Dr Jay Todd

  • Leverhulme Research Fellow (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

Biography

I am a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences. I am a leader in the fields of trans and queer geographies. My current research, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, focuses on strategies that trans and gender diverse people use and have used to navigate UK society, both contemporaneously and in the late 20th century. Previously I was a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences. Prior to this I was a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. I hold a PhD in Human Geography from Durham University for my thesis exploring the everyday lives of young trans people in the UK, and a Master of Arts (MArts) degree in Geography, also from Durham University. I have ten years of teaching experience in higher education and I am a first-generation scholar.

I am a Co-Director of the Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies (GLINTS).

Research interests

I am a social and cultural geographer focused on queer and trans geographies, particularly on the everyday lives of trans people in the UK, past and present. I am interested in:

  • trans geographies
  • the everyday lives of trans people
  • trans and queer liberation and trans histories in the UK
  • bodies and bodily geographies
  • geographies of marginality and the lives of marginalised people
  • queer, feminist, and more-than-representational theories
  • participatory action research and collaborative methodologies
  • archival and historical research methodologies
  • collaborations beyond academia

Publications

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Number of items: 13.

2025

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2025) Geographies of ‘out-of-it-ness’. Dialogues in Human Geography, (Accepted for Publication)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2025) Exploring young trans and non-binary people’s strategies and spaces for navigating marginality in the United Kingdom: a novel resilience, resistance, and restoration framework. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 115(6), pp. 1309-1325. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2025.2478258)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2025) Intervention — “533 Geographers Call for Action on Transphobic Developments in the UK, its Supreme Court, and the EHRC”. [Website]

2024

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2024) Exploring young trans people's everyday experiences of ‘out-of-placeness’ and socio-bodily dysphoria. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 49(2), e12662. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12662)

2023

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2023) Intervention — Trans Liberation in the UK is Under Threat: How Geographers Can Respond. [Website]

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2023) Exhaustion, exhausting temporalities, and young trans people’s everyday lives in the UK. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(3), pp. 771-789. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2022.2134087)

2022

Finn, Matt, Hammond, Lauren, Healy, Grace and Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2022) Looking ahead to the future of GeogEd: creating spaces of exchange between communities of practice. Area, 54(1), pp. 41-51. (doi: 10.1111/area.12701)

2021

Doppelhofer, Christoph and Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2021) Recruiting Participants: A Socratic Dialogue on the and Challenges of Encountering Research Participants. In: Ajebon, Mildred Oiza, Kwong, Yim Ming Connie and Astorga de Ita, Diego (eds.) Navigating the Field: Postgraduate Experiences in Social Research. Springer International Publishing, pp. 51-66. ISBN 9783030681135 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-68113-5_5)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2021) Book review essay: What’s the use? On the uses of use: SARA AHMED, 2019 durham, NC and london, duke university press, 2019 281 pp., $99.95, £86.00 hardback, $26.95, £21.99 paperback ISBN 978-1-4780-0584-1 hardback, 978-4780-0650-3 paperback. Gender, Place and Culture, 28(4), pp. 588-591. (doi: 10.1080/0966369x.2020.1769372)[Book Review]

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2021) Experiencing and embodying anxiety in spaces of academia and social research. Gender, Place and Culture, 28(4), pp. 475-496. (doi: 10.1080/0966369x.2020.1727862)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2021) Exploring trans people's lives in Britain, trans studies, geography and beyond: a review of research progress. Geography Compass, 15(4), e12556. (doi: 10.1111/gec3.12556)

2020

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2020) Transforming gender, sex, and place: gender variant geographies: by Lynda Johnston, London, Routledge, 2018, 208 pp., £105.00 (hardcover), £35.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781472454799, ISBN 9781315550312. Social and Cultural Geography, 21(1), pp. 135-137. (doi: 10.1080/14649365.2019.1632058)[Book Review]

2018

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2018) Reflexivity: The Essential Guide, Tim May and Beth Perry, Sage Publications, London (2017), ix and 234 pp., £26.99 paperback, ISBN: 978-14462-9517-5. Emotion, Space and Society, 28, pp. 75-76. (doi: 10.1016/j.emospa.2018.06.001)[Book Review]

This list was generated on Mon Nov 3 01:00:20 2025 GMT.
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Number of items: 13.

