Tracey Skelton is the Ron Lister Endowed Chair at the University of Otago, South Island, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She was appointed to the post in early January 2023. Prior to this Tracey was Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore based in the Department of Geography for fifteen and a half years. Her research interests connect with human geography research themes at Loughborough University through her longstanding work with young people and children’s geographies, research on Asian cities and a recent reconnection with the Caribbean. Tracey is the Editor-in-Chief of a 12 volume series published with Springer Singapore, Geographies of Children and Young People and many human geographers at Loughborough University have published in the collection.