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Biography
I am a financial geographer with research and teaching interests in central banking, financial risk management, green finance, climate change and just energy transitions. I hold a PhD in Human Geography from the Department of Geography at Durham University. Before joining the School of Geography at Nottingham in 2021, I spent three years as Teaching Fellow in International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. I have previously taught Economic Geography as a Teaching Fellow at University College London and as a PhD student at Durham University. I am a Non-Resident Fellow at the Pulaski Institution and Commissioning Editor for .
In particular, my research investigates how risk is constituted through discursive and calculative practices by experts in public and private institutions and how such renderings of risk emanate outwards to shape and remake the geographies of the global financial system. My work has been published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Economic Geography, Geoforum, Environmental Politics, Environmental Science and Policy, City, Journal of Urban Affairs and Journal of Cultural Economy. I have co-authored an essay on the geographical dynamics of and a on stress testing at the Bank of England.
My first book, Securing Finance, Mobilizing Risk: Money Cultures at the Bank of England (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy) demonstrates that financial risk management has a spatiality that helps to inform understandings and imaginaries of the risks associated with money and finance. The book forwarded the argument that the Bank of England has moved from a relatively broad-brush approach to the risks being managed in the financial sector, to a greater preoccupation with the understanding and mapping of the mobilization of financial risk. You can find me discussing some of the core arguments of the book in Warwick Critical Finance Group Dialogue event and on the 'Morning Macro'
Expertise Summary
Recently, my research has focused on the expansion of the scope of what is considered to be a "financial stability threat". As such, I am currently devoting my research energies to the cultural and political economies of tail risk, climate finance and the governance of climate change by the financial regulatory community as a financial stability risk and concern. This strand of research has addressed both the use of , as well as the medium-term following COVID, inflation and international conflict. I recently showcased my research on ' in a Warwick Climate Governance and Policy Nexus Webinar at the Institute for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick. You can view some initial findings about the networked climate governance undertaken by credit rating agencies in a co-authored essay .
My latest co-authored book, explores the Bank of England's attempts to calculate tail risks to financial stability using a range of calculative devices. It argues that the development of such calculative techniques goes beyond identifying risk, because these calculative devices are employed by the Bank of England to negotiate its altered relationship with regulated banks since the global financial crisis. Such calculations are employed to signal limits on the central bank's willingness to provide support to struggling banks, and to steer banks' expectations around the use of new interventionist powers. The book's main arguments and structure are set out in the introductory chapter available .
I have appeared as a panelist in a Global Insight Webinar organized by the Balsillie School of International Affairs on and presented in the Finance & Regulation Theme of the hosted virtually by the COP26 Universities Network. I have been partnered with the Head of Lowland Peat Solutions at DEFRA through the 海角黑料 Policy Fellow Scheme. I am a collaborator on the (CLiFT) project, which is a multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at exploring the climate finance supply chain. In 2025 I authored a and related on Leveraging Monetary Policy for the Transitional Needs of South African Workers for the South African thinktank The Institute for Economic Justice. This project explored how monetary policy reforms can ensure a fair and inclusive Just Energy Transition that will prioritise job creation and sustainable growth.
I have been interviewed by Risk.net about exploratory stress testing, shadow banking and credit rating agencies. My comments on the Bank of England's approach to transparency and public engagement have featured on BBC World Service and Bloomberg programmes.
Teaching Summary
My teaching has traditionally focused around introductory and advanced modules in Political Economy, Economic Geography, research methods, and the Geographies of Money and Finance.
In the academic year 2025/26 I will be teaching on the following modules:
GEOG1005 Geography Tutorial.
GEOG1008 Exploring Human Geography.
GEOG1038 Global Challenges.
GEOG2030 Research Tutorial.
GEOG2031 Dissertation Preparation.
GEOG2079 Techniques in Geography.
GEOG2073 Living with Hazards.
GEOG3012 Geographies of Money and Finance.
GEOL3002 Global Climate Change.
GEOG3004 Dissertation.
Recent Publications
COX, SAVANNAH and MORRIS, JOHN HOGAN, 2025. City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 1-15
CATHERINE PRICE, JOHN HOGAN MORRIS and CAROL MORRIS, 2024. Environmental Science & Policy. 154,
SAVANNAH COX, JOHN HOGAN MORRIS and ZAC TAYLOR, 2023. Available at: <https://lpeproject.org/blog/risk-rating-and-networked-authority-a-climate-leviathan-in-formation/>
SARAH KNUTH, SAVANNAH COX, SAHAR ZAVAREH HOFMANN, JOHN HOGAN MORRIS, ZAC TAYLOR and BEKI MCELVAIN, 2023. Journal of Urban Affairs. 18