I am a Professor of Social Geography and my research and teaching interests centre upon the challenges and complexities of social inequality and justice, and the experiences of those who are marginalised in society. More specifically, my research focuses upon the intersections of youth, migration, race, religion, and gender.

Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018, I received the President’s Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 2012 and the Gill Memorial Award of the Royal Geographical Society in 2011 (for contributions to geographies of religion, youth and race). I have held visiting positions at Deakin, RMIT, Monash, Western Sydney and the NUS and am a Distinguished International Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2020-21).

My current work focuses upon three interconnected areas of inquiry:

Islamophobia – a key focus of my ongoing research is upon the ways in which Islamophobia operates within society to exclude and marginalise Muslims and others mistaken for being Muslim. I am eager to promote better understanding of Islamophobia and to explore the ways in which it reveals itself in distinctive ways in different places. In collaboration with John Clayton (Northumbria) and TellMAMA, we recently produced a report about anti-Muslim hatred in the North East of England.

Intersectionality – sensitivity to the complex intersections of multiple forms of discrimination (rather than only looking at single forms of oppression) has been a key focus of much of my research. I have reviewed work about intersectionality in social geography and working with Stacy Bias to produce an animated video to address the question, what is intersectionality? I have served as a member of the Athena Swan Intersectionality Subgroup of Advance HE.

Refugee experiences – I am currently PI on two projects about the experiences of refugees, one funded by HERA Public Spaces call focusing on refugee youth and public space, and a second funded by ESRC about refugees and Covid-19. We have written short pieces about experiences of seeking asylum during a global pandemic and women refugees’ experiences of lockdown as this research continues.

 

Roles and responsibilities

I have previously served in the following roles at Newcastle:

University Dean of Social Justice, 2018 – 2021

In this role, I implemented the Engagement and Place Strategy Initiative on Social Justice by setting up a Social Justice Advisory Group, developing a portfolio of social justice projects, and integrating social justice into university initiatives on education, internationalisation, and engagement.

Research Director for Geography 2017 - 2018

Oversight of research mentoring meetings with colleagues in Geography. Secured external review for outputs for Geography for REF 2021 preparations and utilised a research away day to engage in a collective exercise to identify our strategy and vision as a subject area. Also covered the role of Impact Director during semester 1 of 2017/8.

Academic Director of the ESRC North East Doctoral Training Centre 2015 - 2016

Played a leading role in the reaccreditation of the NEDTC to create NINEDTP securing 6 years of ESRC PhD funding.

Postgraduate Director, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology 2010 - 2013

Chaired the School Postgraduate Research Committee with oversight of the recruitment, admissions, induction, progression, and completion of PGR students. Ensured compliance with the Code of Practice. Role included overall responsibility for 150 doctoral students. Served as a member of School Executive Board and HaSS Graduate School Committee.

Director of Postgraduate Research for Geography 2008 - 2012

Led on all aspects of marketing, recruitment, induction, progression, and completion of PhD students in Geography. Led on writing the human geography pathway statement for the NEDTC and acted as pathway leader for Human Geography.

 

Career

I was promoted to a Personal Chair in 2012 after earlier promotions to Reader and Senior Lecturer following my arrival in Newcastle in 2007. Before this, I worked at Lancaster University as a Lecturer in Human Geography (in what was the Department of Geography) where I also completed a PGCert in Academic Practice. Before this, I spent short periods as a Research Fellow at Glasgow University in the Glasgow Centre for the Child and Society, and a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. I have a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and an MRes and BA(Hons) from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. I completed a Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring through the Institute for Leadership and Management in 2020. 

I have an international reputation in social geography and experience in research management, research strategy and research assessment of all types. I have successfully line managed eight postdoctoral researchers and mentored early career researchers to secure external funded fellowships. I have served on ESRC’s Strategic Advisory Network (2016-2020), several AHRC and ESRC funding panels and as a Vice Chair for the European Commission. Securing over £3.2million in external research income, I have published 11 books, 9 special issues, over 100 journal articles and chapters, and have served as the Managing Editor of Gender, Place and Culture.

I am a member of the Geographies of Social Change research cluster and the Newcastle Social Geographies Collective where we recently produced a new textbook Social Geographies: an introduction. I have also produced three invited reviews of social geography for Progress in Human Geography about key issues in the subfield including: intersectionality; Islamophobia, transphobia and sizism; and social justice.

My work draws attention to the exclusionary ways in which various forms of discrimination and marginalisation – such as racism, sexism, Islamophobia and ageism – shape people’s everyday lives, structure the resources available to them and influence who they become. This work is built upon a commitment to empirical research that is informed both by current debates in academic literatures and theoretical understandings about intersectionality, society and space, as well as – where appropriate – concerns of relevance to policy makers and practitioners. Committed to disseminating ideas beyond the academy, I provide the Secretariat for the Cross Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia in the Scottish Parliament that was set up in 2018. I was shortlisted for the University Engagement and Place Awards in 2021 under the category of ‘engaging for societal benefit’ for my work about Islamophobia in relation to politics, education and journalism.

