Committee Members (2020-2023)
| Position | Name | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
| Chair | Jennie Middleton | Associate Professor, University of Oxford. Jennie.middleton[at]ouce.ox.ac.uk Research interests: Urban walking, Everyday mobilities, Care in the city, Qualitative methods for urban research. |
| Secretary | Sawyer Phinney | PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester. Email: sawyer.phinney[at]manchester.ac.uk Research interests: Political economy. The financialization of water in Black-majority U.S cities. |
| Treasurer | Daniel Keech | Senior Research Fellow, CCRI, University of Gloucestershire. Email: dkeech[at]glos.ac.uk Research interests: Urban food systems, Urban-rural relationships and European food cultures. |
| Membership Secretary | Niranjana Ramesh | Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, LSE Department of Geography & Environment. Email: n.ramesh[at]lse.ac.uk. Research interests: Coastal cities, Urban sea, Fishing, Infrastructures, Urban water, Urban nature. |
| Events and Conferences Officer | Katie Higgins | Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Elites, Oxford University. Email: katie.higgins[at]spi.ox.ac.uk Research interests: Elites, Urban inequality. |
| Dissertation Prize Coordinator | Frances Brill | The Margaret Tyler Research Fellow in Geography, and College Lecturer, Girton College, University of Cambridge. Email:fnb22[at]cam.ac.uk Research interests: The interaction of the climate and housing crises, in Johannesburg and London. |
| Postgraduate Representative | ||
| Website and Social Media Officer | Basak Tanulku | Independent scholar, Istanbul Turkey. PhD in Sociology, Lancaster University. Email: tanulkub[at]gmail.com Research interests: Urban sociology, Housing, Gated communities, Space&people, Urban vacancy, Alternative urban spaces. |
| Twitter Account Officer | Freke Caset | Ghent University (Social and Economic Geography Research Group), also visiting scholar at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research). Email:freke.caset[at]ugent.be Research interests: Transport geography, Urban geography and Urban and regional planning. |
| Ordinary Member | Jin Xing | Lecturer in Geospatial Analysis in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University. Email: jin.xing[at]newcastle.ac.uk Research Interests: Smart Cities, Geographic Information Science, Machine Learning, Urban Change Detection, Big Data Analytics, Spatio-Temporal Modelling, and Volunteered Geographic Information. |
| Ordinary Member | Anke Schwarz | Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Human Geography at Technische Universität Dresden’s Institute of Geography. Email: anke.schwarz[at]tu-dresden.de Research interests: International urbanization, Infrastructures, and Everyday practices. |
| Ordinary Member | Creighton Connolly | Assistant Professor, School of Graduate Studies & Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Email: creightonmcr[at]gmail.com Research interests: Urban Political Ecology, Environmental Governance, Heritage, Landscape, Participatory Methods, Southeast Asia. |
| Ordinary Member | ||
| Ordinary Member | Nabeela Ahmed | Lecturer in Human Geography Sheffield Hallam University. Email: Nabeela.Ahmed[at]shu.ac.uk Research interests: Feminist geographer working on urban precarity and governance in post-colonial settings, particularly India. |