Staff profile

I am a Career Development Fellow in Human Geography at Durham University. Prior to this, I was a teaching fellow at Durham University (2023/24) and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Aberystwyth University (2022/23).

My research examines the entanglements of settler colonialism, environmental politics and cultural-ecological activism in the Middle East. My recent work explores Palestinian cultural activism and environmental knowledge in the West Bank, focusing on creative practices at the museum and the botanical garden.

I have a Master's degree in Globalisation and Development Studies (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) and a PhD in human geography (Aberystwyth University). My research was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Royal Geographical Society with IBG (through the prestigious Frederick Soddy Postgraduate Award) and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). 

Current PhD Supervisions

Naznin Nasir, PhD Student in the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience

• (i) Critical approaches to the study of nationalism and national identity, with particular focus on the role of museums and archives in the articulation of national identities.
• (ii) Cultural and artistic approaches to geopolitics, the production of imaginative geographies through creative practices, including exhibitions and visual culture.
• (iii) Postcolonial and decolonial critiques to geographical knowledge, colonialism and settler colonialism - with a focus on colonial constructions of nature and environmental politics in Palestine-Israel.