Professor Jennifer Robinson FBA

Postcolonial critique of urban studies; comparative urbanism and global urban studies; rethinking urban development politics from South African, UK and African contexts; transnational and state actors in urban development.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

University College London Professor of Human Geography

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Professor Susan Owens FBA

Environmental governance: relations between land use planning, environment & sustainability; policy processes in modern democracies, especially the role of knowledge, ideas & advice in policy formation & change.

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Professor Sarah Kenderdine FBA

Experimental museology and curatorship exploring the convergence of cultural heritage, immersive visualisation, digital aesthetics and cultural (big) data from scientific, artistic and humanistic perspectives

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Professor Stephen Graham FBA

The changing nature of cities and urbanism; sociologies of technology, mobility and infrastructure; the digitisation of urban life; the politics of urban security and militarisation; the vertical dimension of cities

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