My work tends to draw upon debates in urban and social geography and is motivated by anti-racism and feminist geography. My Google Scholar profile is here. There are four main area of research and these include:

 

Racism, Islamophobia and Muslim identities
- The everyday lives and spatialities of young Muslims
- Islamophobia and anti-Muslim acts

Intersectionality, equality and diversity
- Minority groups experiences of university
- Uses and applications of intersectionality

Young people, place and identity
- Young people, social identities and political inequalities
- Youth transitions and intergenerational relations

Masculinities, ethnicities and place
- Religious, racialised and ethnicised masculinities
- Constructions of hegemonic and marginalised masculine identities

I am also interested in exploring issues connected with the use of various qualitative methods including participatory methods, focus groups as well as research ethics.

 

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in pursuing PhD or postdoctoral research (such as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship) on topics related to the research areas noted above. 

  

Research roles
I served as Managing Editor of Gender, Place and Culture from March 2013 until December 2016 (serving as an Editor during 2012 and Book Review Editor from 2009-2011).

Editorial board membership includes: 

Contemporary Social Science (2021-)
Gender, Place and Culture (2009-)
Children's Geographies (2009-)
Contemporary Islam (2008-2016)

I was the Founding Chair of the RGS-IBG Geographies of Justice Research Group (2011-2016). I have previously served as the joint Secretary/Treasurer, Chair and Past Co-Chair (with Elizabeth Olson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)) of the Geography of Religions and Belief Systems Speciality Group of the Association of American Geographers (2007-2013).

I am an editorial member of the Spaces and Practices of Justice book series published by Bristol University Press and previously co-edited (with Rachel Pain) of a series of books on Gender, Space and Society with Ashgate up until 2016.

Funding

Geographies of asylum justice (Mentor for Marie Cure Sklodowska Fellowship of Malene Jacobsen) European Commission £194,612 (2021-2023)

Responding to the needs of refugees and asylum seekers in the context of Covid19 - resilience, adaptation, and new forms of care (PI with Matt Benwell (co-I) and Robin Finlay (co-I)) - ESRC £324,282 (2020-2022)

The everyday experiences of young refugees and asylum-seekers in public spaces (Project leader with Matt Benwell (Newcastle), Kathrin Horschelmann (Leipzig), Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht), Mattias de Backer (Liege) – HERA Public Space: Culture and Integration in Europe – Euros 941,104 (2019-2022)

Charting the landscape of Islamophobia in Scotland and North East England (Faculty Impact Fund and IAA) - £14,620 (2019-2020)

Mapping the landscape of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred in Scotland - ESRC-IAA Co-Production (with Tell MAMA) - £10,000 (2018-2019).

Improving capacity for, and understanding of, Islamophobia and anti-Muslim acts – ESRC IAA - £10,000 (2017-2018).

Young people, nationalism and post-nationalism: multi-cultural belonging in hyper-diverse neighbourhoods (co-I with Anoop Nayak (PI), Matthew Benwell, Raksha Pande, Michael Richardson and Robin Finlay (postdoctoral researcher) Research Excellence Academy (2017-2019).

Spaces of anti-Muslim Acts - Marie Curie Sklodowska Actions Individual Fellowship (Supervisor to Kawtar Najib (Researcher) - Euros183,454 (2016-2018)

Contested spaces of diversity – Research Excellence Academy (with Graeme Mearns (postdoctoral researcher) (2016-2019)

Storying sexual relationships: the narratives and practices of British Pakistani Muslims - AHRC - (co-I with Richard Phillips (PI) (Sheffield), Claire Chambers (co-I) (York), Raksha Pande (co-I) (Newcastle) and Nafhesa Ali (PDRA) (Sheffield) - £488,403 (2016-2019)

Developing a student-centred research protocol - Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal - £4315 (2015) 

Community experiences of sectarianism in Scotland - Scottish government (co-I with Kay Goodall (PI) (Stirling), John Markey (Glasgow), Stephen Millar (Queens Belfast), Simon McKerrell (Newcastle), John Richardson (Loughborough), and Michael Richardson (Newcastle) (project summary) - £87,937 (2014)

'Non-Muslim' and Muslim youth: religious identities, Islamophobia and everyday geopolitics - AHRC standard grant (PI with Rowena Arshad (co-I) (Edinburgh), Gurchathen Sanghera (co-I) (St Andrews) and Kate Botterill (PDRA)) - £452,062 (2013-2016)

Muslims on campus: university life for Muslim students in Australia - Western Sydney University (with Adam Possamai, Kevin Dunn and Jan Ali)

Spiritual wellbeing and young people's resilience in times of austerity - Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal - £2000 (2012) (project summary) (PI with Sonya Sharma (now at Kingston University)

Local students' perceptions of the transitions from university to work or further study - Catherine Cookson Foundation (co-I with Simon Tate (PI)) - £2992 (2011)

Geography students’ perspectives on improving the transition from school to university - Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) Subject Centre (co-I with Simon Tate (PI)) - £4526 (2009)

