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Sally is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Environment and Geography. She has been Chair of the Board of Studies for the Department since September 2025. Between September 2023 - 2025 Sally was the Programme Lead for the Human Geography and Environment and Human Geography and Environment with Placement undergraduate programmes and Chair of the departmental Teaching and Learning Group.

She is an interdisciplinary academic with degrees in Modern History (University of East Anglia); International Politics (University of Edinburgh) and International Relations (Department of War Studies, King's College London). Sally's area of expertise is in political and development geography of South and Southeast Asia. In particular she is interested in environmental justice, rights and indigenous environmentalism. She was awarded a Leverhulme scholarship for her PhD research exploring post-tsunami dispossession and discourses of identity in Southern India. Between 2017 - 2020 Sally was a member of the E.U. Commission Horizon 2020 project entitled Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia (CRISEA), working with colleagues in the Global South to explore the relationship between ecological knowledge production and global indigenous discourse in Southeast Myanmar.

Sally has been a member of faculty at the Department of Environment and Geography since November 2020, initially as Associate Lecturer and then as Lecturer in Human Geography (April 2021~). Before this she was Lecturer in International Politics and Development at the Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs (ISEAA), Chiang Mai University (CMU) in Thailand and an Affiliated Researcher at CMU’s Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD). She was also a Lecturer in Environmental Politics at the University Study Abroad Consortium within CMU’s Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration for three years. Sally previously taught at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Currently, Sally's main research and pedagogical focus is on environmental justice. She explores critical and engaged pedagogies, particularly as they relate to the teaching of critical environmental justice and indigenous environmentalism but also in the context of new HE sector trends, such as 'solutions-oriented' teaching, and transnational environmental justice education. Alongside this she is interested in cases of toxic colonialism, decolonization and the ways in which environmental justice discourse and practice intersect with and problematize dominant development agendas. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC).