Digital Ecologies’ Team
Jonathon Turnbull
Jonny is a more-than-human geographer from Newcastle upon Tyne with a broad interest in the geographies of nature. His research examines how environmental knowledges are produced and contested across diverse geographical contexts from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine to the rumen of livestock cattle in Europe and India. He is an Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Durham, where he currently holds a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, and is also an Honorary Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery at Oxford, where he leads an interdisciplinary working group interested in nature recovery in cities. Jonny co-founded the Digital Ecologies research group in 2020. His current research interests in this realm include: (1) the use of digital technologies and methods to make sense of nocturnal urban ecologies; (2) AI, ecology, and the limits of humanism; (3) digital simulations and augmentations of animals' worlds in virtual reality artworks. He maintains active curatorial and visual practices, including participatory photography and filmmaking. His first film—Собаки Що Вижили // The Dogs That Survived (2024)—documents more-than-human life in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine after Russian occupation.
Adam Searle
Adam Searle is a cultural, historical, and environmental geographer broadly examining the relations between humans, other species, and technologies. His research examines how developments in science and technology implicate the lives of animals and environmental governance within the overlapping crises of climate breakdown and mass extinction. He maintains collaborations with artists, designers, and public institutions to consider how science is understood, communicated, and critiqued by those in the arts, and how broader publics are brought into conversations about the ethics and politics of biotechnology and the future of life. Partner institutions have included the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew in London; the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna; and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden. Prior to becoming an Assistant Professor of Human Geography at the University of Nottingham, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Science and Technology Studies at the Université de Liège in Belgium. He was awarded a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge in 2021. He co-founded the Digital Ecologies research group in 2020, and is an editor of Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds (Manchester, 2024).
Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi
Pauline is a media and environmental ethnographer from Paris. Her research examines the environmental dimensions of surveillance and algorithmic infrastructures, and questions the dynamics of human-animal relationships in diverse contexts: from the digital landscapes of Google Street View and seagull attacks on police drones, to cattle microchips and Corsica’s feral cows in their legal no man’s land. Her first book —L’Image indomptée. Animaux et technosurveillance (Le Pommier [PUF], 2025)— explores the more-than-human ecologies and politics of algorithmic images. The collection of images is displayed on www.untamed.cat. She is an associate researcher at the PALOC research center at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and an early member of the Digital Ecologies research collective. Since 2024, she has co-organized the film programming and journal Ciné-Club des Milieux in Corsica. She is co-publisher of Librarioli; a French translation of Jen Calleja’s essay Goblinhood will be released in April 2026 in collaboration with Rag editions. She is also editor of Decoding Cows (March 2026), a self-published interdisciplinary exploration of genomics infrastructure for cattle livestock selection and reproduction, resulting from the ERC project The Body Societal where she contributed as a postdoctoral researcher.
Oscar Hartman Davies
Oscar Hartman Davies is an environmental and cultural geographer from London. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Oscar received a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford in 2024, and has held visiting positions at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, the University of Oslo, the University of Helsinki, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Oscar's research is concerned with digital transformations in ocean governance. Together with colleagues he has worked to develop 'digital ecologies' as a geographical research area. His PhD research focused on the practices and ethics of using marine animals as sentinels of environmental crises, and on the digitalisation of fisheries monitoring. Oscar has extensive experience working with environmental practitioners, as the co-founder of UK-based nature recovery organisation, Youngwilders. He is currently also leading development of an exhibition on Anthropocene History at the Swedish Natural History Museum.
Jennifer Dodsworth
Jennifer is a social scientist working at the intersection of cultural geography, environmental governance and agri-environment policy, combining theoretical inquiry with applied, impact-focused projects. Her PhD developed participatory and digital methods to interrogate how aesthetic values and platformed image-making shape perceptions of iconic rural environments. Drawing on embodied ethnography with Herdwick sheep farmers in Cumbria alongside large-scale visual analytics of social media (notably Instagram), her thesis advances digital ecologies through concepts such as digital textures and a cumulative ‘hyperscene typology’ that together interrogate the politics of vision and the uneven ways rural places are made hyperseen or overshadowed online. Jennifer works at the interface of theory and practice, and as both a researcher and a tenant hill farmer she engages directly with farmers, policymakers, and local communities to co-develop practical approaches to sustainable land management and biodiversity restoration, and to advance participatory visual methodologies for rural research.
Karolina Uskakovych
Karolina is a designer and artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a multidisciplinary filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of environment, culture, and theory. She graduated from the Non Linear Narrative master's course at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague. Karolina is a co-founder of the Uzvar_Collective and Art Director for the magazine Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review. She is also artist-in-residence with the Digital Ecologies research group and 1/5 of Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network.