Lead supervisor:
Dr Charlotte Bates 
Other supervisor(s):
- Dr Kate Moles
Start date: October 2025 (Full time)
Award: General
Subject Pathway:
Sociology / Science and Technology Studies
Thematic Cluster:
Society and Well-Being Cluster
Walking Home: Belonging and Identity in Urban Greenspace
My area of research focuses on people-place relations in urban greenspace. I am interested in creative and messy methods, including mobile methods, creative writing, and drawing to explore our sociological and political connections to landscape, including belonging, identity, and notions of home.
My PhD research unpacks Swindon's urban greenspaces, as established through its role as a former railway town, exploring landscape in 'post-industrial' urban fringe settings including railway tracks, allotments, and public gardens. It will focus on engagement practices, community and national identities, and access. My current Masters research looks at one of these sites (a railway path) to track and unpack our journeys along the path and how we come to understand place.