Society, space and environment
Theme Leader: Dr Becky Elmhirst
Research in the Society, Space and Environment theme has two related strands concerned with: (i) developing multi-disciplinary knowledge on access, disadvantage and exclusion, and (ii) advancing new methodologies that emphasise the co-production of knowledge and transformative learning. The group is committed to developing innovative policy and pedagogy-related research, through collaboration with non-academic research users, and with funding from a range of sources including Research Councils, the European Union and charitable organisations.Theme members produce research on:
- the spatial politics of leisure and recreation environments
- gendered geographies of migration, natural resource access and the spatialities of enclosure
- conflict, social sustainability and the spatial impacts of boundaries in urban space
- human responses to environmental variability
- exclusion and access to environmental and health-related information
- landscape, disability and affect
- geographies of sexualities and genders
- the politics and ethics of representing human experience within disadvantaged groups
- knowledge co-production through innovative collaborative dissemination with research collaborators and publics
- participatory methodologies for research and pedagogy, with research on methodologies for transformative learning through research and pedagogical practice
