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Professor Keith D Lilley

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Keith Lilley

Professor Keith D Lilley

School of Natural and Built Environment

I am an historical geographer with particular research expertise in interpreting historic landscapes, maps, and built environments. Funded research projects over the past 20 years include "Mapping Medieval Townscapes", "Mapping Medieval Chester", "Linguistic Geographies", "City Witness", and "Surveying Empires".

These projects have shaped a broader field of geohumanities, as well as cross-disciplinary research agendas through collaborating with research organisations, non-academic partners and local communities both within the UK and around the globe.

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  • K.Lilley@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3363
  • @profkdlilley

Research Interests

  • New research includes applications of GIS in the history of cartography, landscape archaeology and history, as well as research in historical geography on surveying and cartography as spatial practices that shaped past landscapes globally. 

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • I am committed to “Engaged Research”, and am experienced in developing outreach and public engagement programmes through coproduced research on contemporary topics such as contested heritage, eg see https://youtu.be/KQoRlXUhomA


Research students

Current research students include Karen Rann and Rebecca Milligan, I have supervised PhD student completion for more than 15 years at Queen’s.


Alumni: Where are they now

Dr Cat Porter, Research Fellow and Lecturer (Part-Time) in Human Geography, Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Wonseob Song, Assistant Professor in Geography, Chonbuk National University, South Korea

Dr Glynn Kelso, Curator, Public Record Office Northern Ireland (PRONI)


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