Youth transitions, international volunteering and religious transformations: the experiences of young evangelical Christians in Latin America - (AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Youth Call) (PI with Nina Laurie (Newcastle), Matt Smith (Northumbria) and Elizabeth Olson (Edinburgh)) - £74,480 (2009-10)

Marginalized Spiritualities: faith and religion among young people in socially deprived Britain (AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Youth Call) - (co-I with Elizabeth Olson (PI), Giselle Vincett (Researcher) (both Edinburgh) and Rachel Pain (Durham) (co-I)) - £243,284 (2009-11)

Activism, Citizenship and Volunteering ESRC seminar series (with Matt Smith (PI), Katy Jenkins (both Northumbria), Liz Bondi and Elizabeth Olson (both Edinburgh) and Nina Laurie (Newcastle)- £14,951 (2008)

Muslim women in Scotland: global events, national issues, local lives ( 3 ESRC Scottish Government Collaborative studentship) - £61,000 (2007)

Relational Religious Identities: exploring contemporary meanings of religion among Scottish Christian youth (AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Scheme) - (co-I with Elizabeth Olson (now Chapel Hill) (PI) and Rachel Pain (co-I)) - £73,736 (2007-8)

Young Sikh men in Scotland: spatial practices, contested identities and everyday geographies (RGS-IBG) - £2000 (2007)

Young Sikh men in Scotland: spatial practices, contested identities and everyday geographies (British Academy) - £7420 (2006)

 

Postgraduate Supervision

Current students include:
Niamh Lear is researching Irishness amongst second generation young people in London (ESRC 1 3 studentship, 2016 onwards) (with Michael Richardson).
Libby Morrison is researching intergenerational justice and rural disadvantage in Northumberland (ESRC 1 3 collaborative studentship with Coordinating for Age) (with Tom Scharf and Michael Richardson).

Matthew Shahin Richardson is researching queer Jewish experiences in the UK (ESRC 3.5 collaborative studentship with the Council of Christians and Jews) (with Raksha Pande and Yulia Egorova (Durham)).

Ged Ridley is undertaking research about transgender experiences of public bathrooms (ESRC 1 3 collaborative studentship with Yorkshire Trans Support Network, 2015 onwards) (with Michael Richardson).
Megan Todman is researching black and minority ethnic engagement with galleries (AHRC Northern Bridge studentship) (with Joanne Sayner (Arts and Cultures)).

Helen Woolley is researching adopted children’s transitions to security in middle childhood (ESRC 3.5 collaborative with Adoption UK) (with Matej Blazek and Helen Charnley).

Students who have completed their doctoral studies include:

Alessandro Boussalem studied the experiences of LGBT Muslims in Brussels (ESRC 3.5 collaborative studentship with Merhaba, 2016 onwards) (with Raksha Pande and Klaartje Van Kerckem)
Quan Gao completed a thesis about Christian migrant workers in Shenzhen province (Research Excellence Academy 3.5 studentship, 2016 onwards) (with Raksha Pande)
Nathar Iqbal’s thesis is about the closet, encounter and lived religion for LGBT Muslims (ESRC 1 3 studentship, completed 2020) (with Mark Casey)

Matthew Wood’s thesis is about sexual health, bodies and cultures (EPSRC Digital Civics, completed 2020) (with Kellie Morrissey and Peter Wright)

Sertanya Reddy’s (UNC Chapel Hill) thesis is about young people’s participation in global education scholarship programs (committee chair, Elizabeth Olson (UNC Chapel Hill))

Naomi Maynard’s thesis was about ‘Radical or Neoliberal Participation? Young People's Perspectives Within and Beyond the Arena of Participation’ (ESRC 3 collaborative studentship with Investing in Children, 2012 onwards) (with Rachel Pain).
Jenny Smith’s thesis is about destitute asylum-seekers negotiations of belonging, mobility and ontological security (ESRC 3 collaborative studentship with West End Refugee Service, 2014 onwards) (with Anoop Nayak and Lindsay Cross).
Carl Bonner-Thompson's thesis is about the sensory, visceral and haptic geographies of men who use Grindr (ESRC 1 3 studentship, completed 2018) (with Mark Casey)

