Human and Social Geography

Dr Caroline Upton

• Critical approaches to ecosystem services and valuation practices
• Contemporary environmental justice mobilisations
• Environmental governance in pastoral environments

Dr Ben Coles

• Food, Energy Water (security, justice sovereignty)
• Perceptions and Understandings of place
• Commodity processes and relations

Dr Stefano De Sabbata

• Quantitative, network analysis, and visual analytics approaches to “nature 2.0” analysis
• Use of Volunteered Geographic Information and Public Participation GIS methods in grassroots movements

Dr Claire Jarvis

• Spatial analysis
• Visualisation (2D & 3D)
• Mediascape

Professor Loretta Lees

• Urban and Social Sustainability
• Critical Geographies of Architecture
• Urban policy/Housing policy

Dr Brett Sylvester Matulis

• Critical perspectives on ecosystem services, natural capital, and the financialisation of conservation
• Environmental governance at the global level through large international meetings (e.g. World Conservation Congress, Forest Stewardship Council, COP to the UNFCCC)
• The interface between conservation politics and new digital technologies, especially social media

Professor Martin Phillips

• More-than-representational geographies of nature
• Carbonised countrysides and low carbon transitions
• Representations of past, present and future natures and rurality

Dr Katy Bennett

• Super diversity, multiculture and policy making
• Multiculture, conviviality and belonging
• Work and gender

Professor Gavin Brown

• The production of geopolitical knowledge about sexual orientation and gender identity
• Cultural and historical geographies of the international anti-apartheid movement (1960 – 1994) and similar international solidarity social movements
• Cultural and historical geographies of individuals and organisations associated with the far Left (anarchist, communist and socialist political movements)

Dr Ben Coles

• Everyday cosmopolitan consumption
• ‘Making’ places (e.g. streets, markets, etc.)
• ‘Alternative’ production and consumption practices

Dr Stefano De Sabbata

• Quantitative, network analysis, and visual analytics approaches to understanding online activism
• Development and application of Volunteered Geographic Information and Public Participation GIS approaches

Dr Claire Jarvis

• Framing a locative digital sensorium: Virtual reality, GIS and smell
• The nature of “everyday” spatial literacies
• New methods for critically visualizing the food-energy-water nexus

Professor Loretta Lees

• Resistance to Gentrification
• Alternatives to Gentrification
• Scholar-Activism on cities

Professor Clare Madge

• Aspects of international student mobility, including work focusing on international education from a postcolonial perspective, student mobility within, to and from Africa, and work examining the relationship of social media to international study
• Creative geographies, particularly focusing on aesthetic intimacy, affective geopolitics and creative methods circulating to/from/within Africa
• Embodied and emotional geographies of health, focusing in particular on geographies of cancer, including intimate geopolitics of the body and everyday survival

Dr Brett Sylvester Matulis

• The practice of radical democracy activism in anonymous virtual spaces (e.g. the darknet)
• The casual racism of the "Internet Hate Machine"
• Political economies of illicit online marketplaces

Professor Martin Phillips

• Symbolic and affective constructions of community
• Austerity and the restructuring of spaces of community
• Museum and heritage geographies
• Touristic geographies of stillness and the accelerated sublime

Dr Caroline Upton

• Environmentality and environmental citizenship
• Ethnographies of environmental policymaking

Dr Matt Wilde

• Ethnography and participatory research
• Everyday urban life, popular politics, activism and social movements, the state, political economy
• Europe, Latin America and the UK

Dr Stefano De Sabbata

• Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), social media and user-generated content
• Deep learning methods in GIScience
• Digital geographies
• Quantitative urban geography
• Geographic Information Retrieval
• Mobile and location-based services
• Information visualisation

Dr Claire Jarvis

• GIScience
• Storyboards
• The “twitterscape”
• GPS tracking
• Spatial literacy
• Sensory GIS
• Visualisation of networks
• Spatial analysis
• Visualisation (2D & 3D)
• Mediascape

Dr Nicholas Tate

• Surface characterisation and modelling of scale
• Spatial data uncertainty and error
• Pedagogic applications in GIS and data science

Professor Loretta Lees

• Gentrification
• Urbanization
• Comparative urbanism

Professor Martin Phillips

• Rural and urban gentrification
• Transformations in the rural working classes
• Changing cultural representations of the countryside

Dr Gavin Brown

• Cultural and historical geographies of sexual minority (LGBTQ) lives in urban and/or rural areas around the world
• Contemporary (and historical) studies of protests in urban space and social movements that contest processes of urban change

Dr Katy Bennett

• Emotional geographies of industrial ruin
• Memory, heritage and post-industrial landscapes

Dr Ben Coles

• Markets (at all scales and configurations), their materialisations and their challenges
• ‘Craft’/’Artisanal’ production and consumption
• Urban/rural connections and materialities (e.g. food, energy, water)

Dr Stefano De Sabbata

• Study of information inequalities: urban/rural divides in access, participation, and representation on the internet
• Geodemographic analysis
• Regional analysis of Open Data and Volunteer Geographic Information

Dr Claire Jarvis

• GIScience
• Storyboards
• The “twitterscape”