Dr Kieran J. Gething

Academic Career

• 2025–Present: Research Associate in River Science (Loughborough University)
• 2024–2025: Knowledge Exchange Fellow in River Ecology (Nottingham Trent University and Environment Agency)
• 2023–2024: Research Fellow in River Ecology (Nottingham Trent University)
• 2019–2023: PhD Researcher in River Ecology (Nottingham Trent University)

Kieran is an ecologist whose research disentangles the impact of natural and anthropogenic pressures on river communities. His previous work has focused on how regulators such as the Environment Agency can monitor human influences on drying river communities. In his current position, Kieran is researching the role of sediment dynamics in shaping river communities.

• Bunting, G., England, J., Gething, K. J., Sykes, T., Webb, J. and Stubbington, R. (2021) Aquatic and terrestrial invertebrate community responses to drying in chalk streams. Water and Environment Journal 35, 229–241. https://doi.org/10.1111/wej.12621 
• Gething, K. J. (2021) Physicochemical drivers of managed river and agricultural drainage channel macroinvertebrate communities. River Research and Applications 37: 675–680. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3779 
• Gething, K. J., Hayes, C., Webb, J., Sykes, T., England, J. and Stubbington, R. (2022) Living on the edge: predicting invertebrate richness and rarity in disturbance-prone aquatic–terrestrial habitats. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 3, e12196. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12196 
• Gething, K. J. and Little, S. (2020) The importance of artificial drains for macroinvertebrate biodiversity in reclaimed agricultural landscapes. Hydrobiologia 847: 3129–3138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04325-8 
• Gething, K. J., Pickwell, A., Chadd, R. P. and Wood, P. J. (2020) The effects of metaldehyde on non-target aquatic macroinvertebrates: integrating field and laboratory-based evidence. Environmental Pollution 265 (A): 115015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115015