People
Academic Staff
The following School staff lead research projects within the Social Theory and Spatial Praxis Research Group:
- Dr Sara Kindon - Participatory research, youth, Maori, feminist geography, community development, community video, and gender analysis
- Prof David O'Sullivan - urban geography, spatial analysis, modelling and visualisation, geospatial technologies
- Dr Marcela Palomino-Schalscha – development (post-development), diverse and solidarity economies, decolonisation and decoloniality, neoliberalism, politics of scale and place, and indigenous-run tourism
- Dr Mairead de Roiste - Geographical information systems, geovisualisation, transport modelling, pedagogy and GIS-capability building
- Dr Polly Stupples - Critical development studies, creative practice, social change and the creative economy, sustainable development, co-production and collaborative methods, Latin American studies, Pacific studies, and gender
- Dr Oliver Wigmore - spatial-temporal variability, alpine ecohydrology, remote sensing, geospatial analysis
Please contact a staff member in the research area of interest to you.
Visitors
We welcome academic and non-academic visitors, particularly artists, activists and practitioners, who wish to spend time with us working on projects of mutual interest, give seminars and support postgraduate students.
Past visitors hosted by our group have included:
- Dr Alexis Bunten, University of California Berkeley
- Dr Rosie Cox, South Bank University, London, UK
- Dr Christina Ergler, University of Otago
- Dr Philip Fountain, National University of Singapore
- Mike Gulliver, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (PhD Candidate)
- Dr Peter Hopkins, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
- Dr Rachel Pain, University of Durham, Durham, UK
- Dr Hester Parr, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Dr Divya Tolia-Kelly, University of Durham, Durham, UK