Debbie Hopkins

Debbie Hopkins 

Associate Professor in Human Geography  

Affiliation: Department for Continuing Education and School of Geography and the Environment
Expert in: Cities and migration, Employment, Global development and climate change
Geographic focus: UK, South Pacific, Aotearoa New Zealand 

Debbie's research broadly focuses on everyday mobile lives across three themes, 1. mobile labour, 2. logistical mobilities, and 3. transport and the climate crisis. 

Mobile Labour
Through this work, Debbie examines the various ways that labour is (made) mobile, and is concerned with the politics, practices and lived experiences of mobilised workers. Her work seeks to uncover how a mobilised labour geography might extend existing frameworks and ways of knowing about work(places), and workers on the move.

Logistical Mobilities
Drawing from critical logistics studies, transport and mobilities scholarship, this work reflects on the in/visibilities of logistical mobilities, and how points of breakdown and crisis increase their visibility. 

Mobile Lives and the Climate Crisis
This research focuses on systemic and entrenched lock-in to high-carbon mobility practices and the intersections of carbon emissions reductions, equity and justice. This work is particularly interested in the shared nature of many of these issues in cities and countries around the world, and is increasingly focused on the hypermobile minority.