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University Education

PhD in Geography and Environmental Science (ESRC funded), 2019

University of Birmingham

MSci Geography, 1st Class Honours, 2015

University of Birmingham

Posts Held

Honorary Research Fellow (2024 - )

University of Birmingham. 

 

Lecturer in Human Geography (2022 - )

University of Leicester.

Research Fellow (2021 - 2022)

Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health
 

Postdoctoral Researcher (2019 - 2022)

University of Groningen

Lecturer in Demography (2019 - 2022)

University of Groningen

Research Assistant (2017 - 2018)

University of Birmingham

Teaching Associate (2017 - 2019)

University of Birmingham 

GIS Associate (2018)

University of Birmingham

Research Assistant (2016)

University of Birmingham

GIS Consultant (2016)

City Region Economic & Development Institute (City REDI) - University of Birmingham

Teaching Experience

Teaching Qualifications:

  • University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) [Dutch: Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs] (2022)

  • Certificate in Assessing Theses (2021)

  • Certificate in Assessing & Evaluating in Higher Education (2020)

  • Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (2015).

Postgraduate Supervision:

  • John Pateman - Articulating the impact of cultural programming in UK public libraries. PhD, University of Leicester.

  • Kathryn Adams - Modelling the Environmental (in)justices associated with Road Traffic Noise: A spatiotemporal analysis. PhD, University of Leicester

  • Danielle Sheppard - Rural Super-Gentrification: An Investigation of Social Change Within Three English Villages. PhD, University of Leicester.

  • Thomas Lowe - The Golden Years? Older adult mobility experiences and perceptions across the later life course in England. PhD, University of Groningen  

  • Charlie Hewitt - Discovering the way: Automated Machine Learning improvement of Ordnance Survey path network data. MPhil, University of Leicester

  • Anna Harbers (2022) The association between socioeconomic status (SES), Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and Health care utilisation of Q fever patients with long-term health symptoms. MSc, University of Groningen.

  • Natasha Keen (2019) VRtual Space: Looking at User Experience, Communities and Trolling. MRes, University of Birmingham.

Teaching Lead:

  • Digital World (Level-1)

  • Tutorials and Fieldwork (Level-1) - Fieldtrip Lecturer

  • Research Design and Methods (Level-2)

  • Geographies of Health and Wellbeing (Level-3)

  • Bachelor Project/Dissertation Supervision (Level-3).

  • Berlin Fieldcourse (Level-3)

  • Qualitative Research for Policy and Practice (Master Level).

External Teaching:     

  •  Qualitative methods in a digital age - Universität Innsbruck, Austria 

  •  Moving with Young Children, Victoria University, Australia 

Teaching Awards:

  • Best Academic Supporting Staff - nominated (2024)    

  • Best Personal Tutor - nominated (2024)

  • PGR Teaching Academy Award - won (2017)

Workshops & Conferences

Conferences

  • The Future of Digital Geographies: provocations, trajectories, and research agendas, DGRG Annual Symposium, July 2021 (co-organised with Harrison Smith, Phil Jones, Daisy Curtis, and Godwin Yeboah)

 

Workshops​

  • Behind the scenes: Discussions around Research Methods - Online seminar (Co-organised with Saakshi Joshi, Nikhil Pazhoothundathil & Thomas Lowe). A collaboration between the University of Groningen, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, and Utrecht University.

  • Virtual Worlds - University of Birmingham 2019 (co-organised with Hannah Awcock, Phil Jones, Adam Packer).

  • Applied Memory: Putting affective and embodied methods into practice on the National Mall – AAG 2019, Washington D.C. (Co-organised with Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas and Danielle Drozdzewski)

  • Navigating Data Landscapes – RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Cardiff 2018 (Co-organised with Gillian Rose and Sam Hind with funding support from the RGS-IBG)

 

Organised sessions

  • Innovative Digital Geographies: Pushing against quantitative and qualitative boundaries, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2nd - 5th September 2020 (Co-organised with Zoe Gardner, Stefano De Sabbata and Katy Bennett) - Postponed due to COVID-19.

  • Digital Geographies Coffee Break: Chat and Charge, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2nd - 5th September 2020 (Co-organised with Jennie Day and Adam Packer) - Cancelled due to COVID-19.

  • Geographical Considerations of Digital Landscapes I & II. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff, 28th – 31st August 2018 (Co-organised with Isabel Williams)

  • Mobile bodies, technologies and methods: critical perspectives. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, 3rd - 9th April 2017 (Co-organised with Phil Jones)

  • Use of technologies and apps in social science research with children and young people. Young People and the New Urban Agenda Conference, Birmingham, 14th September 2016 (Co-organised with Sophie Hadfield-Hill)

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