Sean Gill’s thesis is about young Poles' transitions to adulthood in Northumberland (ESRC 3 collaborative studentship with Northumberland County Council, 2013 onwards) (with Alison Stenning and Jane Walker).
Aliraza Javaid thesis explores male rape, masculinities and sexualities (self-funded, completed 2017) (with Elaine Campbell).
Joanna Wiseman studied the integration and identities of young asylum seekers in Scotland (ESRC 3 collaborative studentship with Scottish Refugee Council, completed 2016) (with Anoop Nayak, Clare Tudor and Gareth Mulvey).
Jennifer Lloyd's thesis is about expatriate women's embodied experiences of migration (ESRC 1 3 studentship, completed 2015) (with Alastair Bonnett).
Michael Richardson's thesis is about masculinities and intergenerational relations amongst men of Irish heritage on Tyneside (ESRC 3 studentship, completed 2014) (with Anoop Nayak).
Erin Pritchard's thesis is about how people with restricted growth are socially and spatially marginalised in society (ESRC 3 studentship, completed 2014) (with Janice McLaughlin).
Rachel Clements' thesis is about the life transitions of Polish migrant parents in the North East of England (ESRC 3.5 studentship, completed 2014) (with Alison Stenning).
Rahielah Ali's thesis is about 'Gender, faith and locality: Muslim women in Scotland’ (ESRC Scottish Governmental Collaborative 3 studentship, completed 2013) (with Anoop Nayak).
Alex Tan's thesis is about 'British Chinese youth transitions: cultural identity and youth formations in Newcastle upon Tyne' (ESRC 3 studentship, completed 2013) (with Anoop Nayak).
Thomas Burgoine's study is 'Predisposed to Obesity? A Study into Environmental Equity and the possible Obesogenic Environment of North East England' (ESRC 1 3, completed 2012) (with Seraphim Alvanides (Northumbria University) and Amelia Lake (Durham University)).

I have supervised 18 PhD students to successful completion in under four years, and have examined 21 doctoral theses in the following fields: human geography (Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Cork, Durham, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, National University of Singapore, Reading, Roskilde and St Andrews), religious studies (Chester) and Islamic Studies (Edinburgh), social work (Durham), peace studies (Coventry) sociology (Edinburgh and Monash), social psychology (Cape Town), and cultural studies (University of Western Sydney).

I have a wide-ranging teaching and examining portfolio, at all levels and on a range of topics. In 2011, I was awarded a Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Teacher Award. I was nominated and shortlisted for a Newcastle Teaching Excellence Award in 2013 for Innovative Teaching Methods and I was nominated for a Newcastle Teaching Excellence Research Supervisor of the Year Award in 2014.

I have served as external examiner for several programmes including Geography at Dundee (2010-2013); Human Geography and Planning at Cardiff University (2015-2018); and Geography at the University of Exeter (2015-2019). I am currently the external examiner for the MSc in Social Research Methods at Dundee (2018-2021).

The promotion of excellence in postgraduate teaching and supervision is very important to me, particularly in mentoring and coaching postgraduate students to publish their work in international peer-reviewed journals. I regularly convene writing and publishing workshops for doctoral students; please contact me if you would like me to convene a workshop. Here is a blog post about publishing as a postgraduate based on a presentation for the British Sociological Association Postgraduate Forum.  

I make a small contribution to postgraduate modules and workshops on HSS8104 Qualitative Methodology in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (on focus groups), and Research in the Wider Context (about publishing in the social sciences). I have previously contributed to HSS8006 ‘Managing a PhD’ sessions about managing your supervisor and about securing ethical approval for your research.

 

Undergraduate teaching
I have contributed to the following modules:
Geo2043 Key Methods in Human Geography 
Geo2100 Migration, belonging and everyday geopolitics: contested geographies of New York City (module leader)
Geo2110 Social Geographies (module leader)
Geo2111 Doing Geographical Research: Theory and Practice
Geo3105 Young People, Place and Identity (module leader)
Geo3099 Dissertation

