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Human Geographer

Gentrification and displacement, cities and crime; wealth, poverty and exclusion; segregation and urban security; 'gated communities' and fortress homes.

Mark's research focuses on sandscapes, past depositional processes and environmental change.

Rorie Beswick-Parsons is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, whose research encompasses a range of topics concerning issues of sustainability, environmentalism, and processes of change.

Sutapa is a Research Associate working in high-resolution climate modelling in the NERC-funded Deplete and Retreat project.

Grant currently lectures on oceanography and polar environments, and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and the Royal Geographical Society.

Megan is a recognised expert in food security and food justice. Her current research focuses on everyday food insecurity can be addressed in developed economies.

She is working in an action research project on Youth participation and the role of digital technologies in reducing urban inequalities in India and Nepal.

Margi is interested in Community-based and participatory governance of wildlife, landscape and natural resources, in both global North and global South.

Rob is interested in the global dust cycle, with particular emphasis on geomorphological and hydrological processes that occur within "dry" arid basins.

Global development researcher, with scholarly work informed by participatory action research with grassroots organizations, NGOs, and international organisations.

My research interests range from politics, memory and violence, to spatial and urban anthropology. I am currently exploring performance, art and video-making as collaborative methodologies.

Chris' primary research interest is in glacial geomorphology, in particular building up a detailed picture of the evolution of former ice sheets through the last glacial cycle.

I am an art researcher specialising in social art practices and critical theory. My current work examines the links between artistic practices and anti-colonial movements in Israel/Palestine.

Greg's research focuses on the use of systems modelling to tackle sustainability issues in food and natural resource systems.

I am an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on urban adaptation, finance, and climate justice.

Class, gentrification, urban regeneration and housing.

AC Davidson's research centres on the intersections of social justice and sustainability, with a focus on feminist and queer theory on body-environment relations and methodological questions on the ethics, aesthetics and politics of knowledge production.

Expert in Earth Observation of the Polar Regions and numerical modelling of fjord circulation

Brendan Doody is a human geographer who examines transformations in mobility and urban life focusing on everyday cultures and politics, emerging innovations and markets, and urban governance and experimentation.

Jeremy is a physical geographer, focussing on the impacts of changing ice sheets and glaciers in our warming world

Housing policy, housing management, citizenship, crime and anti-social behaviour, neighbourhood renewal and social cohesion and religion

Urban development and politics in the global South.

My research focuses on social justice issues in the Majority and Minority world, examining the intersectional (re)production of inequality and everyday political responses to this. My work advances important debates in Urban Studies and Geography.

I am a research associate in the department of Geography, focussing on Antarctic climate change.

Urban labour markets and deprived neighbourhoods.

Daniel's research addresses concerns within political and development geography, primarily in relation to sub-Saharan Africa.

Applied spatial analysis and GIS; Housing and neighbourhoods; Urban regional policy and planning

Urban indigeneity; diversity and the right to the city; citizen-led and participatory planning with a focus on Latin American and African cities.

Urban planning and development, political theory, governance and public administration

Local property market functioning; retail planning and investment; retail investment diversification

Professor Peter Jackson is the Co-Director of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø of Sheffield Institute for Sustainable Food. His research focuses on social and cultural geography and consumption and identity.

Rowan is a cultural geographer whose work focuses on critical theory in rural landscapes.

Julie is a climate scientist interested in climate model simulations.

Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) Research Theme Lead: Cities

Housing economics; real estate; urban and regional planning

Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) Research Theme Lead: Data and Digital Innovation

Ankit's work seeks to develop postcolonial approaches for climate and energy justice, conceptually drawing on the interfaces of knowledge, politics, postcolonial solidarity, development and culture.

Glacial numerical modeller understanding the past and future of Andean glacial water tower

Dr Sihan Li is a climate scientist with extensive experience in using regional climate modelling and hydrological modelling to study regional climate change and climate change impacts.

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Teacher in Real Estate and Planning

Urban landscape history with colonial influence; cultural landscapes and conservation; sustainable urban design

Jacob Macdonald is Lecturer in GIS and Spatial Analysis with broad research interests in the relationship between urban economic and environmental processes.

I am a Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. I focus on the design, planning and development of contemporary cities – particularly for children.

With a background in F&B and research, Jacob leads projects in controlled environment agriculture, from low-cost systems to commercial R&D, now modelling low-input hydroponics in the H3 program.

Design decision-making processes and models

Olayiwola specialises in real estate economics with core interests in real estate digital applications (PropTech), operational real estate, residential real estate and urban markets.

Iliana Ortega-Alcazar is a Research and Innovation Associate working on the project ‘No space like home? Small domestic properties, compensatory urbanism and housing futures in English cities’ with Dr Eleanor Wilkinson.

Institutional change in market-led housing systems. House-builder behaviour and residential development

Jenny brings experience of participatory approaches, activist methodologies, and a commitment to equality and diversity.

Jack is a qualitative researcher specialising in food-related topics, such as food waste, packaging, and food markets.

Urban and neighbourhood governance and policy

I am researching climate change and meteorological processes, using climate modelling.

Sammia's research explores the interplay of the body and the mind in development interventions.

Urban marginality, urban governance, housing and labour market inequalities, group stigmatisation, Gypsy-Travellers and Roma, sociology of Norbert Elias

Qualitative housing researcher interested in home, belonging and affordable housing

As an agricultural and development economist, I focus on the interlinkages between food system transformation and malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries. I aim to utilize the most appropriate methods to gain a better understanding of the complexities of malnutrition and the various factors that determine it.

Professor Ed Rhodes is interested in active tectonics, including fault slip rate studies and palaeoseismology – dating ancient earthquake events.

Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow.

Housing, the politics of community, new migration

Dr Sharda Rozena is an urbanist and human geographer, whose work has focused on social injustices with respect to housing, gentrification and displacement.

Researcher in Urban Planning

The processes through which the public are engaged in making and implementing environmental (water) policy

Jason is a Lecturer with broad research interests in the fields of planning and planning theory.

Andrew's research is focused on furthering our understanding of the mass balance and dynamic stability of glaciers and ice sheets.

The mediation of urban development, professionalism and planning; theorising planning activity.

Researcher specializing in extreme climate events, Antarctic extremes, and the impacts of climate change on public health through climate modeling and interdisciplinary approaches.

Architecture, urban design and planning, questions of power and decision-making

Dr. Jingxia Wang is a Lecturer in GIS. Her research interests include Green Infrastructure planning and development, environmental analysis, urban ecology, and digital spatial planning.

Tosh Warwick is Research Associate in Urban Studies at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø of Sheffield. His research focuses on culture, heritage, regeneration and the role of the university beyond the academy.

Interdisciplinary and mixed-methods researcher in climate resilient agriculture and food systems.

Aidan’s research examines how cities and urban social life are being reimagined and redesigned in response to climate change and automation.

Research fellow working on migration, identity and transnational politics in relation to the Horn of Africa.

Thomas is a Lecturer in Volcanology with interests in remote sensing, instrument design and Machine Learning applications in Earth Sciences.

Interdisciplinary Senior Research Fellow in Social Sciences, a feminist geographer researching precarity, housing, inequality and the politics of affect and emotion.

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, MDVs, de-militarisation, and housing financialisation

UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence