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Professor Hilary Geoghegan is a cultural geographer who researches life in a climate change world, focussing on emotions, knowledge-making, and more-than-human relations. A consistent thread in Hilary’s work is imagining and building towards alternative futures that honour diverse ways of being, doing, and knowing. Informed by the and lived experience as a neurodivergent person, Hilary collaborates with colleagues and organisations on equity-centred research and contributes to more inclusive university cultures through the Staff Disability+ Network.Ìý

Hilary’s research spans , examining how emotion, care, and passion shape and sustain engagement, from and to . She also researches citizen science and public engagement, exploring how knowledge is made and how research can become equitable, including work on , , and . Conceptually, her work contributes to ; methodologically, it develops creative ways of working with trees and collections, and introducing .


Hilary has served as PI and Co-I on interdisciplinary projects on citizen science, climate change, public engagement, and . Most recently, the NERC-funded Engaging Environments project (2019–2024) brought researchers and communities together to reimagine research collaboration through practices that prioritise equity and cultural relevance. Hilary received the (2018), has advised NERC, UKRI and DEFRA, has held editorial roles with and , and is an academic advisor to the . Hilary is a Fellow of the RGS-IBG and HEA.