Dr Lisa Wedding
Fellow & Tutor in Geography and Sustainability Fellow
Associate Professor of Physical Geography
Education
BA MA PhD (Hawaii)
For enquiries about Dr Wedding’s role as Sustainability Fellow, please email sustainability@worc.ox.ac.uk
Dr Lisa Wedding is an Associate Professor in Physical Geography and a Tutorial Fellow of Worcester College, the University of Oxford, where she leads The Oxford Seascape Ecology Lab. She is Associate Editor for the npj Ocean Sustainability journal and Editorial Board Member for the Landscape Ecology journal. Dr Wedding previously held a Research Associate position at the Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, and was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA.
Dr Wedding’s research focuses on understanding the social-ecological causes and consequences of spatial patterns and ecological processes in the marine environment. Increasingly, her research is positioned at the interface between science and policy and where she often works with a highly interdisciplinary team of lawyers, social scientists, and practitioners to link place-based scientific research findings to inform ocean governance.
Undergraduate
Dr Wedding co-leads the Geographical Techniques and Physical Geography Fieldwork courses for first year students of the Oxford Geography degree, focused on field and analytical techniques for ecological sampling. She also teaches the marine ecology content in the Prelims foundational course ‘Earth System Processes’ and the Final Honour School foundational course ‘Environmental Geography’. Dr Wedding developed and co-leads the Final Honour School option ‘Geographic Data Science’.
Postgraduate
Dr Wedding developed the ‘Seascape Ecology and Conservation’ elective module for the SoGE MSc/MPhil programmes. She also teaches the marine ecology content in the MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management core modules. In addition, Dr Wedding leads the ‘Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene’ lecture course for the Environmental Change and Management MSc students in the School of Geography and the Environment. She was awarded Teaching Development and Enhancement Project Funding in 2021 to develop a new postgraduate elective module on ‘Diversifying the Curriculum Through Multiple Ways of Knowing’.
Dr Wedding’s Oxford Seascape Ecology Lab is centred on three main thematic areas of research, including:
- seascape ecology and conservation
- cultural seascapes and ecosystem services
- linking geospatial data science to ocean governance solutions
Read more about these research areas on the lab’s research page. Learn more about our current Bertarelli-funded project where our team is studying island restoration and land-sea ecological connectivity.