My research is broad and interdisciplinary, integrating Earth System Science, Ecology, Biogeochemistry and Hydrology. I am particularly interested in the temporal and spatial dynamics of environmental and climatic changes—past, present, and future. My work spans a wide range of ecosystems, from Arctic tundra to Irish peatlands to tropical rainforests, exploring the complex interactions between ecosystems, climate change, and human impacts. I was awarded the Lewis Penny Medal by the Quaternary Research Association. 

Please find my full publication list at: https://swindlesgraeme.wixsite.com/publications

My specific research foci include:

1. Climate change in the past-present-future;
2. Long-term eco-hydrological dynamics and functioning of temperate, tropical and subarctic peatlands;
3. Peatland biogeochemistry;
4. Peatland hydrology;
5. Carbon cycling;
6. Pollution of natural ecosystems;
7. Limnology and Palaeolimnology;
8. Testate amoebae as environmental indicators in peatlands and lakes;
9. High-resolution dating methods including tephrochronology;
10. Critical examination of past human response and adaptation to climate change;
11. Use of temporal data and probability modelling in geohazards research;
12. Use of quantitative reconstruction and statistical modelling techniques for understanding  climatic and environmental change; 
13. Extreme events;
14. Human-environment relations in the past-present-future, the Anthropocene, and the impacts of humans on Planet Earth;
15. Numerical methods in ecological and geological research (particularly using R). 

• GGY1013 Earth Systems
• GGY2058 Global Environmental Change (module co-ordinator)
• GGY2055 Geographical Research Skills
• GGY3081 Dissertation
• GGY3095 Environmental Catastrophes (module co-ordinator)
• GGY7008 Mitigation of Climate Change (module co-ordinator)

Present positions

• 2020-Present: Professor of Physical Geography, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland
• 2016-Present: Research Professor (Adjunct), Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Canada

Former positions

• 2013-2020: Associate Professor (Reader) of Earth System Dynamics, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
• 2010-2013: Lecturer in Earth System Dynamics, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
• 2007-2010: Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Bradford, UK

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) (2002): Geography, Durham University
• PhD (2006): Geography, Queen's University, Belfast
• PGCHEP (2010): University of Bradford
• FHEA (2010)