Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University and a Co-Director of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD)
Michael Woods is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University and a Co-Director of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). His research includes interests in the geographies of populism, community polarisation, spatial justice, and civil society, including rural discontent and disruptive politics, and local civil society and polarisation, as broader work on the global countryside. His research has been funded by the European Research Council (Global-Rural), UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee (Rural-Spatial-Justice), ESRC (WISERD), and Horizon 2020 (IMAJINE). He is co-author of An Introduction to Political Geography (Routledge, 2014, 2nd edition).