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Dr Tristan Sturm

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Dr Tristan Sturm

School of Natural and Built Environment

Political geography and Religious geopolitics: Apocalypses, religious, secular, climate change, etc - Critical public health: Lead pipes and other urban environmental exposures - Middle East studies: Israel/Palestine Geopolitics

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  • T.Sturm@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3302

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the fields of;

  • Critical public health geographies
  • Political geographies of religious movements
  • Apocalyptic thought related to climate change and nationalism

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Lynch, R., Sturm, T., and Webster, J. (proposal accepted) “The apocalyptic and other crisis.” Special Issue of Anthropology and Medicine.
  • McConnell, T., Sturm, T., Stevenson, M., McCorry, N. K., Donnelly, M., Taylor, B. & Best, P., (2019) Co-producing a shared understanding and definition of empowerment with people with dementia. BMC Research Involvement and Engagement. 5:19, pp1-11.
  • McConnell, T, Best, P. Sturm, T, (2018) “A translational case study of empowerment into practice: a realist evaluation of a member-led dementia empowerment service.” Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice (Sage). DOI: 10.1177/1471301218814393 23pp.
  • Farries, E. and Sturm, T. (2018) Feminist legal geographies of nonconsensual pornography online: Using copyright logic to combat the unauthorized distribution of celebrity intimate images in cyberspace. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. Published online.
  • Sturm, T. (2018) “Religion as Nationalism: The Religious Nationalism for Israel of American Christian Zionists.” National Identities, 20(3), 299-319.
  • Sturm, T. (2017) Christian Zionism as Religious Nationalism Par Excellence. Brown Journal of World Affairs, 24(1), 7-22.

Research students

Megan O'Kane (ESRC funded) Geopolitics of video games (1st supervisor) year 2

Tom Albrecht (ESRC funded) Apocalypse and climate change (1st supervisor) year 3

Dan Webster (DFE funded) Art and ad spaces (2nd supervisor) year 3

John Erwin (self funded) Emotions and tourism in Northern Ireland (1st supervisor) year 2


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