Dr Sharon Leahy

Senior Lecturer

Director of Teaching

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463937

Email

sl65@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

• GG3237 Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border
• GG1001 Introduction to the Anthropocene
• GG4221 Review Essay ? Potential Supervisor 
• GG4297/8  Dissertation ? Potential Supervisor
• GG2012 Introduction to Border Studies & Berwick Field Trip 
• GGSD Student Wellbeing Officer

Research areas

Sharon?s research is concerned with the often hidden social geographies of difference and marginalisation, and the constitution of belonging. Sharon seeks to critically assess the discursive formation and consequent actualisation of difference politically and socially, and its impact on the most forgotten in society. She has acquired a specific interest in the ways in which elites produce and regulate knowledge in nuanced ways, allowing for the legitimisation of particular understandings and practices in relation to migrants and ethnic minority groups. Sharon is researching the bordering practices being normalised through immigration legislation. She is currently interested in revealing the workings of the everywhere border in relation to the UK?s Immigration Acts (2014 & 2016). Sharon would welcome enquiries about research degrees in the following areas; borderwork, state practices in relation to immigration, and the ?everywhere border?. Please contact her directly to discuss.

Selected publications

• Redrawing the border through the ?Right to Rent?: exclusion, discrimination and hostility in the English housing market

  McKee, K., Leahy, S., Tokarczyk, T. & Crawford, J., 22 Jan 2020, In : Critical Social Policy.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• The Right to Rent: active resistance to evolving geographies of state regulation

  Crawford, J., McKee, K. & Leahy, S., May 2020, In : International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Are we defending the indefensible? Reflecting on policy and practice around ?the border? in plant biosecurity for tree health

  White, R. M., Marzano, M., Leahy, S. & Jones, G., 21 Aug 2019, In : Forests. 10, 9, 20 p., 716.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• More than a hostile environment: exploring the impact of the Right to Rent part of the Immigration Act 2016

  Crawford, J., McKee, K. & Leahy, S., 23 Aug 2019, In : Sociological Research Online. Online First, 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• CHR Briefing 6: Creating a ?Compliant Environment?: The Immigration Acts? impact on service provision in the UK

  Wooninck, J. & Leahy, S., 10 Sep 2018, 5 p. University of St Andrews.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Generating confusion, concern, and precarity through the Right to Rent scheme in Scotland

  Leahy, S., McKee, K. & Crawford, J., Jun 2018, In : Antipode. 50, 3, p. 604-620 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Prioritising stakeholder engagement for forest health, across spatial, temporal and governance scales, in an era of austerity

  White, R. M., Young, J., Marzano, M. & Leahy, S., 15 May 2018, In : Forest Ecology and Management. 417, p. 313-322 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Are we defending the indefensible? Reflecting on policy and practice around 'the border' in plant biosecurity

  White, R., Marzano, M., Leahy, S. & Jones, G., 2016.

  Research output: Contribution to conference ? Abstract

• CHR Briefing 5: Immigration Act 2016 -more harm than good?

  Simeonova, M., Leahy, S. & McKee, K., 13 Sep 2016, University of St Andrews. 4 p. (CHR Briefings; no. 5)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Other report

• The Immigration Act and the ?Right to Rent?: exploring governing tensions within and beyond the state

  Crawford, J., Leahy, S. & McKee, K., 29 Jul 2016, In : People, Place and Policy. 10, 2, p. 114-125 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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