Agatha Herman

Dr Agatha Herman

Job title: Lecturer in Human Geography (Geography of Development), School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Technology)
Postal address: Room 115, 8 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585957
Email: agatha.herman@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

Module leader for MA in International Relations 'Globalisation and Regional Development' (IRL508)
Contribution of 'Development Geography' component of Stage 1 module 'Introducing Human Geography: Globalisation, Population and Development' (GGH1105)
Contribution to Stage 2 module 'The Third World' (GGH2133)
Undergraduate dissertation advisor
MA dissertation advisor
Personal tutor for students at stages 1, 2 and 4.

Qualifications & background

2011 – present Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Plymouth

2011 Research Assistant, University of the West of England

2010 – 2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Planning, University of Groningen

2006 – 2010 PhD in Human Geography, University of Exeter

2005 – 2006 MSc in Society and Space, University of Bristol

2002 – 2005 BSc (Hons) in Geography, University of Bristol

Professional membership

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers

Committee Member of the RGS 'Geographies of Justice' working group (2010 - present)

Research interests
My research interests are broadly focused on issues of equality and social justice with a particular focus on ethical geographies. My research to date has explored the South African wine industry, particularly the interactions, articulations and power relations of the ethical discourses of 'fairness' and 'empowerment' through four wine commodity networks. I am currently interested in how discourses of empowerment are deployed within British institutional settings, particularly in how these can contribute to sustainable re-integration for former offenders and ex-military personnel.

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Research in Environment and Society (CeRES)

Publications

Herman,A. and J. Beaumont (2012) ‘Spaces of engagement in postsecular cities’. InBeaumont, J, Cloke, P. and J. Vranken (eds) Faith, Welfare and Exclusion in European Cities: the FBO phenomenon, Bristol: The PolicyPress, forthcoming.

Herman, A.(2011). The Uneasy Researcher: negotiating the methodological challenges ofqualitative research in the complex terrain of South Africa. Working Paper.Available from: http://start2finishresearch.com/articles/working-papers/.

Herman, A. (2010).Connecting the Complex ‘Lived’ World(s) of Fairtrade. Journalof Environmental Policy and Planning, 12(4), pp. 405-422.

Herman,A. (2010). Death has a Touch of Class: society and space in Brookwood Cemetery(1853-1903). Journal of HistoricalGeography. 36(3), pp. 305-314.

Papers Under Review

Herman, A. TacticalEthics: how the discourses of Fairtrade and Black Economic Empowerment changeand interact in wine networks from South Africa to the UK. Under review in: Geoforum.