Dr Rebecca Whittle
Senior LecturerResearch Overview
I’m a human geographer who is passionate about participatory action research and reflective learning. I’ve worked on a range of different topics over the years and my current favourites are local and alternative food networks, care, craft, wellbeing and parenting. However, most of all, I’m interested in the relationships by which all these intersect. In short, I see care of self, others and the natural world (of which we are also a part, by the way!) as inseparable, and I am interested in how regeneration in any one of those spheres impacts on all the others into the bargain. I'm not generally a fan of labels but 'eco feminist' is probably the one that best describes my work at the moment. If you're interested in finding out more about what I'm thinking at the moment then feel free to check out my website
My research and activism tends to be hyper local and I enjoy working with some brilliant local stakeholders who share my values and passion for a fairer and more sustainable world. These include North Lancashire FoodFutures the Lancaster Textile Care Collective and Sewing Cafe Lancaster.
Importantly, I work part-time because I feel like I need to live these things, not only understand them with my intellect, and hence my life is a kind of continual reflective practice in trying to work all this out. All of which makes things interesting and challenging into the bargain!
I don’t like Twitter but you can follow me on Instagram @whittlebeccy or my workspace on Facebook
Little Researchers
01/02/2023 → 01/08/2023
Research
Failure to Learn, Failure to Grow: creating space to ‘fail’ in order to allow real learning to take place
01/03/2017 → 31/03/2018
Other
Children, flood and urban resilience
01/03/2009 → …
Research
Textile Waste Meeting - Sewing Cafe
Other
NCCARF visiting research fellow invited to talk about recovery following the Hull Floods of 2007
Invited talk
NCCARF visiting research fellow invited to give a seminar on UK Flood Recovery
Invited talk
Cabinet Office (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Staff Prizes 2010
Prize (including medals and awards)
Outstanding Impact in Public Policy
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Critical Geographies