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Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡, 2020
Member of the Higher Education Academy, 2020
PhD in Geography, Newcastle University, 2009
MA Cross-Mediterranean Cooperation, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2005
BA in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2003

Sara is Director of the MSc Research in Human Geography and of the MA Cities, Sustainability, and Wellbeing programmes and she leads on the following modules in the School:

• 40259 LM Research Project
• 40221 LM Qualitative Research Methods
• 36270 LH Geopolitics and global challenges. Middle East East/Russia/Cities

She also contributes teaching to the following modules:

• 37690 LI Political Geographies

Awards

2020Ìý ÌýRGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group / Political Geography Journal book award for War and the city: urban geopolitics in Beirut (Bloomsbury 2019).

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Research grants received/Principal InvestigatorÌý

2021-2024 UKRI - ESRC Open Research Area (ORA) for the Social Sciences (ES/V01353X/1) ÌýAtmospheres of (counter)terrorism in European cities. (Co-funded with ANR and DFG)

2016-2017Ìý British Academy – Council for British Research in the Levant Pilot Study Award. How a sectarian territory was made: mapping the Dual Qaimaqamiyya of Mount Lebanon (1842-1860)

2011-2012Ìý British Academy. Small Research Grant (SG102042): £ 7,301 Views from the Holiday Inn. War, urban landscape, and memory in Beirut

Ìý2009-2012Ìý British Academy. Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF/2009/428): Geographical Perspectives on War and Cities: the case of Beirut

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Research grants received/Co-Investigator

2018-2020ÌýÌý UKRI-AHRC, Research Networking grant (Highlight Notice for International Development) AH/R004331/1ÌýHumanities for resilience

2017-2019Ìý Initiative d’Excellence Paris/Seine. Living in the city with terror: what are the effects of terrorism on urban atmospheres?

• 2016 -  Chair of the Political Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society
• 2016 -   Member, Editorial Board, Fennia
• 2015 -   Foreign member of the board of studies, Doctoral Programme in Geopolitics and Geoeconomics, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy 
• 2014 -   Editorial board, Geopolitics journal
• 2014 -   Editorial board, “Geopolitics, bodies, materials” book series, Rowman and Littlefield International 
• 2012 -   Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers. 

Referee for:

• Member, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) peer review college
• Remote referee, European Research Council (ERC)
• Reviewer, Research Council of Finland

Peer reviewer for:

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Geographical Journal, Cultural Geographies, Journal of Urban Technology, Security Dialogue, Urban Geography, Geography Compass, Geopolitics, Progress in Planning, Political Geography.