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Dr Tim Walker
Human Geography Alumni
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterGraduation date: 2016
Research topic: Geographies of Risk, Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Catchment Management
Current position:
Since graduation my research work has expanded, beyond just environmental stuff, to include geographies of volunteering and well-being. I am a Research Fellow at the Centre for Geography, Environment and Society; University of Exeter; working on the ERDF funded Smartline project: www.smartline.org.uk
Email: t.w.walker@exeter.ac.uk
Website/Blog: http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Timothy_Walker&tab=profile
Dr Suzanne Hocknell
Human Geography Alumni
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterGraduation date: 2017
Research topic: Fat Chance? Eating well with margarine (Available: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/27794)
Current position:
Research Associate in Geography at Newcastle University on an ESRC funded project ‘Corporate food retailers, meat supply chains and the responsibilities of tackling antimicrobial resistance’ with Prof. Alex Hughes (PI), Dr Emma Roe, Prof. Neil Wrigley, Prof. Michelle Lowe and Prof. Bill Keevil (Co-Is).
Email: suzanne.hocknell@ncl.ac.uk
Website/Blog: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/suzannehocknellnclacuk.html#background
Dr Anna Jackman
Human Geography Alumni
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterGraduation date: 2017
Research topic: Unmanned geographies: Drone visions and visions of the drone
Current position:
My new job is as a Lecturer in Political Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London
Email: Anna.Jackman@rhul.ac.uk
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ahjackman
Website/Blog: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/anna-jackman(18951d4e-7744-479e-90d7-f9bf11532373).html
Amy Hornsby
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of BristolStart date: September 2018
Research topic: Carceral Companions: deconstructing masculinity and criminality through companion animal relationships in the dwelt world
I am interested in ‘more-than-human’ research methods in human geography and unpacking the everyday through an affective politics as a form of meaning-making. I am currently studying Society and Space MSc to gain new insights into methodologies and theory before beginning my PhD research. My research shall look at dog training programmes in prisons and why they are so effectively transformative: decreasing reoffending rates dramatically. I shall investigate the genealogy of constituting both the incarcerated human and non-human. Such research will aid the interdisciplinary need to reconfigure hegemonic understandings and materialities of criminality, gender and the more-than-human affective lived experience.
Research supervisors: Dr Franklin Ginn, Dr Julie MacLeavy
Email: ah15756@my.bristol.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-hornsby-498106132/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmyHornsby5
Elliott Rooke
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC +3)
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterStart date: September 2016
Research topic: Exploring the Transformative Propensities of Prosthetics in Martial-Arts Practice
Research supervisors: Dr Jennifer Lea, Professor John Wylie
Email: er316@exeter.ac.uk
Dominic Ader
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC +3)
School of Geographical Science, University of BristolStart date: September 2016
Research topic: A Deleuzian account of illness experience: habit, memory and open futures
Research supervisors: Dr John David Drewsbury, Dr Maria Fannin
Email: da15354@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Freya Johnson
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC +3)
School of Geographical Science, University of BristolStart date: September 2015
Graduation date: May 2020
Research topic: The rising levels of personal debt within Britain
Research supervisors: Dr Julie MacLeavy (Peoples)
Email: fj14575@my.bristol.ac.uk
Dr Adam Flitton
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterStart date: September 2014
Graduation date: August 2019
Research topic: The evolution of cooperation
Email: af395@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Ciara Merrick
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
School of Geographical Science, University of BristolStart date: September 2014
Graduation date: January 2020
Research topic: Breathing Shared Worlds: Northern Ireland, Territory and Peace
My PhD project is concerned with everyday peace building in post-conflict Belfast, Northern Ireland. By tracing the flow, movement and silences of breath, I seek to explore the spatial and embodied materialities that shape how the self, the other, and community relationships are both imagined and created. To move with encounters happening in-between a sharing of breath, is to advance an alternative politics of sharing, which finds its origin within difference rather than sameness.
