Biography and expertise
Biography
Bill Boyd is a geographer, archaeologist, landscape scientist and educationalist, with scholarly interests in long-term environmental change, human-landscape interactions, environmental and cultural heritage management, and education.
Research
As a geoscientist, I work in Quaternary geology and geoarchaeology, examining how ancient people interacted with, and modified, their environments, and how landscapes evolved over time. I use microfossil analysis, geomorphology and sedimentology to reconstruct histories of vegetation, the physical environment, sea levels and human impacts, and analyse my findings using models of system resilience.
As an environmental management researcher, I examine the management of environmental and cultural heritage places and landscapes, especially from perspectives of cultural, social and community construction and engagement with environment.
Education scholarship
As an educationalist, I use reflective methods to examine pedagogy, curriculum and teaching & learning practice. My research uses an action learning approach of early and mid career mentoring (often with a focus on change or second-career academics) and educational leadership, with a focus on the scholarship of teaching & learning, trans-disciplinary team-based research, and student learning processes. I am especially interested in educational futures.