Professor Dr. Luke Dickens

Biography

Luke is a human geographer specializing in cultural politics, urban change, and the lives of children and young people. He joined the Department of Geography at King’s College London in 2016 after working as a lecturer at the University of Oxford. Previous experience includes involvement in AHRC-funded Energy Generation and ESRC-funded 'Creating Hackney as Home' projects at the Open University, as well as an EPSRC-funded project at Goldsmiths, University of London. Currently, he is finalizing a monograph based on a joint British Academy/Leverhulme funded project entitled 'Fun Palace Future City', which encompasses child-centric forms of urbanism with an emphasis on pleasure, play, and participation. His research interests include urban transformations, futures of urban childhoods, youth cultures, playful 'child-friendly' urbanisms, and cultural economies. Luke also welcomes inquiries from potential postgraduate students and collaborators regarding shared research interests. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to urban geography and social research methods.

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