School of Geographical & Earth Sciences

Dr Kate Botterill

  • Senior Lecturer (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer in Human Geography in 2018. I am programme convener for the MSc Earth Futures, co-convener of the Glasgow Refugee, Migration and Asylum Network (GRAMNet) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG. I am editorial board member for Mobilities, Population, Space and Place and Gender, Place and Culture.

Before joining Glasgow, I held Lecturer and Research Fellow/Associate positions at Edinburgh Napier University (2015-18), Newcastle University (2013-15), and Loughborough University (2012-13). I completed my doctorate, a study on post-accession Polish migration to the UK, at Newcastle University in 2012. This project explored the biographies, histories and everyday practices of young Polish citizens in the UK and returnees in Poland. Since then I enjoyed working collaboratively on research investigating migration and integration/adaptation across the lifecourse. This included: research on Lifestyle Migration in East Asia (ESRC) that critically explored the role of whiteness, privilege and precarity for 'ex-pats' in post-colonial contexts; and research on young people's everyday geopolitics in Scotland (AHRC) that engaged with nearly 400 young people to explore themes of nationalism, identity and inclusion in the context of Scottish referendum on independence. This research drew attention to young people's experiences of racialisation, Islamophobia and anti-semetism in Scotland, leading to anti-racist actions and policy change.

Before joining academia I worked as a researcher in policy research centres in Sheffield and Leeds with a particular focus in the socio-economic dynamics of employment and welfare in post-industrial cities in the UK.

Research interests

My research employs feminist and decolonial theories to understand the processes, spatialities and lived experiences of migration, refuge, and security. My research portfolio is organised around three core strands.

Geopolitical Transformation, Mobility and Youth Futures

My research examines how geopolitical, economic, and environmental transformations shape young people’s mobilities and future prospects. Drawing on feminist theories of security, embodiment and 'intimate geopolitics' I am particularly interested in how children and young people experience migration, citizenship, and security at key lifecourse transitions during periods of rapid social and political change. 

A key strand of this work explores the post-migration transitions and pathways to citizenship of young Europeans in the UK (MigYouth). Using longitudinal and participatory methodologies, I analyse how the interconnected ‘crises’ of Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine have impacted youth identities, opportunities, and futures. Earlier work focused on the legacies of post-socialist transformation and EU accession for young Polish citizens living in the UK, highlighting how changing border regimes structure youth mobility and opportunity across Europe.

Ontological Security, Displacement and Adaptation

I have made substantive engagements with research in critical security and border studies, with published research on everyday securities of minoritised young people and those experiencing displacement. In this work, I examine how geopolitical discourses of risk shape embodied experiences of racialisation, misrecognition, and exclusion.

Central to this research is the concept of ontological security, theorised as a relational, affective, and embodied process shaped by everyday practices of belonging and self-defence. De-linked from modernist ideals of ‘security’ and ‘autonomy’, I have drawn on Indigenous philosophies to re-articulate security as both a relational, multi-species endeavour and a confrontation with the colonial nation-state.

I am currently exploring connections between ontological security, climate displacement, and adaptation in order to understand how mobility and settlement are negotiated in environmentally stressed or degraded contexts.

Collaborative Knowledge and Participatory Ethics

A core commitment of my work lies in participatory, collaborative, and ethically grounded research practices. For over a decade, I have worked with third-sector organisations, and policy partners to co-produce research and challenge formal and institutionalised forms of knowledge production.

This includes engagement with schools, charities, youth groups, and activists through approaches that prioritise co-production, transdisciplinary collaboration, and engagement beyond the academy. My work places strong emphasis on centring lived experience and social justice within research design and practice.

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Publications

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2026

Benghellab, Karolina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1464-1074, Fisher, Dan, Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Piacentini, Teresa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Wishart, Meg, Mulvey, Gareth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9132-1672, Fassetta, Giovanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-4429, Solic, Mirna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5704-7091 and Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) (2026) What the research says about the UK’s proposed immigration reforms. Open Democracy, 27 Mar.

