Academic and research staff

I am a feminist critical geographer focused on postcolonial contexts in the domains of mobilities, borders and citizenship; urban inequalities; and digitisation and governance.

My research interests include regional and local economic disparities, regional economic policy and its evaluation, and the economics of very small states and island economies.

I am Chair in Inclusive Societies. My work focuses on social inequalities and cities, urban violence and disorder, illicit finance in property, and hostile architecture.

My research focuses on Sandscapes as an archive for understanding past environmental changes. These have shaped the landscape we live in and can help understand future responses.

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. My research encompasses a range of topics concerning issues of sustainability, environmentalism, and processes of change.

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

I currently lecture on oceanography and polar environments. I am a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and the Royal Geographical Society.

I am a recognised expert in food security and food justice. My current research focuses on everyday food insecurity can be addressed in developed economies.

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

As an Earth Observation Scientist, I study landscape dynamics and Earth-atmosphere interactions, using geospatial data to research dynamic land surfaces, environmental fluxes, and spatial ecology.

I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow, planetary scientist and glacial geomorphologist researching the history of glaciation on Mars and Earth, informing planning for future Mars missions.

I am a 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.

My research explores the politics of urban redevelopment, housing and homelessness.

I am a Research Associate working on food insecurity and food justice. My current research is in the NERC-funded Climateflation Project, which examines the impacts of climate-induced inflation.

I am a Research Associate with the CHANSE LGBTI Futures project.

My 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.

My research focuses on the use of systems modelling and geospatial techniques to tackle sustainability issues in food and natural resource systems.

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

I am an interdisciplinary researcher interested in the Sustainability of Social Ecological Technological Systems (SETS).

My research centres on the intersections of social justice and sustainability, with a focus on feminist and queer theory on body-environment relations and knowledge production.

I am an expert in Earth Observation of the Polar Regions and numerical modelling of fjord circulation.

I am a physical geographer, focussing on the impacts of changing ice sheets and glaciers in our warming world.

My research interests include housing policy, housing management, citizenship, crime and anti-social behaviour, neighbourhood renewal and social cohesion and religion.

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.

I am a research associate focussing on Antarctic climate change.

My research interests include urban labour markets and deprived neighbourhoods.

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

My research interests include applied spatial analysis and GIS; Housing and neighbourhoods; Urban regional policy and planning.

My research interests include urban indigeneity; diversity and the right to the city; citizen-led and participatory planning with a focus on Latin American and African cities.

My research interests include local property market functioning; retail planning and investment; retail investment diversification.

I am the Co-Director of the University of Sheffield Institute for Sustainable Food. My research focuses on social and cultural geography and consumption and identity.

I am a climate scientist interested in climate model simulations.

I am an urban geographer with a focus on common ownership, social movements, and urban governance.

I am Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) Research Theme Lead: Cities. My work engages the urbanisation of the world under contemporary globalised capitalism.

My research interests include housing economics; real estate; urban and regional planning

I am Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) Research Theme Lead: Data and Digital Innovation. My research investigates sustainable human development and global justice.

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

I am a glaciologist whose work uses numerical modelling and observations to disentangle how ice sheets move. I’m interested in the thermal state and basal motion mechanics of ice sheets and glaciers.

I am a glacial numerical modeller understanding the past and future of Andean glacial water tower.

I am a climate scientist with extensive experience in using regional climate modelling and hydrological modelling to study regional climate change and climate change impacts.

My research investigates past and current ice sheet hydrology and dynamics.

My research explores how the built environment is connected to and can be understood through exploring residents’ everyday constructive activities and the implications of this for urban policy.

My research interests include urban landscape history with colonial influence; cultural landscapes and conservation; sustainable urban design.

I am a Lecturer in GIS and Spatial Analysis with broad research interests in the relationship between urban economic and environmental processes.

I am a Research Associate with interests in housing need, inequalities and governance, and decarbonising the built environment.

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

My research interests encompass the physical, hydrological, and chemical processes that influence soil health. My recent work has concentrated on toxic trace elements, particularly arsenic.

