Professor Dr. Simon Naylor

Biography

Simon Naylor is a historical geographer specializing in the science and technology of exploration, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His publications span multiple disciplines, including geography, sociology, and the history of science. Naylor has co-edited several significant works, including "Cultural Turns, Geographical Turns" and "New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century." He is also the author of "Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England." He served as the editor for the "Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers" from 2016 to 2020 and has held a research fellowship at the National Library of Scotland. Currently, he is undertaking a Leverhulme Trust-funded Research Fellowship titled 'Atmospheric Empires: Meteorological Observatories in Victorian Britain,' which aims to complete his current book project. His research interests include historical geographies of meteorological observatories in nineteenth-century Britain and social histories of extreme weather in Scotland.

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