People

Peter Hopkins

  • Principal Investigator

Peter Hopkins is a social geographer based in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology where he has been based since 2007. His research interests include young people’s geographies; religion, faith and spirituality; and the intersections between masculinities and ethnicity. Much of Peter’s research has focused upon the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people in Scotland with key projects focusing on young Muslim men, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and Sikh youth. Peter is currently Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle.