Potential speakers for seminars

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Potential future speakers

Sue Parnell (new book)

Harriet Bulkeley – crossover with Political Ecology

Marianna Mazzucato (UCL)

Andrea Pollio – crossover with Bristol Digital Futures Institute

Guy Poppy (new VC research) working on food systems (crossover with Food Justice faculty research group)

Andy Tatem, World POP – crossover with QuSS

Rachel Payne at Welcome Trust Climate and health PD

Brett Christophers (Uppsala)

Austin Zeiderman (LSE)

Agnes Arnold-Forster (Edinburgh)

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

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For next academic year 2025-26
Jenney Crane: Can I please nominate Mark Batterham to give a paper to SES next term? Mark is a PhD student in medicine (I’m his third supervisor), and he’s just starting a really fascinating project about using place to support early psychosis recovery. This is funded by the NIHR and responds to the fact that living in urban spaces, we know from research, is a huge risk factor for psychosis – but there’s very little research, at present, about how to intervene and change this. Mark’s work on this will then develop an actual intervention, building on his experience and connections as a mental health nurse – and is also relevant geographically, notably in terms of defining ‘urban’ in medical and geographical studies, and in looking at the enabling roles of ‘place’.

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Qiujie – Madison and I had a quick chat about the SES group. We chatted about Madison giving a talk in TB1 next academic year: updating us on fieldwork and preliminary findings.