Tom Fry

Tom is an environmental geographer, with an interdisciplinary focus on bringing together approaches from political ecology and more-than-human geography to understand human-wildlife relations and nature conservation.

He is particularly interested in novel ecological change and its social and political character, including urban wildlife, rewilding, species introductions, and resurgent wildlife populations, in both urban and rural areas in the global North. He is developing novel methods through which geographers can account for the agencies and experiences of the non-human, which draw from ethnographic, ethological and participatory approaches.

As part of the ‘Urban Ecologies’ project at Cambridge he researched the more-than-human political ecologies of urban foxes in London, situating their lives within a critical conception of urban space. He is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow undertaking a collaborative ethnography of urban garden landscapes in London. For this project he is working with local residents to chart the lives of the animals that reside within suburban gardens and the political-ecological forces that shape their material composition.

For the LCNR, working alongside Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Professor Jamie Lorimer he is investigating the meaning and practices of urban rewilding projects in London.