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Jason Luger<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography<\/p>\n

Jason’s work stretches across urban, cultural, and political geography.\u00a0 He explores questions of urban space, politics, and planning, in comparative global contexts. Specifically, he probes the way that activism, art, authoritarianism and illiberalism shape, and are shaped by, offline and online urban environments and encounters, drawing from field-research conducted in Southeast Asia, the US, and the UK.<\/p>\n

Kate Maclean<\/a>,<\/strong> Professor of International Development<\/p>\n

Kate’s research interests are in feminist geographies of development and globalisation. Her work includes analyses of popular culture responses to the financial crisis \u2013 Gender, Risk and the Wall Street Alpha Male<\/em><\/a>, and cultural geographies of the city – Envisioning gender, indigeneity and urban change: the case of La Paz, Bolivia<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em>She has collaborated with the photographer davidxgreen on the exhibition Decolonising witchcraft: Portraits of traditional healers in Bolivia<\/em><\/a> and made a collaborative short film as part of her Leverhulme Project The Aymara Bourgeoisie<\/em>, viewable here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Becky Richardson<\/strong>, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/p>\n

Becky\u2019s research is in Disaster Risk Reduction in the global south. Most recently, she has worked on projects in Kenya and Bangladesh relating to water, sanitation and hygiene risks with children in primary schools and refugee camps. Her research has contributed to projects with the United Nations, the Red Cross, International NGOs, and the private sector.<\/p>\n

Francis<\/span> Mass\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/p>\n

Francis<\/span> is a critical human geographer interested in the political ecologies and political geographies of biodiversity conservation, the illegal wildlife trade, and broader intersections between environmental challenges and security concerns. He has a regional focus on Southern Africa, particularly Mozambique and South Africa.<\/p>\n

Mara Ferreri<\/a>, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mara is a Vice Chancellor\u2019s Research Fellow in Human Geography. After her PhD in Geography at Queen Mary University of London, she has held research and teaching positions at the LSE and Durham. Her research interests include temporary and platform urbanism,\u00a0housing inequalities and precarity, and housing commoning. Prior to joining Northumbria she held a Marie Sk\u0142odowska Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute of Government and Public Policy, Universitat Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hughes<\/strong><\/a>, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah is a Vice Chancellor\u2019s Research Fellow in Human Geography. Her interests lie in Political Geography, specifically around issues of migration and citizenship. To date this work has coalesced around three intersecting themes: Geographies of Resistance; Geographies of Forced Migration and Geographies of Knowledge Production.<\/p>\n

Katie Oven<\/a>, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences <\/strong><\/p>\n

Katie\u2019s research focuses on social vulnerability and resilience in connection to landslides and earthquakes, with a particular focus on South and more recently Central Asia. Her research explores how disaster risk is produced through social, political, economic and environmental transformation; is lived and experienced by \u2018vulnerable\u2019 groups; and is responded to by governments and NGOs.<\/p>\n

Wenying Fu<\/a>, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wenying’s expertise is in knowledge-based regional development, regional innovation and entrepreneurship, and informal economy in China.<\/p>\n

Maria Dubrova, Post-Graduate Researcher, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria’s work focuses on queer theories of space, subjectivity, national identity, borders and geopolitics; the title of her thesis is “Queering Geopolitics: LGBTQ+ Communities and the Conflict in Ukraine”.<\/p>\n

Kahina Meziant, Post-Graduate Researcher, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kahina’s work focuses on the affective and emotional dimensions of refugee migration in the U.K. and participatory action research; the title of her thesis is “Exploring alternative spaces of citizenship, belonging and activism for refugee communities in North East England”.<\/p>\n

Aditi Das, Post-Graduate Researcher, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aditi’s work is on everyday life, identity, heritage, food and embodiment. Her thesis is title “Food, Heritage, Affect: An Ethnography of Culinary Spaces in Chandni Chowk, Delhi”<\/p>\n

Jacob C Miller<\/a> – Senior Lecturer, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jacob is a cultural and urban geographer interested in consumption and retail; affective and emotional geographies; geopolitics and tourism; and has done research in Chile, Argentina and the U.S.<\/p>\n

Kathryn Cassidy<\/a> – Professor, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kathryn is a political geographer and activist, whose work explores processes and practices of bordering and ordering contemporary societies and the ways in which these are being disrupted both through collective and mundane actions.<\/p>\n

Anish Chhibber – PhD Student, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anish’s research aims to construct a genealogy of radical anti-racist\/anti-colonial ‘migrant’ led resistances.<\/p>\n

John Clayton<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Senior Lecturer, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

John’s\u00a0research interests lie primarily in social geography, particularly the connections between geography, identities and inequalities.<\/p>\n

Andrew Collins<\/a>\u00a0– Professor,\u00a0Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew is interested in the theoretical, methodological and policy aspects of risk reduction, health ecology, human security and sustainable development in contexts of complex change.<\/p>\n

