Aurora’s work explores the spaces where the ordinary and crisis coexist, with a particular focus on emplaced encounters with planetary environmental change. She has engaged with these themes in a variety of empirical settings, most recently in research and writing on wildlife geographies and ordinary experience with/in the Anthropocene. 

She joined the department of Geography in July 2016 as a Simon Research Fellow before starting as a Lecturer in 2018. She holds a PhD in Sociology at Columbia University in New York. 

My research interests include:

• Wildlife geographies 
• Anthropocene / Plantationocene
• ecological crisis
• affect and emotion
• feminist science studies
• value and valuation 

I teach broadly in cultural and environmental geography with specific teaching expertise in animal and plant geographies, landscape and the Anthropocene. 

In recent years I have taught on the following units:

GEOG30701 Wildlife in the Anthropocene 

GEOG31011 Decolonising Geographies: Theory, Methods, Praxis

GEOG10432 Introducing Human Geographies 

GEOG20072 Research Design and Fieldwork: Barcelona  

Current PhD students:

Matthew Varco, Eco-fascism and political ecologies of the far-right in Germany (supervised with Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw)

Caitlin Morrissey, Making up the global city: the financing and governing of urban infrastructural futures (supervised with Kevin Ward, Michele Acutu (Univ of Melbourne, and Crystal Legacy (Univ of Melboune))

Grace Tudor-Worrall, To what extent is posthuman resistance possible? Becoming posthuman in the Anthropocene (supervised with Sherilyn MacGregor.

Ana Lambert Grossi, A liminal space: boundary organisations at the crossroads of GEC in the Amazon (supervised with Noel Castree and Rob Bellamy)

Oliver Bignell, Anecdotal Anthropocenes: The role of experiential knowledge in sensing wildfires (supervised with Gareth Clay and Nat O'Gracy)

Yihan Yan, The Governance of Animaling Public Space in Urban China: Dog-related conflicts, spatial regulations, and social exclusion (supervised with Cristina Temenos and Yawei Zhao)

Francisca Vergara Pinto, Understanding risk perceptions and post-eruption reoccupation in recently active volcanic spaces (supervised with Nat O'Grady)

Niamh Nelson-Owens, Agonising about vegan encounters: Exploring the role of vegan activism in the pursuit of (net)zero carbon (supervised with Joe Blakey)

Completed PhD students:

Denise Misleh Heller, Alternatives from within: Analysing local food economic spaces (supervised with Martin Hess and Martin Dodge)