I use maths to study how things work in the cryosphere, from the small scale of ice crystals to the large scale of glaciers and ice sheets.

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

I explore VR/AR in urban design to deepen user–space insight and participatory design, with experience applying these tools to advance digital education and train future professionals.

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

I am interested in the cultural and legal production and regulation of race, gender and sexuality; the sensory culture and geography of governmentality; urban life in Progressive-era United States.

I am 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.

My current research focuses on understanding the transport of sediment by water, and, in particular, using new technologies to track the movement of individual soil and sediment particles.

My research interests include institutional change in market-led housing systems, house-builder behaviour and residential development.

My research revolves around the measurement of sulphur dioxide using ultra violet cameras and computer modelling. I am CEO and Co-Founder of the university spin out VolcanoTech.

My research and teaching fall under three themes: Creativity and Curiosity; The World after Empire; Sexuality, Space and Power.

I bring experience of participatory approaches, activist methodologies, and a commitment to equality and diversity.

My research into urban, local and neighbourhood governance and public policy focuses on relationality and scalarity, seeking to locate place and communities in public policy and planning.

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

My research aims to highlight the importance of a psychosocial decolonial perspective to development, exploring the interplay of the body and the mind in development interventions.

My research interests include urban marginality, urban governance, housing and labour market inequalities, group stigmatisation, Gypsy-Travellers and Roma, and the sociology of Norbert Elias.

I am a 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 am interested in active tectonics, including fault slip rate studies and palaeoseismology – dating ancient earthquake events.

I am Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow interested in the co-emergence of new social and material worlds, particularly in the context of justice and sustainability.

My research focuses on understanding inequalities in access to the benefits of decent, secure, affordable housing, exposing the consequences for people and places and evaluating housing policy.

I am an urbanist and human geographer, whose work has focused on social injustices with respect to housing, gentrification and displacement.

I am a researcher in Urban Planning exploring urban changes in small towns through the lens of land, inter- and intra-familial propertied relations, and land-related injustices.

My research is at the intersection of food systems, health and environmental sustainability. I am interested in sustainable diets, climate and nutrition-sensitive food systems and food policy.

I am researching the processes through which the public are engaged in making and implementing environmental (water) policy.

Jason has broad interests across planning and planning theory.

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

My research looks at how groups of people make claims to cities, particularly in the Global South. This includes social inclusion and public space, and conflict and peacebuilding.

My research interests include the mediation of urban development, professionalism and planning; theorising planning activity.

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

My research interests include architecture, urban design and planning, questions of power and decision-making.

Luke’s research interests cover political and electoral geography, democratic theory and democratization, political participation, and patterns of digital engagement.

I am based between the School of English and the School of Geography and Planning. My research interests include archives, early film and entertainment, circus history and heritage regeneration

My research interests include: equality, diversity and inclusion; childhood and family life; and urban cultures and consumption.

I am a Lecturer in GIS. My research interests include Green Infrastructure planning and development, environmental analysis, urban ecology, and digital spatial planning.

My work bridges sustainable development, urban governance, and community participation, focusing on how governance, regulation, and everyday practices shape urban transitions in the UK and China.

I am a Research Associate in Urban Studies at the University of Sheffield. My research focuses on culture, heritage, regeneration and the role of the university beyond the academy.

My research focuses on the structure and operation of property markets, particularly local housing systems, and the impact of public policy on real estate market performance.

My work is concerned with understanding social change in relation to sustainability, through a focus on everyday life and the socio-technical systems that shape it.

I am an interdisciplinary and mixed-methods researcher in climate resilient agriculture and food systems.

My research interests include glacial systems (especially small and plateau glaciers and rock glaciers), Martian glacial systems, sediments, information systems and metadata in image archives.

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

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

I am a feminist cultural geographer whose work explores housing, gender and precarity; loneliness; imagined futures; care and social transformation; the politics of emotion and affect.

I am an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Associate interested in MDVs, de-militarisation, and housing financialisation.