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Dr Karolina Doughty

Research Fellow

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Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Email: K.Doughty@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Mobilities and movements in space and place
  • Therapeutic landscapes, sense of place and well-being
  • Mobile and visual methods
  • Theories of embodiment, affect and emotion
  • Landscapes, soundscapes and rhythmscapes
  • Complexity and assemblage theories in the social sciences

Profile

Karolina has a multi-disciplinary background in the humanities and social sciences, but has come to identify herself as a human geographer through her PhD work. She has recently completed her PhD on group walking practices in the countryside and their relationship to subjective well-being at the University of Southampton.

Karolina is currently working with Lesley Murray on the project 'Disruption: Unlocking Low Carbon Travel', carrying out an ethnography of daily mobilities in Brighton. She is also planning an international collaboration around urban soundscapes and specifically street music performances.

Conference papers

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.