Academic Staff
Lisa Belyea
Professor of Biogeosciences, Deputy Head of School
Geography Building, Room 214+44 (0)20 7882 2781
l.belyea@qmul.ac.ukSpatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystems; carbon cycling; ecohydrology; peatlands
Alison Blunt
Professor of Geography
Geography Building, Room 209+44 (0)20 7882 8437
a.m.blunt@qmul.ac.ukHome, migration and the city; museums; feminist and postcolonial geographies
Anna Bourne
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Geography Building, Room 208+44 (0)20 7882 2752
a.bourne@qmul.ac.ukChronologies of environmental change
James Bradley
Lecturer in Environmental Science
Geography building, Room 113+44 (0)20 7882 8417
james.bradley@qmul.ac.ukGeobiology; Biogeochemistry; Carbon cycle; Climate change; Glaciology; Deep subsurface
Tim Brown
Reader in Health Geography
Bancroft Building, Room 2.02+44 (0)20 7882 8465
tim.brown@qmul.ac.ukCritical approaches to urban public health; global health and security
Sydney Calkin
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Human Geography
Geography Building, Room 107+44 (0)20 7882 3153
s.calkin@qmul.ac.uk
Peter Congdon
Research Professor in Quantitative Geography and Health Statistics
Geography Building, Room 204+44 (0)20 7882 2778
p.congdon@qmul.ac.ukQuantitative analysis of spatial data; geographic inequalities in health; spatial demography; spatial epidemiology
Kavita Datta
Professor of Development Geography
Geography Building, Room 217+44 (0)20 7882 5398
k.datta@qmul.ac.ukTransnational migration; migrant remittance and philanthropic giving; geographies of finance; gender and development
Heather Ford
NERC Independent Research Fellow, Lecturer in Environmental Science
Geography Building, Room 101+44 (0)20 7882 2747
h.ford@qmul.ac.ukPalaeoceanography, geochemical analysis of microfossils from marine sediment
Stuart Grieve
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Geography Building, Room 206+44 (0)20 7882 2780
s.grieve@qmul.ac.ukComputational and modelling techniques to develop understanding of the environmental processes that shape planetary surfaces
Angela Gurnell
Professor of Physical Geography
Geography Building, Room 103+44 (0)20 7882 8927
a.m.gurnell@qmul.ac.ukEcohydrology and biogeomorphology
Sam Halvorsen
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Geography Building, Room 210+44 (0)20 7882 8927
s.halvorsen@qmul.ac.ukGrassroots urban politics, democracy, social movements, political parties, territory, Latin America
Gemma Harvey
Reader in Physical Geography
Geography Building, Room 212+44 (0)20 7882 2722
g.l.harvey@qmul.ac.uk 
Alex Henshaw
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Bancroft Building, Room 2.03+44 (0)20 7882 5436
a.henshaw@qmul.ac.ukFluvial geomorphology; remote sensing; river management
Kate Heppell
Professor of Physical Geography
Geography Building, Room 205+44 (0)20 7882 2768
c.m.heppell@qmul.ac.ukHydrological and biogeochemical interactions
Kerry Holden
Lecturer in Human Geography
Geography Building, Room 102+44 (0)20 7882 2779
k.holden@qmul.ac.ukScience and technology studies; global health; development
Carlo Inverardi-Ferri
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Bancroft Building, Room 2.11+44 (0)20 7882 2745
c.inverardi-ferri@qmul.ac.ukEcology and global production, Geographies of waste
Azeezat Johnson
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Geography Building, Room 221+44 (0) 207 882 2749
azeezat.johnson@qmul.ac.ukCritical race and feminist geographies, with a particular focus on Black Muslim women and clothing practices
Regan Koch
Lecturer in Human Geography, Director of the City Centre
Bancroft Building, Room 2.09+44 (0)20 7882 5405
r.koch@qmul.ac.ukPublic space; urban sociality and collective culture; representing and imagining cities
Simon Lewis
Professor of Quaternary Science
Geography Building, Room 120+44 (0)20 7882 8923
