Staff Profile:Dr Louise Holt

Name:

Dr Louise Holt

Job Title:

Lecturer in Human Geography

Responsibilities:

• SHES library representative, Undergraduate Admissions (Geography)
• Undergraduate teaching: Social and Cultural Geography; History and Philosophy of Geography; Geographies of Disability

Areas of Interest:

• Children
• Sociospatial (re)production of (young) (dis)abled identities
• Social exclusion / inclusion
• Studentification
• Embodied social capital

Research groups / Centres:

Human Environments Research Group

Publications:

Qualifications:

BA, PGCE, MSC Human Geography (Leicester), PHD (Loughborough)

Key Facts

After completing her PhD in Geography at the Loughborough University, Louise worked in the Department of Geography, University of Brighton, before joining the department in September 2005.

Louise's research expertise focuses upon the reproduction of inequalities through embodied identities, social inclusion and social capital. Louise is currently leading the ESRC funded project Children's embodied social capital and (dis)ability: connecting micro- and macro- scales of exclusion/inclusion. She is also leading a British Academy Funded Investigation into: Urban renaissance developments: searching for inclusive alternatives to (re) constructing young, middle class and childless central and inner cities

Other recent projects have investigated: how urban renaissance inspired developments reproduce cities as childless and middle class, and how this is contested; student lifestyles and the transformation of university towns and cities, and; lesbian identities in the rural context.