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Research Group

Economy, society and governance

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We are a group of human geographers with research interests in economic geographies, governance, and citizenship.

About

We research:

Economic geographies, including: regional development and growth, evolutionary economic geography, innovation, digital technologies, knowledge, craft, heritage, the creative economy, venture capital and firm finance, firm location and form, social enterprise, entrepreneurship, work location and form, and gender.

Governance and citizenship, including: welfare policy, local governance, urban policy, migration, borders, diaspora, care, gender, affect and emotion, everyday life, and popular understandings of politics.

People, projects and publications

People

Doctor Brian Hracs

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Brian

Email: b.j.hracs@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Jen Dickinson

Lecturer in Development Geographies

Research interests

  • models of diaspora mobilisation and governance, including policy at the national and international levels, the role of diaspora civil society and civil society, diplomacy & geopolitics
  • the impacts of diaspora economic and political mobilisation in origin countries, particularly on inequality, cultural heritage landscapes & tourism development

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jen

Email: j.dickinson@southampton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Julie Vullnetari

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Linking migration to development
  • Older people in migration and development

Connect with Julie

Email: j.vullnetari@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Doctor Nick Clarke

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Political geography
  • Urban geography

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Nick

Email: n.clarke@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

I’m a political and urban geography specialist with a research focus on governance and citizenship.
Associate Professor
I research migration, aging, care, remittances, bordering, and everyday life in socialist societies.
Associate Professor
I’m interested in how digital technologies and global competition are reshaping the marketplace and working lives in the creative economy.
Associate Professor
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