Committee

EGRG activities are organised by a committee of volunteers working in Geography Departments across the UK and beyond, each typically serving for 3 years.  Elections to the Committee happen at our AGM, held each year at the RGS-IBG Conference.

Chair – Liam Keenan

Liam Keenan is Assistant Professor in Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. As an economic geographer, his research interests include financialization, financial centres, global financial networks, and global production networks. Liam is currently researching the role of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in reshaping the geographies of several global industries as part of wider transformations related to increasing financialization. [Webpage]

Secretary – Franziska Paul

Dr Franziska Paul is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Political Economy at the University of Glasgow. She is an economic and labour geographer by training, and works on issues of ownership and transformation with a specific interest in processes of deprivatisation, democratisation, and alternative economic development. She is also co-lead of the interdisciplinary strategic initiative Political Economy Futures Forum (at University of Glasgow).
 
Link to website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/franziskapaul/

Treasurer – Jessa Loomis

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Prizes Officer – Chen Qu

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Early Careers Officer – Diana Morales

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Events Officer – Luke Green

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Social Media & Web Officer – Aditya Ray

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International Officers – Nihan Akyelken, Patrick Collins, Jack Laurie Harris 

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Nihan is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford.She obtained her doctorate in Economic Geography from the University of Oxford, and her undergraduate and master degrees from the LSE in the areas of Economics and Philosophy and European Political Economy. She is the winner of the 2015 OECD-ITF Young Researcher of the Year Award and was named as a World Social Science Fellow in Sustainable Urbanisation by the International Social Science Council in 2014. Nihan’s research focuses on mobility of people and goods, inequalities and access, infrastructure, labour and work. Her research is based on both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and to date has addressed the following concerns:https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/profiles/nihan-akyelken

Pat Collins is an Economic Geographer and Associate Professor at the University of Galway. His research interests span broader global scales concerned with foreign direct investment patterns of the world’s largest technology companies to the contribution of culture and creativity to place based development in non-urban areas. Pat is co-director of the newly formed UrbanLab Galway, a publicly facing research centre at the University of Galway that seeks to activate the voices and desires of citizens in sketching the future of places. Author of over 30 internationally peer reviewed journals papers, Pat’s most recent book ‘Galway: Making a Capital of Culture’ was published by Orpen Press. https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/patrick-collins/publications/

Postgraduate Officer – Yuhong Lei

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Ordinary Members – Sarah Hall and Jennifer Johns

Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall is a Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. Her work explores: the contemporary transformation of the financial system and its implications for finance led economic development; elite financial labour markets; international financial centres and new forms of financial globalisation associated with currency internationalisation. [Webpage]  

 

Jennifer Johns

Jennifer Johns is a Reader in International Business in the School of Management, University of Bristol, with interdisciplinary research interests centred on network approaches to economic development, entrepreneurship and innovation. Her current research focuses on transparency in cocoa and garments supply chains and the Modern Slavery act and the transformation of global production networks through the increased adoption of additive manufacturing (3D printing). [Webpage]

 

 

Ordinary Members – Sarah Marie Hall and Rhiannon Pugh

Sarah Marie Hall

Sarah Marie Hall’s research interests focus on: ethics and consumption in everyday life, families and intimate relationships, and developing ethnographic techniques. She is currently Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester,  researching an ethnography of how families get by in times of recession and austerity.  Sarah completed a PhD looking at ethics and consumption in families, schools and companies at the University of Liverpool. [Webpage]

 

Rhiannon Pugh

Rhiannon Pugh is Senior Lecturer at Lund University in Sweden. She is an economic geographer with interests in the themes of regional development, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Rhiannon is especially interested in researching what can broadly be termed less favoured regions, such as post-industrial, uncompetitive, and peripheral regions. As a committee member of the EGRG with a special interest in diversity and inclusion, she looks forward to working on these issues with the committee and wider economic geography community. [Webpage]