Staff Profile:Dr Avril Maddrell
- Name:
- Dr Avril Maddrell
- Job Title:
- Associate Professor
- Responsibilities:
- Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision; SAGES Research Ethics Committee; member of SAGES Equality and Diversity committee
- Areas of Interest:
Avril is a social and cultural geographer interested in historical and contemporary issues. Research interests include gender; emotional-affective geographies; deathscapes; sacred mobilities; place, landscape and heritage; historiography; and charity shops as socio-cultural spaces.
- Research groups / Centres:
Human Geography Research Cluster
Key Facts:
Co-Editor:
Gender, Place and Culture
Social and Cultural Geography
Recent Research Projects:
2017-2018 Deathscapes and Diversity in multicultural England and Wales. Making space for established minorities' and migrants' bodily remains and associated ritual and remembrance, with Yasminah Beebeejaun (UCL), Katie McClymont (UWE) (PI, AHRC-ESRC)
2015-16 'Creating a virtual pilgrimage trail in the Isle of Man: faithscape, landscape and heritage' (PI, AHRC Follow on funding: AH/N00289X/1)
2015-16 Economic Migrants in Bristol, (PI, Research Consultancy Project, Bristol City Council)
2012 Higher Education Academy, Gender and Career Experience in Geography (with RGS-IBG WGSG)
2010-11, Landscape aesthetics, meaning and experience in Christian pilgrimage, (PI, with Veronica della Dora (Geography, Bristol); Alessandro Scafi, (Warburg Inst., London); Heather Walton (Theology, Glasgow) AHRC-ESRC : HOO9868/1)Books:
Gemzöe, L., Keinänen, M. and Maddrell A. (eds.), (2016) Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion. European perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Maddrell, A. Terry A. and Gale T. (eds.) (2015) Sacred Mobilities, Ashgate, Farnham
Maddrell A., Della Dora V., Scafi A. and Walton H. (2015) Christian pilgrimage, landscape and heritage. Journeying to the sacred, Routledge, London
Maddrell A. and J. Sidaway (eds.) (2010) Deathscapes. New spaces for death, dying and bereavement, Ashgate, Farnham.
Anderson E., A. Maddrell, K. McLouglin and E. Vincent (eds.) (2010) Memory, Mourning, Landscape, Rodopi, Amsterdam
Maddrell A. (2009) Complex Locations: women's geographical work in the UK 1850-1970, Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers/ Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
Horne S. and A. Maddrell, (2002) Charity Shops. Retailing, consumption and society, Routledge, London.
PhD Students
Vevila Dornelles, Gendered geographies of cyberspace: a comparative study of power relations and spatial practices within online gaming
Davina Kirkpatrick, Landscape, mourning and remembrance: performance art and practice
Edward Wigley (2015) Everyday mobilities, place and spiritual practice
Dirk Pardoel (2015) Landscape, place and dwelling: transhumance and processions in Spain
Gillian Cope (2015) Visitor experience of sense of place at the National Trust
Sarah Evans (2014) Terra Incognita: women in the RGS expedition archives (AHRC CDA)
Simon Ruston (2012) Discourses of authenticity and Travellers' rights to accommodation
Avril welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students working in her field.
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 6.
2017
- Moss, P. and Maddrell, A. (2017) Emergent and divergent spaces in the Women’s March: the challenges of intersectionality and inclusion. Gender, Place and Culture, 24 (5). pp. 613-620. ISSN 1360-0524 doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1351509
2016
- Maddrell, A., Strauss, K., Thomas, N. J. and Wyse, S. (2016) Mind the gap: gender disparities still to be addressed in UK Higher Education geography. Area, 48 (1). pp. 48-56. ISSN 1475-4762 doi: 10.1111/area.12223
- Maddrell, A. and Scriven, R. (2016) Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices. Social and Cultural Geography, 17 (2). pp. 300-321. ISSN 1470-1197 doi: 10.1080/14649365.2015.1066840
- Maddrell, A. (2016) Mapping grief: a conceptual framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of bereavement, mourning and remembrance. Social and Cultural Geography, 17 (2). pp. 166-188. ISSN 1470-1197 doi: 10.1080/14649365.2015.1075579
2015
- Maddrell, A. (2015) To read or not to read? The politics of overlooking gender in the geographical canon. Journal of Historical Geography, 49. pp. 31-38. ISSN 0305-7488 doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2015.04.013
2011
- Maddrell, A. (2011) ‘Praying the Keeills’: rhythm, meaning and experience on pilgrimage journeys in the Isle of Man. Landabrefid, 25. pp. 15-29. ISSN 1027–4049