Research supervisors: Dr Mark Jackson, Dr Maria Fannin
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Member of the Royal Geographic Society
MSc Society and Space Mentor
Email: cm14280@my.bristol.ac.uk
Dr Paula Crutchlow
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterStart date: September 2013
Graduation date: July 2019
Research topic: The Museum of Contemporary Commodities - arts and social science towards the trade-justice knowledge action gap
Research supervisors: Professor Ian Cook
Email: pc343@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Callum Sutherland
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC +3)
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterStart date: September 2012
Research topic: Theography, identity, and space in postsecular politics.
Research supervisors: Professor Paul Cloke
Email: cws202@exeter.ac.uk
Chris Manktelow
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterStart date: September 2016
Research topic: Following the forecast: risk, uncertainty and the life of seasonal and decadal climate forecasts
Improvements in supercomputing and advances in our understanding of how climatic fluctuations operate have now made it possible to produce seasonal and decadal climate forecasts. However, as forecasting extends into seasonal and decadal prediction, the amount of uncertainty increases, resulting in highly contingent projections of the future. This makes it difficult for scientists to communicate seasonal and decadal forecasts to end-users. My research will therefore explore how scientists at the Met Office and forecast users negotiate uncertainty, with the aim of improving the communication of seasonal and decadal climate forecasts.
Research supervisors: Dr Saffron O'Neill, Dr Karen Bickerstaff, Professor Richard Betts
Email: cjm236@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Alistair Anderson
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
Geographical Sciences, University of BristolStart date: September 2015
Research topic: Antimicrobial Resistance
My PhD research focuses on the multispecies nature of the problem of antimicrobial resistance. My research explores pet owners’ beliefs about and use of antibiotics using a mixed-methods approach, with secondary analysis and a quantitative survey project complemented by qualitative approaches. I am also interested in the the methodology of survey research and how this affects opinion and attitude research in the context of antibiotic stewardship.
Research supervisors: Dr Maria Fannin, Professor Richard Harris, Dr Levi Wolf
Professional memberships/Positions held:
School of Geographical Sciences – Teaching Support Assistant
Social Research Association – Member
Email: aa12938@bristol.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alistair-anderson-4a64b214b
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AAnder94
Website/Blog: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/people/alistair-e-anderson/index.html
Catherine Midwood
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
Geographical Sciences, University of BristolStart date: September 2015
Research topic: Temporary Urban Interventions: A Bodily and Sensory Approach
This project explores temporary interventions in urban spaces with a focus on ephemeral bodily and sensory intensities, as understood through an affective and non-representational approach. I have three case studies to explore over the next couple of years. They are: an institutional endeavour to intervene with playful technological experiments (Bristol’s Playable City), my own participatory interventions (chalk art drawing events), and a more short-lived, ineffable experiment which will emphasise sensory encounters. This research will contribute to the growing field of literature on temporary interventions, geographical work on the body, sensuous geographies, and discussions about the use of creative methods in geography
Research supervisors: Dr JD Dewsbury, Dr Merle Patchett
Email: catherine.midwood@bristol.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cjmidwood
Dr Sarah Tupper
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
Geography, University of ExeterStart date: September 2013
Graduation date: July 2018
Research topic: Entwined becomings: older people’s experience of post-disaster recovery
I am a poststructuralist geographer interested in how subject experiences and responses can resonate through different practices and performances. My research has involved undertaking qualitative data collection (narrative interviews and participant observation) in Christchurch, New Zealand where the region has experienced multiple earthquakes. I am focusing particularly on how those of older generation make sense of, cope and persist in the face of continuing adversity. I am interested in the types of practices which emerge and how this contributes to understandings of subjects and places as continuously becoming.
Research supervisors: Professor Paul Cloke, Dr Jennifer Lea
Email: st431@exeter.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarah-tupper-91b93b69
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tupper_sarah
George Burdon
Human Geography Alumni
MSc Society & Space (ESRC 1+3)
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of BristolStart date: September 2016
Research topic: Music as the flow of matter: re-evaluating cultural formations
I am currently on the first year of an ESRC 1+3 pathway, so at the present I am studying for an MSc in Society & Space before moving onto PhD research next year. My research interests centre around theorizing music (and sound more generally) as flowing matter; as a vibrational force that unhinges potential reactions, actions and movements in the ephemerality of the moment of its encounter. Through the deployment of contemporary theories of affect and materiality, I hope to examine music as a force that moulds bodies and spaces, providing singular experiences for the listening body that are forever beyond the limits of representation, which in turn has profound resonances for how we think of subjectivity.
