Olivia Stevenson
Dr Olivia Stevenson is Head of UCL Public Policy and also holds an honorary Research Fellow position at the University of Glasgow, http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/oliviastevenson/
Prior to joining UCL, and mainly funded though the ESRC, Olivia has undertaken a range of research projects with significant impacts:
- Knowledge Exchange Fellow (University funded, 2014 - 2014), School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow.
- Research Fellow (ESRC funded, 2011 - 2014) 'Geographies of Missing People: Experiences, Processes, Responses', School of Geographical and Earth Science, University of Glasgow. http://www.geographiesofmissingpeople.org.uk
- Research Fellow (ESRC funded, 2008 - 2011) 'Young children learning with toys and technology', School of Education, University of Stirling. http://www.stir.ac.uk/education/research/research-and-knowledge-exchange-projects/curriculum-and-pedagogy/toys-and-technology/
- Ph.D. (ESRC funded) 'From public policy to family practices: children and their families' use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)', School of Geography, University of Leeds.
Prior to joining UCL, and mainly funded though the ESRC, Olivia has undertaken a range of research projects with significant impacts:
- Knowledge Exchange Fellow (University funded, 2014 - 2014), School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow.
- Research Fellow (ESRC funded, 2011 - 2014) 'Geographies of Missing People: Experiences, Processes, Responses', School of Geographical and Earth Science, University of Glasgow. http://www.geographiesofmissingpeople.org.uk
- Research Fellow (ESRC funded, 2008 - 2011) 'Young children learning with toys and technology', School of Education, University of Stirling. http://www.stir.ac.uk/education/research/research-and-knowledge-exchange-projects/curriculum-and-pedagogy/toys-and-technology/
- Ph.D. (ESRC funded) 'From public policy to family practices: children and their families' use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)', School of Geography, University of Leeds.
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perspective to interdisciplinary death studies. Whilst deathscapes have been framed within geographical work as incorporating material, embodied and virtual spaces, to
date Anglo-American and European studies have tended to focus on the literal and representational spaces of the end of life, sites of bodily remains and memorialization. With a number of important exceptions, embodied and dynamic experiences of dying, death and survival have been absent within the geographies of death. This special section aims to broaden the scope, and to resist simple dichotomies of life
and death, and to be especially attentive to the embodied and visceral experiences, practices and processes of dying, death and survival. In this introduction, we explore themes of dying/s, death/s and survival/s across varied international, national and cultural contexts, as discussed in the contributing papers and raised by the politics of recent events. This collection offers an expanded and enlivened approach to research, documenting facing death/s, journeys at the end of life, living through, on and with life-limiting illnesses, living with loss and the interconnected spatialities that these experiences and practices evoke for individuals and wider social groups. They open
up new spaces of P/politics and emotions, challenging limited political and medicalized frames. The papers also raise methodological questions and present a challenging
agenda for future research. This special section grew out of sessions we organized for the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference at the University of Edinburgh.
via a focus on spatialised journeys: physical routes, pathways and places of attempted suicide. Discussing these particular journeys as socio-spatial process represents the potential for geographical scholars to rework geographies of dying and (attempted) death as an active practice.
Psychology at Abertay University. She was previously Senior Research Officer for Grampian Police/Police Scotland for 14 years and is a pioneer of behavioral profiling for police-led missing person investigations. Olivia Stevenson is Acting Head of Public Policy at UCL and is an Honorary Human Geography Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Hester Parr is principle investigator for the ESRC-funded project ‘Geographies of Missing People: processes, experiences, responses’ at Glasgow University on which this article is based.
should be conducted, and the narratives that officers construct about how they approach investigations which are often shaped by a mix of police craft, ‘science’ and ‘reputational’ issues.
for research is often overlooked by educationalists. Our repeat visits to fourteen families that included a three- or four-year-old child over more than a year as part of our study “Young Children Learning with Toys and Technology at Home” enabled us to develop research relationships that resulted in a 100 percent retention rate. We summarize the ecocultural framework that informed the design of our study and describe two methods for
collecting data (“toy tours” and “mobile phone diaries”) that highlight issues relating to the rules of engagement when conducting research that generates insights into children’s everyday lives at home."
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perspective to interdisciplinary death studies. Whilst deathscapes have been framed within geographical work as incorporating material, embodied and virtual spaces, to
date Anglo-American and European studies have tended to focus on the literal and representational spaces of the end of life, sites of bodily remains and memorialization. With a number of important exceptions, embodied and dynamic experiences of dying, death and survival have been absent within the geographies of death. This special section aims to broaden the scope, and to resist simple dichotomies of life
and death, and to be especially attentive to the embodied and visceral experiences, practices and processes of dying, death and survival. In this introduction, we explore themes of dying/s, death/s and survival/s across varied international, national and cultural contexts, as discussed in the contributing papers and raised by the politics of recent events. This collection offers an expanded and enlivened approach to research, documenting facing death/s, journeys at the end of life, living through, on and with life-limiting illnesses, living with loss and the interconnected spatialities that these experiences and practices evoke for individuals and wider social groups. They open
up new spaces of P/politics and emotions, challenging limited political and medicalized frames. The papers also raise methodological questions and present a challenging
agenda for future research. This special section grew out of sessions we organized for the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference at the University of Edinburgh.
via a focus on spatialised journeys: physical routes, pathways and places of attempted suicide. Discussing these particular journeys as socio-spatial process represents the potential for geographical scholars to rework geographies of dying and (attempted) death as an active practice.
Psychology at Abertay University. She was previously Senior Research Officer for Grampian Police/Police Scotland for 14 years and is a pioneer of behavioral profiling for police-led missing person investigations. Olivia Stevenson is Acting Head of Public Policy at UCL and is an Honorary Human Geography Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Hester Parr is principle investigator for the ESRC-funded project ‘Geographies of Missing People: processes, experiences, responses’ at Glasgow University on which this article is based.
should be conducted, and the narratives that officers construct about how they approach investigations which are often shaped by a mix of police craft, ‘science’ and ‘reputational’ issues.
for research is often overlooked by educationalists. Our repeat visits to fourteen families that included a three- or four-year-old child over more than a year as part of our study “Young Children Learning with Toys and Technology at Home” enabled us to develop research relationships that resulted in a 100 percent retention rate. We summarize the ecocultural framework that informed the design of our study and describe two methods for
collecting data (“toy tours” and “mobile phone diaries”) that highlight issues relating to the rules of engagement when conducting research that generates insights into children’s everyday lives at home."
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Professor Christopher Whitty has witnessed this first hand as Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) and Director of Research and Evidence to the Department for International Development (DFID). Now his term has come to a close, he joined us at UCL to reflect on the challenges of the CSA role and to answer the question, ‘How do we increase the uptake of academic research within policy?’