Katie Willis

Katie Willis is Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research examines gender dimensions of migration, young asylum seekers' experiences, and critical perspectives on development geography, with fieldwork in Latin America and East Asia.

Research focuses on:

• Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
• Transnational family networks
• Decolonizing development narratives
• Pedagogical knowledge circulation

She leads the ESRC-funded seminar series 'Uncertain Journeys' and has received the Doctoral Supervisor of the Year award for mentoring excellence.