2025

Burrell, Kathy, Key, Anna and Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2025) Digital by default: the literacies, legibilities and legacies of the UK’s post-Brexit EU settled status regime. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (doi: 10.1080/1369183x.2025.2505706) (Early Online Publication)

Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2025) Ontological security as 'being-with': indigenous sovereignty and securing against the colonial nation-state. Political Geography, 116, 103250. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103250)

2024

Finney, Nissa, Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Cranston, Sophie, Darlington‐Pollock, Fran, McCollum, David and Shubin, Sergei (2024) Possibilities of population thinking: histories and futures of Population Geography through reflections on 50 years of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Population Geography Research Group. Population, Space and Place, 30(7), e2767. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2767)

Bogacki, Mariusz, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Burrell, Kathy and Hörschelmann, Kathrin (2024) What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland. European Urban and Regional Studies, 31(1), pp. 65-80. (doi: 10.1177/09697764231176546)

2023

Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Philo, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2514-4604 (2023) Talking population geographies and a ‘love letter’ to the journal. Population, Space and Place, 29(8), e2702. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2702)

2021

Buyuklieva, B. et al. (2021) Reflections on a Golden Jubilee: celebrating 50 years of Population Geography within the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s journals. Area, 53(4), pp. 727-736. (doi: 10.1111/area.12753)

2020

Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Bogacki, Mariusz, Burrell, Kathy and Hörschelmann, Kathrin (2020) Applying for settled status: ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland. Scottish Affairs, 29(3), pp. 370-385. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0329)

Jones, Estelle, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Chikwama, Cornilius, Caveen, Alex and Gray, Tim (2020) Pay gaps between domestic and international fishers: an economic or ethical issue? Maritime Studies, 19(1), pp. 15-27. (doi: 10.1007/s40152-019-00133-6)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathan (2020) Familial geopolitics and ontological security: intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland. Geopolitics, 25(5), pp. 1138-1163. (doi: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1512098)

2019

Botterill, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Burrell, K. (2019) (In)visibility, privilege and the performance of whiteness in Brexit Britain: Polish migrants in Britain’s shifting migration regime. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(1), pp. 23-28. (doi: 10.1177/0263774X18811923e)

Botterill, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, McCollum, D. and Tyrrell, N. (2019) Negotiating Brexit: migrant spatialities and identities in a changing Europe [Introduction to special issue]. Population, Space and Place, 25(1), e2216. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2216)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Hancock, Jonathan (2019) Rescaling belonging in ‘Brexit Britain’: spatial identities and practices of Polish nationals in Scotland after the UK Referendum on EU membership. Population, Space and Place, 25(1), e2217. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2217)

Stones, Rob, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Lee, Maggy and O'Reilly, Karen (2019) One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia. British Journal of Sociology, 70(1), pp. 44-69. (doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12357) (PMID:29479667)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathen (2019) Young people’s everyday securities: Pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography, 20(4), pp. 465-484. (doi: 10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197)

2018

Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2018) Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(4), pp. 540-554. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12249)

Sanghera, Gurchathen, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Arshad, Rowena (2018) ‘Living Rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum. Citizenship Studies, 22(5), pp. 540-555. (doi: 10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076)

Hopkins, P., Botterill, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Sanghera, G. (2018) Towards inclusive geographies? Young people, religion, race and migration. Geography, 103(2), pp. 86-92.

2017

Botterill, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Sanghera, G. and Hopkins, P. (2017) Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship. In: Hopkins, Peter (ed.) Scotland's Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781474427234

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2017) Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: Privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2011. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2011)

Arshad, Rowena, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathen (2017) Minority ethnic young people: Confident negotiators. Race Equality Teaching, 34(2), pp. 5-9. (doi: 10.18546/RET.34.2.02)

Hopkins, Peter, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Sanghera, Gurchathen (2017) Encountering misrecognition: Being mistaken for being muslim. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107(4), pp. 934-948. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1270192)

2016

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter, Sanghera, Gurchathen and Arshad, Rowena (2016) Securing disunion: Young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography, 55, pp. 124-134. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2016) Diminished Transnationalism: Growing older and practicing home in Thailand. In: Walsh, Katie and Nare, Lena (eds.) Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age. Routledge. ISBN 9781138887862

