Staff Profiles | School of History, Classics and Archaeology
About me
I'm a researcher at the McCord Centre for Landscape where I specialise in the geographies of "awkward heritage". I'm interested in how places and landscapes embody uncomfortable, awkward narratives of the past (such as histories of failure, guilt, stress, and precarity) and how people stitch those narratives into places. At present I'm the principal investigator for War and the Moral Outdoors (AHRC Living Legacies) and I also manage the travelling exhibition for its sister project, Women and Leisure during the First World War.
I practice my research interests across a variety of thematic areas.
- How people use landscapes to address and endure difficult, even harrowing situations (War and the Moral Outdoors)
- How the removal of legacy features from landscapes is believed to improve, even "rescue" them..
- Museum practices and the exhibit/visitor interface.
- Mobilities and the restoration of mobile and quasi-mobile objects (see Wright, 2018).
- Early and mid-Twentieth Century architecture and the architect/client relationship.
- The present day acts and affects of inhabiting "heritage" architecture. (see Wright, in progress).
From my previous experience as a Teaching Fellow I also retain pedagogic interests.
- The experiences of Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (see Wright and Barr, 2018).
- The portability of the Higher Education learning experiences to other Key Stages.
Since 2016 I have worked part-time for two days a week. I may not be able to answer e-mails on childcare days, so your patience is much appreciated.
Background and qualifications
I was awarded my doctorate from the University of Wales Aberystwyth in 2010. Until 2015 I worked in Higher Education teaching before moving to research focused roles, first at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics and currently at the McCord Centre for Landscape.
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