Dr Jonathan Harris joined King’s in 2021 as a postdoc on a Leverhulme Trust Research Project focused on the geopolitics of diplomatic training (PI: Dr Ruth Craggs), following posts at Stranmillis University College (Centre for Research in Educational Underachievement) and his PhD at Cambridge University.

He is a long-term fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and sits on its Political Research Group committee. Jonathan became a Lecturer in Human Geography in 2024.

Research

• Diplomacy, Development and Diaspora
• African and Francophone Postcolonial Worlds
• Geopolitics of Education

Jonathan works broadly on the social dynamics of radical contestation at the margins of national and international politics.

His research contributes to critical debates about international migration, social justice, and postcolonial citizenship by examining the geopolitical assemblages of diasporic and educational settings, with a particular focus on Francophone postcolonial contexts.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

4SSG1008 Geography Tutorials: Critical Thinking and Techniques

4SSG1011 Principles of Geographical Inquiry

4SSG1016 Geography in Action: Researching Contemporary Diasporas

5SSG2040 Territory, State & Nation

5SSG2061 Research Skills

5SSG2063 Research Tutorials

6SSG0610 Independent Geographical Study

6SSG3076 Critical Geopolitics

 

Postgraduate:

7SSGN000 Dissertation Supervision

7SSG5002 Practising Social Research

7SSGN090 Geopolitics of Boundaries, Borderlands and Territory

7SSGN225 Research Design and Project Management

7SSGN206 Security and the Global Natural Environment