Andrew Lapworth is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Deputy Head of School (Education) in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. He obtained his BSc in Geography in 2008, MSc in Society and Space in 2010, and PhD in Human Geography in 2015 from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Before joining UNSW Canberra in 2019, he served as a Lecturer in Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Bristol. In his current role, he supervises six PhD students on diverse topics including AI technologies, South Asian cinema, minority identities in China, Balkan ethnography, digital photography, and posthuman spectatorship. He has overseen three PhD completions since 2022: George Burdon on sonic arts (2022), Kushani Liyanage on smart cities (2025), and Sabrina Shanto on geographies of fear (2025). Lapworth holds the position of book review editor for the Q1 journal Social & Cultural Geography and is co-authoring the monograph Cultural Geographies: The Basics with Dr. Tom Roberts, scheduled for publication by Routledge in late 2025.

His research centers on contemporary cultural geography, engaging continental philosophy and social theory from thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Gilbert Simondon, Alfred North Whitehead, Friedrich Nietzsche, Baruch Spinoza, Gabriel Tarde, and Félix Ravaisson. Core interests encompass non-representational, post-humanist, and new materialist theories in geographical thought; art-science collaborations; cinema and popular visual cultures; and human-technology relations, including cultural encounters with artificial intelligence and biohacking movements. Key publications include 'Negotiating trust in AI-enabled navigation technologies: imaginaries, ecologies, habits' (Social & Cultural Geography, 2025, with T. Roberts, L. Koh, M. Ghasri); 'Refiguring habits of subjectivity, communication, and space in online video calls' (Area, 2024, with L. Koh); 'The role of trust and distrust in technology usage' (Travel Behaviour and Society, 2024, with A. Hosseini Shoabjareh et al.); 'Gilbert Simondon and the Technical Mentalities and Transindividual Affects of Art-science' (Body & Society, 2020); 'Theorizing Bioart Encounters after Gilbert Simondon' (Theory, Culture & Society, 2016); and 'Habit, art, and the plasticity of the subject: the ontogenetic shock of the bioart encounter' (Cultural Geographies, 2015). His scholarship has accumulated over 350 citations, contributing to advancements in post-humanist geography, art-science interfaces, and technology ethics.

Professional Email: a.lapworth@unsw.edu.au