Liam Riley

Postdoctoral Fellow
Liam Riley

Liam Riley is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilĀ (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is a human geographer interested in household food security, urban geographies, gender and development, and childhoods, with a regional research focus on Southern Africa. He is currently researching informal food systems in African cities, with the aim of using food studies to shed light on the political economic, environmental, and cultural factors that sustain high levels of poverty and vulnerability throughout urban Africa.