Isabel Meier

Dr. Isabel Meier is an Assistant Professor in the Geography and Environmental Sciences Department at Northumbria University, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. Her research focuses on borders, asylum politics, coloniality, and feminist theory/praxis. She holds a PhD from the University of East London (2018) and has held postdoctoral positions at Tampere University, University of Northampton, and University of East London.

Her research interests include: 1) affective bordering and colonial entanglements; 2) decolonial temporalities; 3) political refusals and fugitivity; and 4) environmental crisis discourses. Current projects include a Leverhulme-funded study on migrant survival strategies at European borderscapes, a book project on affective bordering based on ethnographic work in Berlin and London, and collaborative work on refusal politics with Dr. Aila Spathopoulou.

• Education:
• PhD in Migration and Asylum Activism (University of East London, 2015–2019)

Her work engages interdisciplinary frameworks combining activism, ethnography, and critical theory. Key contributions include analyses of 'hostile environment' policies, temporalities of asylum, and intersectional approaches to ecological crises.

• Awards: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Collaborations include projects led by Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis on political belonging and environmental discourses. Her research actively contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals addressing inequality and climate justice.