Staff Profile
Helen Adamson
Director of Postgraduate Research, Lecturer in agri-ecosystems
- Telephone: 0191 208 6915
- Personal Website: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/helenadamson/author/nhfa1/
- Address: School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
Room AGRB515
Agriculture Building
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
UK
I have been a research ecologist involved particularly with agri-environment and organic farming in the UK hills and uplands since 1991. I completed my PhD in 2022 while working as a member of staff; the PhD topic was methods to monitor raised and blanket bog restoration in the north of England
I have been Post Graduate Research Director since January 2023
I developed the successful MSc Conservation and Ecosystem Management, and continue to offer tutor support to the current students
I am Senior Tutor and Lecturer in agri-environment, grassland, upland habitats and ecosystems
I have been teaching since 2006 MA(Education)
I have developed skills teaching in agriculture, environmental science and applied social science clusters of the School of Natural and Environmental Science
I have been Chair of Kirkley Hall Board of Examiners and MSc Board of Examiners
I am the co-ordinator for Go Abroad and Study Abroad in Natuaral and Environmental Sciences
I am part of the Team that won the prestigious award from the HEA: the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence
See more about what my students and I get up to on my blog.
Research interests include
- Upland habitats, agricultural ecology, particularly bogs and mires
- Effects of grip blocking on vegetation of blanket bog
- Methods for detecting changes in quality on bogs and mires
- PhD achieved December 2022
I have personal and student projects with
- the Northumberland National Park on the restoration and conservation on Lampert Moss on the Northumberland/Cumbria border https://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/student-research-presentations/
- Natural England on methods for monitoring the condition of the Border Mires SSSI using standard and remote sensing techniques
- North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on Sphagnum transplanting on bare peat and drain blocking
- Forestry England on cattle in woodlands and Kielder Mires SSSI vegetation studies
Undergraduate
- Grassland
- Academic and Professional Skills
- Ecology and Environment Research
- Environment and Land Use Field Class
- Environment and Habitat Assesment Field Class
- Ecosystems: Characteristics, Functions and Environmental Change
Postgraduate
- Academic Professional Skills
- Data Analysis and Interpretation
- Ecological Survey Techniques
- Ecosystem Management
Nominated for NU Teaching Excellence Awards each year since 2014. Shortlisted in 2019
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Article
- Critchley CNR, Adamson HF, McLean BML, Davies OD. Vegetation dynamics and livestock performance in system-scale studies of sheep and cattle grazing on degraded upland wet heath. AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 2008, 128(1-2), 59-67.