The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Paul's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

About Paul

My broad research interests relate how people live together in cities. I am particularly interested in developing understandings of the experiential aspects of this, focusing on how various social relations unfold amidst a range of materialities, planning and policing discourses, and embodied (more-than human) encounters. In doing so I draw on experimental ethnographic and visual methods and develop insights from non-representational, post-structural and (post)phenomenological philosophies.

Currently:

Associate Professor of Human Geography

Associate Head of School (Research)

Previously:

Leader of the Centre for Research in Society and Environment

UoA14 (Geography and Environmental Sciences) coordinator for the Research Excellence Framework

ESRC South-West Doctoral Training Partnership Lead (Human Geography)

Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc Human Geography Research / MSc Social Research

Teaching

My teaching interests broadly lie in the areas of:

Urban Geography (Urban Design, Security and Counter-terrorism Everyday Life, and Public Space)

Experiential Geographies (Perception of the Environment, Embodied Experiences of Practice, Performance, and Mobility)

Theory and Philosophy in Geography

Qualitative Methods

Contact Paul

( A518, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 584752
paul.simpson@plymouth.ac.uk