• Hopkins P. Social geography III: Committing to social justice. Progress in Human Geography 2021, 45(2), 382-393.
• Tate S, Hopkins P. Studying Geography at University: How to Succeed in the First Year of Your New Degree. London: Routledge, 2021.
• Bonner-Thompson C, Mearns GW, Hopkins P. Transgender negotiations of precarity: contested spaces of higher education. The Geographical Journal 2021, epub ahead of print.
• Hopkins P. What is Islamophobia?. Sociology Review 2021, 30(April), 10-12.
• Hopkins P, Pain R. Age. In: The Newcastle Social Geographies Collective, ed. Social Geographies: An Introduction. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020, pp.192-199.
• Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell M, Hopkins P, Pande R, Richardson M. Growing up in Sunderland: young people, politics and place. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2020.
• Ali N, Phillips R, Chambers C, Narkowicz K, Hopkins P, Pande R. Halal dating: Changing relationship attitudes and experiences among young British Muslims. Sexualities 2020, 23(5-6), 775-792.
• Hopkins P. Households, families, and structural inequalities: Reflections on “How the other half lives”. Area 2020, 52(4), 806-811.
• Boussalem A, Hopkins P. Intersectionality. In: Possamai A; Blasi AJ, ed. The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion. London: Sage, 2020.
• Johnston L, Datta A, Hopkins P, Silva JM, Olson E. Introduction: establishing, placing, engaging and doing feminist geographies. In: Datta, A; Hopkins, P; Johnston, L; Olson, E; Silva JM, ed. Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies. London: Routledge, 2020, pp.1-14.
• Hopkins P, Clayton J. Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred in North East England. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2020.
• Phillips R, Chambers C, Ali N, Pande R, Hopkins P. Mobilizing Pakistani heritage, approaching marriage. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2020, 43(16), 1-19.
• Datta A, Hopkins P, Johnston L, Olson E, Silva JM, ed. Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies. London: Routledge, 2020.
• Hopkins P. Sensitive topics. In: Wilson, HF; Darling, J, ed. Research Ethics for Human Geography. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd, 2020, pp.51-58.
• Hopkins P, Newcastle Social Geographies Collective, Pain R, Shaw R, Gao Q, Bonnett A, Jones C, Richardson M, Rzedzian S, Benwell MC, Lin W, McAreavey R, Stenning A, Blazek M, Pande R, Najib K, Finlay R, Nayak A, Ridley G, Mearns G, Bonner-Thompson C, McLaughlin J, Boussalem A, Iqbal N, Heslop J, Jarvis H, Burrows R, Bambra C, Copeland A, Tate S, Campbell E, Thompson M, James A, Raynor R, Cunningham N, Powells G, Herbert J, Hocknell S, ed. Social Geographies: An Introduction. London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020.
• Hopkins P. Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism. Progress in Human Geography 2020, 44(3), 583-594.
• Mearns GW, Bonner-Thompson C, Hopkins P. Trans experiences of a university campus in northern England. Area 2020, 52(3), 488-494.
• Najib K, Hopkins P. Where does Islamophobia take place and who is involved? Reflections from Paris and London. Social and Cultural Geography 2020, 21(4), 458-478.
• Burrell K, Hopkins P, Isakjee A, Lorne C, Nagel C, Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Pande R, Richardson M, Botterill K, Rogaly B. Brexit, race and migration. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 3-40.
• Hopkins P, Gorman-Murray A. Masculinities and geography, moving forward: men's bodies, emotions and spiritualities. Gender, Place and Culture 2019, 26(3), 301-314.
• Hörschelmann K, Studemeyer CC, Hopkins P, Benwell MC. Peripheral visions: security by, and for, whom?. Geopolitics 2019, 24(4), 777-786.
• Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Hopkins P, Pande R, and Richardson M. Race, place and young people in the age of Brexit. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 17-23.
• Hopkins P. Social geography I: Intersectionality. Progress in Human Geography 2019, 43(5), 937-947.
• Tate S, Hopkins P. Student perspectives on the importance of both academic and social transitions to and through their undergraduate geography degree. In: Walkington, H; Hill, J; Dyer, S, ed. Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp.16-30.
• Najib K, Hopkins P. Veiled Muslim women's strategies in response to Islamophobia in Paris. Political Geography 2019, 73, 103-111.
• Finlay R, Hopkins P. Young Muslim women's political participation in Scotland: Exploring the intersections of gender, religion, class and place. Political Geography 2019, 74, 102046.
• Botterill K, Hopkins P, Sanghera GS. Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography 2019, 20(4), 465-484.
• Sanghera GS, Botterill K, Hopkins P, Arshad R. ‘Living Rights’, Rights Claims, Performative Citizenship and Young People – The Right to Vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum. Citizenship Studies 2018, 22(5), 540-555.
• Gorman-Murray A, Hopkins P. Andrew Gorman-Murray and Peter Hopkins in conversation: reflections on masculinities and sexualities research on GPC’s 25th anniversary. Gender, Place and Culture 2018, 25(3), 317-324.
• Botterill K, Hopkins P, Sanghera G. Familial geopolitics and ontological security: intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland. Geopolitics 2018, 25(5), 1138-1163.
• Hopkins P. Feminist geographies and intersectionality. Gender, Place and Culture 2018, 25(4), 585-590.
• Finlay R, Hopkins P. Resistance and Marginalisation: Islamophobia and the Political Participation of Young Muslims in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography 2020, 21(4), 546-568.
• Olson E, Hopkins P, Vincett G. Rethinking youth spirituality through sacrilege and encounter. In: Bartolini, N; MacKian, S; Pile, S, ed. Spaces of Spirituality. London, UK: Routledge, 2018, pp.268.
