CV
RESEARCH INTERESTS
asexualities, queer geographies / geographies of sexualities, intimacy & kinship, sexuality & gender in Ireland
EDUCATION
PhD Geography, University College Dublin (2023-2026)
Dissertation: Aseuxal Geographies: The Spatialities of Asexuality & Compulsory Sexuality in Ireland
Supervised by Prof. Kath Browne and Prof. Alun Jones
MSc Critical Geographies, University College Dublin (First Class Honours)
Master’s Thesis: Exploring Asexual Geographies: Finding, Creating, and Using Ace Spaces in Ireland
BA Linguistics, University of Michigan (Highest Honors & Highest Distinction)
Honors Thesis: Null Subjects in Creole Languages
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
Jukes, J. and Bayer, R. (2025) ‘New Directions for Asexual Geographies’, Sexualities, pp. 1-16.
Bayer, R. (2024) 'Asexual Geographies: The Allosexualisation of Space in Ireland', Gender, Place & Culture, pp. 1-21.
Book Chapters
Bayer, R. and Browne, K. (2024) 'Queer Geographies', in Dombroski, K., Goodwin, M., Qian, J., Williams, A. and Cloke, P. (eds.) Introducing Human Geographies Fourth Edition. London: Routledge, pp. 977-989.
Other Work
Bayer, R., McCartan, A. and Browne, K. (2025) Geografia Queer (Queer Geographies). São Paulo: Letra e Voz.
Bayer, R. (2024) 'Making Space to be Ace: Experiences of Asexuality and Compulsory Sexuality in Ireland', Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival Magazine.
TEACHING
Occasional Lecturer, UCD School of Geography (2024 - Present):
GEOG31070: Social Geographies - Guest Lecturer on Geographies of Encountering Difference: Identities and Social In/Exclusions; Queer Social Geographies
Tutor (Teaching Assistant), UCD School of Geography (2023 - Present):
GEOG10100: People, Places, Regions
GEOG10140: Mapping a Sustainable World
GEOG20210: Fieldstudies in Ireland
GEOG30900: Overseas Fieldwork
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025
Asexual Utopias: Creating Space Beyond Compulsory Sexuality - Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference; University of Birmingham, UK (accepted)
Navigating the Landscapes of Compulsory Sexuality: The Allosexualization of Queer Space - American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting; Detroit, USA
2024
Irish Asexual Geographies: Theorising the Spatialities of Asexuality and Compulsory Sexuality from Ireland - 35th International Geographical Congress; Dublin, Ireland
Ace Spaces & Spatialities: A Queer Geographical Exploration of Asexual Placemaking in Ireland - IGU Commission on Gender and Geography’s Feminist & Queer Spatialities Conference; University College Dublin: Dublin, Ireland
2023
Exploring Asexual Geographies and the Allosexualisation of Space in Ireland - Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference; London, UK
Exploring Asexual Geographies and the Allosexualisation of (Queer) Space - Outside/rs Postgraduate & Community Conference; Brighton, UK
CONFERENCE & SESSION ORGANIZING
2025
Asexual Geographies (with Joe Jukes) - Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference; University of Birmingham, UK
Towards Queer Geographies of Asexualities & Nonsexualities - American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting; Detroit, USA
2024
Local Organizing Committee Member - IGU Commission on Gender and Geography’s Feminist & Queer Spatialities Conference; University College Dublin: Dublin, Ireland
2023
Emerging Queer & Sexualities Geographies (with Júlia Pascual-Bordas) - Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference; London, UK
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
UCD College of Social Sciences & Law Graduate Support Fund Grant (January 2025)
Research Ireland Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (September 2024)
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action: LGBTI+ Social and Economic (in)equalities - PhD Summer School (July 2024)
UCD College of Social Sciences & Law Graduate Research and Innovation Fund Grant (May 2023)
UCD School of Geography Full PhD Scholarship (January 2023)
UCD International Student Scholarship (December 2020)