Members’ interests

Dr Marco Antonsich Research Fellow, GEES, University of Birmingham
Territory, identity and belonging in the age of globalization; European identity and processes of regionalization in Europe; History and theory of Western geopolitics and political geography; Colonial geographies of Fascist Italy
http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/antonsichm.shtml

Dr Sean Carter Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Exeter
Political and cultural geography; Geopolitics. I am particularly interested in two main areas – geopolitics and visual culture (especially film and photojournalism) – and the political geographies of diasporic communities (specifically in relation to Croatia and the wars in Yugoslavia, but not exclusively).
http://www.sogaer.ex.ac.uk/geography/people/staff/s_carter/main.shtml

Professor Michael F. Davie Department of Geography, Université François-Rabelais
Urban geopolitics in the Middle East, with special reference to Beirut. Spatial identities in relation to religious affiliation among the Arab Greek-Orthodox of Syria, Lebanon and other states of the Middle East and the Gulf. Space and politics in the Lebanese conflict.
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/michael.davie/

Dr Jason Dittmer Lecturer in Human Geography, UCL
I am interested in the intersection of popular culture and geopolitical discourses, especially in the contexts of religion and nationalism.  Theoretical debates that I seek to contribute to include the role of audiences in the construction of geopolitical discourses and subsequent questions of agency, scale, and structure.
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the-department/people/academics/jason-dittmer/contact-details

Professor Klaus Dodds Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London
Geopolitics and International Relations with specific reference to popular culture, public diplomacy and the geographies of war and security. I also have a long standing interest in the Polar Regions and issues pertaining such as energy geopolitics, Law of the Sea and science-politics interface.
http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/Dodds/

Drew Foxall DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
Geopolitics and political geography, particularly geographies of ethnicity and nationalism in post-Soviet Russia with specific reference to the North Caucasus.
http://www.ouce.ox.ac.uk/graduate/research/dfoxall.html

Aaron Franks PhD Student, University of Glasgow
Social movements, particularly “the global justice movement” and activist perceptions, ethics, and tactics in light of climate change.  Tensions, creative or not, between mobility and localization.  The role of emotion, place attachment, and bodily experience in engaging with or confronting the state and other governence systems.  Alternative participatory methodologies.
http://www.ges.gla.ac.uk:443/postgraduates/afranks
http://www.scottishsocialforum.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Dr. Sara Fregonese, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Critical geopolitics, urban geopolitics, with a focus on Lebanon and Beirut. Particularly: urban warfare and urbicide, geopolitical practices of non-state actors, post-colonial geographies of sectarian violence.

http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/Fregonese/index.htm

Clive Gabay Doctoral student, Open University
Relationality and activism; the intersection of the State, Inter-governmental Organisations and civil society, specifically the role of the Millennium Development Goals in the Global South; Power and space.
http://dpp.open.ac.uk/people/gabay.htm

Dr Nicholas Gill, Lecturer in Human Geography, Lancaster University
State power after post-structuralism; Migration governance; Practical consequences of imagined geographies; Devolution and corruption; Qualitative and quantitative methods.
http://www.geography.lancs.ac.uk/Members/gillnm/

Prof Stephen Graham Professor of Human  Geography, Durham University
Political geographies of mobility, infrastructure and technology; urban geography; cities and new media; militarization and cities; cities and the ‘war on terror’; geographies of surveillance
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/information/staff/personal/graham/index.html
http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?id=934

Dr. Matthew Graves, Senior Lecturer in British & Commonwealth Studies and Geography, University of Provence (Aix-Marseille Université).

