Education
2009-2013 PhD in Geography (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge)
2008-2009 MPhil in Geographical Research (Distinction) (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge)
2005-2008 MA Geography (First Class with Distinction) (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge)
Employment
2020- Senior Lecturer in Human Geography (Queen Mary, University of London)
2014-2020 Lecturer in Human Geography (Queen Mary, University of London)
Publications (available on request)
- with Laurent Mavinga and Moise Bashiga, "Unbracketing the multiplicity of trauma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo," Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 44, 2023.
- with Tim Brown, Sydney Calkin, Kerry Holden and Simon Reid-Henry, "How to have theory in a pandemic: a critical reflection on the discourses of COVID-19," in Gavin Andrews, Valerie Crooks, Jamie Pearce and Jane Messina (eds.) COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies (Springer, 2021).
"The tyranny of empty shelves: scarcity and the political manufacture of antiretroviral stock-outs in South Kivu, The Democratic Republic of Congo," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 45, 2020. [selected for inclusion in the April 2020 RGS-IBG special virtual collection on Contextualising Coronavirus Geographically].
"The long shadows cast by the field: violence, trauma, and the ethnographic researcher," Fennia 197, 2019.
"Claude Barlow and the International Health Division's campaign to eradicate bilharzia (schistosomiasis) in Egypt, 1929-1940," Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, 2019.
"Poliomyelitis and child paralysis," in Scott Romaniuk. Manish Thapa and Péter Marton (eds.) The Palgrave Enyclopedia of Global Security Studies (Palgrave, 2019).
"Book review: Bioinformation by Bronwyn Parry and Beth Greenhough," cultural geographies 26, 2019.
"After polio: imagining, planning, and delivering a world beyond eradication," Health and Place 54, 2018.
- with Tim Brown, “Global health geographies,” in Valerie Crooks, Gavin Andrews and Jamie Pearce (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Health Geography (Routledge, 2018).
"To understand and be understood: facilitating interdisciplinary learning through the promotion of communicative competence,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education 42, 2018.
"Making space for restoration: epistemological pluralism within mental health interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo," Area 49, 2017. [selected for inclusion in the July 2022 RGS-IBG special virtual collection on Geographies Beyond Recovery].
"In pursuit of zero: polio, global health security and the politics of eradication in Peshawar, Pakistan," Geoforum 69, 2016.
"Why must we stay in this cage? Governing sexuality in biomedical research," in Gavin Brown and Kath Browne (eds.) Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (Routledge, 2016).
- with David Nally, "The politics of self-help: the Rockefeller Foundation, philanthropy and the 'long' Green Revolution," Political Geography 49, 2015.
"Book review: Love in the Time of AIDS - Inequality, Gender and Rights in South Africa by Mark Hunter," Gender, Place and Culture 20, 2013.
"Book review: War, Violence and Population - Making the Body Count by James Tyner," European Planning Studies 18, 2010.
"Conference report: Comparative colonialisms," Journal of Historical Geography 35, 2009.
Research Awards
2015-2016 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant
2015-2016 Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid
Contribution to Peer Review
Antipode, Area, British Academy, Geography Compass, Geoforum, Global Networks, Health and Place, Political Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Third World Thematics, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Graduate Students Supervised
PhD
2017 - Paulina Szymczynska (QMUL), "Retention of patients with schizophrenia in complex intervention trials: patterns, issues, and practices" (with Stefan Priebe, QMUL).
Masters
2021 - Andreia Sousa Vieira (MA Development & Global Health, QMUL), "Perceptions of health in an era of Covid-19 and state of emergency in Madeira, Portugal."
2021 - Emily Hopewell (MA Development & Global Health, QMUL), "Mirror, mirror ... an exploration into the politicisation of the British border geographies and everyday mobilities and stillness in a time of Covid-19."
2021 - Henry Gapper (MA Global Development, QMUL), "Experiences of precarity within London's hospitality sector."
2020 - Mima Moyo (MA Global Health Geographies, QMUL), "A reversal of the traditional ideals of development? Assessing the impact of donor funding on the HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe."
2020 - Anne-Marie Ashton (MA Development & Global Health, QMUL), "Why are poor white girls underperforming in, and often not choosing, Geography at GCSE in Tower Hamlets?"
2020 - Rita Sharma Pandeya (MRes Global Health Geographies, QMUL), "Understanding the health and societal impacts of waterborne diseases in a post-flooding disaster context in Nepal."
2019 - Louise Cox (MA Development & Global Health, QMUL), "The magic number zero: exploring malaria eradication in Mozambique."
2017 - Catherine Mills (MA Geography, QMUL), "A GIS-based investigation into the distribution of acute STIs in England."
2017 - Jennifer Reay (MA Geography, QMUL), "Changing conceptions of geography in secondary school: a classroom-based study."
2015 - Glyn Hawksworth (MRes Geography, QMUL), "Recovery and the responsibilisation of drug users in UK policy."
