Miss Laura Price

My research broadly explores the ‘Geographies of Making’ – thinking about contemporary impulses to make, mend and create and the communities that both sustain and develop these creative practices. I am interested in theories of materiality, embodiment, and production, consumption and labour.

My PhD research focused on knitting and spaces of amateur creativity. This included knitting as a form of craft consumption exploring event and festival spaces focused on textile making; community groups and the quiet politics of making things together, and knitting as ‘subversive’ practice, notably yarnbombing (knitted graffiti). I was supervised by Professor Phil Crang and advised by Dr Harriet Hawkins.

Teaching:

GG1011 Geographical Techniques (2012-2015)

GG3058 Geographies of Commodities (2011-2014)

GG2003 New York Fieldtrip (Project Leader: Made in Manhattan - Geographies of Making) (2014-2015)

GG3056 Creative Geographies: Spaces, Economies, and Practices (2013-2015)


Responsibilities:

Publicity and Web Officer for Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (2012-2015)

Editorial Assistant to Gender, Place and Culture: Journal of Feminist Geography (2015 - present)

Administrative Assistant to 'Rediscovering London's Geography' project at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (2015-2016)

Writer: Educational Resources at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (2016 - present)


Education:

University of Sheffield MA (Distinction)

University of Manchester BA (1.1)

Brian Robson Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement.