Joe joined the School of Geographical Sciences in August 2017. Joe obtained his MA (First Class), MSc (Distinction) and DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford. Prior to taking up the lectureship at Bristol, Joe was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, and a Research and Teaching Fellow at Keble College. Joe also held a Career Development Lectureship at Jesus College, Oxford.

Joe is a cultural geographer with research specialisms in geophilosophy, ethics, Spinoza, Guattari, non-representational theory, micropolitics and minor theory. He is a member of the Historical and Cultural Geographies Research Group, and convenes the School's Non-Representational Theory Reading Group.

Joe welcomes expressions of interest from postgraduate students who would like to pursue doctoral studies in the following areas: non-representational theory, geophilosophy, aesthetics, geo-ethics, geographies of affect, philosophies of space and place.

Joe is an associate editor of the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.