Dr Sallie Burrough

Researcher | Lecturer | Science Communicator | National Geographic Explorer

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I've spent a great deal of my life in huge African landscapes that have undergone enormous environmental changes over many hundreds of thousands of years. Scale provides a unique perspective on the earth. Here’s a flavour of the things I’ve spent my time trying to understand:

How a lake-bed lets us peer back 70-thousand years into the lives of our ancestors.
Unpicking Africa’s big, complicated climate history.
How resilient are African ecosystems to us?
Why enormous desert salt pans were once a massive ‘mega’ lake.

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I’m not afraid to speak my mind. There are some things I've felt compelled to write about:

Navigating the hood: Where do all the science mums go?
Unfantastic Plastic
Political paralysis on climate change - Why science doesn't change minds.
Helicopter science is alive and well in the Geosciences: What needs to change?

Science

Science that makes the world cleaner, greener and kinder for my kids to live in, is science worth writing about:

5 things you should know about electric cars
Burning buried sunshine: Why fossil fuels still dominate Africa’s most renewable-rich nations.
How Beer is helping Elephants in the Okavango Delta.

Education

MSc, Science Communication | UWE, Bristol

Writing science ◦ Science on air & on screen ◦ Science & society ◦ Science, the public and media

PGCert Teaching and Learning in Higher Education | University of Oxford

Fellow, Higher Education Academy

PhD, Environmental Change | University of Oxford

Palaeoclimate ◦ Deserts ◦ Africa

MSc, Quaternary Science | Royal Holloway University of London

Stones ◦ Bones ◦ Oceans ◦ Time

BA, Geography | University of Oxford

Ecosystems ◦ Climate Change ◦ Landscapes

Experience

Trapnell Research Fellow, African Environments | University of Oxford

Geoarchaeology ◦ Geochronology ◦ Palaeoclimate ◦ Africa

Director | Oxford Luminescence Dating Laboratory

Management ◦ Leadership ◦ Mentorship ◦ Commercial Enterprise

Postdoctoral Research Fellow | University of Oxford

Ecosystems ◦ Fire ◦ Environmental Change ◦ Africa

Lecturer | Kings College, London

Teaching ◦ Communication ◦ Administration

Junior Dean | St Catherine's College Oxford

Compassion ◦ Welfare ◦ Conduct

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