Background

Background

Robin is a postdoc researcher in social and cultural geography and is currently working on the project 'Young People, Diversity and Belonging in a Post-Brexit-Age' which is funded by the Research Excellence Academy at Newcastle University. His research interests include: migration; diaspora formation; geographies of Muslim identities; young people and diversity; and urban diversity in the UK and Spain. Robin completed his PhD in early 2016, which was an examination of Moroccan diaspora formations in the city of Granada in southern Spain. He has worked as a researcher at LSE Cities on the ‘Super-diverse streets: Economies and spaces of urban migration in UK Cities’ project and as the lead researcher on a project titled ‘Muslim Youth and Political Participation in Scotland’ at Newcastle University. He also has government and policy research experience, working as quantitative researcher at the Migration and Borders Analysis team at the Home Office in London

Roles and Responsibilities 

Robin is the lead researcher on the project 'Young People, Diversity and Belonging in a Post-Brexit-Age'. This project seeks to explore young people’s views and experiences of belonging, diversity, migration and nationhood in marginal and post-industrial cities in the UK.  The project aims to map out the new contours of difference and generational rupture that have come to mark the ‘post-Brexit’ age.

Qualifications

PhD Human Geography, Newcastle University, Passed May 2016 

MA Human Geography Research, Distinction, Newcastle University, 2012

MSc Cultural Tourism Development, Merit, Sunderland University, 2008

BA (Hons) Spanish and Tourism Studies, First Class Honours, Northumbria University, 2007

Publications

• Hall S, King J, Finlay R. Migrant infrastructure: Transaction economies in Birmingham and Leicester, UK. Urban Studies 2016, 54(6), 1311-1327.
• Finlay R. Narratives of Belonging: The Moroccan Diaspora in Granada, Spain. In: Christou, A; Mavroudi, E, ed. Dismantling Diasporas: Rethinking the geographies of diasporic identity, connection and development. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015.
• Finlay R, Hopkins P, Sanghera G. Muslim Youth and Political Participation in Scotland. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University and University of St Andrews, 2017.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hall S, King J, Finlay R. Envisioning Migration: Drawing the Infrastructure of Stapleton Road, Bristol. New Diversities 2015, 17(2), 59-72.
• Finlay R. A diasporic right to the city: the production of a Moroccan diaspora space in Granada, Spain. Social and Cultural Geography 2017, Epub ahead of print.
• Hall S, Finlay R, Kng J. The Migrant Street. In: Burdett, R; Hall, S, ed. The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd, 2017, pp.464-477.