Staff Interests and Projects

Dr Paul Bennett - Economic geography; social and environmental insurance; social and financial exclusion; corporate responsibility and regulation; European competition law and maritime transport.

Professor Liz Bondi - Feminist geography, social geography, geographies of health, emotional geographies and counselling studies.

Dr Emily Brady - Environmental aesthetics and ethics; landscape and aesthetic values; philosophy of conservation; animal geographies.

Dr Hazel Christie - Geography of education, urban social geography.

Dr Sarah Glynn - Social and political geography, housing, social exclusion, ethnic minorities, Islamism, racism, multiculturalism, comparative histories, Marxist geography.

Dr Rebekah Higgitt - Newton and biographical traditions in history of science; Geography, science and civil society in the work of the BAAS.

Dr David Howard - Social and urban geographies of Caribbean societies; racism, mobility, territory, exile and citizenship.

Mr George Hughes - Tourism, leisure and environment; town and country planning.  Particular projects: post-industrial city regeneration; sustainable tourism.

Professor Jane Jacobs - Postcolonialism; indigenous rights and identity; race and racism; cultural politics of urban space; high-rise housing and modernity; politics of cultural heritage.

Dr Eric Laurier - Public space, mobility, technology, human-animal relations, everyday life in the city, ethnomethodology, social and cultural theory.

Dr Joseph Leibovitz - Comparative urban and regional governance; territorial interests and European integration; Mediterranean studies; planning theory; nationalism, cities, citizenship and ethnic politics; Israel and Cyprus. Current research projects: (1) The Territorial Politics of Israeli-Palestinian Citizenship in Israel’s Fractured Communities (ESRC); (2) Democratising Planning Through Non-Governmental Public Action in Israel/Palestine (ESRC, part of the Non Governmental Public Action Research Programme http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/NGPA/).

Dr Nina Morris - Cultural and historical geography, creative geographies including art and geography, embodied practices and sensuous knowledges, human-environment relations, outdoor cultures, and experiences of space and place.

Dr Andrea Nightingale - Political ecology; nature-society; economic and social development in Scotland, South Asia and Latin America; feminist geography, subjectivity and environment.

Dr Jan Penrose - Cultural and political geography; nationalism; identity politics (ethnicity, race and gender); Canadian Studies.

Dr Niamh Shortt - GIS and Society, health geographies and fuel poverty.

Professor Lynn Staeheli (from September, 2006) - Feminist, urban, and political geography; democracy and citizenship; public space; immigration.

Dr Ignaz Strebel - Difference and repetition: an investigation of the residential high-rise as a global form (AHRB-funded, in conjunction with Architecture).

Professor Charles Withers - Cultural and historical geography; historical geographies of science, geography and the enlightenment; the cultural geography of Gaelic Scotland.