Funded Projects

Connecting and Severing: a Deconstruction of the Language of HS2 Ltd (2019)

Reviewing the language used by the Department for Transport, in the guise of HS2 Ltd, to promote and discuss the high-speed rail project.

The work will focus on the influence that 19th century geological and historiographic studies had in establishing a reading of landscape as a physical archive and informing a new mode of historical engagement with landscape.

The project aims to enhance the awareness on landscape justice and democracy within educational contexts.

Establishing the environmental and social impacts of boron mining in Turkey before euphoria outruns risk assessment.

This project will trace and respond to official and unofficial access routes around the South Lake District, with the aim of identifying contrasting understandings of the landscape.

Kalliope’s project is enabling the community local to the Sitia Geopark to establish and operate an auxillary but essential scientific governance mechanism to take positive actions in formulating and implementing a sustainable strategy for their area.

The project examines whether the historical physical boundaries associated with sectarian segregation in Belfast remain influential in how people engage with and value the city’s landscape.

CLIP – Coastal Landscape and Inclusive Planning is a PhD research project that investigates stakeholders’ perceptions and attitudes to the landscapes of the west coast of Ireland in order to identify contrasting understandings of these landscapes.

The aim of the project is to trace, map and analyse landownership in the Comeragh Mountains from the 1600s until the present.

The loss of public rights of way in Spain is a well-known problem, and several associations, such as the PICP (an NGO for the defence of public pathways), actively advocate for their protection.

Nevertheless, the consequences of losing access to such an important common heritage are not well defined. This aim of this project is to gather information about its impact on the ‘right to landscape’, in order to better coordinate activism, improve dissemination and to raise the issue before the relevant administrative bodies.

Funded Projects

Connecting and Severing: a Deconstruction of the Language of HS2 Ltd (2019)

Deconstructing the Archive: A philological analysis of the verbal and visual constructs of historical landscape narratives (2019)

Landscape Education, Heritage and Justice (2019)

Boron Landscapes of Turkey (2019)

Ways and Meanings (2019)

Addressing the scientific isolation of the Sitia Geopark local community (2018)

Beyond the peace lines… (2018)

Coastal Landscapes and Inclusive Planning in the West of Ireland (2018)

The imposition of colonial power and the landscape in the Comeragh Mountains, County Waterford, Ireland (2018)

Disappearance and enclosure of rural public ways in Spain: Impact on the right to landscape (2017)