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I am Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. I have previously held lecturing and research posts at Newcastle University, Durham University and the University of Portsmouth. From 2014-2020 I was Editor of Cultural Geography on Geography Compass and I am an Editorial Board Member of Emotion, Space and Society and Geography Compass. I have been principle investigator or co-investigator on projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the European Union working with and leading teams of researchers. I am Academic Lead at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ for the Co(l)laboratoy Research Hub.

My research challenges and advances ways of understanding everyday multiculturalism in an era of global migration and ethnically complex populations. It coils around multiculture, place, diversity and emotional geographies involving creative methods working at the interface of social science and psychotherapeutic techniques and interdisciplinary team working in digital geographies. My current and recent research projects include:

• EU Marie Curie Innovative Training Network SOLiDi - Solidarity in Diversity (Co-Investigator, 2020-2024, €4 million)

• Mapping Multiculture: disrupting representations of an ethnically diverse city ( Principal Investigator on a Leverhulme Trust funded research project working with Dr. Stefano De Sabbata and Dr. Zoe Gardner 2019-2022, £110,000)

• Living Multiculture: the new geographies of ethnicity and the changing formations of multiculture in England (Co-I on an Economic and Social Research Council funded project working with Prof. Sarah Neal, Prof. Allan Cochrane, and Prof. Giles Mohan 2012-2014, £500,000).

• Identities and regeneration in the former coalfields of East Durham (Principal Investigator on a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council 2005-2008).

Bennett, K., De Sabbata, S., & Gardner, Z. (2025). ÌýEthnic and Racial Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2499541

Bennett K, Gardner Z and De Sabbata S (2023)ÌýÌýSocial and Cultural GeographyÌý24:8,1458-1477

Bennett K and De Sabbata (2023) . Emotion, Space and Society

De Sabbata, S., Bennett, K., & Gardner, Z. (2023). . Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City ScienceÌý https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231217606

Bennett K and Emery J (2023) Emotional in Lees L & Demeritt D (eds) Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography.ÌýEdward Elgar, CheltenhamÌý

Gardner Z, Bennett K and De Sabbata S (2023)ÌýVirtual Reality, Place and Affect inÌýOsborne T & Jones P (eds.) A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies.ÌýEdward Elgar, Cheltenham.Ìý

Neal S, Bennett K, Cochrane A and Mohan G (2019) . Sociology53(1) pp.69-86.Ìýhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0038038518763518

Neal S, Bennett K, Cochrane A & Mohan G (2019)ÌýAuthor response to reviews of Lived Experience.ÌýEthnic and Racial Studies, 42(3), pp.409-416

Neal S, Bennett K, Cochrane A and Mohan G (2018) The Lived Experiences of Multiculture: the new spatial and social relations of diversity. Routledge, London

Bennett K, Cochrane A, Mohan G, Neal S (2017) Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studiesÌý54Ìý(10), pp.2305-2321.Ìý10.1177/0042098016650325 http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37737

Neal S, Mohan G, Cochrane A, Bennett K (2016) " Qualitative ResearchÌý16 (5), pp. 491-507 10.1177/1468794115596217

Bennett K (2015) Ìý Gender, Place and Culture 22 (9) pp.1287-1304Ìý https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2014.958066

Bennett K, Cochrane A, Mohan G, Neal S (2015). Emotion, Space and Society, 17, pp. 7-14 10.1016/j.emospa.2015.10.002http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38912

Jones H, Neal S, Mohan G, Connell K, Cochrane A, Bennett K (2015) Sociological Review, 63 (3), pp. 644-661 10.1111/1467-954X.12311 http://hdl.handle.net/2381/33495

Neal S, Bennett K, Cochrane A, Jones H, Mohan G (2015) . Population, Space and PlaceÌý21(5), pp.463-475.Ìý10.1002/psp.1910 http://hdl.handle.net/2381/33493

