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Dr Karolina Doughty

Research Fellow

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Email: K.Doughty@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Embodied mobilities
  • Relations between place and wellbeing, including 'therapeutic landscapes'
  • Relational approaches to wellbeing
  • New materialisms and theories of embodiment, affect and emotion
  • Sound and rhythm
  • Conviviality and social life in urban places
  • Human/nature relationships
  • Mobile and visual methodologies

Profile

Karolina joined SSPARC as a research fellow in 2011.

She has a multi-disciplinary background with a BA in Communication Studies, an MA in Transnational Studies and a PhD in Human Geography (2012) from the University of Southampton.

Her current research includes:

  • The RCUK-funded project 'Disruption: Unlocking Low Carbon Travel', carrying out an ethnography of daily mobilities in Brighton (with Lesley Murray).
  • An NIHR-funded qualitative exploration of Community Treatment Orders in the mental health services (with Julia Stroud).
  • Collaborating with Maja Lagerqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden) on research into urban soundscapes and the role of live music in urban place-making.
  • Extending and developing her doctoral research on the 'therapeutic landscapes' of group walking to focus on primary care initiatives for disadvantaged groups in an urban context.

She is a member of the mobilities research group.

Teaching

  • GY257 Geographies of Everyday Life
  • SS324/363 Transport, Environment and Society

Publications

Doughty, K., Stroud, J. and L. Banks (In preparation). An exploration of service user and practitioner experiences of Community Treatment Orders. University of Brighton, Brighton.

Doughty, K. and M. Lagerqvist (In preparation). Mobilities of sound: harmonies and dissonances in the intersection between music and place. In Murray, L. and S. Upstone (eds). Researching and representing mobilities: trans-disciplinary encounters. Basingstoke, Palgrave.

Doughty, K. (In preparation). Walking together: the embodied and mobile production of therapeutic landscapes. Health & Place

Doughty, K. (2012). The role of street music for the 'creative city'. Live Music Exchange Project, peer-reviewed blog post (20 August 2012), www.livemusicexchange.org/blog/the-role-of-street-music-for-the-creative-city-karolina-doughty/

Doughty, K. (2012). Healing Waters: Therapeutic Landscapes in Historic and Contemporary Ireland. Foley, Ronan. Ashgate, London 2010. 213 pp. 9780754676522 (hbk). Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 94 (2), 201-203.

Ronander, K. (2010). The Restorative Dynamic of Walking Together. The Qualitative Researcher, 12, 3-5.

Conference papers

Doughty, K. and Murray, L. 2013. 'Discourses of mobility and disrupted mobility'. Nordic Geographers Meeting, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Dawney, L. and Doughty, K. 2013. Session organisers: 'Feeling in Common: Making and enacting convivial spaces'. Nordic Geographers Meeting, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Doughty, K and Lagerqvist, M. 2013. 'Harmonies and dissonances of place: The pan-flute band at Sergels torg, Stockholm'. 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Doughty, K and Lagerqvist, M. 2013. Session organisers: 'Sound and Emotion'. 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Doughty, K. and Lagerqvist, M., 2012. 'The Sonic City: Mapping Affective Geographies of Street Music'. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference – Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh.

Ronander, K. 2010. 'A Rhythmanalysis of Rural Walkscapes'. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Royal Geographic Society, London, September 2010.

Ronander, K. 2010. 'The restorative dynamics of walking together'. LASS Annual Conference, University of Southampton, May 2010.

Ronander, K. 2009. 'Moving Encounters: The Therapeutic Potential of Walking in Nature'. Living Landscapes, University of Aberystwyth, June 2009.

Ronander, K. 2009. 'Moving Encounters: The Therapeutic Potential of Walking in Nature'. Emerging New Research on Geographies of Health and Impairment (ENRGHI), Durham University, April 2009.

Ronander, K. 2008. 'Encounters with Remote Landscapes: Early Findings'. Species of Spaces, Tallinn University, Estonia, July 2008.

Ronander, K. 2008. 'An Embodied Approach to Researching Wilderness as a Therapeutic Landscape'. RGS-IBG Postgraduate Mid-Term conference, University of Liverpool, April 2008.