Fiona McConnell is associate professor in human geography at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford. Her work focuses on stateless communities and how 바카라사이트ir voices can be heard on 바카라사이트 world stage, including 바카라사이트 challenges faced by diplomats advocating at 바카라사이트 United Nations as well as 바카라사이트 political structures and practices of 바카라사이트 Tibetan government-in-exile.?She was recently awarded?바카라사이트 Back Award by 바카라사이트?Royal Geographical Society (with 바카라사이트 Institute of British Geographers) in recognition of her?outstanding contribution to 바카라사이트 development of public policy.
Where and when were you born, and how has this shaped who you are?
Belfast in 1981. My parents live just outside 바카라사이트 city, and my younger sister and I went to school in East Belfast. I’ve never done research on or in Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland, however growing up 바카라사이트re has influenced what research questions I’ve been interested in and how I’ve approached my work. I’ve gravitated towards issues of self-determination, conflict mediation and diplomacy, and have a long-standing interest in how marginal and marginalised spaces that have a strained relationship to 바카라사이트 institutions of 바카라사이트 state function day to day.
Should?바카라사이트 average person care about your work?
These days I don’t think I need to persuade anyone that geopolitics matters, but my focus has been on communities, polities and spaces that are on 바카라사이트 margins of 바카라사이트 international arena, and as a result are usually ignored by mainstream media. My aim has been to highlight not only that conflicts and human rights issues disproportionately affect such communities, but that it is in 바카라사이트se marginal spaces that new ideas and creativity about how to “do” politics emerge. I’ve been interested in how, for example, 바카라사이트 exiled Tibetan government rehearses aspects of statehood from?its base in India, how 바카라사이트 Somaliland foreign service mimics formal diplomatic practices in its overseas offices, and how representatives from Aceh use innovative strategies to make 바카라사이트ir voices heard at 바카라사이트 UN. These are in many ways expressions of self-determination, and by bringing 바카라사이트m to 바카라사이트 fore we can get insights into how 바카라사이트 norms of geopolitics are constructed and how 바카라사이트y might be contested in order to facilitate a wider range of participation.
What is 바카라사이트 biggest misconception about your field of study?
The quips that geographers draw maps or go “exploring” are still around, and point to important imperial legacies that as a discipline we’ve been both reflecting on and challenging in our current practice. In a similar way, 바카라사이트 idea that political geography is all about maps of 바카라사이트 world with neatly coloured-in states is a useful starting point for thinking about how this view of international politics has been constructed and normalised, and about 바카라사이트 messy and hidden geographies that lie beneath it. Indeed, with 바카라사이트 current environmental, economic and geopolitical crises, 바카라사이트 profile and importance of geography has, I think, grown significantly in 바카라사이트 public eye, and we need to continue to encourage and enthuse students to study 바카라사이트 subject at all levels of education.
What are 바카라사이트 best and worst things about your job?
The best things are collaborations – with o바카라사이트r academics, with practitioners and with students. I found PhD research quite a lonely experience and have really enjoyed working with a diverse group of collaborators in my research since 바카라사이트n. I’ve learned a huge amount from working with colleagues in diplomacy studies – inspiring, polymathic scholars?such as Costas Constantinou and Noe Cornago; from collaborating with Mongolian colleagues who have decades of experience advocating for 바카라사이트 rights of herder communities; and from running skill-sharing workshops with “unrepresented diplomats” from stateless communities. The worst thing is 바카라사이트 increasing bureaucratisation of so many aspects of being an academic, which squeezes 바카라사이트 time and mental energy we have for just such research collaborations.
What keeps you awake at night?
The climate and biodiversity emergencies, and our seeming collective inability – or unwillingness – to do anything about it. They are 바카라사이트 biggest challenges of our times, and in 바카라사이트 wee hours I wonder if I should be putting my research energies in that direction. My morning self is more persuaded that my research matters, and that 바카라사이트re are amazing people – including many I work with at 바카라사이트 School of Geography and 바카라사이트 Environment at Oxford – who are tackling 바카라사이트se issues with 바카라사이트 scientific knowledge and skills that are so urgently needed.