Bennett K (2013) . Emotion, Space and Society, 8 (1), pp. 1-10 10.1016/j.emospa.2012.04.004 http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31684

Neal S, Bennett K, Cochrane A, Mohan G (2013) ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY, 31 (2), pp. 308-323 10.1068/c11263r

Bennett K (2011) Antipode 43 (4): 960-985

Bennett K (2009) Area 41 (3) pp.244–251

Bennett KÌý(2009) Telling Tales: Nostalgia, Collective Identity and an Ex-Mining Village in Smith, Mick, Davidson, Joyce, Cameron, Laura and Bondi, Liz (Eds.) Emotion, Place and Culture (BurlingtonVT and Aldershot: Ashgate Press)

Bennett Kand Lee R (2007) Amber and an/other rural: Film, photography and the former coalfields in R. Fish (ed)ÌýCinematic CountrysidesÌýManchester University Press, Manchester.

Bennett KÌý(2006) . Gender, Place and Culture Vol 13, No 2, pp.49-56.

Bennett K(2005) The identification of farmers' wives: Research challenges in the Northern Fells, Cumbria in Little, J. and Morris, C. (eds)ÌýCritical studies in ruralÌýgender issues. Ashgate, Aldershot

Bennett KÌý(2004) . Area 36 (4) pp.414-422

Bennett KÌý(2004) Sociologia RuralisÌý44 (2) pp.147-166.

Phillipson J, Bennett K, Lowe P and Raley M (2004) Journal of Rural Studies 20 (2): 227-243.

Bennett KÌýand Phillipson J (2004) . Sociologia RuralisÌý44 (3) pp. 261-284. Ìý

Phillipson J, Bennett K, Carroll T and Lowe P (2002) Coping with crisis in Cumbria: the consequences of Foot and Mouth Disease. Town and Country Planning,Ìý72 (3), pp. 78-81

Bennett K (2002) Participant observation in Shurmer-Smith, P. (ed.) Doing CulturalÌýGeography. Sage: London.

Bennett Kand Shurmer-Smith P (2002) Writing conversation in Dwyer, C. and Limb, M. in Qualitative Methodologies for Geographers. Arnold: London.

Bennett K(2002) Interviews and focus groups in Shurmer-Smith, P. (ed.) DoingÌýCultural Geography. Sage: London.

Bennett Kand Shurmer-Smith P (2002) Handling case studies in Shurmer-Smith, P. (ed.) Doing Cultural Geography. Sage: London.

Bennett K, Ekinsmyth C and Shurmer-Smith P (2002) Selecting topics for study in Shurmer-Smith, P. (ed.) Doing Cultural Geography. Sage: London.

Bennett K and Shurmer-Smith P (2002) Creating a text in Shurmer-Smith, P. (ed.)ÌýDoing Cultural Geography. Sage: London. (50%)

Bennett K(2000) Inter/viewing and inter/subjectivities: Powerful performances in Seymour, S., Hughes, A. and Morris, C. (eds.) Ethnography and rural research.ÌýCountryside and Community Press: Cheltenham.

Bennett KCoalfields Regeneration: DealingÌý, Beynon H and Hudson R (2000) with the Consequences of Industrial Decline. Policy Press: Bristol.Ìý

Strangleman T, Hollywood E, Beynon H, Bennett KÌýand Hudson R. (1999) .Ìý Sociological Research Online - Vol. 4, Issue 3

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I would like to supervise projects involving one or more of the following topics: Everyday multiculturalism; Spatial and social relations of diversity; Emotional geographies; Geographies of migration; Bordering practices; Digital geographies. 

Current PhD students:

Completed PhDs:

GY1413 Human Geography Field course (lead and convene)

GY1422 Introduction to Leicester Geographies

GY2414 Research Design and Methods (with dissertation planning) (convene)

GY3415 Migration Place and Diversity (convene)

GY3420 Dissertation

GY7411 Critical and Creative Geographies

GY7412 Creative Geographies in Practice