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 - )
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:
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University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) [Dutch: Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs] (2022)
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Certificate in Assessing Theses (2021)
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Certificate in Assessing & Evaluating in Higher Education (2020)
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Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (2015).
Postgraduate Supervision:
Current:
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Tianchen Qu - The Impact of Real-Time Green Exposure on Human Emotions.
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John Pateman - Articulating the impact of cultural programming in UK public libraries.
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Kathryn Adams - Modelling the Environmental (in)justices associated with Road Traffic Noise: A spatiotemporal analysis.
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Danielle Sheppard - Rural Super-Gentrification: An Investigation of Social Change within Three English Villages.
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Ikal Angelei - Navigating Turkana Contested Frontier: A political ecology of land, law and everyday authority.
Completed:
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Thomas Lowe (2024) - The Golden Years? Older adult mobility experiences and perceptions across the later life course in England.
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Charlie Hewitt (2023) - Discovering the way: Automated Machine Learning improvement of Ordnance Survey path network data
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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.
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Natasha Keen (2019) - VRtual Space: Looking at user experience, communities and trolling.
Teaching Lead:
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Digital World (Level-1)
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Tutorials and Fieldwork (Level-1) - Fieldtrip Lecturer
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Research Design and Methods (Level-2)
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Geographies of Health and Wellbeing (Level-3)
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Bachelor Project/Dissertation Supervision (Level-3).
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Berlin Fieldcourse (Level-3)
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Qualitative Research for Policy and Practice (Master Level).
External Teaching:
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Qualitative methods in a digital age - Universität Innsbruck, Austria
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Moving with Young Children, Victoria University, Australia
Teaching Awards:
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Best Academic Supporting Staff - nominated (2024)
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Best Personal Tutor - nominated (2024)
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PGR Teaching Academy Award - won (2017)
Academic Citizenship
Citizenship & Leadership Awards
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Inspiring Leader (2024), University of Leicester - nominated
Editorial Activities
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Book Review Editor (2021 - 2025) Emotion, Space and Society.
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Editorial Board Member (2022 - 2025) Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
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Early Career Editorial Board Member (2022 - 2024) Health and Place
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Early Career Editorial Board Member (2022 - 2024) Wellbeing, Space and Society.
I serve on the expert reviewer panels for the following funders: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Wellcome.
I have acted as a peer reviewer for the following journals and publishers: Aging & Society; Annals of the American Association of Geographers; Arts & Health; Brain and Environment; Computers, Environment and Urban Systems; Digital Geography and Society; Emotion, Space and Society; Environment & Behavior; The Professional Geographer; Geography Compass; Geographical Research; Historical Geography; Oxford University Press; Social and Cultural Geography; Social Science & Medicine; SSM - Qualitative Research in Health; Sociology of Health and Illness.
Inter/national Citizenship Roles
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Communications Officier, Geographies of Health and Well-being Research Group, RGS-IBG - (2025 - present)
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Chair, Digital Geographies Research Group, RGS-IBG (2023 - 2026)
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Ordinary Member, Geographies of Health and Well-being Research Group, RGS-IBG (2022 - 2025)
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Treasurer, Digital Geographies Research Group, RGS-IBG (2020 - 2021)
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Membership Officer, Digital Geographies Research Group, RGS-IBG (2017 - 2020)
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Founding Membership Officer, Digital Geographies Working Group, RGS-IBG (2016 - 2017)
Institutional Citizenship Roles
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REF2029 Steering Committee member (2025 - present) University of Leicester
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Chair, REF2029 Mirror Steering Committee (2025 - present) University of Leicester
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Deputy Director of Research and Enterprise (2023 - present) School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester
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Postgraduate Research Director (2022 - present) School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester
Workshops & Conferences
Conferences
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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
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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.
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Virtual Worlds - University of Birmingham 2019 (co-organised with Hannah Awcock, Phil Jones, Adam Packer).
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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)
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Navigating Data Landscapes – RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Cardiff 2018 (Co-organised with Gillian Rose and Sam Hind with funding support from the RGS-IBG)