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Alan is the convenor for the Social Science Research: Methodologies and Methods (GEOG0082) core module. He is an urban geographer whose research focuses on sociality and urban life, globalisation and the cultural economy of cities, and corporeal mobility.

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Jason is the Head of the Geography Department and convenes the Geo-Politics (GEOG0084) core module. His current research is on Gibraltar and the materiality of geopolitics. His most recent books are Diplomatic Material: Affect, assemblage, and foreign policy published in 2017 and Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity, published 2019.

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Sam's research interests are at the interface of business, science and the environment, with a particular focus on weather and climate. His recent research focuses on the development of 19th-century weather-related insurance and histories of climate policies.

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Jennifer is active in the Urban Laboratory, a network for Urban Studies with representatives from across UCL. Her research interests include developing a postcolonial critique of urban studies. Her book Ordinary Cities, which looks at how the interplay between urban modernity and development, was published in 2006. It examines the conceptual and practical divide between so-called 'Western' and 'developing' cities.

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Alan is the convenor for the Social Science Research: Methodologies and Methods (GEOG0082) core module. He is an urban geographer whose research focuses on sociality and urban life, globalisation and the cultural economy of cities, and corporeal mobility.

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Chris convenes the MSc Climate Change Programme. His research revolves around the use of earth system models to answer questions about past and future climate change. His ongoing work for the Palaeoclimate Model Intercomparison (Climate of the Past, 2020) forms part of the past climate community's contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report.

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Pushpa Arabindoo is a Co-Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory where she leads the priority theme of Wasteland. With an undergraduate degree in Architecture, an MSc in Urban Design and a PhD in Planning, her work assumes an interdisciplinary approach to urban studies, drawing on everything from engineering and natural sciences to humanities and the social sciences. Her research is set in the Indian city of Chennai where she has investigated a range of issues from middle-class activism to subaltern politics and ecological imaginaries around nature, water and waste.

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Tariq convenes the Postcolonial Cultural Geographies (GEOG0100) module and is cofounder and codirector of UCL’s Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. His research examines the intersection between critical geography, postcolonial and critical theory, and South Asian studies.

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Muki is the Co-Director of the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) group and co-founder of the social enterprise Mapping for Change. His work focuses on participatory mapping, crowdsourced geographic information and citizen science, alongside public access, use and creation of environmental information.

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Rory joined the UCL Geography Department after completing an ESRC Future Research Leaders project on the rates of homeownership among young people. His research uses longitudinal datasets to analyse the different types of homes and neighbourhoods people move to throughout their lives.

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Jan the Convenor of the MSc Conservation programme. His research covers a wide range of issues related to global biodiversity conservation in forested and agricultural landscapes. He is also an Affiliate Professor at the Agricultural University of Iceland.

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