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Biography I was awarded BA (Geography)from University of Wales (Lampeter) in 1991. I went on to complete a PGCE (Geography and Expressive Arts) in secondary education from Manchester Metropolitan University (1992) before returning to Lampeter to undertake my PhD in Lampeter (awarded 1997). I taught human geography at the University of Dundee between 1997 and 2008, during which time I was an ESRC research fellow from 2004-2007. I joined the University of Glasgow in 2009. Research interests My research includes work on qualitative social geographies of mental health, disability and illness. My work has focused on both urban and rural experiences of community care with an emphasis on service user narratives and experiences. Recently my work has diversified to include how lay populations access and understand health and medical information via virtual space (the Internet).
Over the last 12 years I have been interested in developing new methodologies for working with often vulnerable people. As a result I have interests and experience in overt and covert ethnographies, collaborative film-making, focus groups, interviews-on-the-move, internet surveys and email-based research relationships, telephone interviewing and co-writing.
I am also interested in geographies of emotions, embodiment and creativity with respect to health and well-being. I have have been funded by the ESRC in 3 major research projects on mental health related research.
Current research From 2010/11 I will be working on an ESRC funded project 'Geographies of Missing People: experiences, processes, responses' (Hester Parr, PI, Nick Fyfe, Dundee CI, Penny Woolnough Grampian Police, CI) £535K FEC.
This project will work with police forces in Scotland and London and the Missing People charity to investigate the geographies of missing persons and the geographical knowledges of the people and agencies that search for them. See
http://www.sipr.ac.uk/networks/missing_persons.php |
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