Teaching

At St Catherine’s, I tutor all aspects of Human Geography for the undergraduate course and within the School of Geography and the Environment. I convene and teach an optional final honours school course on ‘Geopolitics in the margins’.

About me

I joined St Catherine’s College and the School of Geography and the Environment in December 2013. Prior to this I was a Lecturer in Human Geography at Newcastle University, and I have also held a Junior Research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge (2011-2013) and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Newcastle University (2010-2011). I completed my undergraduate in Geography at the University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College) and my MA and PhD at Queen Mary, University of London.

Research

My research is mainly in the field of political geography and aims to develop new areas of thinking regarding governance beyond the state and different modes of political legitimacy. In particular, I am interested in how communities officially excluded from formal state politics are nevertheless engaging with aspects of statecraft, and in using such seemingly anomalous cases as a lens to critically examine the ‘norms’ of governance.

I currently have projects on the practices and pedagogy of diplomacy in the margins, geographies of peace and mediation, and legal geographies of self-determination.

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