• Chambers C, Phillips R, Nafhesa A, Hopkins P, Pande R. 'Sexual misery' or 'happy British Muslims'?: Contemporary depictions of Muslim sexuality. Ethnicities 2018, 19(1), 66-94.
• Hopkins P, Botterill K, Sanghera G. Towards inclusive geographies? Young people, religion, race and migration. Geography 2018, 103(2), 86-92.
• Hopkins P, Mearns G, Bonner-Thompson C. Transgender experiences of Newcastle University. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2018.
• Hopkins P, Hörschelmann K, Benwell M, Studemeyer C. Young people's everyday landscapes of security and insecurity. Social and Cultural Geography 2018, 20(4), 435-444.
• Hopkins P, Botterill K, Sanghera G, Arshad R. Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2017, 107(4), 934-948.
• Bonner-Thompson C, Hopkins P. Geographies of the Body. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199874002-0157.
• Arshad R, Botterill K, Hopkins P, Sanghera G. Minority ethnic young people: Confident negotiators. Race Equality Teaching 2017, 34, 5-9.
• Finlay R, Hopkins P, Sanghera G. Muslim Youth and Political Participation in Scotland. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University and University of St Andrews, 2017.
• Botterill K, Sanghera G, Hopkins P. Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship. In: Hopkins, P, ed. Scotland's Muslims: society, politics and identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp.136-154.
• Bos D, Finlay R, Hopkins P, Lloyd J, Richardson M. Reflections on the ESRC internship scheme for postgraduates. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 2017, 41(1), 106-118.
• Hopkins P. Religion. In: Richardson D, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. London, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
• Hopkins P, Sinclair C, Student Research Committee. Research, relevance and respect: Co-creating a guide about involving young people in social research. Research for All 2017, 1(1), 121-127.
• Hopkins P, ed. Scotland's Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
• Samuri MAA, Hopkins P. Voices of Islamic Authorities: Friday Khutba in Malaysian Mosques. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 2017, 28(1), 47-67.
• Finlay R, Hopkins P, Sanghera G. Young Muslims’ political interests and political participations in Scotland. In: Hopkins, P, ed. Scotland's Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp.78-97.
• Benwell MC, Hopkins P, ed. Children, young people and critical geopolitics. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor and Francis, 2016.
• Benwell M, Hopkins P. Conclusion. In: Benwell, M; Hopkins, P, ed. Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics. Abington, Oxon: Taylor and Francis, 2016, pp.187-190.
• Hopkins P. Deflections, displacements, disengagements. In: Meer, N, ed. Scotland and Race Equality: Directions in Policy and Identity. London, UK: Runnymede, 2016, pp.30-31.
• Hopkins P. Gendering Islamophobia, racism and white supremacy: gendered violence against those who look Muslim. Dialogues in Human Geography 2016, 8(2), 186-189.
• Benwell M, Hopkins P. Introduction: children, young people and critical geopolitics. In: Benwell, M; Hopkins, P, ed. Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics. Abingdon, Oxon: Ashgate, 2016, pp.1-27.
• Possamai A, Dunn K, Hopkins P, Worthington L, Amin F. Muslim students' cultural and religious experiences in city, suburban and regional university campuses in NSW, Australia. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 2016, 38(6), 637-648.
• Possamai A, Dunn K, Hopkins P, Amin F, Worthington L, Ali J. Muslim students' religious and cultural experiences in the micro-publics of university campuses in NSW, Australia. Australian Geographer 2016, 47(3), 311-324.
• Botterill K, Hopkins P, Sanghera G, Arshad R. Securing disunion: Young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography 2016, 55, 124-134.
• Dunn K, Hopkins P. The geographies of everyday Muslim life in the West. Australian Geographer 2016, 47(3), 255-260.
• Goodall K, Hopkins P, McKerrell S, Markey J, Millar S, Richardson J, Richardson M. Community experiences of sectarianism. Edinburgh: Scottish Government Social Research, 2015. Social Research series.
• Hopkins P, Todd L. Creating an intentionally dialogic space: student activism and the Newcastle Occupation 2010. Political Geography 2015, 46, 31-40.
• Hopkins P, Botterill K, Sanghera G, Arshad R. Faith, ethnicity, place: young people's everyday geopolitics in Scotland. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2015.
• Hopkins P. Focus groups. In: Richardson, D, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. London: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. In Press.
• Abdi M, Adcock M, Adcock V, Ahmad H, Ali A, Ali Z, Fara V, Ibrahim M, Kaur N, Keith H, Malik T, Peters B, Said F, Shire A, Wilson C, Sinclair C, Hopkins P. Get your facts right: a guide to involving young people in social research. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Newcastle University, 2015.
• O'Neill Gutierrez C, Hopkins P. Introduction: young people, gender and intersectionality. Gender, Place and Culture 2015, 22(3), 383-389.
• Hopkins P. Scales of Young People's Lives. In: Wyn, Johanna; Cahill, Helen, ed. Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. Springer, 2015, pp.761-772.
• Hopkins P, Olson E, Baillie Smith M, Laurie N. Transitions to religious adulthood: relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2015, 40(3), 387-398.
• Lloyd J, Hopkins P. Using interviews to research body size: methodological and ethical considerations. Area 2015, 47(3), 305-310.
• Hopkins P. Young people and the Scottish Independence Referendum. Political Geography 2015, 46, 91-92.