Political and Cultural Geography, with a particular interest in issues of place-space, collective memory and identity in 19th-21st century Europe and Australasia: geographies of identity, imaginative geographies, geographies of remembrance and the politics of mapping.

 http://www.univ-provence.fr/gsite/document.php?pagendx=1433&project=lerma

 

Liza Griffin Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster
Liza Griffin is interested in debates about power and space in relation to the governance of sustainable development. She has published on the good governance of marine resources in the European Union and is currently conducting research on the changing spatialities of flooding policy in the UK focussing specifically on the emerging sustainable communities discourse.
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-2707
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-2803

Dr. Mohammad Reza Hafeznia Professor of Political Geography & Geopolitics, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) – Tehran
1. States (especially local states); 2. Geopolitics ( especially Humanist Geopolitics ); 3. Space & Politics; 4. Peace & Security; 5. Political Geography of Cyber Space
http://www.modares.ac.ir

Dr Daniel Hammett Research Fellow, Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh; Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of Witwatersrand
Political and social geography of South Africa; race and identity; social service delivery; citizenship and nationhood; geographies of education.
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/dhammett/

Professor Mike Heffernan Professor of Historical Geography, University of Nottingham
History of political geography and geopolitics; history of political cartography; European and American imperialism; the idea of Europe
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/

Dr Tassilo Herrschel Reader in Urban and Regional Development, Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Governance (CURG), University of Westminster
Urban economic restructuring, development and policy, urban competitiveness, city-regional governance, regionalism and region building, comparative (economic)policy analysis in urban regions in Europe and North America, the political economies of post-socialist transformation in Central Europe.

Dr Alan Ingram Lecturer in Geography, UCL
Geopolitics and political geography, particularly geographies of security. I explore these issues in relation to: the geopolitics of global health; the war on terror and associated geographies of in/security; geographies of security around the EU; and geopolitics and nationalism in post-Soviet Russia.
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the-department/people/academics/alan-ingram/research-interests http://artxgeopolitics.wordpress.com/

Professor Ron Johnston Professor, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
Elections (voting patterns, role of money, redistricting/redistributions, bias in election results, UK, USA, New Zealand, Australia); History of geography.
http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/staff_johnston.html

Erin B. Koenig Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
Relationships between social and spatial forces within an urban context, particularly as they impact inclusion, exclusion and access to human rights and fundamental freedoms. Particular interest in architecture/urban design in relation to human security in urban spaces.

Professor Lila Leontidou Vice-Dean of the School of Humanities , Hellenic O.U.
Geography and spatial governance; spatialities in European and Mediterranean cultures; borders and social exclusion, civil society and NGOs; urban restructuring/ governance/ sprawl, urban social movements; European integration and space, modernity, informality, postmodernism, urban policy in the E.U.; tourism and development; epistemology and education in Geography within the history of science.
http://www2.eap.gr/frameset.jsp?locale=el

Dr Tony Lemon: Political geography of South and Southern Africa: the geographies created by apartheid and post-apartheid  reconstruction, especially urban segregation / desegregation and redistribution of resources / desegregation in post-apartheid school education. Democratic consolidation in South Africa and neighbouring states. The political geography of small states and decolonisation.   

Dr Cheryl McEwan Reader in Human Geography, Durham University
Political geographies of citizenship, democracy and transformation in
South Africa; postcolonial geographies; feminism and citizenship; social
justice and development.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?id=938
 

Dr Michael Mason Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science
1.    Environmental politics and governance – theoretical and empirical exploration of issues of accountability, citizenship, regulation and sustainability.
2.    Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Middle East, with a focus on water and energy security in the eastern Mediterranean (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine).
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/geographyAndEnvironment/whosWho/profiles/m.mason@lse.ac.uk.htm
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EWE/

David McEvoy Emeritus Professor of Urban Geography, Liverpool John Moores University, Honorary Visiting Professor of Ethnic Entrepreneurship, University of Bradford
Ethnic minority business; ethnic residential segregation; urban riots; changing patterns of retail location; impact of public policy on all of these.
http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/SOC/72551.htm

Dr Nick Megoran Lecturer in Geography, Newcastle University
The political geographies of post-Cold War inter-state relations. Current research interests focus on nationalism and geopolitics in Central Asia, religion (Christianity) and recent US-UK foreign policy, and the history of political geography. Theoretically, I am interested in advancing the study of geopolitics, international boundaries, and nationalism. I also endeavour to never split infinitives.
http://www.megoran.org