Articles

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2025) Geographies of ‘out-of-it-ness’. Dialogues in Human Geography, (Accepted for Publication)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2025) Exploring young trans and non-binary people’s strategies and spaces for navigating marginality in the United Kingdom: a novel resilience, resistance, and restoration framework. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 115(6), pp. 1309-1325. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2025.2478258)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2024) Exploring young trans people's everyday experiences of ‘out-of-placeness’ and socio-bodily dysphoria. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 49(2), e12662. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12662)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2023) Exhaustion, exhausting temporalities, and young trans people’s everyday lives in the UK. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(3), pp. 771-789. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2022.2134087)

Finn, Matt, Hammond, Lauren, Healy, Grace and Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2022) Looking ahead to the future of GeogEd: creating spaces of exchange between communities of practice. Area, 54(1), pp. 41-51. (doi: 10.1111/area.12701)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2021) Experiencing and embodying anxiety in spaces of academia and social research. Gender, Place and Culture, 28(4), pp. 475-496. (doi: 10.1080/0966369x.2020.1727862)

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2021) Exploring trans people's lives in Britain, trans studies, geography and beyond: a review of research progress. Geography Compass, 15(4), e12556. (doi: 10.1111/gec3.12556)

Book Sections

Doppelhofer, Christoph and Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2021) Recruiting Participants: A Socratic Dialogue on the and Challenges of Encountering Research Participants. In: Ajebon, Mildred Oiza, Kwong, Yim Ming Connie and Astorga de Ita, Diego (eds.) Navigating the Field: Postgraduate Experiences in Social Research. Springer International Publishing, pp. 51-66. ISBN 9783030681135 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-68113-5_5)

Book Reviews

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2021) Book review essay: What’s the use? On the uses of use: SARA AHMED, 2019 durham, NC and london, duke university press, 2019 281 pp., $99.95, £86.00 hardback, $26.95, £21.99 paperback ISBN 978-1-4780-0584-1 hardback, 978-4780-0650-3 paperback. Gender, Place and Culture, 28(4), pp. 588-591. (doi: 10.1080/0966369x.2020.1769372)[Book Review]

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2020) Transforming gender, sex, and place: gender variant geographies: by Lynda Johnston, London, Routledge, 2018, 208 pp., £105.00 (hardcover), £35.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781472454799, ISBN 9781315550312. Social and Cultural Geography, 21(1), pp. 135-137. (doi: 10.1080/14649365.2019.1632058)[Book Review]

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2018) Reflexivity: The Essential Guide, Tim May and Beth Perry, Sage Publications, London (2017), ix and 234 pp., £26.99 paperback, ISBN: 978-14462-9517-5. Emotion, Space and Society, 28, pp. 75-76. (doi: 10.1016/j.emospa.2018.06.001)[Book Review]

Website

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2025) Intervention — “533 Geographers Call for Action on Transphobic Developments in the UK, its Supreme Court, and the EHRC”. [Website]

Todd, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-8634 (2023) Intervention — Trans Liberation in the UK is Under Threat: How Geographers Can Respond. [Website]

This list was generated on Mon Nov 3 01:00:20 2025 GMT.

Grants

  • Economic and Social Research Council: +3.5 Doctoral Fellowship (October 2016 - March 2020), Durham University
  • University of Glasgow: Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith Fellowship (January 2024 - December 2026)
  • The Leverhulme Trust: Early Career Fellowship (January 2024 - December 2026), University of Glasgow

Teaching

I have been involved in teaching across the Geography degree programme and the MRes in Human Geography.

Undergraduate:

  • Geography-1
  • Geography-2
  • Geography-3: Research Skills
  • Mallorca field class
  • Geographic Thought
  • Geography Beyond the Academy
  • Dissertation

Postgraduate:

  • MRes Conceptualising Human Geography
  • MRes Researching Human Geography
  • MRes Project supervision
  • MSc Earth Futures Project supervision
  • MSc Earth Futures Project co-ordinator

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2016: Top Graduating Student (Durham University)

Research fellowships

  • 2024: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2025: Economic and Social Research Council, Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

Additional information

I have held the following School leadership roles:

  • Project Co-ordinator, MSc in Earth Futures 
  • Co-Chair, GES Athena Swan Self Assessement Team, GES EDI Committee