About us

We are a dynamic and distinctive community of academics, researchers and PhD students committed to research and teaching excellence in Human Geography and its widest interdisciplinary possibilities. As scholars and academic citizens, our work is focussed on thinking critically and creatively about our shared environmental and political futures. We approach this from a diversity of perspectives including:

• Political Engagement and Community Activism
• Practice, Policy and Impact
• Creative methodologies including creative writing and visual culture
• Critical Theory and Philosophy

Positioned at the forefront of conceptual and methodological innovation in political ecology, critical geography, and interdisciplinary social sciences we engage questions of human, environmental and planetary relations together with their specific political, social and cultural formations. Recent and ongoing work focuses on:

• African and Amazonian knowledge systems and Indigenous political movements
• Justice-based dimensions of resource extraction and the politics of environmental technology
• Agrarian and green transitions; alternative economies and the ethics of de-growth
• Digital climate futures and citizen-led climate and energy governance
• Migration, displacement and the politics of exile
• Social justice and environmental governance
• Urban poverty, marginality and climate change
• Marine ecosystems, tropical biodiversity and conservation
• Politics and institutional governance of land, water, and forests in the Global South
• Global cultural political economy and China’s project of ‘ecological civilisation’
• Political theology, philosophy and planetary thinking.

We work nationally and internationally with a wide range of academic, government, civil society and community partners in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, South America. We are actively engaged in the work of other Centres and Institutes at Lancaster and more widely, including the UKRI- funded Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC), the JUST Centre, Energy Lancaster, the Centre for Social Futures, the Centre for Mobility Research (CeMoRe), the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts (LICA), and the Institute for Planetary Repair. Our work has been funded by the AHRC, ESRC, ERC, and the Leverhulme Trust.