The RRC > Team
| The River Restoration Centre (RRC) team is based at our office located at Cranfield University, near Milton Keynes, in Bedfordshire. The team has a wide range of skills, knowledge and expertise enabling them to help you with a variety of river restoration and catchment management questions. Everyone at RRC works closely together so if the person you need is not around then there will be someone else that can help. |
RRC CORE STAFF
To contact a specific member of RRC staff or to find out more about their role please click on a name:
- Martin Janes - Managing Director
- Marc Naura - Science and Technical Manager
- Josh Robins - River Restoration Adviser
- Alexandra Bryden - Information Officer
- Nicola Mackley - Centre Administrator
- Jackie O'Regan - Accounts Technician
- Hannah Joyce - Science and Technical Officer
- John Wheatland - Science and Technical Officer
- James White - Science and Technical Officer
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Martin Janes - Managing Director Martin has direct responsibility for the overall management and business planning of RRC working closely with, and supported by, the Company’s Board of Directors and the associated Advisory Board. His role includes the project management of the core funders’ contracts. He also has considerable experience in terms of river restoration delivery and concepts and therefore retains a strong link with the technical side of the organisation. Martin joined RRC in April 1998 with an MSc in Environmental Water Management having previously worked with the RSPB compiling the New Rivers and Wildlife Handbook. Between 1994 -1998 he was the project coordinator for the EU-Life funded River Cole and River Skerne demonstration project. Contact Martin for information about how RRC operates, discuss core funder agency agreements, national initiatives and consultation responses. |
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Josh Robins - River Restoration Adviser Josh’s role at RRC is to provide technical river restoration advice to enquiries and on-site projects. This involves scoping new possible projects, providing best practice case studies and advice to illustrate options/techniques, and evaluating the success and learning from completed work. Josh manages RRC’s annual program of events, as well as coordinating or delivering the training courses, workshops and member site visits. Contact Josh if you have any technical enquiries or are looking for project advice. Also if you have any questions about training events, or to discuss how you could benefit from membership of RRC. Josh can also help with sales enquiries and contracts. |
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Alexandra Bryden - Information Officer Alex's role involves keeping the RiverWiki up to date with projects, managing the RRC's website, and managing the National River Restoration Inventory (NRRI) and Reference Library. Alex also helps out with projects and site visits, and edits RRC's monthly bulletin and social media platforms. Alex joined RRC in October 2016 after completing an MSc in River Environments and their Management. Contact Alex for help updating your own RiverWiki projects, to add your project to RRC's UK webmap, and with suggestions for the monthly bulletin. |
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Jackie O'Regan - Accounts Technician Jackie undertakes the management accounting functions of the business and works alongside the Managing Director and Science & Technical Manager with business planning, project management and support to the Board. Contact Jackie for invoicing advice and support. |
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Hannah Joyce - Science and Technical Officer Hannah provides technical advice and develops research opportunities. She is interested in the dynamic interactions between sediment, flow and channel morphology to support process-based river management and restoration. Hannah is currently developing hydromorphological assessment methods for the Water Framework Directive, and working on the Measuring Impact of Citizen Science (MICS) project. Hannah joined the team in June 2019. She completed her PhD at Durham University, which investigated the patterns and controls of river channel planform adjustments over the last 150 years on 270 rivers in the Lake District, UK. Contact Hannah for technical advice about fluvial geomorphology, upland rivers and developing research projects, as well as information on the MICS project. |
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John Wheatland - Science and Technical Officer John provides technical and scientific advice on several different projects. He is currently working alongside other members of the RRC team on the Measuring Impact of Citizen Science (MICS) project, which aims to develop tools for evaluating the impact of citizen science on society and the environment across Europe. Before joining the team in May 2020, John completed his PhD at Queen Mary University of London in 2017 where he went on to work as a post-doctoral research associate for a further 3 years. His research explores how the complex multi-scale properties of suspended sediments influence their transport behaviour and fate, and once settled, the development and stability of fluvial landforms. Contact John for technical advice about river sediment dynamics, fluvial geomorphology and geomorphic change. |
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James White - Science and Technical Officer James provides scientific and technical expertise on different projects. His responsibilities entail delivering training courses, pursuing research funding opportunities and studying application of best-practice restoration techniques. He is currently working on a project funded by the World Bank, aiming to characterise the hydromorphological status of rivers and lakes across Bulgaria. James joined the team in May 2020, 2-years after he obtained his PhD at Loughborough University. His research explores water management operations, including groundwater abstraction and water-supply reservoirs, and impacts on ecological processes in rivers. Contact James for technical advice about freshwater ecology, water resource management operations and mapping infrastructure. |
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