Marion Walker

Name Marion Walker
Job Title Senior Research Associate
Organisation Lancaster University
Website www.lancaster.ac.uk

Marion Walker is a social scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Her PhD (Educational Research, Lancaster 2006) explored the issues of school choice in rural communities and the relationship between social class, lifestyle and locale in relation to the educational market place. Her research interests are focussed around the geography of education, research with children and young people and working with innovative methodologies. She is currently working in collaboration with Save the Children, UK and is the lead researcher and co-investigator on the ESRC funded study: Children, Young People and Flooding: Recovery and Resilience.  Marion is also a co-investigator on the European Project: Cultures of Disaster Resilience Among Children and Young People CUIDAR funded under Horizon 2020.