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Peter Martin

Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

My academic career began at the University of Glasgow, where I completed my undergraduate degree in Geography in 2014 and my Masters degree in Human Geography in 2015. I then moved to the University of Oxford to carry out my PhD research which involved collaborating with the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) to study the historical geographies of Arctic exploration at the end of the nineteenth century. I then joined the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, before taking up a lectureship at the University of Glasgow.

I am now delighted to be teaching and researching in Nottingham and contributing to various modules within the School of Geography.

Teaching Summary

I contribute to the following modules in the School:

GEOG1005 Tutorial

GEOG1008 Exploring Human Geography

GEOG1038 Global Challenges (Module Convenor)

GEOG2017 Cultural & Historical Geography

GEOG2030 Research Tutorials

GEOG2031 Dissertation Preparation

GEOG3017 Geographies of Violence

GEOG3004 Dissertation Supervision

Research Summary

My research studies the historical geographies of exploration in the Arctic regions at the turn of the twentieth century. Specifically, I study the ways in which geographical knowledge about the… read more

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