Matthew Abbey

Profile

Dr Matthew Abbey is a Lecturer in Critical Human Geography at the University of Leeds. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who has researched, taught, and studied across Geography, International Relations, Sociology, Law, and Cultural Studies. His main interests include surveillance studies, intelligence studies, border studies, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, neurodiversity studies, and queer theory.

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 Porn Studies. He has also published in the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the South China Morning Post, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Diplomat, and openDemocracy.

Matthew is developing four strands of research:
• Quantum computing, national security, and encryption (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant)
• Covert operations, civil society, and contested knowledge
• Surveillance, artificial intelligence, and human-machine interactions
• Counterterrorism, securitisation, and neurodivergence

Qualifications

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

Professional memberships

• British Sociological Association
• Associate Fellowship at Advance HE

Student education

Matthew is open to supervising PhD students in his main areas of interest and related topics in critical human geography. He is actively seeking PhD students working on geographical, sociological, political, and cultural approaches to artificial intelligence and other technologies.

Research groups and institutes

• Research and innovation
• Social Justice, Cities, Citizenship