I am a cultural and political geographer whose research specialises in the governance of emergencies and crisis. I’ve pursued this interest through a number of different research projects, from examining the development  of risk-based governance in the UK to developing resilience to pandemics across the world. Currently, my work focuses on moves to create critical national infrastructure resilient to climate crisis.  For me, these matters are crucially important for understanding how governance operates in our time; showing as they do how our global futures are imagined, how governments are changing their engagement with the wider environment and what this all means for our agency as citizens amid emergencies both in the present and the future.

I teach on a range of modules across both the BSc International Disaster Management and MSc in Disaster Management. Currently these include:

• Disaster Politics
• Security, Resilience and Infrastructures in an Uncertain World
• Dissertations
• Scholarship and Practice

 I’d also be interested in supervising PhD projects which probe various crises and their governance through a cultural and political geographic lens.