Research interests:
Airborne and vehicular gamma ray surveys.
Environmental radioactivity.
Luminescence dating: Thermoluminescence and Photostimulated luminescence.
Detection of irradiated food.
Archaeological sciences.
Career history:
2008 Professor of Environmental Physics, University of Glasgow
2004 Reader SUERC
1991 Senior Lecturer, Head of Physics group, SURRC.
1986-90 Lecturer, SURRC, East Kilbride.
1984-86 SERC funded Research Fellow in Physics, Paisley College.
Thermoluminescence dating of Scottish Vitrified forts.
1982-84 Research Assistant, Low Level Measurements Laboratory, UKAEA, Harwell.
14C dating and environmental studies of small samples.
1981-82 Part time Lecturer, School of Archaeological Sciences, Bradford University.
1979-81 Research Assistant (SERC funded), School of Archaeological Sciences,
Bradford University. Analytical studies of archaeological glasses.
1977-78 Research Assistant, TL dating laboratory, Durham University.
Active research projects:
Not available
Recent publications:
E. Munoz-Salinas, P. Bishop, D.Sanderson, Zamorano J., 2010, Interpreting luminescence
data from a portable OSL reader : three case studies in fluvial settings, Earth Surface
Processes and Landforms, MS ESP-10-0069-R1, 27p
David C.W. Sanderson, Simon Murphy, 2010, Using simple portable OSL measurements and
laboratory characterisation to help understand complex and heterogeneous sediment
sequences for luminescence dating, Quaternary Geochronology, 5, 299-305
A.D. Davies & D.C.W. Sanderson, 2009, Single grain OSL analysis: a discussion of how to
clean discs, Ancient TL 27 (2), 47-50
Dominic A. Hodgson, Stephen J. Roberts, Michael J. Bentley, James A. Smith, Joanne S.
Johnson, Elie Verleyen, Wim Vyverman, Andy J. Hodson, Melanie J. Leng, Andreas
Cziferszky, Adrian J. Fox, David C.W. Sanderson,2009, Exploring former subglacial
Hodgson Lake, Antarctica Paper I: site description, geomorphology and limnology,
Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(23-24), 2295-2309
Dominic A. Hodgson, Stephen J. Roberts, Michael J. Bentley, James A. Smith, Joanne S.
Johnson, Elie Verleyen, Wim Vyverman, Andy J. Hodson, Melanie J. Leng, Andreas
Cziferszky, Adrian J. Fox, David C.W. Sanderson,2009,Exploring former subglacial
Hodgson Lake, Antarctica. Paper II: palaeolimnology, Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(23-
24), 2310-2325