Professor Patricia Daley
School of Geography and the Environment
Professor Patricia Daley is Professor of the Human Geography of Africa and the Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in Geography at Jesus College. She is also a member of the University Appeal Panel, and the Staff Employment Review Panel.
Patricia obtained her DPhil in Geography from Oxford. Her previous academic appointments were at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Loughborough University, and Pembroke College, Oxford. Her research focuses on the intersection of forced migration, citizenship, identity, and violence in East and Central Africa.
Since joining the University in 1991, Patricia has served in a number of roles, including Director of Undergraduate Studies (2017-2020), Harassment Advisor, member of the Academic Conduct Panel, and University Assessor (2015-2016). She was co-founder of the Oxford University Black and Minority Ethnic staff network. Her college roles have included membership of the Conference of Colleges Appeal Tribunal and Tutor for Admissions at Jesus College. Most recently, she was Vice-Principal of Jesus College from 2018 to 2021 and she chairs the College’s Equality & Diversity Committee. She was a committee member of the Oxford branch of the University College Union from 2013 to 2015 and held the position of Equalities Officer.
Patricia's external commitments have included membership (2013-2020) of the Independent Advisory Group on Country Information for the UK’s Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. She sits on national and international grant awarding panels, including for the Welcome Trust. She is co-editor of the journal Environment and Politics C: Politics and Space, a member of the advisory board of the journal Gender, Place & Culture, and a co-editor for the Peter Lang’s book series Race and Resistance across the Borders in the Long Twentieth century. Her publications include Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in Central Africa Oxford: James Currey (2008) and the co-edited Routledge Handbook on South-South Relations (2019).
