Danielle Schreve is a Reader in Physical Geography and Deputy Director of the Centre for Quaternary Research.at Royal Holloway. Danielle graduated with a B.Sc. in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Quaternary mammalian palaeontology from the Department of Biology, also at UCL, in 1997.

This was followed by a three-year post as Senior Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham.  Here, she worked with Dr David Bridgland on a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled “Mammalian Biostratigraphy of NW European Rivers”, which explored correlations between the British Middle Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphic model that she had formulated during her doctoral research and the fossil mammalian evidence from fluvial sequences in the Netherlands, northern France and Germany.  Danielle joined the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway in 2001 as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and became a Lecturer in the department in 2004.

Danielle’s research is focussed on various aspects of Quaternary mammals and the history of the British and European mammal fauna, in particular biostratigraphy, past environments and environmental change and hominid-faunal interactions.  She is also interested in Pleistocene stratigraphy and geological correlation and in British and European Lower and Middle Palaeolithic archaeology.  Most recently, she has been developing research into the long-term effects of large herbivores on the landscape and in examining the possibility of “re-wilding” parts of Britain through the introduction of Konik horses as wetland grazing managers.

She is also actively engaged in promoting public understanding of science, for example, in 2006-7, organizing school workshops, running demonstrations during National Science Week and A Day in the Ice Age public events at Royal Holloway and Birmingham, giving an invited presentation at the British Association’s Festival of Science in 2006 and radio, newspaper and television interviews at local, national and international level.  In 2006-7, these included appearances and interviews on BBC News 24, Channel 4’s Timeteam, Radio 4’s Today programme, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Sky News and Geoscientist magazine.