Ian Cook<\/a> – Senior Lecturer, Dept of Social Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian’s research focuses on cities, with a particular emphasis on three issues: (1) policy mobilities; (2) sex work; and (3) the representation of cities in film and television.<\/p>\n

Lesley Gallacher<\/a>\u00a0– Senior Lecturer, Dept of Social Work, Children and Community Wellbeing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesley is a cultural and children\u2019s geographer, whose research interests lie primarily in the geographies of early childhood and family life.<\/p>\n

Kevin Glynn<\/a> – Associate Professor,\u00a0Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kevin’s areas of research include media & cultural studies, cultural geography, media convergence, new media and digital cultures, television studies, popular culture, and media geographies & globalization.<\/p>\n

Nick Gray – PhD Student, Newcastle Business School<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nick’s PhD is examining place-based approaches to development in the context of UK Cities and Local Growth Policy.<\/p>\n

Paul Griffin<\/a> – Senior Lecturer, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul’s research and teaching interests can be found within economic geography and more specifically labour geography.<\/p>\n

Ysanne Holt<\/a> – Professor, Dept of Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ysanne’s research is focussed on themes relating to 20th and 21st century art in Britain, its critical discourses and institutions, as well as the broader processes and practices of cultural landscapes.<\/p>\n

Mike Jeffries<\/a>\u00a0– Associate Professor,\u00a0Dept of\u00a0Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike’s research interests include ponds and their wildlife and the psychogeography of street sports in the city.<\/p>\n

Katy Jenkins<\/a>\u00a0– Associate Professor, Dept of Social Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Katy’s\u00a0is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar with specialisms in gender and development; women\u2019s activism; NGOs, professionalisation and the changing nature of civil society.<\/p>\n

Adam Jenson – PhD student, Dept of\u00a0Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam’s PhD explores how local authorities are using data visualisation through a post-representational lens.<\/p>\n

Derek Johnson<\/a>\u00a0– Senior Lecturer, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Derek’s research focuses on geographies of crime including transnational offending and the exchange of bioinformatics across EU state borders<\/p>\n

Sam Jones<\/a> –\u00a0Senior Lecturer, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sam’s work includes action research on resilience building at the local level in rural Nepal and exploring governance issues in disaster risk reduction.<\/p>\n

Matthew Kirby – PhD Student, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matt\u2019s research lies in the science-policy interface, specifically how environmental concepts can be mainstreamed in different policy areas such as the built environment. He is also interested in the geographies of the peri-urban as an opportunity space.<\/p>\n

Richard Kotter<\/a>\u00a0– Senior Lecturer, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard is\u00a0interested in regional economic development in border regions, ecological modernization and environmental transformations, and urban futures.<\/p>\n

Mary Laing<\/a> –\u00a0Senior Lecturer, Dept of Social Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary’s research interests centre on the regulation and criminalization of sex and sexualities, with a specific focus on the sex industry.<\/p>\n

Hannah Martin – PhD Student, Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hannah’s PhD is titled ‘The intersection of race, class and politics on Tyneside, 1918-1961.’<\/p>\n

Tom Mordue<\/a>\u00a0– Professor, Newcastle Business School<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tom’s main research interests are in tourism development and management; economic restructuring, cultural development, \u2018urban renaissance\u2019, and sustainable regional development; cultural industries; and social theory.<\/p>\n

Oliver Moss –\u00a0Senior Research Fellow, Dept of Social Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oliver is a cultural geographer with research interests in (post) phenomenological approaches to the understanding of landscape, light, weather and sky.\u200e\u200e<\/p>\n

Graham Mowl<\/a> – Principle Lecturer,\u00a0Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Graham research interests include geographies of ageing and retirement migration; geographies of leisure; and travel writing and historical geographies of tourism development.<\/p>\n

Aisling O’loghuen<\/a> –\u00a0Vice Chancellor\u2019s Research Fellow in Global Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aisling’s research interests include human settlements design, land management, local environmental planning and management, governance, housing policy and projects, slum upgrading, post disaster institutional capacity development, and resource mobilization.<\/p>\n

Rosie Parnell<\/a> – Professor,\u00a0Dept of Architecture and Building Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rosie\u2019s research, teaching and practice combine interests in children\u2019s spaces, design process, participation and architecture education.<\/p>\n

Alkistis Pitsikali – PhD Researcher,\u00a0Dept of Architecture and Building Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lionel Playford – PhD Researcher,\u00a0Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lionel’s PhD is titled ‘Art, climate science and landscape: a systematic interaction with climate science to explore novel artistic approaches to landscape.’<\/p>\n

Rebecca Prescott<\/a> – Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Business School\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon Swords,\u00a0 Senior Research Fellow\/Senior Lecturer, Dept of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media, University of York<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon’s research includes the geographies of creative industries and visual methodologies.<\/p>\n

Catherine White – Retired Senior Lecturer,\u00a0Dept of Geography and Environmental Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sharon Wilson<\/a> – Senior Lecturer, Northumbria Business School<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sharon’s esearch interests are in tourism mobilities, events and society, cultural tourism and the creative industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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