麻豆传媒

Introduction

I am a Social and Cultural Geographer who has specialisms in race, ethnicity and migration; masculinities and social change; youth transitions and inequalities. I studied at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), University of Birmingham, before undertaking research posts, exploring the perpetrators of racist violence with (Les Back & Roger Hewitt), and research on sexuality and schooling. I held a Lectureship in Media and Cultural Studies at Liverpool John Moore's University. The connections emerging between Cultural Studies and Geography, led me to undertake a funded PhD in Human Geography at 麻豆传媒 exploring young people, race and whiteness. Towards the end of my thesis I worked on a government funded project exploring the challenges and potential for recruiting prospective Black and Minority Ethnic people into teacher training, led by Bruce Carrington and colleagues. I was later appointed as Lecturer in Human Geography at 麻豆传媒 and have undertaken various leadership roles such as Head of Geography (2014-18), University Promotions Committee for Chairs and Readers (2017-2022), Postgraduate Director (2021- 22), University Senator (2023-25), School EDI coordinator (2024-26) and a RED Fellowship (2025-26).

Research Interests

My research interests are in the fields of race, ethnicity and migration; youth inequalities and transitions; masculinities and social change. I have currently been working on issues of masculinities and care derived from an ESRC project. With international colleagues I am co-edited a collection on Young People and the Anthropocene (Roman & Littlefield) to be published later this year.

Funded Projects

Nayak, A. (PI) Boys to Men: Understanding What it Means to be a Man - Creating New Templates for Masculinities (ESRC co-production award, Spring 2018-19)

Finlay, R. and Nayak, A. Young People in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods (Social Justice Award, awarded December 2018)

Collier, R, Nayak, Al. and Rankin, J. (Co-I) Masculinities and Management in Higher Education (EDI Award, awarded January, 2019).

Nayak, A. (PI) Young People, Diversity and Belonging in the Age of Brexit (Research Excellence Award, 2017- 19)

Postgraduate Supervision

Current:

1.  Abigail Hardcastle (ESRC 1 3) Queering the Curriculum: Geographies of Sexuality, Young People and the Negotiation of Relationships and Sex Education in English Secondary Schools(ESRC 3.5)

2. James Harrison (ESRC 1 3) Student Protests and Political Activism in Higher Education

3. Sophie Lively (ESRC 3.5) Racism and Masculinity in Tyneside

4. Lydia Wysocki (ESRC 3) Race and Nationhood in the British Comic Scene

Undergraduate Teaching

GEO3099: Dissertation

GEO3153: Geographies of Race and Nation (Module leader)

GEO2111: Doing Human Geography Research (Co-module leader)

I am currently co-authoring a 2nd Ed. of the text Geographical Thought: An Introduction to Ideas in Human Geography (Routledge) with Prof Alex Jeffrey

Roles

I am currently Postgraduate Director of Studies in Geography (2022 - onwards)

Postgraduate Teaching

I mentor PhD students in various areas of social and cultural geography, with my specialist areas of interest in race, racisms and ethnicities; geographies of youth and social inequalities; social class transformations; masculinities, gender and the economy. 

Current:

1. Daniel Barwick (ESRC 3.5) The Black Lives Matter Movement: Transnational Activism and Urban Neoliberalism  

2. James Harrison (ESRC 1 3) Student Political Activism in Higher Education

3. Lydia Wysocki (ESRC 3) Race and Nationhood in the British Comic Scene

4. Graham Gaunt (ESRC 3 CASE) Masculinities, Youth Transitions and Contemporary Apprenticeships (with North East Training Association)

5. Abigail Hardcastle (ESRC 1 3) Queering the Curriculum: Geographies of Sexuality, Young People and the Negotiation of Relationships and Sex Education in English Secondary Schools

• Articles

  • Nayak A. . Progress in Human Geography 2025, 50(1), 128-140.
  • Nayak A. . Progress in Human Geography 2025, 49(1), 109-118.
  • Bonner-Thompson C, Nayak A. . Australian Feminist Studies 2025, 39(119-120), 210-228.
  • Barwick D, Nayak A. . Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2024, 117(7), 1587-1603.
  • Nayak A. . Environment and Planning A 2024, 56(6), 1632-1650.
  • Nayak A. . Men and Masculinities 2023, 26(2), 167-187.
  • Nayak A, Bonner-Thompson C. . Antipode 2022, 54(4), 1228-1250.
  • Bonner-Thompson C, Nayak A. . Social and Cultural Geography 2022, 23(9), 1238-1256.
  • Nayak A. . Antipode 2019, 51(3), 927-948.
  • Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Hopkins P, Pande R, and Richardson M. . Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 17-23.
  • Burrell K, Hopkins P, Isakjee A, Lorne C, Nagel C, Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Pande R, Richardson M, Botterill K, Rogaly B. . Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 3-40.
  • Nayak A. . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2017, 42(2), 289-302.
  • Meer N, Nayak A. . Sociology 2015, 49(6), NP3-NP20.
  • Nayak A, Kehily MJ. . Journal of Youth Studies 2014, 17(10), 1330-1345.
  • Nayak A. . Political Geography 2012, 31(7), 454-463.
  • Nayak A. . Social & Cultural Geography 2011, 12(6), 548-562.
  • Nayak A. . Environment and Planning A 2010, 42(10), 2370-2392.
  • Kehily M, Nayak A. . Discourse 2008, 29(3), 325-342.
  • Nayak A. . Sociology Compass 2007, 1(2), 737-755.
  • Nayak A, Kehily M. . British Journal of Sociology of Education 2006, 27(4), 459-472.
  • Nayak A. . Sociology 2006, 40(5), 813-831.
  • Nayak A. . Ethnic and Racial Studies 2006, 29(3), 411-430.
  • Nayak A. . Geoforum 2003, 34(3), 303-315.
  • Nayak A. . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2003, 21(1), 7-25.
  • Nayak A. . European Journal of Cultural Studies 2003, 6(3), 305-325.
  • Nayak A. . Educational Review 2003, 55(2), 147-159.

