Mark Usher

Biography

Email : mark.usher@manchester.ac.uk

Telephone : 0161 2753659

I arrived at the University of Manchester in September 2010 to undertake doctoral research and began teaching in 2015. Focusing on water governance in Singapore, my PhD thesis argued that the modern state was consolidated and subsequently neoliberalised through the material configuration of drainage infrastructure, reservoirs and distribution systems. Previously, I completed an undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, followed by an MSc degree in Environmental Politics and Policy at the University of Leeds. I have also been employed on a number of different projects as a research assistant and associate at Leeds and Manchester respectively, covering issues of climate change, environmental planning and community engagement, intelligent transport systems, and domestic water consumption.

Qualifications

2010 - 2014     PhD in Human Geography, University of Manchester 

2008 - 2009     MSc Environmental Politics and Policy, University of Leeds (Distinction w/Prize)

2005 – 2008    BA Sociology, University of Sheffield (First Class)