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Andrew Power is Professor of Human Geography with research interests in social care and disability. He has a particular focus on the forms of support for disabled people, across the community and in care settings. He also has an allied interest in the relational geographies of the voluntary sector and family care.
He is currently Faculty Director of the Graduate School in the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences.
Beyond the University he serves as a member of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (formerly chair 2016-2020), and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
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Andrew Power teaches a third-year module GGES3018: Geographies of Social Justice, Rights and Welfare. The focus is on the various geographies of marginalisation and the ways in which rights and support are achieved and delivered. It explores a rich array of examples of different social groups, including working-class youth, disabled people, and people with mental ill-health, and draws on international examples of statutory and voluntary support.
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Biography
Andrew Power is Professor of Human Geography at Southampton. He joined the School of Geography and Environmental Science in April 2011. He studied for his PhD at the Department of Geography at Maynooth University, Ireland. He previously worked at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland Galway, and at Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University.
Andrew has broad research interests around the geographies of disability, welfare and social care provision, the voluntary sector, and family caregiving. He has led on major research projects helping to understand the ways people self-build their lives in the context of personalisation of social care. He has also been involved in exploring the experiences of home by people with learning disabilities living in shared care settings, on the Feeling at Home study. Through this work, he has advanced the understanding of relational geographies of disability and voluntary and community-based support.
He has served as Chair of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group RGS-IBG (2016-2020; previously Vice-Chair 2013-2016). He is currently a member of the ESRC and Irish Research Council Peer review college and on the Editorial Board for Health & Place, Social Science & Medicine and Scandinavian Journal of Intellectual Disability.
Prizes
- Mike Clark Teaching Award (2014)
- Santander UoS Latin America Award (2015)
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (2007)
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