Publicly Sited is my personal website and blog. It contains news about things that I am up to, and more occasionally, observations on media, politics and space … though not always all three within a single thought.

I joined the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London in January 2010, where I am currently Reader in Media and Geography. Prior to joining Birkbeck I was at The Open University, first as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography, and then as a Research Associate in the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG). My PhD was completed in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. I also hold an MSc in Cities, Space and Society from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Urban and Regional Planning from Toronto Metropolitan University (as it has been named since 2022).

Originally from Toronto, I’m a Canadian expat that has spent almost half of my life living in England and Wales.  Outside of academia proper, I enjoy long walks (cities and countryside alike), travel, photography, dabbling in DJing and sample-based music, and being schooled in the most recent facts of science and nature by my older son, while the younger one updates me on the ins and outs of all manner of vehicles.