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Professor Patricia Noxolo

Professor Pat Noxolo’s research brings together the study of international culture and in/security, and uses postcolonial, discursive and literary approaches to explore the spatialities of a range of Caribbean and British cultural practices. Key publications include:

  • (2022) Geographies of race and ethnicity 1: Black Geographies, in Progress in Human Geography, 46, 5, pp. 1232-1240, and
  • (2022) Noxolo, P, Patten, H and Stanley Niaah, S. (eds.) Dancehall In/securities: Perspectives on Caribbean Expressive Life. London: Routledge.

She was awarded the 2021 RGS-IBG Murchison Award, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Pat has led two international teams exploring Caribbean in/securities and creativity – CARISCC (funded by Leverhulme) and CARICUK (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) and is co-lead of University of Birmingham’s Stuart Hall Archive Project.

She also commissioned the report ‘Supervising Black Geography PhD Researchers in the UK’ (2021), and is co-founder of the Fi Wi Road internships for Black Geography undergraduates.

Pat is a committee member of the RACE group of the RGS-IBG, former chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies, and former co-editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.