Curriculum Vitae

University Education

2011 - 2015 University of Birmingham

MSci Geography, 1st Class Honours

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2015 - 2019 University of Birmingham

PhD in Geography and Environmental Science (ESRC funded)

Posts Held

Research Fellow, Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health (2021 - present)
 

Postdoctoral Researcher (2019 - present)

Meaningful Mobility: a novel approach to movement within and between places in later life - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, ERC. 

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Doctoral Researcher (2015 - 2019)

Embodying Heritage: A Biosocial Investigation into Urban Conservation Areas - University of Birmingham, ESRC

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Research Assistant (2017 - 2018)

Soviet Climate Science and its Intellectual Legacies - University of Birmingham, AHRC.

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GIS Associate (2018)

Organisations, staff support and the dynamics and quality of social work practice: A qualitative longitudinal study of child protection work - University of Birmingham, ESRC.

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Co-Investigator (2017)

Affective Capture: the implications of new technologies for researching embodied emotions - University of Birmingham, pump-primer fund.

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Research Assistant (2016)

Exploring Virtual Landscapes: Examing stimulation during video game navigation - University of Birmingham, unfunded

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Research Assistant (2016)

Make/Shift/Flickr - University of Birmingham, Radical Sabbatical. 

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Research Assistant (2016)

Stories of Change: The past, present & future of energy - University of Birmingham, AHRC

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GIS Consultant (2016)

City Region Economic & Development Institute (City REDI) - University of Birmingham

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Teaching Experience

 Posts held:

  • Lecturer in Demography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen (2019 - present)

  • Teaching Associate, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science - 2017 - 2019

  • Visiting Lecturer, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science - 2018

  • Post-graduate Demonstrator, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science - 2015 - 2017 

  • Visiting Lecturer, Environmental Health - 2015

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Supervision

  • Thomas Lowe - Experiences of mobility in later life over time (ERC funded PhD), ongoing. 

  • Natasha Keen - VRtual Space: Looking at User Experience, Communities and Trolling (MRes), 2019.

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Teaching Lead:

  • Demography, Methods for Academic Research (Level-2) - University of Groningen 

  • Therapeutic Landscapes, Bachelor Project Supervision (Level-3) - University of Groningen

  • Four different topic groups, Introduction to Academic Research (Level-1) - University of Groningen.

  • Therapeutic landscapes, Rotterdam five day residential Field Course (Level-1), University of Birmingham

  • Sensing place, Research Methods: Birmingham five day residential Field Course (Level-2), University of Birmingham

  • ‘Brexit and the EU’ Seminar Series – Social & Political Geography (Level-2), University of Birmingham

 

Guest Lectures

  • ‘Mixed Methods’ - Methods for Academic Research (Level-2), University of Groningen.

  • ‘Mobility and health in later life’ - Healthy Aging (Level-3), University of Groningen.

  • ‘Mobile Methods’ - Research Methods for Human Geographers (Level-2), University of Birmingham

  • 'Mobile Methods' - Research Methods: Environmental Health (PGT), University of Birmingham

  • Podcast in ‘Moving with Young Children’ module, Victoria University, Australia  

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Teaching Awards:

  • PGR Teaching Academy Award, 2017 

Workshops & Conferences

Conferences

  • The Future of Digital Geographies: provocations, trajectories, and research agendas, DGRG Annual Symposium, July 2021 (co-organised with Harrison Smith, Phil Jones, Daisy Curtis, and Godwin Yeboah)

 

Workshops​

  • Behind the scenes: Discussions around Research Methods - Online seminar (Co-organised with Saakshi Joshi, Nikhil Pazhoothundathil & Thomas Lowe). A collaboration between the University of Groningen, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, and Utrecht University.

  • Virtual Worlds - University of Birmingham 2019 (co-organised with Hannah Awcock, Phil Jones, Adam Packer).

  • Applied Memory: Putting affective and embodied methods into practice on the National Mall – AAG 2019, Washington D.C. (Co-organised with Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas and Danielle Drozdzewski)

  • Navigating Data Landscapes – RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Cardiff 2018 (Co-organised with Gillian Rose and Sam Hind with funding support from the RGS-IBG)

 

Organised sessions

  • Innovative Digital Geographies: Pushing against quantitative and qualitative boundaries, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2nd - 5th September 2020 (Co-organised with Zoe Gardner, Stefano De Sabbata and Katy Bennett) - Postponed due to COVID-19.

  • Digital Geographies Coffee Break: Chat and Charge, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2nd - 5th September 2020 (Co-organised with Jennie Day and Adam Packer) - Cancelled due to COVID-19.

  • Geographical Considerations of Digital Landscapes I & II. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff, 28th – 31st August 2018 (Co-organised with Isabel Williams)

  • Mobile bodies, technologies and methods: critical perspectives. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, 3rd - 9th April 2017 (Co-organised with Phil Jones)

  • Use of technologies and apps in social science research with children and young people. Young People and the New Urban Agenda Conference, Birmingham, 14th September 2016 (Co-organised with Sophie Hadfield-Hill)

 

Invited Talks

  • Panel Discussant - Meet the Authors - Roundtable on Academic Writing, Ural Humanitarian Institute, Ural Federal University 2021.

  • Keynote - ‘Resetting our Spatial Environment – the Interplay between the Physical and the Virtual World’, Geo Promotion Conference, Groningen 2021.

  • Panel Discussant – ‘Doing Memory Methods’: How we do, what we do, differently. Memory Studies Association Conference Madrid 2019

  • Osborne, T. Childhood Nostalgias and the biosocial body, Biosocial Research Network Seminar, Birmingham 2018. (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/education/research/biosocial-research-network/events/childhood-nostalgias-and-the-biosocial-body.aspx)

  • Osborne, T. Affective Capture: the implications of using biosensing technology for researching workplace stress, In-Situ Methodologies in Geographies of Health & Wellbeing, London 2018

  • Panel Discussant - Teaching as a postgraduate: How to Maximise the Available Opportunities, RGS-IBG London 2017.

Memberships

Professional bodies

  • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)

  • Member of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)

  • Member of the International Ambiances Network

  • Member of the Memory Studies Association (MSA)

  • Member of the Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap [Royal Dutch Geographical Society] (KNAG).

  • Aletta Talent Network, Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health. 

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Research Groups

  • Population Research Centre, University of Groningen

  • ​Centre for Advanced Studies in Urban Science and Design (CASUS), University of Groningen

  • Embodied Geographies, University of Birmingham

  • Biosocial Research Network, University of Birmingham

  • Geographies of Children and Youth Network, University of Birmingham

 

Committees​

  • Embodied Geographies, University of Birmingham

  • Digital Geographies Research Group, Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers.