The PAlaeoenvironments Research Centre (PARC) brings together researchers at King’s College London working across palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, palaeoclimatology, palaeodemography, archaeology and Quaternary environmental change. The Centre integrates field, laboratory and computational approaches to understand past climates, environments and human–landscape interactions, using the past to inform understanding of long-term environmental change and future challenges.

PARC members work across a wide geographical range, including the UK, Europe, North Africa, Arabia, the Himalayas, the southern Caucasus, and Antarctica. Our research spans multiple timescales, focusing on Quaternary and historical environmental change.

We are particularly concerned with advancing understanding of human-environment interactions. To do this, we employ an interdisciplinary approach that combine palaeoclimate reconstructions, geomorphology, geochemistry, archaeology, remote sensing, GIS, geochronology, environmental and climate modelling, historical climatology, and digital and participatory methods.

Our research covers a number of themes:

• Palaeoclimate and societal impacts
• Palaeodemography and dispersals
• Adaption to past climate change
• Development and application of novel techniques