Lucy Veale
AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme Impact Fellowship Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences
Current Research
I joined the AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme in February 2011. My role as Research Fellow is to work with the Director's Impact Fellowship team (Director Professor Stephen Daniels and Co-ordinator Charlotte Lloyd) to further enhance and develop the work carried out by the Landscape and Environment Programme.
My main responsibilities are to:
- Collect and analyse information and material for a book and website.
- Review relevant literature on landscape and environment and public engagement.
- Conduct semi-structured interviews.
- Help plan, organize and facilitate workshop events.
- Liaise with fellowship partners in stakeholder organisations.
- Use initiative and creativity in research.
- Prepare case studies.
- Play an active role in the presentation and dissemination of research.
The Landscape and Environment Programme is a thematic, multidisciplinary programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Its aim is to develop arts and humanities understandings of landscape and environment in distinctive, innovative and engaging ways through research projects of the highest quality and international significance.
For more details please see the Landscape and Environment Programme website: www.landscape.co.uk
Past Research
Prior to this appointment I completed a post-doctoral bursary project in association with Renaissance East Midlands and the Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Nottingham looking into 'Representations of Climate Change in Local Museum Collections' (June 2010-February 2011). This was a MuBu (Museum Buddies) project where the aim was to create new connections between museums and communities in the East Midlands through an exploration of collections that can tell us something about climatic change (weather recording instruments, weather diaries, natural history collections, archaeology etc). The focus for research was on local and amateur attempts to record, predict and understand weather and climate, and on personal responses and management strategies employed as a result of climatic change and the occurrence of extreme weather events. The project emphasised the use of social media, the main outcome of the project being a mixed-media digital resource.
I completed my AHRC funded doctorate in the School of Geography at Nottingham in 2010. My thesis was titled 'An Historical Geography of the Nilgiri Cinchona Plantations, 1860-1900' and looked at the history of the British experiment to establish quinine-yielding cinchona plantations in British India. I am currently working on developing the thesis into a number of publications. I also completed undergraduate (BSc Geography) and postgraduate (MSc Environmental History) degrees in the School of Geography at Nottingham.
To find out more about the project please see the research blog: www.mubu.org.uk/climatechange There are links from the blog to other social media sites for the project (twitter, flickr etc).