His research on environmental history, urban infrastructure and visual culture has involved work in a variety of countries including France, Germany, Nigeria, India, the UK and the USA.
He was also actively involved in local issues in Hackney, east London, writes regular reviews and commentaries for his blog Cosmopolis at http://www.matthewgandy.org, and is an urban field ecologist, specializing in entomology and has written a book on moths [REF].