Postgraduate research students

Place is the foundation stone of individual and collective life, a geographic location, and the site of lived and felt experiences. However, both our existing attachments to place and our felt experiences of place, defined as the ‘way we feel in and about places and the felt relationships we have to and within place’ are often neglected within place-based policies and practices. Given the focus on an emerging place agenda, through ‘Levelling Up’ across the UK, the ‘Place Principle’ in Scotland and also through regional inequality initiatives internationally such as the ‘Build Back Better Regional Challenge’ in the USA now is a timely moment to consider how best to capture felt experiences in ways that can guide and inform place-based decisions that are more sensitive to, and inclusive of, people’s felt relationships with place. A specific focus within this context is the need to develop new kinds of methods and metrics that can capture the lived and felt experiences of place. This point is expressly acknowledged within local and national rhetoric, see for example, the Technical Annex to the Levelling Up White Paper, where metrics for place-based work including aspects such as pride of place and belonging are considered to be ‘exploratory’ and/or in their ‘infancy’.

The PhD connects with ongoing work within the AHRC Place Programme, led by the first supervisor, Professor Rebecca Madgin, to conceptualise the felt experiences of place and to explore complementary methods and metrics that can secure more place-sensitive policies and practices.

• Professor Rebecca Madgin
• Professor Joao Porto de Albuquerque

College of Social Sciences PhD Scholarship from the University of Glasgow

Inaugural University of Mississippi Jane Austen Conference 2022

• Presented Short Film "Myopic Miss Jane" as part of "Austen in Film" Panel which discussed and dramaticised parallels between regency-era attitudes on walking and class with current day attitudes

2022 Mississippi Pi Sigma Alpha Regional Conference for Undergraduate Research

• Awarded Best Overall Paper for presentation of undergraduate thesis "The Case of Santiago de Chile: Pedestrian Deaths, Neo-Liberal Urban Design, and Insufficient Traffic Policy Reform"

2022 Mississippi Undergraduate Honors Conference: Back to the Future: Moving Forward with Academic Inquiry

• Presented undergraduate thesis "The Case of Santiago de Chile: Pedestrian Deaths, Neo-Liberal Urban Design, and Insufficient Traffic Policy Reform"

Educational and professional background in public policy and urban research, primarily working on:

• Arts-based community engagement
• Renewable energy
• Feminist urbanism
• Green-space and urban revitalization
• Transportation policy and design