Who studies the Don catchment?
The location and attributes of Don catchment have made it an ideal case study for a wide variety of research. º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ is perhaps the institution most heavily involved in research within the Don catchment.
The scale of this research ranges from individual student projects (undergraduate and postgraduate level), to large, multi-disciplinary research groups such as the URSULA (Urban River Corridors and Sustainable Living Agendas) project.
This research is often conducted in collaboration with other organisations, and there is a wide range of such organisations working in the Don catchment at a variety of levels. However, these pages focus on the work of the University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½.
º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University’s research within Don catchment is mainly conducted through the schools and departments or research groups listed below.
Academic departments
- School of Biosciences - conducts research within the Don catchment focusing on biodiversity, ecosystem services and habitat restoration.
- Department of Civil and Structural Engineering - the catchment-related work of the engineering department is conducted mainly through the Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group, and the Water Engineering research group.
- School of Geography and Planning - the school's catchment-related work is mainly carried out through the Earth-Surface Dynamic research groups. There is a strong interdisciplinary approach to this research.
Other departments involved in research within the Don catchment are:
Multi-disciplinary research groups
- Catchment Science Centre - the Catchment Science Centre was a collaborative research institute, established jointly by º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ and the Environment Agency.
- CatSci - CatSci, based primarily within the Catchment Science Centre, was a programme of individual research projects which all focus on the River Don catchment.
- URSULA project - URSULA, or Urban River Corridors and Sustantinable Living Agendas, was a large collaborative research group which brought together work from a number of disciplines to demonstrate the gains which may be made by integrated and innovative development in urban river corridors.
- Pennine Water Group - the Pennine Water Group (PWG), based at the Universities of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ and Bradford and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), was a group dedicated to research into water and waste water.