Lucy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at King’s. She is interested in urban political ecology, feminist Marxism, critical legal and economic geographies, and environmental justice. She holds an MSc in Environment, Politics, and Development (Distinction) from King’s.

She is also a King's staff member based in the School of Global Affairs, coordinating the Plumbing Poverty research project. The project draws on urban political ecology and racial capitalism, coupled with ethnographic and census-based research, to investigate why household water insecurity arises and persists in wealthy cities and countries across the Global North.

Lucy is an Editor of the Global Labour Journal. Prior to academia, Lucy worked in scholarly publishing at Nature Research and then at Palgrave Macmillan as a commissioning Editor (books) within the politics and international studies team.

Research

Thesis title: 'Shutoffs, bad debt, and the lien: Writings on predatory governance and water evictions in New York City'

Lucy's doctoral research investigates the geographies of water debt, shutoffs, and evictions in New York City. Drawing on a mix of secondary data analysis and interview methods, her research examines how water governance in the city complicates the categories of debtor and creditor.

PhD supervision

• Principal supervisor: Katie Meehan
• Secondary supervisor: Johan Andersson

Further details

See Lucy's research profile