Committee
The Committee oversees the activities of the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group and support its events, opportunities, and strategic direction.
Officers
Chair – Cordelia Freeman
c.freeman@exeter.ac.uk
Cordelia Freeman is a feminist political geographer who works interdisciplinarily with a focus on abortion in Latin America. Her research engages with reproductive justice, borders and border violence, feminist political geography, and the politics of representation. She is currently working on a Wellcome Trust- and ESRC-funded project examining abortion im/mobilities across Latin America.
Secretary – Elizabeth Gagen
elg26@aber.ac.uk
Elizabeth Gagen’s work as a geographer is embedded in social science principlies shared with sociology, psychology and child studies. A broad set of interests run through her research, including the social construction of childhood and youth, governing through emotions and education, mental health and wellbeing, gender and embodiment, and the history of psychology and psychiatry.
Treasurer – Negar Elodie Behzadi
negar-elodie.behzadi@bristol.ac.uk
Negar Elodie Behzadi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. She is a feminist political geographer interested in unravelling the ways in which intersectional forms of exclusion and marginalisation are produced, reproduced and contested in stressed environments. Her research brings the insights of feminist political ecology, labour geography and the sensibilities of an ethnographer to issues of resource extraction, work, migration, gender and Muslimness in the Global South, the post-Soviet Muslim South and France.
Committee Members
- Chloe Fox-Robertson – Web Coordinator (2025-2028)
chloe.fox-robertson@manchester.ac.uk - Margot Rubin – Dissertation Prize Coordinator (2023-2026)
rubinm@cardiff.ac.uk - Poppy Budworth – Social Media Officer (2023-2026), Membership Officer (2025-2028)
poppy.budworth@manchester.ac.uk - Rituparna Bhattcharyya – Conference Coordinator (2025-2028)
rituparna.bhattacharyya@accb.org.uk - Alkım Karaağaç – Conference Coordinator (2025-2028)
e.a.karaagac@bham.ac.uk - Sophia Simelitidou – PGR Rep (2025-2028)
s.simelitidou@exeter.ac.uk - Grainne Fay – PGR Rep (2025-2028)
grainne.fay@nottingham.ac.uk - Giulia Mininni – EDI Rep (2025-2028)
giulia.mininni@manchester.ac.uk - Sieun Lee – Ordinary Member (2024-2027)
sieun.lee@ouce.ox.ac.uk - Diti Baltacharya – Ordinary Member (2023-2026)
d.bhattacharya@griffith.edu.au - Jay Sinclair – Ordinary Member (2025-2028)
jay.sinclair@durham.ac.uk - Kate Maclean – Ordinary Member (2025-2028)
kate.maclean@ucl.ac.uk