Helen Shaw
Lecturer
Geography
National University of Maynooth
Ireland
Biography
My research explores long-term landscape and ecological change using palaeoecology. I use knowledge from the past to analyse the potential for sustainable and resilient social-ecological communities. My research so far has focused on upland environments, both forest and pastoral, and I am interested in wild and cultural landscapes. I graduated with a PhD from Stirling University, which explored the fantastic Glen Affric pine woods in Scotland. I then worked as a researcher at the International Centre for the Uplands in Cumbria, and at Lancaster University, where I worked with Professor Ian Whyte on a research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, investigating upland landscape change in the North West of England. This was followed by teaching posts at Liverpool John Moores and in Wales. I am currently working on a project to develop understanding of the biodiversity of herbaceous species represented in pollen diagrams.
Research Interest
Upland environments, both forest and pastoral, wild and cultural landscapes.
Publications
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2010 'Mainstreaming LEADER delivery of the RDR in Cumbria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis' Ian Convery, Ian Soane, Tom Dutson, Helen Shaw (2010) 'Mainstreaming LEADER delivery of the RDR in Cumbria: an interpretative phenomenological analysis'. Sociologia Ruralis, 50 (4):370-391
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2013 'The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland: overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness' Ralph M Fyfe, Claire Twiddle, Shinya Sugita, Marie-José Gaillard, Philip Barratt, Christopher J Caseldine, John Dodson, Kevin J Edwards, Michelle Farrell, Cynthia Froyd, Michael J Grant, Elizabeth Huckerby, James B Innes, Helen Shaw, Martyn Waller (2013) 'The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland: overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness'. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 73 :132-148
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2013 'Palynological perspectives on vegetation survey: a critical step for model-based reconstruction of Quaternary land cover' MJ Bunting, M Farrell, A Broström, KL Hjelle, F Mazier, R Middleton, AB Nielsen, E Rushton, H Shaw, CL Twiddle (2013) 'Palynological perspectives on vegetation survey: a critical step for model-based reconstruction of Quaternary land cover'. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 82 :41-55
