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Profiles
Dr Simon Dickinson
Lecturer in Geohazards and Risk
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Biography
Biography
Lecturer in Geohazards within the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth. I teach into the Geography, Environmental Science, Environmental Management & Sustainability, and Geosciences programmes within SoGEES.
Qualifications
PhD (2018, University of Exeter, UK): 'Geographies of fidelity: emergent spaces of third sector activity after the Canterbury earthquakes' (supervised by Prof Paul Cloke and Prof Clive Barnett)
Research
Research
Research interests
My research explores themes related to democracy, community organisation, and political engagement. Much of my work examines new and radical forms of community organisation and practice. I'm interested in how newly created groups learn (i.e. how knowledge is passed between groups and movements), gain legitimacy (i.e. are recognised as being able to speak for particular groups/issues), and engage with government (i.e. participate in decision-making).
- Democracy
- Community
- New organisations
- Social change
- Participation
- Politics of disaster transformation
- Qualitative methods
- Participatory methodologies (including PAR and working for/within civil society organisations)
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Dickinson, S & Telford, A. (2020). The visualities of digital story mapping: teaching the ‘messiness’ of qualitative methods through story mapping technologies. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2020.1712686
Cloke, P. & Dickinson, S. (2019). Transitional ethics and aesthetics: Re-imagining the postdisaster city in Christchurch, New Zealand. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1570838
Dickinson, S. (2019). Alternative narrations and imaginations of disaster recovery: a case study of relocatees after the Christchurch, New Zealand, earthquakes. Social & Cultural Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1574883
Tironi, M., Bacigalupe, G., Knowles, S., Dickinson, S., Gil, M., Kelly, S., Molina, F., Siddiqi, A. & Waldmueller, J. (2019). ‘Figuring’ disasters: an experiment on thinking disasters as methods. Resilience. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2019.1567013
Dickinson, S. (2018). Spaces of post-disaster experimentation: agile entrepreneurship and geological agency in emerging disaster countercartographies. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(4), 621-640. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618812023
Cloke, P., Dickinson, S. & Tupper, S. (2017). The Christchurch earthquakes 2010, 2011: Geographies of an event. New Zealand Geographer, 73 [2], 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12152