People
Browse the academic profiles of our Geography staff.
Academic staff
Dr Amy Barron
Lecturer in Socio-Cultural Geography
Research specialisms: More-than-representational-theories; Affect and emotion; Place and identity; Geographies of ageing and the life-course; Creative and participatory methodologies
Dr Rob Bellamy
Lecturer in Climate and Society
Research specialisms: Climate change; Climate technologies; Public perception; Technology assessment; Governance
Dr Joe Blakey
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: The political; Carbon accounting and budgeting; Environmental governance; Accounting and accountability; Post-democracy
Prof Stefan Bouzarovski
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Energy and fuel poverty; Infrastructure development; Urban spatial inequality; Multi-level governance; Social network analysis
Dr Alison Browne
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Everyday life; Water, energy, food, waste, plastics; Sustainable consumption and production; Governance and sustainability transitions; China, UK, Australia
Prof Noel Castree
Professor of Geography
Research specialisms: Political economy; Marxism; Environmental change; Expertise; Politics of knowledge
Dr Gareth Clay
Reader in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Peatlands; Wildfire; Terrestrial carbon cycling; Upland land management; Urban physical geography
Dr Polyanna da Conceição Bispo
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Earth observation; Ecosystem processes and modelling; Forest Structure, Dynamics and disturbances; Tropical forests
Dr Christopher Darvill
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Quaternary science; Glacial geomorphology; Geochronology; Cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating; Ice sheet reconstruction
Dr Matthew Dennis
Senior Lecturer in Geographical Information Science
Research specialisms: Urban ecology; Landscape ecology; Social-ecological systems; Green Infrastructure; Nature conservation
Dr Martin Dodge
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Historical geography; Cartography; Visual geographies; Manchester
Dr Jamie Doucette
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Geographical political economy; Labour geographies; Politics and space; Developmentalism and democratization
Prof James Evans
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Urban living labs; Sustainable cities; Smart cities; Governance; Mobile methods
Prof Martin Evans
Professor of Geomorphology
Research specialisms: Peatland erosion and restoration; Peatland geomorphology, biogeochemistry and ecosystem services; Natural Flood Risk Management (NFM) in upland environments
Dr Richard Figueroa Alfaro
Lecturer in Geographical Information Science (GIS)
Research Specialisms: Geographical Information Systems; Earth observation; Remote sensing; Environmental processes; and Nature-based solutions
Dr William Fletcher
Reader in Physical Geography and Quaternary Science
Research specialisms: Mediterranean environments; Palaeoecology; Palaeoclimatology
Dr Aurora Fredriksen
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: More-than-human geographies; Affect and emotion; Wildlife; Feminist science studies; Environmental humanities
Dr Claire Goulsbra
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Hydrology; Geomorphology; Carbon dynamics; Peatland environments; Novel technologies
Prof Sarah Marie Hall
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Feminist political economy; Everyday life; Austerity and crisis; Social difference; Ethnographic and creative methods
Dr Angela Harris
Senior Lecturer in Remote Sensing
Research specialisms: Earth observation; Vegetation dynamics; Ecosystem processes; Geospatial modelling; Peatland landscapes
Dr Caitlin Henry
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Feminist political economy; Social reproduction and care; Labour; Health; Everyday life
Prof Martin Hess
Professor of Economic Geography
Research specialisms: Economic geography; Global production networks; Development and labour; Cultural political economy
Dr Jonathan Huck
Senior Lecturer in Geographical Information Science; Director of Social Responsibility
Research specialisms: Computational Geography; Participatory GIS; Global Health; Environmental Geography; Segregation and Conflict
Dr Anna Hughes
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Palaeoglaciology; Geochronology; Glacial geomorphology; Quaternary science; Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing
Prof Philip Hughes
Head of Department; Professor of Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Quaternary science; Glacial geomorphology
Dr Ross Jones
Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Moral geographies; Pedagogical methods; Controversial issues; Philosophy and ethics; Political economy
Prof Sarah Lindley
Professor of Geography
Research Specialisms: Urban ecosystem functions, climate risk and adaptation, social vulnerability, health & wellbeing geographical information science
Prof Karen Lucas
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Social class, Equity, mobilities, energy justice
Dr Nate Millington
Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies
Research specialisms: Urban political ecology; Climate change; Water governance; Waste
Dr Jennifer O'Brien
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Sustainable development; Ethical action; Empowering teaching
Dr Nerea Okong'o
Senior Tutor in Human Geography
Dr Saska Petrova
Reader in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Vulnerability and precarity; Gender and infrastructure; Environmental governance; Rural and peri-urban communities; Post-colonial political ecologies
Prof James Rothwell
Professor of Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Environmental pollution; Green infrastructure; Peatlands; Hydrology
Dr Peter Ryan
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Dr Emma Shuttleworth
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Hydrology and geomorphology; Peatlands and UK uplands; Landscape restoration and natural flood management; Sediment and contaminant dynamics; Science communication
Prof Fiona Smyth
Deputy Dean and Vice Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students
Dr Abi Stone
