I am a human geographer, academic researcher and organiser, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. I get a lot out of dialogic exchange and unlocking ideas by writing them down, so expect lots of reflections on my research, books, politics and various aspects of life, especially – but not limited to – UK higher education and scholarship in general. Interested? Take a look at my blog.
For an overview of my academic work and interests, see Research. For more details about my teaching, go to Teaching.
From October 2023, I have an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, as part of which I am conducting the ‘Future Families: Climate Justice, Intimate Life, and the Adaptation of the Human’ project. This is a pilot research project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, that investigates the growing phenomenon of (in)voluntary childlessness as a response to climate change. The aim of this pilot is to begin to show how the domain of (social)reproduction is, and will be, a critical space in which responses and adaptation to the climate emergency will play out.
Matilda Fitzmaurice 