2015

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2015) "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are": Questioning the "outsider" in Polish migration research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(2), 4. (doi: 10.17169/fqs-16.2.2331)

2014

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2014) Family and mobility in second modernity: Polish migrant narratives of individualization and family life. Sociology, 48(2), pp. 233-250. (doi: 10.1177/0038038512474728)

O'Reilly, Karen, Stones, Rob and Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2014) Lifestyle migration in East Asia: Integrating ethnographic methodology and practice theory. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE. ISBN 9781473946644 (doi: 10.4135/978144627305013509192)

2011

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2011) Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union: After 2004. Burrell, Kathy. Farnham, Ashgate, 2009, 241 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7546-7387-3. Gender, Place and Culture, 18(6), pp. 791-793. (doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2011.617919)[Book Review]

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2011) Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK. Studia Migracyjne Przeglad Polonijny = Polonia and Migration Studies, 6(1), pp. 47-70.

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Articles

Benghellab, Karolina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1464-1074, Fisher, Dan, Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Piacentini, Teresa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Wishart, Meg, Mulvey, Gareth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9132-1672, Fassetta, Giovanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-4429, Solic, Mirna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5704-7091 and Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) (2026) What the research says about the UK’s proposed immigration reforms. Open Democracy, 27 Mar.

Burrell, Kathy, Key, Anna and Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2025) Digital by default: the literacies, legibilities and legacies of the UK’s post-Brexit EU settled status regime. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (doi: 10.1080/1369183x.2025.2505706) (Early Online Publication)

Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2025) Ontological security as 'being-with': indigenous sovereignty and securing against the colonial nation-state. Political Geography, 116, 103250. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103250)

Finney, Nissa, Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Cranston, Sophie, Darlington‐Pollock, Fran, McCollum, David and Shubin, Sergei (2024) Possibilities of population thinking: histories and futures of Population Geography through reflections on 50 years of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Population Geography Research Group. Population, Space and Place, 30(7), e2767. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2767)

Bogacki, Mariusz, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Burrell, Kathy and Hörschelmann, Kathrin (2024) What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland. European Urban and Regional Studies, 31(1), pp. 65-80. (doi: 10.1177/09697764231176546)

Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Philo, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2514-4604 (2023) Talking population geographies and a ‘love letter’ to the journal. Population, Space and Place, 29(8), e2702. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2702)

Buyuklieva, B. et al. (2021) Reflections on a Golden Jubilee: celebrating 50 years of Population Geography within the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s journals. Area, 53(4), pp. 727-736. (doi: 10.1111/area.12753)

Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Bogacki, Mariusz, Burrell, Kathy and Hörschelmann, Kathrin (2020) Applying for settled status: ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland. Scottish Affairs, 29(3), pp. 370-385. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0329)

Jones, Estelle, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Chikwama, Cornilius, Caveen, Alex and Gray, Tim (2020) Pay gaps between domestic and international fishers: an economic or ethical issue? Maritime Studies, 19(1), pp. 15-27. (doi: 10.1007/s40152-019-00133-6)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathan (2020) Familial geopolitics and ontological security: intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland. Geopolitics, 25(5), pp. 1138-1163. (doi: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1512098)

Botterill, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Burrell, K. (2019) (In)visibility, privilege and the performance of whiteness in Brexit Britain: Polish migrants in Britain’s shifting migration regime. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(1), pp. 23-28. (doi: 10.1177/0263774X18811923e)

Botterill, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, McCollum, D. and Tyrrell, N. (2019) Negotiating Brexit: migrant spatialities and identities in a changing Europe [Introduction to special issue]. Population, Space and Place, 25(1), e2216. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2216)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Hancock, Jonathan (2019) Rescaling belonging in ‘Brexit Britain’: spatial identities and practices of Polish nationals in Scotland after the UK Referendum on EU membership. Population, Space and Place, 25(1), e2217. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2217)

Stones, Rob, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Lee, Maggy and O'Reilly, Karen (2019) One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia. British Journal of Sociology, 70(1), pp. 44-69. (doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12357) (PMID:29479667)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathen (2019) Young people’s everyday securities: Pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography, 20(4), pp. 465-484. (doi: 10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197)

Botterill, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2018) Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(4), pp. 540-554. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12249)

Sanghera, Gurchathen, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Arshad, Rowena (2018) ‘Living Rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum. Citizenship Studies, 22(5), pp. 540-555. (doi: 10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076)

Hopkins, P., Botterill, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Sanghera, G. (2018) Towards inclusive geographies? Young people, religion, race and migration. Geography, 103(2), pp. 86-92.

