Richard Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at Sheffield University, where he teaches social and cultural geography and leads field classes, international and local.
Beginning with his first book—a study of geographical imagination and adventure fiction titled Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure—Richard’s research and teaching have revolved around curiosity and creativity, adventure and exploration.
Richard brings a distinctively playful, critical, approach to the question of what it means to be an explorer of the world today. This is reflected in recent books including Georges Perec’s Geographies (2019) and in Richard’s co-authored text book on fieldwork - Fieldwork for Human Geography (2012; with a second edition forthcoming).
