Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is an active Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy at Northumbria University Business School, specializing in Transport Mobilities, Cultural Geographies, and Tourism. Her interdisciplinary research engages with embodiment theory and non-representational theory to address societal mobility challenges.

• PhD in Tourism, University of Sunderland (awarded 2017)
• MSc (awarded 2017)
• MA in Fine Art (awarded 2006)
• MA in Photography (awarded 2005)

Wilson's research centers on critical mobilities studies, examining how movement shapes social relations through innovative frameworks like infrastructural violence analysis and mobile homemaking. Her work bridges tourism studies, human-animal interactions, and disability inclusion, with significant contributions to understanding e-scooter cultures, deaf tourism, and military infrastructure legacies. She actively promotes mobilities as essential for societal modernization through global academic networks.

Her publication trends reveal deep engagement with spatial justice, emphasizing embodiment in infrastructure (2024), advancing deaf tourism scholarship (2023), and exploring urban human-animal encounters (2022). Key thematic clusters include mobility justice, sensory accessibility, and critical infrastructure studies across geography and tourism journals.

As a dedicated research supervisor, Wilson leads multiple major projects including the £180K Leverhulme Trust-funded "Life Stories of Infrastructure" (2023-2026) and recently completed the "Surfing the City" e-scooter study. She serves on the editorial committee of Applied Mobilities and actively contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals through mobility justice research.

Wilson maintains a robust fieldwork practice, having presented at 20+ conferences worldwide and planned research at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Her collaborative approach spans geography, tourism, and environmental studies communities, with recent work examining campervan cultures, infrastructural violence, and multisensory tourism.