Our staff
Staff categories
These are our Birkbeck staff categories within the Department of Geography.
Head of department
- Melissa Butcher, Assistant Dean, Professor in Social and Cultural Geography
Academic staff
- William Ackah, Lecturer in Community and Voluntary Sector Studies
- Andrea Ballatore, Lecturer in Geographic Information Science
- Kezia Barker, Lecturer in Science and Environmental Studies
- Joana Barros, Lecturer in Geographic Information Science
- Becky Briant, Reader in Quaternary Science
- Sue Brooks, Professor in Coastal Geoscience
- Rosie Cox, Professor of Human Geography
- Paul Elsner, Lecturer in Physical Geography and Geographic Information Science
- Stefan Engels, Lecturer in Physical Geography
- Aideen Foley, Lecturer in Physical and Environmental Geography
- Jasmine Gideon, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
- Kate Maclean, Senior Lecturer in Social Geography
- Simon Pooley, Lambert Lecturer in Environment (Applied Herpetology)
- Tarek Qureshi, Associate Lecturer in Social Science
- Shino Shiode, Lecturer in Geographic Information Science
- Penny Vera-Sanso, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and Social Anthropology
- Paul Watt, Professor of Urban Studies
- Karen Wells, Professor of Human Geography
- Kalpana Wilson, Lecturer in Geography
Teaching and scholarship staff
- Christina Julios, Associate Lecturer in Sociology
- Frederico Matos, Associate Lecturer in Sociology
Honorary Research Fellows
Professional Support staff
- General Enquiries - tel: 020 3073 8000
- geography@bbk.ac.uk or tel: 020 3073 8000 - Community Development and Public Policy (BSc) and Social Sciences (BSc)
- Laura Gittens, tel: 020 3073 8463 - Development and Globalisation (BSc), Environmental Management (BSc), Geography (BSc), Human Geography (BA)
- Hurmine Dormer-Dobson, tel: 020 3073 8464 - Community Leadership (CertHE), Development Studies (CertHE), Social Anthropology (CertHE), Geographic Information Science (MSc, PGDip, PGCert), Geography, Environment and Development Studies (MPhil, PhD)
- Shirley Collins, tel: 020 3073 8461 - Children, Youth and International Development (MSc), Climate Change (MSc, PGDip, PGCert), Environment and Sustainability (MSc, PGDip), Geography (MSc, PGDip, PGCert), International Development (MSc, PGDip, PGCert), International Development and Social Anthropology (MSc, PGDip), Social and Cultural Geography (MA)