Researchers & Collaborators

Kavita Ramakrishnan

Kavita is an urban geographer who specializes in experiences of belonging, informality, and everyday life on the margins. Her research to date focuses on three strands: 

1) the lived experiences of eviction and resettlement in India;

2) refugee provisioning, care, and asylum-seeking in European cities; and most recently,

3) embodied experiences of heat in Indian cities. 

Her work is collaborative and she is interested in developing collective methodologies to disrupt traditional/colonial forms of knowledge production within and beyond the academy. She is the recipient of a British Academy Wolfson Fellowship her research has received funding from the AHRC Rapid Response Funding and the British Academy. She has published single and co-authored work in journals such as Antipode, CITY, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Environment and Planning E: Environment and Space, Humanity, and  Political Geography.

Casper Laing Ebbensgaard

Casper is lecturer in Human Geography at University of East Anglia. His research investigates how human-environment relations are conditioned by elemental media and their manipulation through architectural design and urban planning practice. By drawing attention to the role of architecture in shaping geographies of inequality and injustice in cities, his research investigates the affective politics of vertical urbanism, the nocturnal city and the dark underworld of mining and extraction. His research is ethnographic and engages in creative collaborations with artists, urban designers and community groups to co-produce materials that both render the affective conditions of life within the asymmetrical power geometries of cities palpable to wider audiences, while also, developing propositions for developing more just and durable forms of cohabiting in cities. He is the recipient of several research grants, including a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship.

Ezgi Yilmaz

Ezgi is a postgraduate researcher at the University of East Anglia, with research interests in queer geography, anarchist geography, architecture, and migration. Her doctoral research critically investigates the intersections of queer theory, geographies of home, and migration studies, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of LGBT+ migrants from Turkey living in London. Her work interrogates how racial capitalist, heteronormative, and classist ideologies shape dominant conceptions of “home” and explores how these frameworks are contested and reimagined by LGBT+ migrants. Ezgi has been the recipient of scholarships throughout her BA, MA, MRes, and ongoing PhD degrees. In addition to her research experience, she has over five years of experience as a teaching assistant and associate tutor, contributing to the teaching activities of undergraduate courses.

Ella Rayment

Ella is Research Assistant at the Just Urban Alliance. She has a research interest in geographies of resistance, specifically concerned with unequal power relationships, and how these dynamics can be challenged through a multi-level approach from radical collective action to national policy. Previously a Research Fellow with the International Presentation Association, Ella has completed two qualitative research publications on the relationship between gender stereotypes and domestic violence across cultural and social contexts, centering lived experience. She completed a Communication and Advocacy Associate internship with the NGO Committee on Social Development, was awarded a Distinction in her Masters degree in International Social Development and has an Undergraduate degree in International Development and Geography, with First Class Honours, at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Collaborators

Great Yarmouth Borough Council, ProCommunity CIC, Feather Futures, Herring House, Acorn, MAP, Shelter, Caracol, Norwich City Council, OutThereArts, PrimeYark, original projects, Black Tower Projects, Queen Mary University of London