Post-Doc, School of Applied Social Science
Thesis Title: Walking and Well-being: Landscape, Affect, Rhythm
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Dr. Emma Roe
Prof. Graham Moon |
About
My PhD (submitted Sept. 2011) is an ethnographic exploration of group walking practices in the Hampshire countryside. In this project I have taken an interest in geographies of health and well-being from a qualitative angle. In particular, the creation and maintenance of supportive and therapeutic group environments, issues of bodily movement and group sociality, and how we experience places rhythmically through the body.
My research interests lie broadly across cultural and health geography and related disciplines with a particular focus on sense of place, therapeutic landscapes, embodiment, affect and emotion and geographies of mobility and rhythm. I am also interested in assemblage and complexity theories and their application in the social sciences, especially in qualitatively oriented research. Methodologically I am interested in the qualitative spectrum of methods, especially mobile, visual and performative methods.
