Thursday, April 28, 2011

Confirmed Contributors

We are pleased to begin announcing our confirmed contributors so far. Check back soon for more exciting additions to our panel.

We can't wait to hear what these keynote panelists have to say...

Dr. Nicola Ansell


Nicola is a Reader in Human Geography in the Centre for Human Geography and the Deputy Head of Teaching and Learning in the School of Sport and Education at Brunel University, UK.

Her research interests encompass the geographies of youth and childhood, gender, and education and critical pedagogy. She has written extensively on education, livelihoods and food-security among AIDS-affected young people in Southern Africa.


Dr. Peter Hopkins


Peter is a Senior Lecturer in Social Geography and the Postgraduate Director for the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK.

His research interests centre on exploring how inequalities and discrimination affect people in their everyday lives. He works on young people's geographies and the geographies of religion, faith and spirituality, with a focus on how these intersect with notions of masculinity and ethnicity.



Dr. Robert Vanderbeck

Robert is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, UK.

His research interests surround contemporary processes of social exclusion and inclusion. He is particularly interested in childhood and youth, religion, sexualities, racialization, urban public spaces, and qualitative methodologies.



Weaving our panel together will be our discussant...

Dr. Claire Dwyer

Claire is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at University College London (UCL) and she serves on the editorial boards of Gender, Place and Culture and South Asian Diaspora.

Claire's research interests centre around the geographies of race, ethnicity, diaspora and transnationalism with a specific focus on Muslim identities in Britain. Her work is also rooted strongly in feminist geographies.


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