Professor David Newman Professor of Political Geography in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University in Israel, research consultant to the University of Roehampton, UK
Currently the co-editor of the journal, Geopolitics, a quarterly academic journal published by taylor & Francis (Routledge). The main focii of his work is on ethno-territorial conflict, with an emphasis on Israel-Palestine, and a study of the contemporary role of borders in an era of globalization.
http://david-newman.com/ (under construction)
http://web2.bgu.ac.il/Politics/new_pages/index.htm (links to faculty)http://humweb1.bgu.ac.il/politics/content/people/faculty/prof-david-newman

Professor Joe Painter Director, Centre for the Study of Cities & Regions, Durham University
Political and urban geography; urban and regional governance and politics; geographies of the state and citizenship; geography and political theory; geographies of work and play; theories of spatiality.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?mode=staff&id=353
http://www.dur.ac.uk/cscr/

Professor Charles Pattie Electoral geography, political participation and citizenship; contextual effects in political behaviour; political campaign effects; geography and valence politics. http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/staff/pattie_charles/index.html 

Dr Jenny Pickerill Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester
Jenny is interested in how collective action, participation, spaces for dialogue, autonomy and anarchism can create pathways towards environmental and social justice. In particular is interested in environmental activism, eco-building, the use of internet technologies for campaigning, the anti-war movement in Britain, and Indigenous politics in Australia.
http://www.jennypickerill.info
http://www.autonomousgeographies.org

Dr. Richard C. Powell Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Liverpool
Geographies of science, energy and resources; Legal regimes and geopolitics; Histories of geographies and geopolitcs; Regional interests across Circumpolar Arctic, and more widely in North America and Scandinavia
http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/staff/powell.htm

Dr Scott Rodgers Research Associate, The Open University
Publicity, media and urban politics; Geographies of media and journalism; Practice theory; Materiality and organizational spaces; Political theory; Urban geography.
http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/people-profile.php?name=Scott_Rodgers
http://www.mediapolis.org.uk/

Dr Glen Segell FRGS Director, London Security Policy Study
Geo-politics, International Security, Civil-Military Relations, Middle East, Africa
http://www.segell.com

Professor James D Sidaway Professor in Human Geography, University of Plymouth
The interfaces between political and development geography, critical geopolitics, borders
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/jdsidaway

Dr Maria Stuttaford Associate Research Fellow, University of Warwick
Spaces and places where the right to health is invoked by individuals and civil society organisations

Hasan Turunc PhD Candidate, Royal Holloway, University of London
My research interests are centred on Turkish societal developments, economic, socio-political and cultural impact of globalization and Europeanisation; Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle East Foreign Policy, and EU enlargement. My research is multidisciplinary in its scope with particular emphasis on politics and international relations, globalization and critical geopolitics.
http://royalholloway.academia.edu/HasanTurunc
http://cep.rhul.ac.uk/people/

Dave Valler, Reader in Spatial Planning, Oxford Brookes University My main interests are: The politics of local and regional economic development; devolution and regionalism; urban politics and policy; spatial planning; local governance and regeneration; political economy; business interest representation.

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/be/staff/davevaller.html

Alex Wafer PhD Geography, Open University
My research is concerned with emerging forms of urban governance and subjectivity in post-apartheid South Africa. I am also interested in everyday life and emerging forms of urban identity in cities. I am particularly interested in new ways of thinking about the rich diversity of life in cities of the south, which have for too long been theorised in limited developmentalist terms. I am also interested in social movement and urban politics.
http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/about-the-faculty/departments/geography/postgraduate/profiles/alex_wafer.php

Dr Mark Whitehead Senior Lecturer in Geography, Aberystwyth University.
Environmental politics; urban geography; citizenship; sustainable development; histories of science and government; British urban policy; state theory; libertarian paternalism.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/msw/

Emily Wilkinson PhD student, UCL, Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre
Natural disasters and state-society relations: how local level disaster management policies respond to local elite interests; the impact of decentralisation on the willingness and capacity of local government to reduce disaster risk; social instability and changing power relations caused by major disaster events.
http://www.benfieldhrc.org

Dr Alison J Williams ESRC Research Fellow, Newcastle University
Geopolitics, with a specific focus on military aviation and airspace; power projection; international boundaries and borders. Regional interests include the interwar Pacific; Iraq; the US-Mexico border. Current research focuses upon UK military air spaces.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/alison.williams1