Alastair Owens

@AlastairHackney

Professor @QMULGeography. Chair of Trustees @The_GA. Researches Victorians, @UrbanVicarages, @StayHomeStories. Trustee @RaggedSchool. Likes figs. Own views.

London geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/owensa.h… Joined April 2009

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Alastair Owens @AlastairHackney Apr 21

On 17 May I am running the 2026 Hackney Half in aid of Hackney Night Shelter (@HackneyWNS) where I volunteer. It which provides temporary accommodation for people experiencing homelessness and support to find more secure places to live. Can you support?

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Alastair Owens @AlastairHackney Jul 14

My son Will is doing a sponsored walk for the Alzheimer’s Society. He helps to care for his grandmother (my mum) who has the disease. Appreciating many of us have experiences of this, he’d be welcome of any support. Thank you!
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Alastair Owens @AlastairHackney Jun 26

Proud academic dad moment!

My daughter Lily has published a paper in the Columbia Journal of History, ‘Naturalising the Empire: Landscape, Taxonomy and the Plantocratic Picturesque in the Eighteenth-Century British West Indies’

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Alastair Owens @AlastairHackney May 17

Hackney Half is brilliant — people from all backgrounds supporting and cheering each other on. It is what London is good at. An antidote to Unite the Kingdom

Alastair Owens @AlastairHackney May 16

If you are watching the Hackney Half tomorrow, please give me a cheer! Here is my race number.

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