Salman is an experienced academic in institutional sociology and political economy, with a strong interdisciplinary research portfolio in gender, governance, affect theory, borderland studies, conflict and post-conflict development, and the informal economy.

He has a proven track record of teaching and supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with a growing publication record and experience in research leadership, academic service, and collaborative knowledge production. Salman's research sits at the intersection of development and cultural geography with a special interest in emotional geographies, public spaces and gender, institutional analysis and development, peace and violence, and Borderland studies. 

Research

• Affect theory
• Borderland studies
• Gender and development
• Local governance and development
• Emotional geographies
• Post conflict development
• Pakistan and Afghanistan

Salman was a principal investigator on conflict, displacement, and economic revival in Pakistan in 2019 (funded by the US institute of Peace). He was a postdoctoral researcher on British Academy project “Mapping the wounded landscape of Swat valley: from Taliban’s violence and iconoclasm to social growth and reconciliation". In 2023-24 Salman was a principal investigator on “Geopolitics from below: affect and social science in Pakistan” funded by the US Institute of Peace.

As a principal investigator, Salman is currently developing two projects: affective materiality of Border governance in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and social accountability and climate governance in Pakistan. He is currently co-editing a special issue on the role of civil society in the economy in the Forum for Social Economics. Salman is also editing a multilingual anthology on relational peace, violence, and emotions in Pakistan. He is an associate editor at the Forum for Social Economics.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• 4SSG1015 Geographical Foundations 2: Challenges of the Modern World

Postgraduate

• 6SSG0610 Independent Geographical Study
• 7SSGN002 Practicing Social Research

Salman has also taught on the following modules in previous years:

• 5SSG2044 Development Geography (23-24)
• 5SSG2052 Society, Environment and Geography: the nature of the environment (23-24)
• 6YYD0032 Race, Gender and Development (23-24)
• 7YYDN046 Race, Gender and Development (23-24)
• 6SSG3076/7SSGN212/7SSG5212 Critical Geopolitics (22-23)

PhD supervision

Salman is currently not accepting any PhD supervision requests.

Expertise and Public Engagement

Salman has taken part in conferences on collaboration between academic and nonacademic knowledge production.

Further details

See Salman's research profile