The group includes specialists in: 

• Igneous geochemistry and petrology; 
• Physical volcanology (experimental and numerical approaches); 
• Field volcanology; 
• Volcanic hazard and risk; 
• Impacts of volcanic eruptions on climate; 
• Applied aspects of volcanology and igneous petrology.
• Health hazards and impacts of volcanic eruptions. 

We exploit this diversity of expertise to address problems in volcanology that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Our work is supported by excellent facilities for analytical geochemistry, ash analysis, and numerical and laboratory modelling of volcanic processes. 

We are a vigorous and collaborative group; our group identity is underpinned by a lively, weekly meeting of staff, postdocs, and graduate students. We engage with stakeholders within and beyond the academic community, collaborating with volcano monitoring and hazard management groups around the world, informing governmental and NGO policy on volcanic hazard and risk, and engaging with the public through local outreach, and via national and international media. 

Volcanology Research Group staff members

Research Story Maps

Research stories told through maps and images.

• Is it harmful to breathe volcanic ash? 
• Mapping the volcanoes of Ascension Island.
• Multiphase fluid dynamics of volcanic eruptions.