School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology

Dr Niall Majury

Dr Niall Majury

Qualifications

BSc Hons (Geography) Queens University Belfast 1988
MA University of British Columbia 1990
PhD University of Toronto 1999

Lecturer in Human Geography

Email: n.majury@qub.ac.uk

Address

School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queens University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN,
Northern Ireland, UK

Telephone

+44(0)2890 973367

Current Teaching:

GAP1011 Human Geographies of the Modern World
GAP1012 Geographies of Uneven Development
GAP2040 Field and Research Techniques in Geographical Practice
GAP3064 Geographies of Global Finance

GAP7006 Qualitative Methodologies
GAP7017 Landscape and Economy

Current Administrative Roles:

Advisor of Studies.
Head of Undergraduate Teaching - Geography Director of Erasmus and Study Abroad Programmes Assistant Director, Centre of Canadian Studies

Current Research:

Society, Space and Culture

I am an economic geographer with research interests in the construction and governance of markets. Of special interest is the relation between technological innovation, liberal logics and the concrete organization of markets. This has included a study of the enrolment of communication and information technologies into securities markets, focusing on the implications of the development of screen-based trading environments for securities exchanges and the architecture of the markets within which they operate. A new project currently being developed explores the discursive power of idea of transparency as a regulative principle within securities markets, the sites in which it is encountered and the ways that it is translated into practical arrangements.

Key words: economic geography; market making; technical innovation; governance; global finance; investment banking; securities exchanges.

Publications:

Majury N (in press) 'Trusting the numbers': mineral prospecting, raising finance and the governance of knowledge, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Majury N (2013) Report on Urban Settlement Upgrading in Iraq: Kurani Ainkawa, Erbil – Moving Forward, Lessons Learned, Amman: UN-HABITAT Iraq Programme

Majury N (2013) Economic landscapes, in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography (2nd edition), edited by Nuala Johnson, Richard Schein and Jamie Winders, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Ruffell A, Majury N and W E Brooks (2012) Geological fakes and frauds, Earth-Science Reviews 111(1-2): 224-231

Kumar S and Majury N (2008) Habitat for Humanity: Calibrating Best Practice Against the Millennium Development Goals (a report commissioned for HFH NI)

Majury N (2007) Technology and the architecture of markets: reconfiguring the Canadian equity market, Environment and Planning A, volume 39(9): 2187-2206

External Grant Funding:

2001 Foundation for Canadian Studies (UK): Geographies of Finance. £2250

2003 Foundation for Canadian Studies (UK): Grounding Flows, Enacting Knowledge. £650

2008 Habitat for Humanity NI: HFH: Calibrating Best Practice Against the MDGs. (£2,500 with Dr. S Kumar)

2008 Department of Foreign and International Affairs (Canada): Mineral Prospecting, Financial Speculation and Regulating Grounds for Belief I. ($7,000 with Prof. S. Royle, Dr. J. McKInley and Dr. A. Ruffell)

2009 Department of Foreign and International Affairs (Canada): Mineral Prospecting, Financial Speculation and Regulating Grounds for Belief II. ($10,000 with Prof. S. Royle, Dr. J. McKInley and Dr. A. Ruffell)