Service and awards
Committees
2025 - Member of GW4 Open Research Prize 2024/5 judging panel
2024-present - Member of University of Bristol Research Culture Committee member
2019-2020 - Member of School of Geographical Sciences SharePoint Committee
Professional memberships
2025-present - Member of ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators)
2013-2017 - Member of IEMA (Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment)
2005-2008 - Member of CIWEM (Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management)
Awards
2001 - Provided research example and illustrations for the paper awarded the 16th President's Prize by the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society for the best paper published in the Photogrammetric Record between October 1999 and April 2001 (Lane, SN (2000), The measurement of river channel morphology using digital photogrammetry, https://doi.org/10.1111/0031-868X.00159).
1999 - Winner of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (East Anglian region) Student/Graduate dissertation prize.
1998 - Awarded Philip Lake ("awarded to the candidate who is adjudged by the Examiners for Part II of the Geographical Tripos to have shown the greatest proficiency in Physical Geography in that Part”) and William Vaughan Lewis (“awarded annually to candidates for Part II of the Geographical Tripos who, in the opinion of the Examiners for that Part, have submitted outstanding dissertations on some geographical subject”) prizes.
Organisation of Conferences and Meetings
2025 - Co-organised Open Research Community event, University of Bristol, 7 February 2025
2024 - Co-organised CASP-ICE workshop, University of Bristol, 15-19 April 2024
2024 - Co-organised second 4DModeller hackathon, University of Bristol, 25-27 March 2024
2022-2024 - Co-organised DEEP PURPLE annual science meetings, Schloss Blankense, Germany, 24-28 January 2022) / Sandbjerg Gods, Denmark, 20-24 February 2023 / Albufeira, Portugal 29 January - 2 February 2024
2019 - Co-organised GlobalMass mid-term workshop, University of Bristol, 1 July 2019
2018 - Co-organised Structured Expert Judgment Ice Sheet Elicitation workshop for European participants, Windsor, 20-22 February 2018
2008 - Co-organised UKCIP08 Familiarisation Workshops, delivered in each English regions and devolved administration, January to June 2008.
Peer Reviews
[2] Westaway, RM (2025). Review of 'GCInsights: Consistency in Pyrocartography Starts With Color'. Geoscience Communication, 10.5194/gc-2024-9-RC2
[1] Westaway, RM (2018). Review of 'Demystifying academics to enhance university–business collaborations in environmental science'. Geoscience Communication, 2, 1–23, 10.5194/gc-2018-13-RC1