Annabelle Edwards
Research FellowResearch Overview
I am a cultural geographer interested in the relationship between health, place, and identity, and in developing theory and methods to help us interrogate and understand this relationship.
In my current research (funded by the Wellcome Trust), I am looking specifically at activities that are being prescribed to improve mental health and wellbeing, and am undertaking data-collection in 2024 and 2025.
My interest and expertise in understanding the relationalities of health underpins my teaching within Lancaster Medical School.
Research Grants
2023-2026 - Wellcome Trust Early Career Award
2021-2023 - ESRC (NWSSDTP) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2020 - Thesis 'A post-phenomenological study of 'therapeutic landscape' experiences' (ESRC NWSSDTP funded)
Career Details
Teaching:
Lancaster Medical School:
Special Study Module 2 - A walk in the landscapes (of 'therapeutic' geographies) (2021-)
Health Culture and Society 3 - Chronic pain and everyday life (2021-)
Sociology:
SOCL 101 – Sociological Imagination – 2018-2019
Human Geography:
LEC 115 – Geographical Skills – 2015-201C
LEC 115 – Geographical Skills: Manchester field trip 2016, 2017, 2018
LEC 210A – Qualitative Methods in Human Geography 2015-2019
LEC 327 - Geographies of Health – 2015-2017
LEC 326 – Cities and Globalisation – 2018-2020
Accounting for the experiential complexity of socially-prescribed activities
16/01/2023 → 15/01/2026
Research
NWSSDTP: Innovations in ‘therapeutic landscapes’: implications for social prescribing (Annabelle Edwards)
01/10/2021 → 15/01/2023
Research
Campus in the City
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference - Academic
- Interdisciplinary network in culture, health, ethics and society