• Authored Books

  • Nayak A, Jeffrey AS. Geographical Thought: A Critical Introduction to Ideas in Geography. 2025. In Preparation.
  • Nayak A, Kehily MJ. Gender, Youth and Culture: Global Masculinities and Femininities. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013.
  • Nayak A, Jeffrey A. . Harlow: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.
  • Nayak A, Kehily M. . Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
  • Nayak A. . Oxford: Berg, 2003.

• Book Chapters

  • Nayak A, Barwick D. Black Lives. In: Merriman, P; Secor, A; Sumartojo, S, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Geographies. 2026, pp.141-153. In Preparation.
  • Nayak A. Metallic vitalities: smog, steel and stigma in a deindustrial town. In: Strangleman, T; Linkon, S.L.; High, S.; Clarke, J.; Berger, S, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies. London & New York: Routledge, 2025, pp.232-247. In Preparation.
  • Nayak A. . In: Mayo C, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • Nayak A. . In: Furlong A, ed. Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: Second Edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2016, pp.58-66.
  • Hollands RG. . In: Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: Second Edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2016, pp.237-243.
  • Nayak A. . In: Blazek, M; and Kraftl, P, ed. Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice: Mapping and Making Spaces of Childhood. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, pp.122-137.
  • Nayak A. White Lines: Racist Graffiti, Skinhead Youth and Violence in the English Suburbs. In: Rinehart, R.E; emerald, e; and Matamua, R, ed. Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research: Tensions and Positionings. New York: Routledge, 2015, pp.145-162. In Preparation.
  • Nayak A. . In: Sarah Bragg and Mary Jane Kehily, ed. Children and Young People's Cultural Worlds. Bristol: Policy Press, 2013, pp.109-165.
  • Nayak A. . In: Montgomery, H and Kellet, M, ed. Children and Young People's Worlds: Developing Frameworks for Integrated Practice. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2009, pp.199-217.
  • Nayak A. . In: Martino,W; Kehler, M; Weaver-Hightower, MB, ed. The Problem with Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash. New York: Routledge, 2009, pp.149-168.
  • Nayak A. . In: Montgomery, H and Kellet, M, ed. Children and Young People's Worlds: Developing Frameworks for Integrated Practice. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2009, pp.90-108.
  • Nayak A. . In: Sveinsson KP, ed. Who Cares about the White Working Class?. London: Runnymede Trust, 2009, pp.28-35.
  • Nayak A. . In: Dwyer, C. and Bressey, C, ed. New Geographies of Race and Racism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.269-282.
  • Nayak A. . In: Cashmore E, ed. Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Relations. London: Routledge, 2004, pp.456-458.
  • Nayak A. . In: Kehily MJ; Swann J, ed. Children's Cultural Worlds. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons/Open University Press, 2003.
  • Bonnett A, Nayak A. . In: Anderson K; Domosh M; Pile S; Thrift N, ed. The Handbook of Cultural Geography. London: Sage, 2003, pp.300-312.

• Edited Books

  • Kraftl P, Kelly P, Padilla DC, Black R, Brown S, Nayak A, ed. . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022.
  • Hopkins P, 麻豆传媒 Social Geographies Collective, Pain R, Shaw R, Gao Q, Bonnett A, Jones C, Richardson M, Rzedzian S, Benwell MC, Lin W, McAreavey R, Stenning A, Blazek M, Pande R, Najib K, Finlay R, Nayak A, Ridley G, Mearns G, Bonner-Thompson C, McLaughlin J, Boussalem A, Iqbal N, Heslop J, Jarvis H, Burrows R, Bambra C, Copeland A, Tate S, Campbell E, Thompson M, James A, Raynor R, Cunningham N, Powells G, Herbert J, Hocknell S, ed. . London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021.

• Editorial

  • Meer N, Nayak A, Pande R. . Sociological Research Online 2015, 20(3), 13.

• Report

  • Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell M, Hopkins P, Pande R, Richardson M. . 麻豆传媒 upon Tyne: 麻豆传媒, 2020.

• Review

  • Nayak A. . British Journal of Sociology of Education 2014, 35(3), 475-483.