Dr Nina Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. A cultural geographer by training, she earned her BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Manchester in 2011, MSc in Human Geography: Society and Space from the University of Bristol in 2012, and PhD in Human Geography from the University of Bristol in 2017. Before joining UNSW in 2019, Williams held positions as Research Associate in Urban Living in the Department of Civil Engineering and Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. Her research is concept-led, revolving around theorising creativity in the context of art and design, in conversation with process philosophy, speculative thinking, and geophilosophy. This work intersects with design studies, where she has collaborated with design institutions and practitioners to explore biomaterial and regenerative design practices that challenge anthropocentric notions of design.

Williams co-edited the book Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics with Dr Thomas Keating (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), contributing chapters such as 'From Abstract Thinking to Thinking Abstractions: Introducing Speculative Geographies'. Her journal articles include 'Fashion’s Relation to the “Geo”: From Global Impacts to Earthly Practices' with Matthew Patchett (Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2025), 'Designing conditions for coexistence' with Oscar Cotsaftis et al. (Design Studies, 2023), 'Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth' with Thomas P. Keating (Subjectivity, 2022), 'Waiting for Geotropic Forces: Bergsonian duration and the ecological sympathies of biodesign' (Qualitative Inquiry, 2022), 'The problem of critique in art-geography: five propositions for immanent evaluation after Deleuze' (Cultural Geographies, 2021), and 'Theorizing Style (In Three Sketches)' (GeoHumanities, 2020). Earlier works feature 'Listening' and 'Practising post-humanism in geographical research' (Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2019), alongside book chapters like 'Non-Representational Theory' (International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, 2019). With over 320 citations on Google Scholar, her scholarship influences cultural geography and related fields. Williams supervises PhD students on topics including geographic thinking with Deleuze and Guattari, emotional geographies of fear on public transport, and media perception in the Balkans.

Professional Email: nina.williams@unsw.edu.au