Staff profile

My PhD explores the role that smartphones now play in the everyday lives of asylum seekers in the UK. I'm interested in how everyday smartphone practices mediate the spatio-temporal experience of waiting within the asylum system. Mobilizing an intersectional feminist approach to research within digital geographies, I explore the everyday, intimate, and affective digtial encounters with the state (and beyond) that asylum seekers now expereince through the smartphone screen.

I use ethnographic methods informed by participatory action research. 

I am also a PGR representative for the RGS Digital Geographies Research Group. We run a ‘Digital Shorts’ YouTube channel where ECRs and PGRs can get there work out there in a visual, interactive format. For any enquiries about contributions just send me an email. You can see the channel and its current contributions here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCfw3yN5P7dduwDJ7z7KH5CA

Journal Article

• Morgan, H. (online). Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects. Progress in Human Geography, 47(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174311
• Morgan, H. (2024). Between hope and hostility: The affirmative biopolitics of everyday smartphone geographies. Political Geography, 114, Article 103192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103192
• Morgan, H. (2024). Everyday digital dis/connection: Locating slow violence in (non)encounters with the UK asylum state. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12674