Geographical Knowledges, Practices and Policies

Research under this theme examines the co-production of knowledges and geographies in, for example, studies of the meanings of "nature"; geographies of the production of scientific and non-scientific knowledges of the environment; geographies of the Enlightenment; analyses of the influence of risk and risk management as spatially organising frameworks in the field of insurance. This research is characterised by reforging geography's connections with the humanities and by exploring discursive practices of knowledge-making including those associated with disciplinary boundaries. Our research also explores the spatialities of knowledges and practices, analysing and informing policy in a range of fields including health-care, education and social justice. This research engages reflexively with questions of ethics and other aspects of the production of "academic" knowledges.