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School of Geography

Dr Jeremy Schmidt

Jeremy

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography

Email: jeremy.schmidt@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Geography Building, Room 203

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My research focuses on the social dimensions of land, water, and energy, with particular attention to the ethical and political dimensions of human impacts on the Earth system. I have a long-term research project focused on these issues in the Canadian province of Alberta, where I examine colonial histories of water policy, the formation of oil economies, and the role of geosciences in state legitimacy and Indigenous dispossession.

My teaching draws on my research interests to engage with the many ways that different societies understand and relate to their environments, all of which animate my 2nd year module: Science, Ethics, and Environmental Policy. I also teach on the specialist 1st year module, Cities and Regions in Transition, on the BA (Hons) Human Geography programme. At the post-graduate level I teach on modules examining geographic thought, methods, and research design.

I co-edit the journal Area, published by the Royal Geographical Society and am  actively involved in several international networks, including Water Future and the United Nations Dialogue on Earth Jurisprudence.

Prior to joining QMUL in January 2024, I was Associate Professor of Human Geography at Durham University, where I worked from 2017-2023. Before that, I was Assistant Professor of Environmental Geography at Carleton University (2015-2016). I held post-doctoral positions in social anthropology at Dalhousie University (2014-15) and Harvard University (2012-2014). In 2015, I received an Impact Award (Talent Category), the highest distinction bestowed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. My PhD was conferred by the University of Western Ontario in 2012, where I held a Trudeau Scholarship and a SSHRC Fellowship.

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