Oscar Hartman Davies

Oscar Hartman Davies is an environmental and cultural geographer from London. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History at the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment. Oscar received a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford in 2024, and has held visiting positions at the University of Oslo, the University of Helsinki, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Oscar's research is concerned with processes of digitisation and datafication, and how these transform human-animal and human-environment relations. Together with colleagues he has worked to develop 'digital ecologies' as a geographical research area focused on these themes. His PhD research focused on these dynamics in the context of ocean governance, as well as on the practices and ethics of using marine animals as sentinels or indicators of environmental crises. Oscar also has extensive experience working with environmental practitioners. He is the co-founder of a UK-based nature recovery organisation, Youngwilders, and while affiliated with the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery at Oxford, he has worked to strengthen connections between nature recovery research and practice.