Environment, Place and Society

Our work considers environmental challenges within the context of social justice. Particular areas of enquiry include energy-efficient home retrofit, energy poverty, sustainable and active travel, greenspace and wellbeing, and urban food growing. These are understood alongside contemporary societal themes including migration, poverty, integration and inclusion. We work at a range of scales from the home, through the neighbourhood and community, to the city region and the rural, bringing to the fore how spaces and places are made, contested and lived. Drawing on mobilities and sustainable practices, ethnography, human geography and cultural sociology, we are interested in the development of socio-spatial methodologies that centre human experiences of the built and natural environment.

Leads

Dr Graeme Sherriff (Lead)

Dr Emilie Whitaker (Co-Lead)