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Hi, I'm Thomas

I’m a Vice Chancellors Research Fellow in (Space) Law at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. I’m a legal academic who uses the frameworks of legal geography and the environmental humanities to consider the current and future governance of activities in outer space. I focus on space resources (mining), space exploration, and space settlement, among other things. My key aim is to understand these issues within the broader historical, political, and cultural context, utilising the framework of the socio-political construct of 'nature' to bring together the various strands of my work and to place it into conversation with the critical scholarship relating to the unfolding ecological crises here on Earth.

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