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Staff Profile

Dr Mark Griffiths

NU Academic Track Fellow (NUAcT)

  • Telephone: +44191 20 84729
  • Address: Henry Daysh Building
    Office 3.18

    Newcastle University
    School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
    40-42 Great North Road
    NE1 7RU
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    UK
Background

Background

I joined the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology in 2019 as a NUAcT Research Fellow. Before joining Newcastle I held faculty positions at the University of Oulu in Finland and Northumbria University. At Oulu I worked on RELATE, an Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence focused on the territorial politics of bordering, identities and transnationalisation. At Northumbria I worked in the Centre for International Development in the Department of Social Science. I completed my post-graduate studies at University College London and King's College London

Teaching

My office hours for the second semester of 2022-23 are: Tuesdays 11-12 and Thursdays 2-4 

 

I teach on the undergraduate modules

GEO1010 Interconnected World: Introduction to Human Geography

GEO2103 Development & Globalisation

GEO3099 Geography Dissertation

GEO3102 Geopolitics

 

For prospective doctoral study and applications for ESRC (and AHRC) funding, please write to me directly. I currently supervise the following PhD candidates:

 

Ishraq Othman (NUAcT-funded) 'Life and death at Erez Checkpoint in Gaza, Palestine'

Zena Agha (ESRC-funded) 'Colonial Cartography in Palestine-Israel and the Decolonising Potential of Counter-Maps'

Daoud Ghoul (ESRC) 'Emerging geographies of Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance in East Jerusalem'

Ichamati Mousamputri (ESRC) 'Spaces of informal militarism: Analysing violence, resistance, and militarism in contemporary India'



Research

Research interests

My research is orientated around the theme ‘a critical geopolitics of development’ and is focused on analyses of military occupation and ethical inquiry in geographical research. I work primarily in Palestine where I collaborate with local academic partners and NGOs to document and better understand life in the context of occupation. On ethics, I have given talks and written on research practice and positionality in fieldwork settings in the ‘global South’. I have worked on and led projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and British Academy. 

Please contact me for research collaboration or post-graduate supervision, and also for questions about the NUAcT scheme.

Publications