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HGRG Postdoctoral Researchers
Introduction
Involvement in the Human Geography Research Group (HGRG) as a postdoctoral researcher means many things. Fortnightly meetings provide a forum that exposes us to the work of others (including academic staff and postgraduate students), and allows us to present our own work as draft papers, research proposals or new research findings. As critical observers, we comment, provide feedback, and are involved in wide ranging discussions about our own work and that of our peers. Being a member of the HGRG provides an intellectually stimulating and supportive environment, which allows us to integrate into the department as colleagues and negotiate that ‘in-between-space’ of being post-student but not quite permanent academic staff. It allows us to extend ourselves, exposes us to new and diverse influences in human geography, provides us with insights into other avenues of inquiry, reveals synergies with colleagues’ work, and allows for the possibility for collaborations to emerge. Overall, the HGRG provides us with strong social as well as collegial networks in the department-amongst ourselves as postdoctoral researchers and with research students and academic staff-as evidenced by the strong showing at departmental seminars, post-seminar drinks at the local, regular coffee mornings, and other departmental social events.
Current Postdoctoral Researchers
For relevant bibliographic and research details of the nine researchers listed below, click here.
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Kean Birch
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Sophie Bond
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Lou Cadman
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Starr Douglas
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Leah Gibbs
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Jen Lea
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Kim McKee
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Ulrich Oslender
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Kate Swanson
Recent Postdoctoral Researchers
Nicola Burns
Nicola worked as a Research Assistant on the ESRC-funded project ‘Social Geographies of Rural Mental Health: Experiencing Inclusion and Exclusion’ [http://web.ges.gla.ac.uk/Projects/WebSite/Main.htm] with Chris Philo and Hester Parr between 2001 and 2003. She is currently a Research Fellow based in the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research based within the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, at the University of Glasgow. She is presently planning to return to key issues tackled in the Highland project - on alcoholism and mental ill-health; on drop-ins for people with mental health problems - with a view to updating and publishing the findings here.
Kate Foster [www.meansealevel.net]
Kate worked as a Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence between January 2005 and September 2006. The residency allowed collaborative “BioGeoGraphical” work to develop between an artist, academic staff and students in the department, building on existing links with biologists, museum staff, environmentalists, and other artists. The project’s title recognizes the contribution of the sub-discipline of biogeography, and expands the concept by creatively re-working the exercise of biographical and geographical research. Kate worked closely with Hayden Lorimer and doctoral student Merle Patchett on a number of projects, including ‘Blue Antelope’. [www.blueantelope.info] Kate is currently consolidating her BioGeoGraphical work originating from her residency and developing new work on the theme.
Nancy Hansen [http://www.neads.ca/conference2006/en/studies_hansen.php]
Nancy completed a PhD in the Department in 2002, and then gained a competitively-awarded Fellowship to continue studying in the Department here through the ‘Health Care, Technology and Place’ Strategic Research Programme organised out of the University of Toronto, Canada. In her PhD she explored the experiences of disabled women ‘passing through able-bodied spaces’ (in the home, in the street, at work, etc.), and in her Fellowship she built on this platform to consider disabled women’s experiences of, and requirements from, community health care facilities. She is now Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Disability Studies, University of Manitoba. A paper, co-authored with Chris Philo, based on Nancy’s PhD research and entitled ‘The importance of doing things differently’, has recently been published in Tidschrift vor Economische en Sociale Geografie (2007).
Eric Laurier [http://homepage.mac.com/eric.laurier/ordinary_life/]
Eric was an ESRC Research Fellow and Principal Investigator for one year on a project on the car as mobile office. He was then an Urban Studies Research Fellow for two years working on public space and neighbours. Following that he undertook a second ESRC Research Fellowship for two and a half years on a project entitled ‘The Cappuccino Community’ [http://web.ges.gla.ac.uk/~elaurier/cafesite/] - a project about cafes and civil life in the city, with Chris Philo as the co-investigator. Eric is now Senior Research Fellow at the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh working on ‘Habitable Cars’ and a new project on video-editing. He is the author of many high-profile papers, particularly demonstrating the possibilities for an ethnomethodological geography, some co-authored with Chris Philo (see the latter’s publication list elsewhere on this website).
Julia Lossau
Julia was a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department between 2001 and 2003, working on a project entitled: ‘Rebuilding the living city: urban planning and public art’, as well as conducting theoretical work on the fraught engagements between German-speaking geography and questions of emotionality and sensuality (leading to a paper on ‘The body, the gaze and the theorist’ published in Cultural Geographies in 2005). Julia is now based at the Geographisches Institute, at Humboldt Universität Berlin.
Corinne Nativel
Corinne worked as a Research Fellow with Andy Cumbers and Paul Routledge in 2004-2005 on an ESRC-funded project entitled ‘The Politics of Convergence Space in Global Justice Networks’. The aim of this project was to study the workings of networks and alliances formed by social movements protesting against neoliberal globalisation. She is now a Lecturer at the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, France, teaching translation (English to French and French to English), and social/economic geography, in particular tourism and European labour markets. Since 2006 Corinne has maintained an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at Glasgow. She is also co-editor with Anne Daguerre of When Children Become Parents: Welfare State Responses to Teenage Pregnancy (Policy Press, Bristol).
Venda Pollock [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/venda.pollock]
Venda worked as a Research Fellow in Urban Cultural Regeneration, where her work focused on the role that ‘public art’ plays in the re-aestheticisation of cities. She worked on independent and collaborative projects with Ronan Paddison and Jo Sharp on public art in the Gorbals, Glasgow and in Raploch, Stirling. Since October 2006 Venda has been a lecturer in Art History in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University. Her current work focuses on art in the public context, urban photographic surveys, and visual representations of cities. She has several publications, including one with Jo Sharp entitled ‘Constellations of identity’ just published in Environment & Planning D: Society & Space (2007).
Alan Roe
Alan was a Research Assistance on a DFID-funded project managed by Jo Sharp and John Briggs, examining indigenous environmental knowledges and sustainable development in semi-arid Africa. The project ran from October 2000 to December 2002. After leaving Glasgow he returned to being a freelance researcher in Egypt. Subsequently, he went to work in Afghanistan in humanitarian assistance and development. He has been a co-author on some of the papers arising from this project.
Ignaz Strebel [http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/istrebel/Research.html]
Ignaz secured a competitively-awarded Fellowship to study in the Department through the Swiss National Science Foundation, his objective being to consider the ‘scientification’ of the city - the diverse ways in which it becomes an object of ‘scientific’ inquiry and knowledge - in part through in-depth ethnomethodological inquiry (often using videoing techniques) into the everyday conduct of urban ‘research’ by academics, policy investigators and others who in effect ‘research’ on the impacts of urban spaces upon social life. He has since moved to the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, to work on a funded research project concerned with the design and lived experience of high-rise buildings.
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