Harri Hudson

Harri is a third-year PhD Student in the Department of Geography, focusing his research the environmental change over time of Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh. His research interests are of the ways in which resource flows interact with water, 'Nature' and a rapidly changing urban environment.

Through exploration of historical maps of land-use change, participatory interviews with urban poor communities, and ethnographic exploration of canals and wetlands, his thesis contributes to an exploration of resource flows and human impacts of urbanisation. By tracing flows of floodwater, sewage, and garbage his work explores the interlinkages between urban development trajectories, and the direct impact on urban dwellers' livelihoods, sanitary conditions, and rights to the city.

Harri's research has incorporated ethnographic and participatory interviews to experience how people interact with Phnom Penh's sewage infrastructure, and mapping using GIS software to reflect geodata collected in the field and from crowdsourced datasets, as well as participatory maps created by urban poor communities. 

Harri has presented his work amongst the Disaster Trades panel of the RGS-IGB Annual International conference (2022), has volunteered in collaboration with Cambodian NGO STT, provided editing services and co-authored with Cambodian academics. He has also co-served as a PhD representative for postgraduates during 2021-2023 at departmental and doctoral school meetings.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harri-hudson-40b235151

Twitter: https://twitter.com/harrijhudson

Harri has given a Lecture on Sanitation as part of GG3083, Cities and Development, and taught seminars in the following undergraduate courses:

GG2001/2 Module B: Human Geography Research Techniques

GG3081: Urbanisation and climate/environmental change

GG3083: Cities and Development