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Staff Profile

Dr Mark Griffiths

Reader in Political Geography

  • Telephone: +44191 20 84729
  • Personal Website: https://warandgeos.co.uk/
  • 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

Research

Research interests


I run the research project https://warandgeos.co.uk/


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.

Teaching

My office hours for 2023-24 are: Tuesdays 11-12 and Thursdays 2-4 

 

I teach on the postgraduate module GEO8028 Political Geographies of the Middle East

 

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'

Omar Hmidat (ESRC) Necropolitics in Palestine: a socio-spatial analysis of practices of suspended death and grassroots resistance

Yunqi Chi (ESRC) Climate change and carceral border regimes




Publications