Simon Dickinson
Lecturer in Human Geography
Profile
Broad research specialisms
My current research focuses on voluntary sector organisations that emerge after natural disasters, and explores how they demonstrate fidelity to that event by pushing for forms of ethical, political and social change during recovery. This work specifically explores responses to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-11 in New Zealand and works to examine how disaster events might release previously subjugated ethical and political claims to the city.
In addition to this research, I have conducted previous work that explores the role of insurance in the disaster landscape, the emotional landscapes of forced relocation and the emergent forms of social connectedness that occur in crisis events
In addition to the disaster/crisis context, I have a research interest in the political possibilities of the voluntary sector. I am broadly interested in the organisational practices that foster alternative logics of performative expression, political engagement and cultural imagination alongside formations of political rationalities and ideologies. Much of this builds upon the recent work of Jane Wills, Paul Cloke and David Featherstone.
I have experience in a broad range of qualitative methods. My current research emerges from participatory observation techniques (including interview and ethnographic methods) employed during a time volunteering for post-disaster organisations.
Qualifications
BSc (Canterbury, NZ)
MSc (Canterbury, NZ)
PhD (Exeter – under examination)
Contact details
Tel | +44 (0) 1392 3330 |
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Address | Amory Building University of Exeter Rennes Drive Exeter EX4 4RJ UK |
Office | D439a |
Office hours |
Office Hours - Spring Term 2018 Please note my that my office (D439a) may be difficult to find. It is on the fourth floor beyond the labs, right at the very end of the corridor. Please enquire at the Geography office if you need assistance finding it! Tuesday 4-5pm Friday 11-12pm Due to fieldtrips I will not have office hours in either Week 10 or 11. Please email me if you would like to have a discussion and I can either respond to questions that way or set up a Skype conversation.
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