• Hopkins P. Geographies of religion. In: Oxford Bibliographies Online. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Gorman-Murray A, Hopkins P. Introduction: Masculinities and Place. In: Gorman-Murray, A; Hopkins, P, ed. Masculinities and Place. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2014, pp.1-24.
• Hopkins P. Managing strangerhood: young Sikh men's strategies. Environment and Planning A 2014, 46(7), 1572-1585.
• Gorman-Murray A, Hopkins P, ed. Masculinities and Place. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
• Hopkins P, Tarrant A. Geographies of Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Available at: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0058.xml.
• Baillie Smith M, Laurie N, Hopkins P, Olson E. International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development. Geoforum 2013, 45, 126-135.
• Hopkins P, Kong L, Olson E, ed. Religion and place: landscape, politics and piety. London: Springer, 2013.
• Hopkins P, Jackson P. Researching masculinities and the future of the WGSG. Area 2013, 45(1), 9-10.
• Olson E, Hopkins P, Pain R, Vincett G. Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2013, 103(6), 1421-1436.
• Tate S, Hopkins P. Re-thinking undergraduate students' transitions to, through and out of university: examples of good practice in GEES disciplines. York: Higher Education Academy, 2013.
• Hopkins P. Young people's geography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Available at: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0068.xml.
• Ali R, Hopkins P. Everyday making and civic engagement amongst Muslim women in Scotland. In: Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space. London: Routledge, 2012, pp.141-155.
• Hopkins P. Everyday politics of fat. Antipode 2012, 44(4), 1227-1246.
• Hopkins P. Exploring participatory diagramming in youth geographies. In: Phillips, R., Johns, J, ed. Fieldwork for Human Geography. London: Sage Publications Ltd, 2012, pp.184-186.
• Hopkins P, Todd L, Newcastle Occupation. Occupying Newcastle University: student resistance to government spending cuts in England. The Geographical Journal 2012, 178(2), 104-109.
• Vincett G, Olson E, Hopkins P, Pain R. Young people and performance Christianity in Scotland. Journal of Contemporary Religion 2012, 27(2), 275-290.
• Burgoine T, Hopkins P, Rech M, Zapata G. “These kids can’t write abstracts”: reflections on a postgraduate writing and publishing workshop. Area 2011, 43(4), 463-469.
• Hopkins P. Jovens, masculinidades, religiao e raca: novas geografias sociais. In: Silva, J.M., Ornat, M.J., Chimin Junior, A.B, ed. Espaço, gênero e masculinidades plurais. Brazil: Todapalavra, 2011.
• Hopkins P, Olson E, Pain R, Vincett G. Mapping intergenerationalities: the formation of youthful religiosities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2011, 36(2), 314-327.
• Hopkins P. Multiple, marginalised, passé or politically engaged? Some reflections on the current place of social geographies. Social and Cultural Geography 2011, 12(6), 533-538.
• Pain R, Phillips D, Nagel C, Mohammad R, McLean J, Dunn K, Hopkins P. Reading Peter Hopkins' The Issue of Masculine Identities for British Muslims after 9/11: a social analysis. Political Geography 2011, 30(6), 339-348.
• Hopkins P. Teaching and Learning Guide for: Critical Geographies of Body Size. Geography Compass 2011, 5(2), 106-111.
• Barnes L, Buckley A, Hopkins P, Tate S. The transition to and through university for non-traditional local students: some observations for teachers. Teaching Geography 2011, 70-71.
• Hopkins P. Towards critical geographies of the university campus: understanding the contested experiences of Muslim students. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2011, 36(1), 157-169.
• Hopkins PE, Hill M. Contested bodies of asylum-seeking children. In: Horschelmannm K; Colls R, ed. Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pp.136-147.
• Hopkins P, Baillie-Smith M, Laurie N, Olson E. Jovenes cristianos en America Latina: Las experiencias de jovenes cristianos que participan como voluntarios internacionales en proyectos de inspiracion religiosa en America Latina. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2010.
• Van Hoven B, Hopkins P. Masculinities - Maanlichkeitsforschung in der Kulturgeographie. In: Bauriedl, S; Schier, M; Struver, A, ed. Geschlechterverhältnisse, Raumstrukturen, Ortsbeziehungen: Erkundungen von Vielfalt und Differenz im spatial turn. Berlin: Verlag Westfalisches Dampfboot, 2010, pp.238-250.
• Hopkins P, Alexander C. Politics, mobility and nationhood: upscaling young people's geographies. Area 2010, 42(2), 142-144.
• Nagel C, Hopkins P. Spaces of multiculturalism. Space and Polity 2010, 14(1), 1-11.
• Hopkins P, Hill M. The needs and strengths of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people in Scotland. Child and Family Social Work 2010, 15(4), 399-408.
• Hopkins P. The politics of identifying Muslim identities. Geography 2010, 95(3), 137-139.
• Hopkins P, Baillie Smith M, Laurie N, Olson E. Young Christians in Latin America: the experiences of young Christians who participate in faith-based international volunteering projects in Latin America. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Newcastle University, 2010.
• Hopkins P. Young People, Place and Identity. London: Routledge, 2010.
• Hopkins P. Young people's spaces. In: Foley, P., Leverett, S, ed. Children and Young People's Spaces: Developing Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010, pp.25-39.
• Pain R, Hopkins PE. Common Ground: a space of emotional well-being for young asylum seekers. Durham University: Centre for Social Justice and Community Action, 2009.
• Hopkins PE. Deconstructing geographical binaries: Muslims in the West. In: Phillips R, ed. Muslim spaces of hope: geographies of possibility in Britain and the West. London: Zed Books, 2009, pp.27-40.
