 Dr Louise Holt
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Email: L.Holt@lboro.ac.uk
Tel : +44 (0)1509 222747
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930
Room NN.1.34, Martin Hall , East Park
Career
April 1–present Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Sep. 05–April 10 Lecturer in Human Geography - University of Reading
Sep. 04–Sep. 05 Senior Lecturer - University of Brighton
Mar. 03–Sept. 04 Lecturer - University of Brighton
Mar. 02–Mar. 03 Research Fellow - University of Brighton
PhD Loughborough University (2003)
Msc University of Leicester
PCGE University of Leicester
BA University of Leicester
My research interests focus upon socio-spatial processes of exclusion, inclusion, embodiment and identity, and social capital. I have explored these theoretical and conceptual themes in empirical research investigating children, young people and families, disability, gentrification, and urban change.
Current and recently completed research projects include: an ESRC funded investigation into the interconnections between micro- and macro- geographies of inclusion and exclusion and the reproduction of disability and other social differences among young people; a British Academy funded project exploring the family (un)friendliness of new build urban regeneration in different national contexts (UK and Finland); and a small scale pilot project to explore the possibilities of baby geographies.
Some of my main projects and publications are summarised below.
Key projects
Holt, L. with Bowlby, S Children’s embodied social capital and (dis)ability: connecting micro- and macro- scales of exclusion. ESRC, £234,354. (July 09-February 12).
Holt, L. with Bowlby, S. Urban renaissance developments: searching for inclusive alternatives to (re) constructing young, middle class and childless central and inner cities. British Academy, £7,500. (January 08-January 10).
Holt, L. and Bowlby, S. (2007) Contemporary gentrified urban environments, childless and middle class? University of Reading, SHES research fund competition £6,000. (July 07-July 08).
Holt, L. (2004) The inclusion/exclusion of young disabled people in school and ‘leisure’ spaces in Hastings. EPSRC Geographical Research Grant, £4,000. (March 04-March 05)
Holt, L. (2004) Social capital and pathways to higher education for non-traditional students. RDF, University of Brighton £2,500. (January 04-January 05).
Selected Publications
Holt L. (ed., 2011) Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: International Perspectives (Routledge, London/New York). ISBN: 978-0-415-56384-0
Holt, L. and Costello, L. (in press, 2011) ‘Beyond otherness: exploring young population sub-groupings and the (re)production of population patterns and in(equalities)’ – Editorial. Special edition of Population, Space and Place.
Holt, L. (2010) ‘Young people with socio-emotional differences: theorising disability and destabilising socio-emotional norms’ in: Chouinard, V., Wilton, R. and Hall, E. (eds) Towards Enabling Geographies: ‘disabled bodies and minds in society and space. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-0319-7
Holt, L. (2010) Young people’s embodied social capital and performing disability. Children’s Geographies. Volume 8, Issue 1 February 2010 , pages 25 – 37 DOI: 10.1080/14733280903500158
Holt, L. (2009) ‘Embodying and destabilising disability and childhood’ in: K. Hörschelmann and R. Colls (eds) Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth. Parlgrave. ISBN 9780230201385
Holt, L. (2009) ‘Social and Cultural Geography: Youth Cultures’ in: Kitchin, R. & Thrift, N. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-044910-4
Holt, L. (2008) ‘Embodied social capital and geographic perspectives’, Progress in Human Geography, 32, 2. 10.1177/0309132507087648
Holt, L. (2007) ‘Children’s socio-spatial (re)production of disability in primary school playgrounds’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25, 783-802.
Smith, D.P. and Holt, L. (2007) ‘Studentification and ‘apprentice’ gentrifiers within Britain’s provincial towns and cities: extending the meaning of gentrification’, Environment and Planning A, 39, 142 -161.
Holt, L. (2007) ‘Agency and rural young people with mind-body-emotional differences’, in: R. Panelli, S. Punch & E. Robson Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives London/New York: Routledge, 102-104.
Holt, L. (2006) ‘Participant Observation’, in: B. Warf et al. (eds) Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Sage: Long Island, Ca, 1113-1117.
Holt, L. and Holloway, S.L. (2006) ‘Editorial: theorising other childhoods in a globalised world’, Children’s Geographies, 4, 135-142.
Holt, L. (2006) ‘Exploring other childhoods through quantitative secondary analyses of large scale surveys: Opportunities and challenges for children’s geographers’, Children’s Geographies, 4, 143-155.
Smith, D.P. and Holt, L. (2005) ‘Lesbian migrants in the gentrified valley: other ‘geographies’ of rural gentrification’, Journal of Rural Studies, 21, 313–322
Holt, L. (2004) ‘The ‘voices’ of children: de-centring empowering research relations’, Children’s Geographies, 2, 13-27.
Holt, L. (2004) ‘Childhood disability and ability: (Dis)ableist geographies of mainstream primary schools’, Disability Studies Quarterly, 24.
Holt, L. (2004) ‘Children with mind-body differences: performing (dis)ability in classroom micro-spaces’, Children’s Geographies, 2, 219-236.
Holt, L. (2003) ‘(Dis)abling children in primary school micro-spaces: geographies of inclusion and exclusion’, Health and Place, 9, 119-128.
Special Editions of Scholarly Journals
Holt, L. and Costello, L. (in press 2011) Beyond other population sub-groupings: rethorising children's population geographies, Population Space and Place.
Holt, L. and Holloway, S.L. (2006) Theorising other childhoods in a globalised world, Children’s Geographies, 4.
Holt, L. and Evans, R. (forthcoming 2012) The internationalisation of geographies of children, youth and families: Editorial. Children's Geographies.
End of Grant Reports
Holt, L., Bowlby, S. (2010) Urban renaissance developments: searching for inclusive alternatives to (re) constructing young, middle class and childless central and inner cities. End of award report to the British Academy.
Holt, L., Bowlby, S. (2008) Contemporary gentrified urban environments, childless and middle class? University of Reading, End of award report to the SHES research committee.
Smith D.P. and Holt, L. (2004) Processes of Studentification in Brighton and Eastbourne, Final project report, University of Brighton.
Holt, L. (2005) The inclusion/exclusion of young ‘disabled’ people in school, home and ‘leisure’ spaces, End of award report for EPSRC Geographical Grant.
Key Scholarly activities
I founded the International Conferences on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, and organised the first conference in Reading in 2007. The second conference took place in Barcelona, in July 2009. The third conference is planned for Singapore in 2012. I established the Committee of International Conferences on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, which I Chair.
I am an editorial board member of the journal Children’s Geographies.
I am an executive committee member and workshops co-ordinator (2006-present) of the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group of the RGS/IBG.
I have acted as guest editor for special editions of Children’s Geographies and Population, Space and Place.
Current Teaching (Semester 2)
Undergraduate
Geographies of Children and Youth (Part C)
Geographies of Identity (Part A)
Postgraduate Taught
Doing Global Research
Globalisation and Society
PhD Supervision
I currently supervise Stefanie Gregorius who is researching the livelihood strategies and social networks of young people with disabilities in Ghana. I have previously supervised three PhD students to completion.
I would be keen to supervise other students researching any issues about young people, disability, social capital, social exclusion/inclusion and embodiment.
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