Sustainable places and societies
Our world leading research on Sustainable Places addresses the role of human society in delivering environmental, social and economic sustainability. Our research considers the interactions between mobilities, temporalities and materialities of everyday life with local and national infrastructure and policies. Theoretically we address the necessity of decolonizing our assumptions about human societies and cultures as well as integrating more-than-human approaches into studies of sustainability.
These approaches are achieved through mixed methods research including interviews, ethnography and autoethnography, arts-based practice, community-led research, textual analysis, quantitative methods, surveys, GIS and remote sensing.
The sustainable places theme includes environmental scientists, human and physical geographers with complementary research interests in:
- Social Geography
- Health Geography
- Animal Geography
- Rural Geography
- Conservation
- Energy transitions and low carbon transport
Current Research Interests
- Animal-human interactions and well-being
- Superdiverse places and health
- Busyness and time geographies
- Geographies of migration and mobility
- Decoloniality, knowledges, representation
Dr Daniel Allen
Lecturer in Human Geography
Expert in Animal welfare, pet theft, conservation.
- William Smith: WS1.11
- +44 (0) 1782 734961
- d.allen@keele.ac.uk
Professor Clare Holdsworth
Head of School
- William Smith: WS1.03
- +44 (0) 1782 733167
- c.m.holdsworth@keele.ac.uk
Dr Lisa Lau
Senior Lecturer
- William Smith: WS1.29
- +44 (0) 1782 733613
- l.lau@keele.ac.uk
Dr Mark Lucherini
Lecturer in Human Geography
- William Smith: WS1.30A
- +44 (0) 1782 732866
- m.lucherini@keele.ac.uk
Professor Deirdre McKay
Deirdre McKay, Professor of Sustainable Development
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
Director, Postgraduate Taught Programmes, GGE
Director, MA Human Geography and Sustainability Research
Director, MSc Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology
Expert in Plastic pollution, climate policy, climate change, developing countries/low- and middle-income countries.
- William Smith: WS1.28
- +44 (0) 1782 733601
- d.c.mckay@keele.ac.uk
Dr. Adam Moolna
Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability
Programme Director for Natural Sciences
Expert in Conservation, climate change, wildlife, marine environments and conservation, sustainability.
- William Smith: WS1.24
- +44 (0) 1782 734115
- a.moolna@keele.ac.uk
Professor Simon Pemberton
Professor of Human Geography; School Director of Research
- William Smith: WS1.36
- +44 (0) 1782 733165
- s.pemberton@keele.ac.uk
Dr Jamie Pringle
Reader in Forensic Geoscience
Expert in Forensic science, geophysics.
- LJ0.19
- j.k.pringle@keele.ac.uk
Professor Zoe Robinson
Professor of Sustainability Science
Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures
Expert in Sustainability, education, green technology, climate change.
- William Smith: WS1.32
- +44 (0) 1782 734303
- z.p.robinson@keele.ac.uk
Dr Steven Rogers
Senior Lecturer in Geology
- William Smith: WS1.33A
- +44 (0) 1782 733752
- s.l.rogers@keele.ac.uk
Dr Richard Waller
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Geography Admissions Tutor
- William Smith: WS 1.31
- +44 (0) 1782 733179
- r.i.waller@keele.ac.uk