Sophie is a University Teacher in Human Geography at Loughborough University. She has undertaken doctoral research at Loughborough University between 2022-2025, exploring youth geographies in relation to the ‘Cost-of-Living Crisis’ in the UK.
She is the current Secretary for Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group (RGS-IBG).
The role of freshwater connectivity in facilitating the range expansion of invertebrate invasive species.
Sophie’s research is primarily based in social geography, with a particular interest in youth geographies, and geographies of education.
Sophie’s doctoral research explored the everyday geographies of university students navigating a ‘Cost-of-Living Crisis’ in the UK, examining how the intensification of financial precarity drives new social phenomena on campus. This research explored the shifting student experience, outlining students’ relationship to part-time work, volunteering practices, extra-curricular activities, social lives, and overall wellbeing. This research explored dimensions of inequality, and youth transitions during times of crisis.
In other research-related activity, Sophie has explored the measurement of the impact of volunteering across Global North and Global South contexts.
Sophie teaches broadly across human geography, including topics of social, cultural and economic geography across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. Her teaching aligns with research interests on youth geographies, geographies of education, and broader social and cultural themes.