s.lewis@qmul.ac.ukQuaternary stratigraphy; sedimentology and geoarchaeology
Jon May
Professor of Geography
Geography Building, Room 124+44 (0)20 7882 8925
j.may@qmul.ac.ukHomelessness; food-banking; welfare reform; urban marginality
Konstantinos Melachroinos
Lecturer in Geography
Geography Building, Room 112+44 (0)20 7882 5573
k.melachroinos@qmul.ac.ukRegional economic development and policy; geographical information systems (GIS)
William Monteith
Lecturer in Human Geography
Geography Building, Room 105+44 (0)20 7882 8438
w.monteith@qmul.ac.ukGender and development; informal and precarious work; urban sociality; ethnography
Catherine Nash
Professor of Human Geography
Geography Building, Room 122+44 (0)20 7882 8924
c.nash@qmul.ac.ukFeminist cultural geography; geographies of identity and relatedness
Miles Ogborn
Professor of Geography
Geography Building, Room 211+44 (0)20 7882 8926
m.j.ogborn@qmul.ac.ukGlobal historical geographies; historical geographies of modernity
Alastair Owens
Professor of Historical Geography, Head of School
Geography Building, Room 114+44 (0)20 7882 2750
a.j.owens@qmul.ac.ukHistorical geographies of wealth and inequality; family, home and material culture; London since 1800
Joe Penny
Lecturer in Economic Geography
Bancroft Building, Room 2.10+44 (0)20 7882 2746
j.penny@qmul.ac.uk 
Gale Raj-Reichert
Lecturer in Economic Geography
Bancroft Building, Room 2.10+44 (0)20 7882 2746
g.raj-reichert@qmul.ac.ukLabour governance; global production networks; Global South
Simon Reid-Henry
Reader in Geography
Geography Building, Room 109+44 (0)20 7882 5416
s.reid-henry@qmul.ac.ukInequality, democracy and political liberalism; Historical geographies of development, global health, and humanitarianism; global intellectual history, histories of science, and geopolitical thought
Adrian Smith
Professor of Human Geography; Deputy Vice-Principal (Research Excellence); Dean for Research (Humanities and Social Sciences)
Geography Building, Room 117+44 (0)20 7882 8436
a.m.smith@qmul.ac.ukEconomic geography; labour & global production; globalisation & global economy; Europe & North Africa
Claudia Soares
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Geography Building, Room 202+44 (0)20 7882 2777
c.soares@qmul.ac.ukHistorical geographies of migration; studies of childhood, family and home; material culture and emotions
Jessie Speer
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Bancroft Building, Room 2.11+44 (0)20 7882 2745
j.speer@qmul.ac.uk 
Kate Spencer
Professor of Environmental Geochemistry
Geography Building, Room 207+44 (0)20 7882 7814
k.spencer@qmul.ac.ukEstuarine sediment geochemistry and fine sediment management
Stephen Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Bancroft Building, Room 2.09a+44 (0)20 7882 2748
stephen.taylor@qmul.ac.ukCritical geographies of global health, biomedicine and uneven development
Giuditta Trinci
Lecturer in Physical Geography
Geography Building, Room 223+44 (0)20 7882 2753
giuditta.trinci@qmul.ac.ukEcohydraulics and fluvial geomorphology
Marcia Vera Espinoza
Lecturer in Human Geography, Director of International Study
Geography Building, Room 219+44 (0)20 7882 2751
m.vera-espinoza@qmul.ac.ukMigration and development in the Global South
Geraldene Wharton
Professor of Physical Geography
Geography Building, Room 111+44 (0)20 7882 5439
g.wharton@qmul.ac.ukFluvial geomorphology and hydroecology
Philippa Williams
Reader in Human Geography, Senior Tutor
Geography Building, Room 215+44 (0)20 7882 6977
p.williams@qmul.ac.ukCitizenship, development and identity in India; India’s new economy; geographies of peace; material politics of transnational identities
Kathryn Yusoff
Professor of Inhuman Geography
Geography Building, Room 110+44 (0)20 7882 8922
k.yusoff@qmul.ac.ukAnthropocene; climate change and social theory; political aesthetics; feminist philosophy