Over the past few years I have been fortunate to work with colleagues, friends and comrades in projects including EnJUSTICE, Decolonising the City, CUPP, Transcapes, PURSI, Nutricities and the Welcoming City.

What these diverse research endeavours hold in common is a drive to understand how cities and their often transient populations face up to the polycrises of our times.

In 2021, we founded the Radical Urban Lab here at St Andrews, where I serve as co-Director, together with Dr Vanessa Schofield (Leeds).

I am immensely honoured to have recently, or currently supervise and work with a fantastic group of colleagues:

• Dr Nerina Boursinou focuses on understanding migrant trajectories through the use of Information and Communication Technologies.
• Josh Hezelbower studies how land ownership mediates both economic inequality and Indigenous-state relations within Coast Salish territories on Canada’s west coast.
• Ewan Jenkins is conducting a thorough research of the commune in its historical and current form.
• Andreas Makris is studying the techno-logistical transformation of the port of Piraeus, Greece.
• Dr Giorgos Mattes is studying the transformations of digital policing through a specific case study in Sweden (STATUS).
• Dr Rowan Milligan is working at the intersection of gender, squatting and resistance in the context of the housing crisis.
• Christopher Murray is looking at gentrification and the housing crisis in rural Scotland.
• Dr Evie Papada is an expert on the humanitarian border, having previously studied the case of Lesbos in Greece and currently looking into the UK context.

Please check vrad.is for more information on ongoing research projects, writings, photographs and more.