Professor Nick Gill

About me:

Nick Gill is a political geographer. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a degree in Geography with Economics in 2000. Following the award of his PhD in 2008 he was a lecturer in geography at Lancaster University, moving to take up a position as Lecturer in Human Geography at Exeter in 2010 and being promoted to Professor of Human Geography in 2016.

Nick has served as Book Review Editor of the journal Space & Polity and as Communications Officer and Secretary of the Political Geogeraphy research group of the Royal Geographical Society. He is a member of the ESRC's peer review college. From 2017-2018 to 2019-2020 he was the human geography external examiner of the University of Oxford's undergraduate geography degree programme and from 2023 has been the University of Swansea's undergraduate human geography external examiner.

Nick has engaged with a range of non-academic organisations through his work inlcuding as a Trustee of the charity City of Sanctuary, a national charity that promotes a culture of welcome and hospitality to those seeking safety from violence and persecution. During his trusteeship he was honoured to have the opportunity to launch the Universities of Sanctuary stream of their work, via the writing and publication of the stream's first handbook, with then-undergraduates Abigail Grace and Emma Finlinson (both now Exeter University alumni). He remains on the University of Sanctuary national steering group. He also served as a member of the charity JUSTICE's working party on immigration and asylum determination reform resulting in a report entitled 'Immigration and Asylum Appeals - A Fresh Look' that recommended a series of improvements to the first tier asylum and immigration tribunal. In October 2023 Nick delivered a keynote on the subject of the 'The Job of the Asylum Case Officer: Ethnographic Perspectives' to representatives of the asylum divisions of the EU member states during a workshop in Bratislava on the same theme organised by the EUAA.

Nick's work has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council and by the European Research Council via a Starting Grant (see https://asyfair.com/).

Qualifications:

BSc (LSE),
MSc (LSE),
MSc (Bristol),
PhD (Bristol),
PGcert Academic Practice (Lancaster)