Geography Speakers

Professor Mike Hulme

Professor Mike Hulme is professor of climate change in the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Group in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). His work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural and scientific analyses, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public, political and scientific discourse.  From 2000 to 2007, Professor Hulme was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and from 2007, the founding editor-in-chief of the review journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change. His two most recent books are Why We Disagree About Climate Change (2009) and, with Henry Neufeldt, the edited volume Making Climate Change Work For Us (2010).

Professor David Lambert

Professor David Lambert was a comprehensive school geography teacher for 12 years becoming a Deputy Headteacher in 1985.  He joined the Institute of Education in 1987 and became Reader in Education in 1999. During this period, Professor Lambert led the Geography PGCE and the MA Geography in Education and also had a spell as Assistant Dean ITE (research). He played a leading role in introducing the Master of Teaching (MTeach), an innovative ‘applied masters’ programme for early professionals, which now has over 200 registered students. In 2002 Professor Lambert became full time Chief Executive of the Geographical Association, helping guide its development as a significant provider of professional development for geography teachers and a leader in funded curriculum development activity. From September 2007, Professor Lambert combined this role with a return to the Institute of Education as Professor of Geography Education. Recent publications include: Lambert D and Balderstone D 2010 Learning to Teach Geography (2^nd Edition), Routledge Lambert D and Morgan J 2010 Teaching Geography 11-18: a conceptual approach, Open University Press.

Christian Nold

Christian Nold is an artist, designer and researcher working to develop new participatory models and technologies for communal representation. He currently teaches at the ‘Electronic Clinic’ at The Bartlett, University College London. In 2001 Mr Nold wrote the book Mobile Vulgus, which examined the psychosomatic history of the political crowd. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, Mr Nold has led many large-scale participatory mapping projects. In particular his “Bio Mapping” project has been staged in sixteen different countries with more than 1500 workshop participants. For the last six years, Mr Nold has been developing an extensive tool-kit of technologies that blend together human and non-human sensors for local governance. In 2010, he launched an experimental currency, the “Bijlmer Euro,” which allows people to follow where their money moves. In 2011 Mr Nold published the book, The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World,  with Rob van Kranenburg.

Professor Hazel Barrett

Professor Hazel Barrett is Professor of Development Geography and Associate Dean for Applied Research at Coventry University. She has spent all her career working in higher education and has also led the Geography Environment and Disaster Management Department for eight years before being appointed Associate Dean for Applied Research in 2010. In the last 15 years Professor Barrett’s research has increasingly focussed on the impact and consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemics, particularly focussing on the impacts on women and children. In 2008 she was given the Geographical Association’s award for ‘Leading Excellence in Geography’ for her research on HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. In May 2008 The Guardian had a full page feature on Professor Barrett’s work on HIV/AIDS and in 2011 she was voted Present elect of the Geographical Association, an honorary position she will take up in 2013-4.

Professor Robert J. Allison

Professor Robert J. Allison is a professor of Geography and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex. His principal responsibility is the leadership and management of a research-intensive university, of 2,200 staff, 3,500 postgraduates, 8,500 undergraduates and £180 million turnover. Professor Allison has written over 100 scientific papers and a number of books, including Applied geomorphology: theory and practice (John Wiley & Sons; 2002). His research interests examine interactions between earth processes, landforms and material properties. Professor Allison has received the Jan De Ploey Prize (International Association of Geomorphologists), Charles Lyell Award (British Association for the Advancement of Science) and Cuthbert Peek Award (Royal Geographical Society), for his research.

Dr Philippa Williams

Dr Philippa Williams is the Smuts Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the Centre of South Asian Studies (2009-2012) and Bye-Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Her recently completed PhD in Geography, explored Muslim identity and agency in the context of inter-community relations in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr William’s current work critically examines citizenship as lived practice in north India and explores the processes and scales of “everyday peace” within South Asia. Dr William’s publications include, Marginality, agency and power: experiencing the state in contemporary India (Pacific Affairs 84 (1): 7-23) and Hindu-Muslim Relations and the 'War on Terror'' in Isabelle Clark-Deces (ed) A Companion to the Anthropology of India (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell).

Dr Mark Mulligan

Dr Mark Mulligan took up the post of Lecturer in Geography at King’s College London in September 1994, at the age of 24, and has been teaching and researching in the Department ever since. In 2003, Dr Mulligan was appointed Reader in Geography and in 2004 was awarded the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Gill Memorial Award for ‘innovative monitoring and modelling’ of environmental systems. He is senior fellow at the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and chair of the conservation advisory board for the Healthy Planet Foundation. Dr Mulligan currently supervises ten PhD students on a variety of topics in the area of environmental change on a local and global scale, with a particular emphasis on tropical forests and semi-arid dry lands.