Dr Iona Greaves — Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science
Bristol
Environmental scientist with twelve years in UK higher education, working on carbon and water fluxes in upland catchments. Holds £1.2m in current grant income, convenes three modules for 420 students, and has supervised nine PhD students to completion.
Experience
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Calderwell University · September 2019 – present
School of Environmental Sciences. Leads a group of three postdoctoral researchers and five doctoral students.
- Convenes three modules for 420 students across all three undergraduate years, including the second-year residential field course in mid Wales.
- Holds £1.2m of current grant income across four awards, including a £780k NERC standard grant on peatland carbon flux.
- Rebuilt the second-year statistics module around live data from the group field sensors; module evaluation rose from 3.4 to 4.5 of 5 and resits halved.
- Supervised nine doctoral students to completion, seven within four years, and chairs the faculty postgraduate research committee.
- Chairs the school Athena Swan self-assessment team; the share of women on shortlists for academic posts rose from 22% to 41% over three rounds.
Lecturer in Environmental Science, Calderwell University · September 2014 – August 2019
- Designed and launched the MSc in Catchment Science, which recruited 28 students at first intake and has run at capacity every year since.
- Won a £310k fellowship to build the river-monitoring network that now feeds three modules and two doctoral projects.
- Raised first-year field skills pass rates from 79% to 94% by replacing the end-of-course report with weekly assessed field notebooks.
- Organised the annual catchment science summer school, 60 places a year, funded by three industry partners.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ardenfield University · October 2011 – August 2014
- Modelled peatland carbon release under repeated drought for a four-country consortium; the resulting paper has been cited 340 times.
- Taught 120 hours a year of undergraduate GIS practicals and trained 14 research students in flux tower calibration.
Education
- PhD Environmental Sciences · University of East Anglia · October 2007 – September 2011
- MSc Hydrology and Earth Observation · University of Edinburgh · September 2006 – September 2007
- BSc (Hons) Geography · University of Leeds · September 2003 – July 2006
Skills
- Research: Catchment hydrology, Eddy covariance, Bayesian modelling, R and Python, Field instrumentation
- Teaching: Module convening, Field course leadership, Doctoral supervision, Assessment design, Curriculum review
- Academic service: Grant peer review, REF output selection, External examining, Editorial board, Programme validation
Certifications
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) — Advance HE