Matthew Abbey

Profile

Dr Matthew Abbey is Lecturer in Critical Human Geography at the University of Leeds. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who has researched, taught, and studied across Geography, Sociology, International Relations, Cultural Studies, and Law departments. His research is dedicated to thinking about ethics, justice, and the imagination amidst contemporary forms of surveillance, policing, bordering, marginalisation, and repression.

Matthew’s first manuscript Queer Migration and European Colonial Bordering is forthcoming with Bristol University Press. His other writing can be found in Theory, Culture, & Society, Social Text, Surveillance & Society, Sexualities, Identities, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and other journals. He has also published in media outlets such as the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the Diplomat, and openDemocracy.

Matthew is developing research on the following themes:

• Foreign influence, civil society, and new forms of geopolitical defamation
• Quantum computing, militarisation, and hype (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant)
• Neurodivergence, securitisation, counterterrorism
• Noncorrelational thinking, space, and the writing of Sadegh Hedayat

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Warwick
• MA, Sciences Po Paris
• BA, Monash University

Professional memberships

• British Sociological Association
• Associate Fellowship at Advance HE
• Surveillance Studies Network

Student education

Matthew is open to supervising PhD students in his areas of interest and related topics across critical human geography.

Research groups and institutes

• Research and innovation
• Social Justice, Cities, Citizenship