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2017) Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: Privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2011. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2011)

Arshad, Rowena, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathen (2017) Minority ethnic young people: Confident negotiators. Race Equality Teaching, 34(2), pp. 5-9. (doi: 10.18546/RET.34.2.02)

Hopkins, Peter, Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Sanghera, Gurchathen (2017) Encountering misrecognition: Being mistaken for being muslim. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107(4), pp. 934-948. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1270192)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter, Sanghera, Gurchathen and Arshad, Rowena (2016) Securing disunion: Young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography, 55, pp. 124-134. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2015) "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are": Questioning the "outsider" in Polish migration research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(2), 4. (doi: 10.17169/fqs-16.2.2331)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2014) Family and mobility in second modernity: Polish migrant narratives of individualization and family life. Sociology, 48(2), pp. 233-250. (doi: 10.1177/0038038512474728)

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2011) Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK. Studia Migracyjne Przeglad Polonijny = Polonia and Migration Studies, 6(1), pp. 47-70.

Book Sections

Botterill, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Sanghera, G. and Hopkins, P. (2017) Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship. In: Hopkins, Peter (ed.) Scotland's Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781474427234

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2016) Diminished Transnationalism: Growing older and practicing home in Thailand. In: Walsh, Katie and Nare, Lena (eds.) Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age. Routledge. ISBN 9781138887862

O'Reilly, Karen, Stones, Rob and Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2014) Lifestyle migration in East Asia: Integrating ethnographic methodology and practice theory. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE. ISBN 9781473946644 (doi: 10.4135/978144627305013509192)

Book Reviews

Botterill, Katherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 (2011) Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union: After 2004. Burrell, Kathy. Farnham, Ashgate, 2009, 241 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7546-7387-3. Gender, Place and Culture, 18(6), pp. 791-793. (doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2011.617919)[Book Review]

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Grants

2025-2027 Transnational dialogues on Migration Management and Refugee Youth Futures in Latin America and Europe (Chancellors Fund & Glasgow Global Partership Fund)

2025-2026     The GRAMNet Equity Toolkit: Supporting Ethical Collaboration, Budgeting, and Advocacy in Community Research (Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fellowship)

2022-25  MigYouth (ESRC): Post-migration transitions and pathways to citizenship for young Europeans in the UK (PI)

2019-20  New Urban ecologies and sustainable livelihoods in Malawi (Global Challenges Research Fund) (CoI)

2018-19  Re-making the European: Polish nationals in Scotland (Carnegie Research Fund) (PI)

Supervision

Current PhD Opportunities

I welcome inquiries from prospective students about PhD study at Glasgow. 

Please investigate potential funding and/or scholarships (if required) before getting in touch. See here for further details.

There are opportunities for supervision in the following areas:

  • Critical geographies of migration, mobility and security
  • Young people, migration and childhoods
  • Ontological Security Studies 
  • Environmental/climate mobilities and displacement
  • Feminist, decolonial and indigenous politics
  • Critically-engaged research on the 'border', borderlands and borderings
  • 21st Century nationalism and authoritarianism

 

Completed PGR Projects

Chapman, Eleanor (2025) Towards a reparative geography of the mother tongue. Multiculturalism, migration and minoritised languages in the Outer Hebrides

Hržić, Katja (2025) “Out of sight, out of mind”: International labour migration and fair employment in the Scottish fishing industry.

Teaching

I am Programme Convener for the interdisciplinary, team taught MSc Earth Futures programme. If you are interested in this joining this programme, please get in touch!

I contribute to courses across the Geography Undergraduate Degree programme, including my 20 credit honours level course on Human Mobility in a Changing Climate (GEOG4123)