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Kathryn Cassidy is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on political geography, bordering processes, and everyday geopolitics. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Birmingham, with research on Ukrainian-Romanian borderland communities. She has held academic positions at Queen Mary, University of London, and the University of Babes-Bolyai, Romania.
Her current work includes a Senior Fellowship with the ESRC's UK in a Changing Europe initiative (2022-2025), analyzing responses to the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland, Romania, and the UK. Previous projects include Leverhulme Trust-funded research on dis/order in critical border studies, examining bordering practices in UK healthcare, higher education, and social security.
Key research interests include abolitionism, institutional geographies, and the socio-political impacts of bordering. She has contributed to UN Sustainable Development Goals through her work on migration, healthcare, and social inclusion. Awards include the 2019 SAGE Prize for Innovation in Sociology.
Her projects and publications explore themes like carceral geographies, refugee policies, and everyday bordering in public institutions. She supervises PhD students in political geography and collaborates internationally on migration and border studies.
