaeology UK national panel for the Research Excellence Framework (2011-14)