Dr Katherine Brickell

Katherine Brickell's research and teaching focuses on contemporary domestic life bringing together approaches from social and cultural geography on 'home' with those of development geography on the 'household'. Her expertise lies in the qualitative analysis (through visual methods) of gendered injustices which manifest in, and emerge from, the interactions between macro and micro level socio-economic change. Katherine completed an ESRC-funded PhD at the London School of Economics entitled  “Gender Relations in the Khmer ‘Home’: Post-Conflict Perspectives” and followed this with a 3 year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Royal Holloway which extended her regional expertise to Vietnam and Laos. In January 2012 Katherine started a 3 year study funded by the ESRC and UK Department for International Development (DfID) on ‘Lay and Institutional Knowledges of Domestic Violence Law: Towards Active Citizenship in Rural and Urban Cambodia’. More information about her can be found at katherinebrickell.com.

Geographies of domestic life - home-making and 'un-making', gender (inequality) and householding, marriage and its dissolution, love and intimacy, divisions of labour, domestic violence, (il)legal geographies of home, mobility.

Socio-economic transition in Cambodia, Vietnam and Loas - post-conflict societies, economic liberalisation, feminisation of employment, tourism, youth.

Visual research methods - participant directed photography, participatory video and dramas, body mapping, art photography

First year undergraduate research methods (interviews, focus groups, visual methods)

Second year undergraduate fieldtrip leader to Kenya

Third year undergraduate course on 'Geographies of Home' (home and identity; materiality, domestic architecture and design; migration and diaspora; housework and the global domestic economy; geopolitics of home; (il)legalities of home; homelessness and the unhomely)

Practising Sustainable Development Masters teaching (Module on householding, intimacy and care)

Doctoral supervision 3 current PhDs - Tianfeng Liu (Chinese academics in the UK/British campuses in China); Laura Prazeres (international student mobility); Mary Cobbett (ESRC CASE award with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts on non-formal education and the 'Stop the Violence' campaign in Kenya)

Employability Officer for Geography