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Dr Althea Davies

Director of Impact

Senior Lecturer

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 4946

Email

ald7@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

My main teaching responsibilities:

• Second year environmental geography (GG2014) and biodiversity and sustainable development (SD2006)
• Third year environmental/physical geography research methods and residential fieldtrip (GG3213)
• Dissertation supervision
• MSc Sustainable Development contributor (GD5802)

Research areas

My research focuses on long-term human-environment interactions and their implications for biodiversity and conservation, and how we deal with biocultural legacies in contemporary environmental management. Current and recent projects include: methods for as ecosystem drivers, , and .

Better understanding between palaeoecology and ecology is central to my interests. To support this I co-chair the British Ecological Society , and set up the informal Palaeoenvironmental and Archaeological Sciences Scotland (PALASS) Network to connect researchers working in and on Scottish environments. 

PhD supervision

• Christopher Blake
• Camille Choquet
• Innes Manders
• Benjamin Ong
• Isabella Prado
• Fritha West

Selected publications

• Wang, L., Roucoux, K. H., Davies, A. L., Zhang, S., Sun, C., Streeter, R. T., Hutchison, W. & Lawson, I. T., 1 Feb 2025, In: Quaternary Geochronology. 86, 15 p., 101647.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Penny, A. M., Chao, A., Davies, A. L. & Magurran, A. E., 6 Aug 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Ecology. Early View, p. 1-18 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Davies, A. L., Feb 2025, A Place for the Heathlands?: Human-Health Relations in Deep-Time and Contemporary Perspectives. Løvschal, M. & Grønneberg, K. (eds.). Højbjerg, Denmark: Jutland Archaeological Society

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  West, F., White, R. M., Davies, A. L., Buggs, R. & Marzano, M., 4 Dec 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: People and Nature. Early View, 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Wheeler, C. E., Davies, A. L., Andueza, L., Cole, L. E. S., Dávila, N., Del Águila, J., del Aguila Villacorta, M., Draper, F. C., Evans, C. L. D., Honorio Coronado, E. N., Laurie, N., Loja, E., Brañas, M. M., Mitchard, E. T. A. & Roucoux, K. H., 1 Sept 2025, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 391, 11 p., 126198.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Gauld, J., Fletcher, W. J., Shuttleworth, E. L., Akerman, J., Angus, M., Barrowclough, C., Bennion, H., Blundell, A., Bromwich, D., Davies, A. L., Dietl, G. P., Ezquerra, F. J., Farrell, M., Flessa, K., Froyd, C., Fyfe, R., Gillard, M., Gledhill, R., Harper, H. & Higgins, J. & 11 others, Longden, M., Martin-Puertas, C., Morales-Molino, C., Nicoli, G., Riedinger-Whitmore, M. A., Siggery, B., Stewart-Rayner, E., Stoneman, R., Thomas, B., Thomas, N. & Wright, P., 27 Aug 2025, In: Ecological Solutions and Evidence. 6, 3, 14 p., e70111.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Davies, A., Laurie, N. & Mendo, T., 26 Apr 2024, Transnational island museologies. Brown, K., Brown, J. & González Rueda, A. (eds.). Paris: ICOFOM, p. 75-79 5 p. (ICOFOM materials for discussion).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Schafstall, N., Benito, X., Brugger, S. O., Davies, A. L., Ellis, E., Pla-Rabes, S., Bonk, A., Jane Bunting, M., Chambers, F. M., Flantua, S. G. A., Fletcher, T. L., Greiser, C., Hernández, A., Gwinneth, B., Koren, G., Marcisz, K., Montoya, E., Quesada-Román, A., Ratnayake, A. S. & Sabatier, P. & 2 others, Smol, J. P. & Suárez-Mozo, N. Y., 15 Oct 2024, In: PLoS Computational Biology. 20, 10, 15 p., e1012487.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Brown, K. E., Brown, J. A., Davies, A., Villalobos, M. L. & Villarreal , R. M., 24 Feb 2023, Ecomuseums and climate change. Borrelli, N., Davis, P. & dal Santo, R. (eds.). Milan: Ledizioni LediPublishing, p. 237-264

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access
  Lawson, I. T., Laurie, N., Schulz, C., Roucoux, K. H., Andueza, L., Cole, L. E. S., Davies, A. L., Honorio Coronado, E. N. & Wheeler, C., 1 Sept 2023, Donde habitan los neba: naturaleza, cultura e impactos ambientales en los territorios del pueblo urarina. Martín Brañas, M., Fabiano, E. & Del Castillo Torres, D. (eds.). Iquitos: Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, p. 89–110 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter