Natalie Christina Bamford- Doctor of Philosophy
- Research Co-Ordinator at Gateshead Council
Natalie Christina Bamford
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Research Co-Ordinator at Gateshead Council
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Introduction
Currently exploring how ideas from creative practice, psychogeography, and phenomenology can be used to access, represent, and synthesise spatial knowledge. Additionally interested in how place can be conceptualised as palimpsest to facilitate an engagement with the traces that form place.
Working as a research associate on the Design HOPES project at University of Strathclyde, exploring ideas of data representation, communication, and how this can translate to impact.
Current institution
Gateshead Council
Current position
- Research Co-Ordinator
Additional affiliations
February 2024 - March 2025
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- Working on the Design HOPES project across three sub projects. Particularly focusing on how ideas, data, and knowledge can be represented and communicated to a wide range of audiences. Through this project ideas of impact will also be explored, assessing to what extent ideas have been communicated effectively and can instigate change.
September 2021 - February 2024
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Provided research and teaching assistance across multiple undergraduate modules and colleagues research projects. Designed and led sessions for undergraduate planning students across modules on the topic of understanding place through alternative methods utilising creative practice and psychogeography.
Education
September 2020 - March 2024
Field of study
- Accessing Embodied Knowledge of Place: Designing and Testing a Method
September 2019 - August 2020
September 2018 - August 2019
Publications
Publications (6)
This paper presents the method “Direct Me”, a method designed to access embodied knowledge of place answering the question of how, that many papers extolling the importance of embodied knowledge leave unanswered. In presenting Direct Me, this paper hopes to illustrate how this knowledge of place can be effectively utilised to create more informed p...
This paper is the result of a coming together of two walking researchers whose paths may not have crossed if it were not for the Walking and Research Practice (WARP) conference, at least not in person. The meeting of Simon and Natalie during the conference led to multiple invigorating discussions and ultimately a collaboration that this text discus...
This poster alongside a ten minute presentation is to be shown at the conference of Walking as Research Practice hosted by the University of Amsterdam, in collaboration with the Centre of Urban Studies (CUS), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Platform for Research through the Arts and Sciences (ARIAS) and Netherlands Institute for Cult...
Rhythmanalysis draws to our attention the taken-for-granted nature of the rhythms of everyday life, highlighting how, often, it is only when something disrupts that rhythm, an arrhythmia, that we become aware of it. This is echoed in philosophical notions that indicate objects only jump out of our everyday once they malfunction. But why should this...
This poster highlights initial outcomes from fieldwork project Direct Me pilot run. The work looks to utilise walking prompts, hermeneutic phenomenology, and creative practice to highlight knowledge held about the city by citizens. This work was presented at the launch of the Mobilities and Transport NUCoRE launch event at Newcastle University, and...
This presentation introduced my research which strives to develop new methods of engaging with embodied local knowledge. There is a brief introduction to the development of the project and then more detail is given to the launch of the pilot of fieldwork project Direct Me.
