Dr Sharon Wilson

Associate Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Sharon Wilson is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneuship, Innovation and Strategy with a focus on Transport Mobilities, Cultural geographies and Tourism at University of Northumbria Business School. My interdisciplinary research is situated within a global network for social science based mobilities, promoting it as a key discipline for the modernization of societies. Through regular publications and conferences, I enrich a dialogue with civil society and business about the social and environmental challenges of mobility through embodiment theory and non-representational theory.

My outputs include an internationally recognised contributions such as: Leverhulme Project Infrastructure Stories and publications In Annals of Tourism Research, Annals of Association of Geographers, Leisure Studies and Mobilities Journal. I have just completed a seed corn funded project on e-scooter embodied mobilities and an on the editorial Committe at Applied Mobilities.

A keen researcher, since starting in academia 2010, I have presented at 20 conferences, including RC50 in Thailand, organiser, and discussant at the Royal Geographical Society (IBG) Exeter University and the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in New York, Chicago and Boston. I was set to conduct fieldwork at the Davis-Monthan Airforce Base and Pima Air and Space Museum Tuscan, Arizona to collect data for joint publication.

I also welcome applications from potential PhD students interested in my supervision. Do please feel free to get in touch.

Sharon3.wilson@northumbria.ac.uk

Recent Publications

Wilson, S., Miller, J. C., & King, H. M. (2024). The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2380927

D, Trandberg-Jenson, Chambers, D, Wilson, S (2023) The Future of Deaf Tourism Studies: an interdisciplinary research agenda, Annals of Tourism Research. 4* ABS

Wilson, S & Mordue, T (2022) Encountering fish in the city: from care-full and cruel play to deadly indifference. Leisure Studies, Taylor & Francis.

Wilson, S, Obrador-Pons, P (2022) "Dwelling in Campervans: Homemaking and mobile neighbouring on the move", Mobilities Journal, Taylor & Francis.

Miller, J & Wilson, S (2022) Museum as (Geo)political Entity: Towards Soft Combat Geography Compass, Wiley.

Recent Grants

Leverhulme Standard Grant: I am a Co-Investigator (£180K) Infrastructure Stories. 2023-26
Leverhulme Standard Grant: Co- I submitted December 2024 first stage Bid called On Charitable Lines, Sustainability of UK Heritage Rail. ( £430.00 K)
In first stage success now preparing Leverhulme 2024-25 – Offshoring Lives: Homemaking and Liminality on the Sea second stage treatment (£475.00K)
IDRT Seedcorn Funded Grant -Surfing the City- A study of e-scooter experiences in the Newcastle upon Tyne. April 2024. (2.5k)
IDRT RDF: To be advertised 2024-25 – Mobility Transitions: e-scooter Community Identities, Environmental Citizenship and (QOL) Factors.

Campus Address

Room 011, Newcastle Business School
Northumbria University, City Campus East
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

Email Sharon

Key Publications

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Thickening places: Tourism from below, Varley, P., Uzunogullari, S., Johnson, J., Wilson, S. Nov 2025, In: Annals of Tourism Research
Applied (im)mobilities in turbulent times: transdisplinarity, creativity and mobility justice, Clayton, J., Wilson, S. 2 Jul 2024, In: Applied Mobilities
The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence, or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard, Wilson, S., Miller, J., King, H. 25 Nov 2024, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers
More-than-human encounters with fish in the city: from careful angling practice to deadly indifference, Mordue, T., Wilson, S. 3 Sep 2023, In: Leisure Studies
The future of deaf tourism studies: an interdisciplinary research agenda, Jensen, M., Chambers, D., Wilson, S. 1 May 2023, In: Annals of Tourism Research
Dwelling in campervans: homemaking and mobile neighbouring on the move, Wilson, S., Obrador Pons, P. 2 Jan 2022, In: Mobilities
Museum as geopolitical entity: Toward soft combat, Miller, J., Wilson, S. 1 Jun 2022, In: Geography Compass
Climbing the Virtual Mountain: A netnography of the sharing and collecting behaviours of online Munro-bagging, Brown, D., Wilson, S. 20 Dec 2021, Emerging transformations in tourism and hospitality , London, Taylor & Francis
Tacit hierarchising in online communities of hillwalkers, Brown, D., Wilson, S. Sep 2021, Tourism dynamics, Oxford, Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
Campervan Ethnographies: mobile experiments and methodological manoeuvres, Wilson, S. 18 Aug 2020, Handbook on Methods and Applications for Mobilities Research, Edward Elgar

Current and Recent Projects

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Mobilising Interactive Cultural Heritage Trails in Urban Mobility Systems, Rogage, K. (Principal Investigator), Wilson, S. (Co Investigator), Seedcorn Funding, 03/11/25 - 30/06/26, £19,773.00
Life Stories of Infrastructure, Crapper, M. (Principal Investigator), Wilson, S. (Co Investigator), The Leverhulme Trust, 03/04/23 - 02/04/26, £183,539.00

PGR Supervision

Kjell Schmidt Bridging the Gap: mobilising people, infrastructure and place Start Date: 03/12/2025
Sorcha MacIntyre Transitioning Transport Infrastructure: Mobilities, Lifestories and Affective Social value. Start Date: 01/04/2023
Sorcha MacIntyre The Secret Life of Transport: Mobilities, Infrastructures and Stories Start Date: 01/04/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025
Uta Franek Von Schumann In-between children*s family tourism experiences: Places, Practices and Performances in Play. The case of family cruising. Start Date: 01/10/2020 End Date: 17/10/2025
Uta Franek Von Schumann In-between children*s family tourism experiences: Places, Practices and Performances in Play. The case of family cruising. Start Date: 01/10/2020