Dr Geoff Boyce

Dr Geoff Boyce (he/him) is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Geography at University College Dublin. His research is organized around collaboration with grassroots communities and social movements to interrogate how geographies of migration and policing are entangled with uneven conditions of vulnerability and household social reproduction across scale.

Before joining University College Dublin, Geoff spent five years as Academic Director of the Earlham College Border Studies Program, and two years as a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Arizona, studying the relationship between migration policing, financial dispossession, and the collective strategies that mixed-status families and communities mobilize to navigate and absorb financial hardship.

Geoff's work has been published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment & Planning D: Society and Space, Antipode, Area, Political Geography, the Journal on Migration and Human Security, Acme, and The Geographical Journal, among other outlets.

He is currently collaborating with colleagues across the UK and Greece on a research effort titled 'Exposing and Combating the Political Economy of Border Violence in the Aegean', which aims to catalogue and disseminate information on how private companies contribute to human rights violations against people on the move on the Greek Islands and in the Aegean Sea.

This project enjoys funding support from the Antipode Foundation, the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, and Durham and Sterling Universities.