Personal statement

Dr. Kimberley Davies is a Lecturer in Physical Geography within the School of Sciences. 

She is a Quaternary Scientist specialising in using palaeoecological proxies to understand long-term environmental change with a particular focus on cold environments. 

Academic qualifications

  • PhD, University of Southampton
  • MSc in Quaternary Science, University College London and Royal Holloway
  • BSc (Hons) in Physical Geography, University of Southampton

Professional memberships

  • Quaternary Research Association (QRA) 

Teaching specialisms

Dr Kim Davies currently teaches core geographical skills and advanced specialist environmental methods across a number of programmes in the School of Sciences, including Geography and Environmental Sciences

She is also the leader on the following modules: 

  • Environmental Change
  • Geographical Research Methods
  • Disaster Risk Reduction .

Research outputs

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Allison, E, Davies, K.L and Whitehouse, N.J (2026) 'Insect remains.' In: Crone, A and Cavers, G, eds. Black Loch of Myrton: the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in southwest Scotland. Sidestone Press, Leiden, pp. 365-385. ISBN 9789464264265

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Mackay, H, Davies, K.L, Fonville, T, van Hardenbroek, M, Henderson, A, Whitehouse, N, Langdon, P, Head, K, Edward, C, Barratt, P and Brown, A (2026) 'The physical environment of the settlements. 17:1 The physical and biological environment of the Lochs of Myrton settlements.' In: Crone, A and Cavers, G, eds. Black Loch of Myrton: the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in southwest Scotland. Sidestone Press, Leiden, pp. 507-538. ISBN 9789464264265

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Mackay, H, Whelton, H, Reuther, J, Potter, B, Edwards, M, Henderson, A, Bull, I, Elinor, B, Charlotte, C, Mayfield, R, Davies, K.L, van Hardenbroek, M and Bigelow, N (2026) 'Testing the limits of lacustrine faecal lipid biomarkers as tools to document human and herbivore presence in Alaskan and Eastern Beringian landscapes.' Quaternary Science Reviews, 391. e110193. ISSN 0277-3791

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Davies, K.L, Bunting, M.J, Koster, W, Whitehouse, N.J, Farrell, M, Chapman, H, Kirby, J.R, Schofield, J.E, Barratt, P, Gearey, B and Shilobod, N (2026) 'Reconstructing prehistoric land cover and landuse in complex 鈥榖lue-green鈥� landscapes.' Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 35. pp. 655-676. ISSN 0939-6314

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Brown, A.G, Fonville, T, van Hardenbroek, M, Cavers, G, Crone, A, McCormick, F, Murray, E, Mackay, H, Whitehouse, N.J, Henderson, A, Barratt, P, Davies, K.L, Head, K, Langdon, P, Alsos, I.G and Pirrie, D (2022) 'New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe.' Antiquity, 96 (389). pp. 1179-1199. ISSN 0003-598X

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Silva, F et al (2022) 'Developing transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability challenges: the need to model socio-environmental systems in the longue dur茅e.' Sustainability, 14 (16). e10234. ISSN 2071-1050

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Mackay, H et al (2022) 'The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic region.' Climate of the Past, 18. pp. 1475-1508. ISSN 1814-9324

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Newton, A.C, Britton, R, Davies, K.L, Diaz, A, Franklin, D.J, Herbert, R.J.H, Hill, R.A., Hodder, K, Jones, G, Korstjens, A.H, Lamb, A, Olley, J, Pinder, A.C, Roberts, C.G and Stafford, R (2021) 'Operationalising the concept of ecosystem collapse for conservation practice.' Biological Conservation, 264. e109366. ISSN 1873-2917

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Brown, A. G, Van Hardenbroek, M, Fonville, T, Davies, K.L, Mackay, H, Murray, E, Head, K, Barratt, P, McCormick, F, Ficetola, G.F, Gielly, L, Henderson, A.C.G, Crone, A, Cavers, G, Langdon, P.G, Whitehouse, N.J, Pirrie, D and Alsos, I.G. (2021) 'Ancient DNA, lipid biomarkers and palaeoecological evidence reveals construction and life on early medieval lake settlements.' Scientific Reports, 11 (1). e11807. ISSN 2045-2322

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Mayfield, R.J, Langdon, P.G, Doncaster, C.P, Dearing, J.A, Wang, R, Velle, G, Davies, K.L and Brooks, S.J (2021) 'Late Quaternary chironomid community structure shaped by rate and magnitude of climate change.' Journal of Quaternary Science, 36 (3). pp. 360-376. ISSN 0267-8179

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Mackay, H, Davies, K.L, Robertson, J, Roy, L, Bull, I.D, Whitehouse, N.J, Crone, A, Cavers, G, McCormick, F, Brown, A.G and Henderson, A.C.G (2020) 'Characterising life in settlements and structures: incorporating faecal lipid biomarkers within a multiproxy case study of a wetland village.' Journal of Archaeological Science, 121. e105202. ISSN 1095-9238

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van Hardenbroek, M, Chakraborty, A, Davies, K.L, Harding, P, Heiri, O, Henderson, A.C.G, Holmes, J.A, Lasher, G.E, Leng, M.J, Panizzo, V.N, Roberts, L, Schilder, J, Trueman, C.N and Wooller, M.J (2018) 'The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: current understanding, challenges, and future directions.' Quaternary Science Reviews, 196. pp. 154-176. ISSN 0277-3791

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Crone, A, Cavers, G, Allison, E, Davies, K.L, Hamilton, D, Henderson, A, Mackay, H, McLaren, D, Robertson, J, Roy, L and Whitehouse, N (2018) 'Nasty, brutish and short?; the life cycle of an Iron Age roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland.' Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 18 (2). pp. 138-162. ISSN 2051-6231

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Wooller, M.J, Saulnier-Talbot, 脡, Potter, B.A, Belmecheri, S, Bigelow, N, Choy, K, Cwynar, L.C, Davies, K.L, Graham, R.W, Kurek, J, Langdon, P, Medeiros, A, Rawcliffe, R, Wang, Y and Williams, J.W (2018) 'A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal.' Royal Society Open Science, 5 (6). e180145. ISSN 2054-5703

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Brooks, S.J, Davies, K.L, Mather, K.A, Matthews, I.P and Lowe, J.J (2016) 'Chironomid-inferred summer temperatures for the Last Glacial鈥揑nterglacial Transition from a lake sediment sequence in Muir Park Reservoir, west-central Scotland.' Journal of Quaternary Science, 31 (3). pp. 214-224. ISSN 0267-8179

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Davies, K.L, Pancost, R.D, Edwards, M.E, Anthony, K.M.W, Langdon, P.G and Torres, L.C (2016) 'Diploptene 未13C values from contemporary thermokarst lake sediments show complex spatial variation.' Biogeosciences, 13 (8). pp. 2611-2621. ISSN 1726-4189