King's College London

Faculty Member, Geography

Lecturer in Development Geography

About

Andrew Brooks was appointed a Lecturer in Development Geography in September 2011.

He began his university career as an undergraduate at King's College London and received a First in Geography and the Departmental prize. After graduating he worked for VSO for two years as a social researcher in Papua New Guinea and on programme development in the UK. He was then awarded an ESRC funded 1+3 studentship and began a Master's and Doctorate at the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London. Successfully defending his PhD thesis in October 2011.

His PhD research investigated social and economic change in Southern Africa through a case study of the used-clothing trade in Mozambique. He was a visiting researcher at the IESE (Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos – Institute of Social and Economic Study) Maputo, Mozambique, in 2009-10 whilst he undertook 12 months extensive fieldwork in support of his thesis.

In other research interventions he has investigated Chinese investment, consumption and corruption in Africa and has applied the global production networks approach to exploring trade. As well as researching the clothing and fashion industries across the Global North and South.

He has given seminars and contributed to symposia at various institutions in Mozambique, Portugal, Sweden the UK and the USA.

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