Kirsten Somerville
PhD Candidate in Education
k.somerville.1@research.gla.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6927-518X
Research title: Earth Writing: Creative Pedagogies in Geographical and Environmental Education
Research Summary
My research explores the development of creative pedagogies in geographical and environmental education between 1972 and 2022. Specifically, I am interested in how literature and creative writing have been used to support learning about the Earth in different times, places, and disciplines, and the implications for educational practice in an age of planetary crisis.
Supervisors
Grants
- ESRC 3.25 Doctoral Studentship, 2021-2024
- University of Glasgow Three Minute Thesis Runner Up (£500), 2022
Conference
Oral Presentations
- Jul 2023: Ecologies in Practice Conference (London, UK)
- Ecopedagogy, geopoetics, and critical-creative praxis: Elisée Reclus' radical geography
- Dec 2023: Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland ASM (Glasgow, UK)
- Ocean literacy in Scotland
Teaching
Widening Participation
- Top-Up Programme
- Summer School (Geography and Earth Science)
Student Learning Development
- Writing and study advice (Arts, Social Sciences, International)
- Let's Talk About X (interdisciplinary mentoring)
- Transition to Glasgow (Understanding the Human-Nature Relationship)
Additional Information
Qualifications
- MA French and Geography, University of Glasgow, 2014
- MRes Human Geography, University of Glasgow, 2017
- PG Cert Teaching Creative Writing, University of Cambridge, 2022
Professional Recognition
- Associate Fellow of Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET AF)
Professional Memberships
- Associate fellow of Royal Geographical Society
- Student member of Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- Post Graduate member of Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society
- Student member of Scottish Association of Geography Teachers
- Student member of National Association for Environmental Education
- Member of Scottish Centre for Geopoetics
Engagement Activities
- Contributor to University of Glasgow PGR Blog, 2022-
- Runner Up of University of Glasgow Three Minute Thesis competition, 2022
- Speaker at Scottish Centre for Geopoetics Conversation on Education and Geopoetics, 2022
- Presenter at University of Glasgow This PhD Life symposium, 2022-23
- Co-organiser of Creative Methods in Education for Sustainability reading group, 2023-
Peer Review
Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal
