School of Social and Political Science

Profile

I am a social geographer with expertise in civic innovation and emergent forms of place-based activism. I combine long-term ethnography with detailed interaction analysis to understand how communities and practitioners negotiate, share, and revise understandings of how to build better forms of social and environmental life. At present, my research focuses on community responses to energy demand reduction initiatives as well as innovation in low-carbon public infrastructure, such as tool libraries and repair cafes. I am particularly interested in public sector and civil society data economies, and the strategies developed by community organisations to document, measure, evidence, and finance charitable activities.