Dr Fiona McConnell is an Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Geography, St Catherine’s College, Oxford. As a political geographer Fiona's research aims to develop new areas of thinking regarding governance beyond the state, how political legitimacy is articulated by marginalised communities, and changing practices of diplomacy and mediation. In working closely with stateless communities she is mapping hitherto hidden geographies of diplomacy and establishing new ways of thinking about diplomacy as an inherently spatial practice.