Tim Bunnell is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and leads the Asian Urbanisms research cluster in the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. His research centres around issues of urban development in Southeast Asia (especially in Malaysia and Indonesia), and associated transnational urban linkages within and beyond the region. He is the author of Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor (2004) as well as over thirty articles and book chapters. He is Associate Editor of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography and editor of the Cities section of the ARI-Springer Book Series.
David Higgitt is Professor of Physical Geography at the National University of Singapore. He previously held posts at Durham University and Lancaster University. He is a geomorphologist whose research is focused on sediment delivery processes. He has worked extensively in Asia examining sediment dynamics and water chemistry in large rivers but also works on smaller scale catchment processes and management in Singapore. David has served on the executive committees of the International Association of Geomorphologists and the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on geomorphological themes and edited the first volume in the RGS-IBG Book Series: Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change: Britain in the Last 1000 Years (2001). He is also Editor of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education and Associate Editor of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
Steve Hinchliffe is Professor of Human Geography and at the University of Exeter. He is author or editor of 6 books and has written numerous articles on issues ranging from risk and food, to biosecurity, urban ecologies and nature conservation. His research focuses on the 'making of things in practices', and draws together insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Geography. Steve has also held posts at Cambridge University, Keele University and the Open University, and has worked as a researcher at the European Parliament. His most recent research has been funded by the ESRC and EU on biosecurity and cooperative research respectively. He is also on the editorial board of The Geographical Journal.
Philip Kelly is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Geography at York University, Toronto. He is also Economic Domain Leader at the Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement in Toronto. His research has focused on labour issues in rural and urban contexts in Southeast Asia, as well as immigrant transnationalism and labour market integration in Canada. He is the author of over 30 articles and book chapters, which have appeared in journals such as Economic Geography, Environment & Planning A, Environment & Planning D, Geoforum, IJURR, Political Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. He is the author of Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines (Routledge, 2000), and co-author of Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (with Neil Coe and Henry Yeung, Blackwell, 2007).
Avril Madrell is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Her research focuses on feminist history and philosophy of geography, spaces and practices of mourning and remembrance, pilgrimage and landscape. Key publications include: Complex Locations: Women's Geographical Work in the UK 1850-1970 (2009, RGS-IBG/Wiley-Blackwell), Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance (co-edited with James Sidaway, 2010), Memory, Mourning, Landscape (co-edited with Elizabeth Anderson, Kate McLoughlin and Alana Vincent, 2010) and Charity Shops: Retailing, Consumption and Society (with Sue Horne, 2002).
Heather Viles is Reader in Geomorphology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on rock breakdown in extreme environments, biological contributions to geomorphology and applications of geomorphology to problems of the deterioration and conservation of building stone. She has published extensively on these topics, and also co-edited 'The Student's Companion to Geography' with Ali Rogers (Blackwell, Oxford, 2003). She was co-editor of 'Area' for 5 years and is currently joint editor in chief of the journal 'Catena'.
Andrew Wood is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. His research interests are in three related areas: urban and regional governance; the politics of local economic development; and issues relating to competition and collaboration between firms. He has written over thirty-five articles and book chapters on these issues including recent publications in Economic Geography, Political Geography, Journal of Economic Geography, Area, Environment and Planning A and Urban Studies.
