Dr Marc Welsh

PhD, MA, MSc (University of Wales Aberystwyth), BSc (University of York)

Dr Marc Welsh

Lecturer

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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I am a political and historical geographer interested in the state, its relations with nature and citizens, and the processes of globalization and territorial governance.

PhD at Aberystwyth University 2011. Prior to this I conducted ecological research at the University of Leicester (1992-3) and for the Royal Geographical Society (1991-2). I completed an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment (1995), worked for ADAS, the Welsh Office, local government and non-governmental organisations (Director of Wales Environment Link 2000-2005) on aspects of environmental policy development, and completed an MA in Political Geography in 2006.

Post-doctoral research has included the 'Time-Spaces of Soft Paternalism' project and the five year GLOBAL-RURAL research project

I served as Executive Editor for the journal ‘Regional Studies’ (2013-14) and helped established ‘Territory, Politics, Governance’ (Journal Manager 2013-2016).

Over recent years I have taught undergraduate and post-graduate modules based in DGES, and currently lecture and coordinate modules on the interdisciplinary integrated Foundation Year scheme.

My research has a broadly Foucauldian concern with the apparatus and mechanisms of power - primarily those located as emanating from 'the state - and a more topological conception of the assemblage of space.

PhD concentrated on the historical hydrosocial relations and geopolitical ecology of Nyasaland/Malawi.

Recent research has included acting as Research Associate on the project 'The Global Countryside: Rural Change and Development in Globalization' (GLOBAL-RURAL). This European Research Council funded five-year research project (Feb 2014 - Jan 2019) aimed to advance understanding of globalization and its workings in and through rural localities. The Principal Investigator was Professor Mike Woods and the research team includes Dr Jesse Heley, Dr Laura Jones and Dr. Sam Saville. Other scholarship focuses on 'algorithmic governmentality' and 'corporate governmentality' and the spatial politics of ‘regions’.

Rural-regionalism in the 21st century: A tale of no cities. / Welsh, Marc; Heley, Jesse.
In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 11, No. 7, 03.10.2023, p. 1439-1458.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Assemblage, place and globalisation. / Woods, Michael; Fois, Francesca; Heley, Jesse et al.
In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 46, No. 2, 31.05.2021, p. 284-298.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Personalisation, Power, and the Datafied Subject. / Welsh, Marc.
Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics, and Law. ed. / Uta Kohl; Jacob Eisler. Cambridge University Press, 2021. p. 55-73.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

The fanta-sy of global products: Fizzy-drinks, differentiated ubiquity and the placing of globalization. / Heley, Jesse; Welsh, Marc; Saville, Samantha.
In: Globalizations, Vol. 17, No. 4, 18.05.2020, p. 683-697.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The ‘problem’ of Mid Wales and rethinking rural-urban relations in wales after BREXIT. / Heley, Jesse; Goodwin-Hawkins, Bryonny; Woods, Michael et al.
2019. WISERD Annual Conference 2019, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

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