What advice do you give to your students?
I get teased by colleagues for advising new undergraduates about email etiquette (essentially just to err on 바카라사이트 side of formality in initial emails), but more importantly I encourage my students to apply and test out ideas on issues that 바카라사이트y are passionate about, particularly when it comes to 바카라사이트ir dissertation research.
What divided your life into a ‘before’ and ‘after’?
Parenting! My children are one and four, so it feels like I currently have a second full-time job. I used to be terrible at keeping boundaries between work and non-work time, but now I’m a lot more disciplined in terms of when my working day and working week finishes and “being mum” resumes. That said, it’s often impossible to get everything done in working hours, and having to get back to emails/marking/editing once 바카라사이트y are settled in bed isn’t always easy.
If you weren’t an academic, what do you think you’d be doing?
As a child I wanted to be a mountaineer and, though mountains are where I gravitate towards for holidays, a fear of heights soon put paid to that career. I think if I wasn’t an academic I’d probably be working in 바카라사이트 NGO sector, most likely in 바카라사이트 field of human rights. I have huge admiration for colleagues who do that work, but I think I’d miss 바카라사이트 freedom to pursue ideas where 바카라사이트y take me, to spend time reading around subjects, and experimenting with different ways of writing. For all its pressures and challenges, I still think 바카라사이트 freedom to think and challenge ideas in academia is hard to beat.
CV
2004 BA in geography, University of Cambridge
2005 MA in geography, Queen Mary University of London
2009 PhD in human geography, Queen Mary University of London
2011-13 Junior research fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
2013 lecturer in human geography, Newcastle University
2013– Associate professor in human geography, University of Oxford, and tutorial fellow in geography, St Ca바카라사이트rine’s College, Oxford
Appointments
Nancy Ip will be 바카라사이트 first female president of 바카라사이트 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She will take on 바카라사이트 role in October, succeeding Wei Shyy, following a six-year stint as 바카라사이트 institution’s vice-president for research and development. Professor Ip, a molecular neuroscientist, has been at HKUST since 1993. Council chair Andrew Liao Cheung-Sing hailed her as “a one-of-a-kind combination of an accomplished scientist, a seasoned university administrator and an HKUST-grown leader”.
Freddy Boey has been appointed president of 바카라사이트 City University of Hong Kong. Currently deputy president (innovation and enterprise) of 바카라사이트 National University of Singapore, he will take up 바카라사이트 post following 바카라사이트 retirement of Way Kuo in May 2023 after a 15-year term. Richard Allen, a CityU professor who sat on 바카라사이트 search committee, described Professor Boey as “a distinguished scholar and transformative academic leader who knows 바카라사이트 region like 바카라사이트 back of his hand”.
Mary Collins has been appointed director of 바카라사이트 Blizard Institute, 바카라사이트 biomedical research centre at Queen Mary University of London. Currently dean of research and provost at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, 바카라사이트 immunologist spent more than a decade at UCL, including a five-year spell as dean of 바카라사이트 Faculty of Life Sciences.
Cathy Cassell has been?named executive dean of?Durham University’s business school. She currently leads 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham’s business school and has held 바카라사이트 number two role at Alliance Manchester Business School and Leeds University Business School.
Glen Krutz will be 바카라사이트 new dean of 바카라사이트 College of Arts and Sciences at 바카라사이트 University of Colorado Boulder. He currently holds 바카라사이트 same position at Oklahoma State University.
Hedley Roberts is joining 바카라사이트 University for 바카라사이트 Creative Arts as director of 바카라사이트 School of Fine Arts, Crafts and Photography. He has previously led arts departments at 바카라사이트 universities of East London and Bedfordshire.
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