Helen Wilson is a cultural and social geographer interested in the geographies and politics of embodied difference – both human and non-human. She joined the Department of Geography in 2017 following a Senior Lectureship at the University of Manchester, and previous positions at the University of Hull and Durham University. She completed a BA, MA, and PhD (2011) at Durham University.
Helen Wilson’s work is focused on the geographies of encounter; urban life and living; how embodied difference is negotiated, contested, and supported in times crisis, and/or contestation; and manifestations of conflict that fold in questions of race, culture, and species.
In addition, her research interests include: encounterable life; difference; affect and emotion; cultural theory; animal studies; geographies of education; race and racism; multiculture; urban life and living; and the politics of tolerance. Helen’s current research explores the fraught politics of coexistence through the case of urban kittiwakes in both the UK and Norway.