Dr Ed Kiely
Small Group Project
Black x trans geographies: Building infrastructures of solidarity for the future of the discipline
With James Esson
This project brings together Black and trans geographers from across the UK to undertake a workers’ inquiry responsive to the conditions shaping Black and trans geographical scholarship within the contemporary university. We will collectively develop long-term strategies and practical resources to safeguard the future of our scholarship.
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Biography
Dr Ed Kiely is a trans geographer working at the intersection of health geography and feminist political economy. Their research interrogates the relationships between healthcare systems, social inequalities and state violence. How can we reconcile the benefits of organised healthcare with the harms it perpetrates against marginalised groups? Can these systems be redirected towards social justice, or do we need to imagine something else entirely? They have explored these questions through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship on racial inequalities in involuntary psychiatric detention (Queen Mary University of London, 2024–27) and an NWO Veni fellowship on gender-affirming healthcare (University of Amsterdam, 2027–30).
Biographical details correct as of 08.10.26