Dr Nina Williams

Nina works at the intersection of cultural geography and design studies. Her research is concept-led and revolves around theorising more-than-human creativity in the context of art and design in conversation with ideas from process philosophy, speculative thinking, geophilosophy and vital materialism. Nina collaborates with design institutions and practitioners to understand how biomaterial and regenerative design practices challenge the idea that design is exclusively by and for humans. She is the co-editor (with Dr Thomas Keating) of the book Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022).

Nina obtained a BA (hons) in Geography at the University of Manchester in 2011; an MSc in Human Geography: Society and Space at the University of Bristol in 2012; and a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Bristol in 2017. Before commencing her current role at UNSW Canberra in 2019, she worked as a Research Associate in Urban Living in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol and as a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.