Sue Dawson

Sue Dawson is a Professor of Hazard Geoscience affiliated with the Energy Environment and Society faculty. Her expertise lies in extreme coastal change, tsunamis, and sedimentological signatures of natural hazards. She has held external examiner roles at the University of Glasgow (2018–2021) and Sheffield Hallam University (2017–2020). Her research integrates sedimentology, paleoecology, and numerical modeling to study climate change impacts on coastal hazards, particularly submarine landslide tsunamis in the North Atlantic.

• Key Research Focus: Onshore sedimentological signatures of tsunamis and storms, Arctic climate change responses.
• Methodologies: Geomorphology, geomatics, experimental modeling.

Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing climate action and sustainable cities. Over 65 publications span tsunami sedimentology, coastal flooding, and climate policy, with notable articles on Shetland Islands paleoenvironments and urban resilience strategies.

Recent projects include assessing seabed integrity for offshore windfarms and UNESCO’s water law initiatives. Public engagement includes lectures on tsunamis and climate adaptation in Dundee and COP26-related events.