Dr Lizzie Hobson

I'm a feminist, cultural-political geographer. My work takes place at the intersection of feminist and political geographies and broadly speaks to interdisciplinary debates surrounding gender, environmental change, dislocation and postcapitalist landscapes.

My research draws on a long history of feminist research that expands and transforms established categories of political geography – states, borders, territories, violence. 

Using the alternative vocabulary of bodily scars (and the process of suturing), my research rethinks the geographies of recovery and violence. I argue that the vocabulary of scarred landscapes offer a 'scabby' terrain on which the apocalyptic anxieties and descriptions of doomed and damaged communities that dominate contemporary environmental politics might be productively problematised and interesting questions around endurance and exhaustion might be opened up.

Qualifications:

2023 University of Exeter funded PhD in Human Geography Scarred Landscapes No Corrections

2017 Masters of Research in Critical Human Geographies (University of Exeter) Distinction

2016 BA Hons Geography (University of Exeter) First Class with Deans Commendation

Additional Qualitifications: 

2024      Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

2024      MHFA England Mental Health First Aider (Stages 1, 2 & 3)

2024      INNOPLAY Playful Champion