Katy Bennett
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment University of Leicester
Supervisor: Xin Pan (ESR 9), Solinda Morgillio (ESR 10)
Co-supervisor: Julia Alegre Mouslim (ESR 11)
Katy Bennett is an Associate Professor in Human Geography and she joined the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester in January 2005. Previously she held lecturing and research posts at Newcastle University, Durham University and the University of Portsmouth. From 2014-2020 Katy was Editor of Cultural Geography on Geography Compass and she is an Editorial Board Member of Emotion, Space and Society and Geography Compass. In addition, she has been principle investigator or co-investigator on projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the European Union working with and leading teams of researchers. In 2020 their paper on 'Community and Conviviality: informal social life in multicultural places' published in Sociology won the Annual SAGE prize for Innovation and Excellence.