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research specialisms: Quaternary science; Drylands; Geochronology (luminescence, U-Th); Geoarchaeology; Hydrogeology
Prof Erik Swyngedouw
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Political ecology; Democratization; Hydro-social change; Political conflict; Urban insurgencies
Dr Cristina Temenos
Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography
Research specialisms: Urban geography; Policy mobilities; Political geography; Social movements; Drug policy, health inequalities, and austerity
Dr Craig Thomas
Lecturer in MSc Environmental Governance
Dr Matt Tomkins
Lecturer in MSc Geographical Information Science
Research Specialisms: Spatial analysis; Geographical Information Science; Glacial geomorphology; Geochronology; Cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating
Dr Mark Usher
Lecturer in Environmental Geography
Research specialisms: Urban nature and ecology; Water politics and governance; State, territory and citizenship; Infrastructure and transitions; Governmentality and biopolitics
Prof Kevin Ward
Professor of Human Geography
Research specialisms: Economic governance; Infrastructure and cities; Policy mobilities; Public finance; Urban and regional political economy
Dr Saskia Warren
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Research specialisms: Creative urban economies; Migration and belonging; Muslim identities, Islamophobia and racism; Gender and feminist geopolitics
Prof Jamie Woodward
Professor of Physical Geography
Research specialisms: River histories; Mediterranean geomorphology; Microplastics in river catchments; Geoarchaeology; Ice Age environments
Dr Yawei Zhao
Lecturer in Socio-Cultural Geography
Research Specialisms: Lifestyle migration; Urban politics and governance; Digital technologies; Rural-urban relationships; Smart cities
Research associates and fellows
Dr Elizabeth Ackerley
Research Associate
Research Specialisms: Youth politics and activism; austerity; geographies of children and young people; ethnographic and participatory methods
Dr Danielle Alderson
Research Associate
Research specialisms: Peatlands; Fluvial geomorphology; Lateral carbon cycling; Organic matter dynamics
Dr Jamie Anderson
Research Associate
Dr Benjamin Bell
Research Associate
Research specialisms: Quaternary science; Environmental and climate change; Pollen geochemistry; Cedrus atlantica
Mr Joseph Cahill
KTP Associate
Dr Timna Denwood
Research Associate
Dr Temidayo Eseonu
Research Fellow
Dr Laura Fenton
Research Associate
Dr Matina Kapsali
Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellow
Research Specialisms: Feminist geography; Social reproduction and care; Everyday life and activism; Urban political movements; Creative, ethnographic and participatory methodologies
Dr Santiago Leyva del Rio
Research Associate
Dr Jess Linz
Research Associate
Dr Samadhi Lipari
ESRC postdoctoral fellow
Research Specialisams: Energy Geography, Critical Political Economy, Political Ecology, Historical Geographical Materialism.
Dr Ana María Pacheco Pascagaza
Research Associate (NERC project Toward a UK fire danger rating system: Understanding fuels, fire behaviour and impacts)
Research specialisms: Earth observation; Vegetation Structure, Tropical forests, Deforestation and forest degradation monitoring.
Dr Laura Pottinger
Simon Research Fellow
Research Specialisms: People and plant relationships; activism; young people's politics; creative, ethnographic and participatory methods.
Mr Joe Rees
Research Assistant
Research specialisms: Sustainable cities
Dr Jonny Ritson
Research Fellow
Research Specialisms: Carbon cycling, water treatment, peatlands, carbon policy.
Mx Magdalena Rodekirchen
Research Associate
Dr Mehebub Sahana
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Research Specialisms: Research specialisms: transboundary river basin management; landscape ecology; socio-ecological resilience; climate risk and adaptation; rural-urban conversion; geographical information science.
Mr Andrew Speak
Research Associate
Ms Emma Tsoneva
Research Associate
Dr Laurie Waller
Research Associate
Miss Kirsty Watkinson
Research Associate
Miss Joanna Welch
Project Officer (KTP Associate)
Professional support staff
John Moore
Faculty Head of Technical Operations
John provides leadership for, and the management of technical services including the Geography Laboratories within the Faculty of Humanities.
Dr Ben Bell
Laboratory Technician
Ben is working with the Great North Bog project, with the aim to monitor the restoration of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines. Ben has a specialist background in geomorphology, palaeoecology, and palynology geochemistry (stable carbon isotope analysis and biomarker analysis).
Dr Tom Bishop
Research and Teaching Technician
Tom is responsible for managing the SEED laboratories. Tom is also the Radiation Safety Supervisor and the Uncrewed Aerial Systems Manager for Geography. He has specialisms in palaeoecology, environment pollution, and statistical analysis. Initial enquiries and external requests relating to the labs can be directed to Tom.
Dr Dael Sassoon
Field and Laboratory Technician
Dael is working with the research project “Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Fluxes in the Wigan Flashes Natural Reserve”. The project, run collaboratively with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, focuses on monitoring GHG fluxes with an aim to improve GHG capture.
Tom Spencer
Project Officer
Rebecca Self
Research Technician
Becky monitors the upland peatland demonstrator site for the BBRSC funded Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) project and measures gas flux from restored peatland and pools. She also operates the Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) for microplastic analysis. Becky has a background in natural sciences and ecology having previously worked for the Environment Agency as an Assistant Scientist.
Jonathan Yarwood
Laboratory Technician
Jon operates a broad range of our most complex analytical kit, including our spectroscopy and chromatography analytical equipment. They have extensive experience in all our methods preparing and analysing environmental samples of sediments, waters, and air for elemental and isotopic composition.