Mark Bhatti BA (Hons) MA
Reader
contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643489
Email: M.Bhatti@brighton.ac.uk
Research interests
- sociology of memory
- home, gender and home-making
- leisure, gardens and gardening
- psychosocial studies
- embodiment and resistance
- ageing and the life course
Mark is currently co-ordinator of the research project Methodological Innovations I: Using Mass Observation
Teaching
- social theory
- culture and society
- leisure
- the body and society
- globalisation
Recent major research grants
2006 Writing the landscape of everyday life:lay narratives of the home garden Arts and Humanities Research Council Landscape and Environment Programme
2005 Cultivating health and well-being for older residents in sheltered housing through a Community Gardening Partnership. Community University Partnership Project, University of Brighton
Publications
BHATTI, GURMUKH, CHURCH, ANDREW and Claremont, Amanda (2013) Peaceful, pleasant and private: the British domestic garden as an ordinary landscape Landscape Research . ISSN 0142-6397
Stenner, Paul, CHURCH, ANDREW and BHATTI, GURMUKH (2012) Human-landscape relations and the occupation of space: experiencing and expressing domestic gardens Environment and Planning A, 44 (7). ISSN 0308-518X
Claremont, Amanda, Church, Andrew, Bhatti, Mark and Stenner, Paul (2010) Going public: landscaping everyday life Cultural Geographies, 17 (2). pp. 277-282. ISSN 1474-4740
BHATTI, GURMUKH, CHURCH, ANDREW and Stenner, Paul (2009) I love being in the garden: enchanting encounters in everyday life Social and Cultural Geography, 10 (1). pp. 61-76. ISSN 1464-9365
Bhatti, Mark and Wiseman, T. (2007) Cultivating paradise: promotion of gardening in sheltered housing schemes Growth Point: the Journal of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture, 108 . pp. 4-8. ISSN 0951-7774
Raisborough, Jayne and Bhatti, Mark (2007) Women's leisure and auto/biography: empowerment and resistance in the garden Journal of Leisure Research, 39 (3). pp. 459-476. ISSN 0022-2216
Bhatti, Mark (2006) "When I'm in the garden I can create my own paradise": homes and gardens in later life Sociological review, 54 (2). pp. 318-341. ISSN 1467-954x
Bhatti, Mark and Church, Andrew (2004) Home, the culture of nature and the meanings of gardens in late modernity Housing Studies, 19 (1). pp. 37-51. ISSN 0267-3037
Brown, T. and Bhatti, Mark (2003) Whatever happened to 'housing and the environment'? Housing Studies, 18 (4). pp. 505-515. ISSN 1466-1810
Bhatti, Mark and Church, Andrew (2001) Cultivating natures: homes and gardens in late modernity Sociology, 35 (2). pp. 365-383. ISSN 0038-0385
Bhatti, Mark (2001) Greening housing: a challenge for public policy In: The wider issues of housing. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 63-71. ISBN 0748616624
Bhatti, Mark (2001) Housing/futures? The challenge from environmentalism Housing studies, 16 (1). pp. 39-52. ISSN 1466-1810
Conference presentations
2007 The poetics of pottering: psychosocial landscapes of everyday life. Nature Trails, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Conference London, September.
2007 Writing the everyday landscape of the home garden Written Landscape An Inter-disciplinary Symposium for Scholars in the Arts and Humanities Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, July.
2007 Just pottering about?: healthy leisure in the garden Leisure Studies Association Conference, July.
2005 Cultivating memories in the garden paper presented to the 5th International Symposium On Cultural Gerontology, The Open University, May.
2005 The garden as place for cultivating health and well-being in later life paper presented at the Nature and health: geographies, relations, bodies Conference, Institute of British Geographers, London, September.
2004 Embodying memory in the garden Paper presented to the Cross Boundaries/making connection conference of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa/New Zealand (SAANZ) Victoria, University of Wellington, November 2004.
