Before joining UEA as Lecturer in Human Geography (2020), Casper held two post-doctoral positions at Queen Mary University of London initiating research on the impact of high-rise developments on communities’ sense of home in east London (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) and as part of wider research team, Home City Street, exploring home and belonging in east London during periods of rapid urban change (funded through Public engagement funds). Casper earned his joint PhD at Queen Mary University of London and Roskilde University, Denmark in 2016, in which he explored how older residents navigate and respond to technological upgrades in public lighting infrastructures in east London, and was a visiting scholar at the Graduate Centre, City University New York in 2012.

Casper’s research investigates how human-environment relations are conditioned by elemental media and their manipulation through architectural design and urban planning practice. By drawing attention to the role of architecture in shaping geographies of inequality and injustice in cities, his research investigates the affective politics of vertical urbanism, the nocturnal city and the dark underworld of mining and extraction. His research is ethnographic and engages in creative collaborations with artists, urban designers and community groups to co-produce materials that both render the affective conditions of life within the asymmetrical power geometries of cities palpable to wider audiences, while also, developing propositions for developing more just and durable forms of cohabiting in cities. He is the recipient of several research grants, including a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship.

The collaborative dimension of his work, engaging with artists, the museum sector and art institutions, is evident through the research collectives Planetary Portals (co-founded with Kathryn Yusoff and Kerry Holden) and the Urban Night Project (co-founded with Rut Blees Luxemburg). His aim, to bring research and artwork into dialogue with wider public audiences to address contemporary issues, is evident in the exhibition entitled I am in your dreams but you are not in mine at the Photographers Gallery (2025) which explores the intersections between photography, colonialism and digital economies. Or the group exhibition entitled Midnight Sun (2021) at Black Tower Projects, which explores the how London’s vertical landscape is experience, imagined and sustained in everyday and everynight urban life.

Casper teaches across urban, social and cultural geography, with an emphasis on critical social theory, urban theory, and ethnographic, visual and creative methods. He runs the third-year module, Urban Futures, and supervises across undergrad, postgraduate and PhD levels on a range of topics within social sciences and critical thinking more broadly.

I am interested in supervising students who explore questions related to the urban and engage with interdisciplinary debates across urban studies, cultural geography and the environmental humanities.

I am currently supervising the following Ph.D. students:

• Ezgi Yilmaz 'Queering Home: Turkish Speaking LGBT+ Migrants’ Home-making Practices in London' (SSF 1+3 Studentship, 2022-2026) Cosupervisor: Kavita Ramakrishnan, DEV