2009-2013 PhD in Geography (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge)
2008-2009 MPhil in Geographical Research (Distinction) (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge)
2005-2008 MA Geography (First Class with Distinction) (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge)
Employment
2020- Senior Lecturer in Human Geography (Queen Mary, University of London)
2014-2020 Lecturer in Human Geography (Queen Mary, University of London)
Publications (available on request)
- with Laurent Mavinga and Moise Bashiga, "Unbracketing the multiplicity of trauma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo," Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 44, 2023.
- with Tim Brown, Sydney Calkin, Kerry Holden and Simon Reid-Henry, "How to have theory in a pandemic: a critical reflection on the discourses of COVID-19," in Gavin Andrews, Valerie Crooks, Jamie Pearce and Jane Messina (eds.) COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies (Springer, 2021).
"The tyranny of empty shelves: scarcity and the political manufacture of antiretroviral stock-outs in South Kivu, The Democratic Republic of Congo," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 45, 2020. [selected for inclusion in the April 2020 RGS-IBG special virtual collection on Contextualising Coronavirus Geographically].
"The long shadows cast by the field: violence, trauma, and the ethnographic researcher," Fennia 197, 2019.
"Claude Barlow and the International Health Division's campaign to eradicate bilharzia (schistosomiasis) in Egypt, 1929-1940," Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, 2019.
"Poliomyelitis and child paralysis," in Scott Romaniuk. Manish Thapa and Péter Marton (eds.) The Palgrave Enyclopedia of Global Security Studies (Palgrave, 2019).
"Book review: Bioinformation by Bronwyn Parry and Beth Greenhough," cultural geographies 26, 2019.
"After polio: imagining, planning, and delivering a world beyond eradication," Health and Place 54, 2018.
- with Tim Brown, “Global health geographies,” in Valerie Crooks, Gavin Andrews and Jamie Pearce (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Health Geography (Routledge, 2018).
"To understand and be understood: facilitating interdisciplinary learning through the promotion of communicative competence,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education 42, 2018.
"Making space for restoration: epistemological pluralism within mental health interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo," Area 49, 2017. [selected for inclusion in the July 2022 RGS-IBG special virtual collection on Geographies Beyond Recovery].
"In pursuit of zero: polio, global health security and the politics of eradication in Peshawar, Pakistan," Geoforum 69, 2016.
"Why must we stay in this cage? Governing sexuality in biomedical research," in Gavin Brown and Kath Browne (eds.) Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (Routledge, 2016).
- with David Nally, "The politics of self-help: the Rockefeller Foundation, philanthropy and the 'long' Green Revolution," Political Geography 49, 2015.
"Book review: Love in the Time of AIDS - Inequality, Gender and Rights in South Africa by Mark Hunter," Gender, Place and Culture 20, 2013.
"Book review: War, Violence and Population - Making the Body Count by James Tyner," European Planning Studies 18, 2010.
"Conference report: Comparative colonialisms," Journal of Historical Geography 35, 2009.
Research Awards
2015-2016 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant
2015-2016 Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid
Contribution to Peer Review
Antipode, Area, British Academy, Geography Compass, Geoforum, Global Networks, Health and Place, Political Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Third World Thematics, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Graduate Students Supervised
PhD
2017 - Paulina Szymczynska (QMUL), "Retention of patients with schizophrenia in complex intervention trials: patterns, issues, and practices" (with Stefan Priebe, QMUL).
Masters
2021 - Andreia Sousa Vieira (MA Development & Global Health, QMUL), "Perceptions of health in an era of Covid-19 and state of emergency in Madeira, Portugal."
2021 - Emily Hopewell (MA Development & Global Health, QMUL), "Mirror, mirror ... an exploration into the politicisation of the British border geographies and everyday mobilities and stillness in a time of Covid-19."
2021 - Henry Gapper (MA Global Development, QMUL), "Experiences of precarity within London's hospitality sector."
2020 - Mima Moyo (MA Global Health Geographies, QMUL), "A reversal of the traditional ideals of development? Assessing the impact of donor funding on the HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe."
2020 - Anne-Marie Ashton (MA Development & Global Health, QMUL), "Why are poor white girls underperforming in, and often not choosing, Geography at GCSE in Tower Hamlets?"
2020 - Rita Sharma Pandeya (MRes Global Health Geographies, QMUL), "Understanding the health and societal impacts of waterborne diseases in a post-flooding disaster context in Nepal."
2019 - Louise Cox (MA Development & Global Health, QMUL), "The magic number zero: exploring malaria eradication in Mozambique."
2017 - Catherine Mills (MA Geography, QMUL), "A GIS-based investigation into the distribution of acute STIs in England."
2017 - Jennifer Reay (MA Geography, QMUL), "Changing conceptions of geography in secondary school: a classroom-based study."
2015 - Glyn Hawksworth (MRes Geography, QMUL), "Recovery and the responsibilisation of drug users in UK policy."