New University Lecturer in Human Geography

Dr Johanna Waters has recently joined the Department for Continuing Education as a University Lecturer in Human Geography.

Johanna came to us from the University of Birmingham, where she was a Senior Lecturer in Urban Resilience. Prior to that, she worked for seven years as a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Liverpool. She lived for five years in Vancouver, Canada, and retains strong research connections there.

Here at Oxford she is a Fellow of Kellogg College and is also affiliated with the School of Geography and the Environment.

Dr Waters has been appointed to this post primarily to teach on our highly successful Masters in Sustainable Urban Development, and to develop a research doctorate (DPhil), also in Sustainable Urban Development.

Her research interests include international and transnational population migration (particularly in the Asia-Pacific Region), international education and student mobilities.

She has published widely in this area, including two monographs (Brooks, R. and J. Waters (2011) Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; Waters, J. L. (2008) Education, Migration and Cultural Capital in the Chinese Diaspora: Transnational Students between Hong Kong and Canada New York (Cambria Press) and a recent edited collection (Brooks, R., A. Fuller and J. Waters (eds.) (2012) Changing spaces of education: new perspectives on the nature of learning (Routledge).

Dr Waters, who recently completed an ESRC-funded project on continuing education and transnationalisation in Hong Kong, says of her appointment: 'I am extremely excited to be working at Oxford, particularly in the areas of Geography and Continuing Education. I have a life-long commitment to Geography, and I have research interests in Continuing Education and believe strongly in its ideals.'

'The work that has already been done here on Sustainable Urban Development is outstanding - I am joining an excellent team of researchers and staff. I look forward, also, to working with some world-class doctoral students on the part-time DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development. '

Published 7 August 2013