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Prof Nissa Finney is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews' School of Geography and Sustainable Development. Her research focuses on residential mobility, ethnicity, inequalities, and social justice, combining qualitative and quantitative methods. She leads projects such as the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity’s national survey on minorities and the Centre for Population Change’s study on young adults’ residential mobility. She chairs the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group and collaborates internationally with institutions like TU Delft and VU Brussels.
Her education includes a PhD in Geography from the University of Wales Swansea (2004). Prior roles include positions at the Universities of Manchester (2006–2015), Liverpool, and Sheffield, where she held roles like Hallsworth Fellow and ESRC Fellow. She is an Associate Director of the Centre for Minorities Research at St Andrews and a Visiting Scholar at TU Delft.
Research interests span migration decision-making, housing markets, neighborhood composition, and governance. Notable projects include analyzing ethnic minorities’ housing experiences, loneliness among Asian communities, and age segregation in housing. She co-authored a textbook on mixed-methods research (Mixed Methods in Social Sciences, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and contributes to policy-relevant studies such as the Evidence for Equality National Survey.
Teaching includes courses on migration, ethnicity, research methods, and population geography. She supervises PhD students like Gauthier Dulout and collaborates with non-academic partners like the Runnymede Trust and Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Ongoing projects include writing a book on immigrant children’s mobility and celebrating 50 years of Population Geography.
