Position:
Lecturer in Human Geography
Email:
Telephone:
+44 (0)29 208 76181
Location:
Room 2.80, Glamorgan Building
Dr Christopher Bear
Chris’s research interests centre on the relationships between humans, animals and technologies. He has pursued this through studies of recreational and commercial fisheries, and of dairy farming. He is one of relatively few human geographers to have a focus on aquatic environments. He is currently working on ESRC-funded research on the adoption of robotic milking technologies in the dairy sector. Chris is Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society’s Social and Cultural Geography Research Group.
Qualifications
MA (Hons) in Geography, University of Aberdeen, 1999
PhD in Geography, University of Aberdeen, 2004
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, Aberystwyth University, 2012
Career profile
Lecturer, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University (2012-present)
Lecturer, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University (2009-2012)
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Durham University (2006-2008)
Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Hull (2004-2008)
Teaching Fellow, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen (2002-2004)
Memberships/external activities
Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (2011-present)
Membership Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (2009-2011)
Fellow of theRoyal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (2003-present)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2012-present)
I have conducted peer review for academic journals including Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning D, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Surveillance and Society, Journal of Rural Studies, Environmental Values, International Review of Administrative Sciences and Gender, Place and Culture.
Invited seminars
‘Becoming cow: more-than-human geographies of training and learning’ – School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, April 2013
‘Thinking like a fish: how anglers make sense of changing river environments’ – Department of Geography, University of Reading, February 2009
‘Making anglers: The rhetoric of quantification in English fishery management’ (with Michael Carrithers and Geoff Whitman) - Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle, October 2007