Research supervisors: Dr J D Dewsbury
Email: georgeburdon.2011@my.bristol.ac.uk
Dr Stephanie Denning
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
School of Geographical Sciences, University of BristolStart date: September 2013
Graduation date: February 2019
Research topic: Faith, Volunteering and Holiday Hunger: Questioning Action and Persistence through Affect Theory
UK food poverty has reached unprecedented levels, and faith groups are playing a crucial role in responding to it. How are people motivated by their faith to respond to food poverty, and how do they persist in volunteering? This is important to understand if projects relying upon volunteers are to be sustainable. I explore volunteers’ motivations and persistence in action through affective geographies within non-representational theories. From Spinoza, an affect operates between bodies and is about the power of a body to act, whilst an affection is about the state of a body and the impact of an affect upon a body. This research’s focus on faith-based social action contributes to two key themes in the geography of religion: understanding faith as performed in people’s lives, and questioning the role of faith in society. Using action research and participatory methodologies, over twenty months I established and ran a MakeLunch project in a church. MakeLunch is a national Christian charity whose projects respond to children’s holiday hunger by providing free lunches. It is through my own and volunteers’ narratives that I explore how faith motivates action, and how we persisted in volunteering.
I conclude that volunteers’ faith was significant in motivating volunteering, but motivations must be continually re-ignited to avoid in-action. Three contributions follow. First, through affect theory, research can go beyond understanding faith as a social construct by highlighting how by virtue of their faith, volunteering can hold more meaning than what is represented in action. Secondly, from the conceptual emphasis on affection, nuances of reflecting can be discerned and the role of will challenged because volunteers are changed by affections, which in turn affects their future actions. Thirdly, the combination of affect and affection portrays how there is a continual cycle of motivation, action and reflection in volunteers’ persistence.
Current position:
In your own words and in first person: I am currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University on a three year ESRC funded project ‘Life on the Breadline’ – https://breadlineresearch.coventry.ac.uk – researching Christian responses to UK poverty in the context of austerity.
Research supervisors: Dr J D Dewsbury, Paul Cloke (Exeter)
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Royal Geographical Society with IBG Postgraduate Fellow
Member of SWDTC Participatory Action Research Group
Email: stephanie.denning@coventry.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-denning-0a883666/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SJ_Denning
Website/Blog: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/stephanie-denning
Dr Emma Marshall
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC 1+3)
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Geography, University of ExeterStart date: September 2014
Graduation date: February 2021
Research topic: Class and the asylum determination system in the UK
My research examines the extent to which the concept of class can provide a theoretical framework to interpret how the individual backgrounds of asylum seekers, such as their education or occupation in their country of origin, may account for discrepancies in procedural outcomes. It is well documented that in the UK some asylum seekers get much quicker and more accurate initial decisions than others, for reasons that go beyond whether they are making a genuine claim. I am interested in exploring how class identity is constructed through perceptions of social value, and how these values may influence the decision-making process.
Research supervisors: Dr Nick Gill, Dr Naomi Millner
Email: egm203@exeter.ac.uk
Amanda Schmid-Scott
Human Geography Alumni
PhD Researcher in Human Geography (ESRC +3)
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterStart date: September 2015
Research topic: The government of life in immigration detention.
My PhD is exploring forms of estrangement and structural violence in immigration detention centres. I am especially interested in the ways in which different forms of power interact within spaces of detention and how visual approaches to research allow abstract and theoretical ideas to be communicated. It is funded through the ESRC.
Research supervisors: Dr. Nick Gill (Human Geography, University of Exeter), Dr. Karen Tucker (Political Science, University of Bristol), Dr. Bice Maiguashca (Politics, University of Exeter)
Email: as862@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amandargscott