• Hopkins P. Geographical contributions to understanding contemporary Islam: current trends and future directions. Contemporary Islam 2009, 3(3), 213-227.
• van Hoven B, Hopkins PE. Masculinities. In: Kitchin R; Thrift N, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Amsterdam; London; Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2009.
• Hopkins PE, Noble G. Masculinities in place: situated identities, relations and intersectionality. Social and Cultural Geography 2009, 10(8), 811-819.
• Hopkins PE. Men, women, positionalities and emotion: doing feminist geographies of religion. ACME: an International Journal for Critical Geographers 2009, 8(1), 1-17.
• Hopkins PE, Gale R, ed. Muslims in Britain: race, place and identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
• Gale R, Hopkins PE. Muslims in Britain: race, space and the spatiality of identities. In: Hopkins P; Gale, R, ed. Muslims in Britain: race, place and identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp.236.
• Hopkins PE. Responding to the 'crisis of masculinity': the perspectives of young Muslim men from Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland. Gender, Place and Culture 2009, 16(3), 299-312.
• Hill M, Hopkins PE. Safeguarding children who are refugees or asylum seekers: managing multiple scales of legislation and policy. In: Broadhurst K; Grover C; Jamieson J; Mason C, ed. Safeguarding children: critical perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
• Pain R, Hopkins PE. Social geographies of age: landscapes, lifecourses, equity and justice. In: Smith SJ; Pain R; Marston S; Jones JP, ed. The SAGE handbook of social geography. London: Sage, 2009, pp.78-98.
• Hopkins P. Women, men, positionalities and emotion: Doing feminist geographies of religion. ACME 2009, 8(1), 1-17.
• Hopkins PE. Critical geographies of body size. Geography Compass 2008, 2(6), 2111-2126.
• Hopkins PE. Ethical issues in research with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Children's Geographies 2008, 6(1), 37-48.
• Hopkins PE, Bell N. Interdisciplinary perspectives: ethical issues and child research. Children's Geographies 2008, 6(1), 1-6.
• Hopkins P, Pain R. Is there more to life? Relationalities in here and out there: A reply to Horton and Kraftl. Area 2008, 40(2), 289-292.
• Hopkins PE, Hill M. Pre-flight experiences and migration stories: the accounts of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Children's Geographies 2008, 6(3), 257-268.
• Hopkins PE. Race, nation and politics: the difference that Scotland makes. In: Dwyer C; Bressey C, ed. New Geographies of Race and Racism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.113-124.
• Hopkins PE, Smith SJ. Scaling segregation; racialising fear. In: Pain R; Smith S, ed. Fear: critical geopolitics and everyday life. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.103-116.
• Hopkins P. The Issue of Masculine Identities for British Muslims After 9/11: A Social Analysis. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
• Hopkins PE. Young, male, Scottish and Muslim: a portrait of Kabir. In: Jeffrey C; Dyson J, ed. Telling Young Lives: portraits of global youth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008, pp.69-80.
• Hopkins PE. ‘Blue squares’, ‘proper’ Muslims and transnational networks Narratives of national and religious identities amongst young Muslim men living in Scotland. Ethnicities 2007, 7(1), 61-81.
• Medd W, Watson M, Hopkins PE, Olson E. Cultural diversity and sustainable water management in Greater London: the research agenda. London: Greater London Authority, 2007.
• Hopkins PE, Pain R. Geographies of age: Thinking relationally. Area 2007, 39(3), 287-294.
• Aitchison C, Hopkins PE, Kwan, M-P. Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
• Hopkins PE. Global events, national politics, local lives: young Muslim men in Scotland. Environment and Planning A 2007, 39(5), 1119-1133.
• Hopkins PE, Kwan M-P, Aitchison C. Introduction: Geographies of Muslim Identities. In: Aitchison C; Hopkins P; Kwan M-P, ed. Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp.1-10.
• Hopkins PE. Positionalities and knowledge: Negotiating ethics in practice. ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographers 2007, 6(3), 386-394.
• Hopkins P. Thinking critically and creatively about focus groups. Area 2007, 39(4), 528-535.
• Hopkins PE. Young Muslim men’s experiences of local landscapes after 11 September 2001. In: Aitchison C; Hopkins PE; Kwan M-P, ed. Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp.189-200.
• Hopkins PE. Young people, masculinities, religion and race: new social geographies. Progress in Human Geography 2007, 31(2), 163-177.
• Hopkins PE, Hill M. ‘This is a good place to live and think about the future’: the needs and experiences of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people in Scotland. Glasgow: Scottish Refugee Council, 2006.
• Hopkins PE. Youth transitions and going to university: the perceptions of students attending a geography summer school access programme. Area 2006, 38(3), 240-247.
• Hopkins PE. Youthful Muslim masculinities: gender and generational relations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2006, 31(3), 337-352.
• Howard D, Hopkins PE. Editorial introduction: race, religion and the census. Population, Space and Place 2005, 11(2), 69-74.
• Gwanzura-Ottemoller F, Hopkins PE, Lorimer H, Philip L. Reflections on Postgraduate Research Training: Staff and Student Perspectives. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 2005, 29(2), 279-292.
• Hopkins PE. Everyday Racism in Scotland: A Case Study of East Pollokshields. Scottish Affairs 2004, 49(Autumn), 88-103.
• Hopkins PE. Young Muslim men in Scotland: Inclusions and Exclusions. Children's Geographies 2004, 2(2), 257-272.