I joined the School of Geography and Sustainable Development in September 2024 as part of the Connecting Generations project looking at community resilience and social coherence.  

My previous research has focused on perceptions of place, online and offline communities, critical heritage, and place-based (territorial) stigma.  I am interested in why people live where they do and how they perceive their community and the communities beyond. My work draws on my background in critical human geography and critical discourse analysis  as I seek to understand the forces that determine perceptions of place.  My PhD thesis from the University of Leeds examined the formation and production of place-based stigma using Toxteth, Liverpool as a case study. I have experience in a range of qualitative data collection and analysis methods including critical discourse analytic approaches and archival methods.