Professor Briony McDonagh
| Biography | Prof. Briony McDonagh is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Hull and national lead for the COAST-R Network Plus, funded by the UKRI and DEFRA under the Resilient Coastal Communities and Seas Programme. COAST-R is a national network of academics, UK marine, coastal and government agencies, industry partners, local authorities, voluntary sector and communities most affected by coastal change. Together, they are working to build knowledge, action and resilience for UK coastal communities and seas. Briony's disciplinary background is in human geography and environmental history, and her current work uses place-based, creative and participatory approaches to build water and climate action. She is PI of the AHRC-funded Risky Cities project, learning from the past to build climate awareness today and for the future. She is also Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Water Cultures, whose PGRs are pioneering new, humanities-led, interdisciplinary and transhistorical research area – the ‘green-blue humanities’ – to transform our understanding of humanity's relationships with water in the green-blue regions of the world, past, present and future. Her book, Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 (Routledge, 2017), won the Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize and Women’s History Network Book Prize. She is co-editor of Women and the Land, 1500-1900 (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500 (Palgrave, 2018) and Hull: Culture, History, Place (Liverpool University Press, 2017). She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Royal Historical Society and Higher Education Academy, and was 2018-2019 President of the British Science Association’s Geography Section. She has served in a range of university leadership roles, including as Director of the University of Hull's Doctoral College (2020-2023) and Director of the University's Energy and Environment Institute (2022-2024). |
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| Scopus Author ID | 35730253800 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Briony welcomes enquiries from potential PGRs (PhD and Masters candidates) wishing to work on projects on the following themes (broadly interpreted), in the UK and globally, in periods c. 1400 onwards (and long duree studies): - Climate action and social justice, particularly place-based approaches to resilience building - Heritage and/or arts-based community engagement, including in relation to climate action - Historical geographies of landscape and environmental change, including projects on living with water and flood; enclosure and the commons; agricultural improvement; rural and urban landscapes; global environmental histories - Women histories and historical geographies - The geographies of protest, resistance and the law (in both historic and contemporary contexts) Completed PGRs: - Charlotte Garside, Women in Chancery: an analysis of chancery as a women's court of redress in late 17th-century England - Kalliopi Kaparounaki, Caring children in Malawi: children's work within families affected by illness and disability - Sarah Shields, Maid, wife, widow: women's life-course and property ownership, 1550-1800 - Jazmin Scarlett, The development of co-volcanic societies: the reciprocal relationships between the volcano La Soufrière and the society of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles, 1718-1979 - Lizzie Rogers, Women and the World: Explorers from the Home during the Enlightenment in Britain - Stormm Buxton-Hill, The impact of women on family dynastic ambitions and legal change in England, 1550-1800 - Catherine Goddard, Heritage interpretation and visitor experience at historic homes in the East Midlands, with a focus on women's history - Ruth Quinn, Agricultural heritage of Saltaire - Helen Manning (passed subject to corrections) Women, property and the law: mapping sexual inequality in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1708-1974 - Alice Whiteoak, Widows in the Court of Exchequer: Allowed Power and Legal Redress in England, 1620-1670 Current PGR supervisions: - Flavia Manieri, Living with Floods in 20th C Hull - Fred Bricknell, Water, Slavery and Indentured Labour: Plantations and People in British Guiana, c.1796-1880 - Blessing Mucherera, The Cultural Production of Flood Injustices - Luke Michno-Neville Living on the Edge: surviving and thriving in the Holocene Humberhead Levels - Felicity Wood, English literature, water, health, and well-being in estuary communities, 1500 - 1700 - Nathalie Holloway, Creative community engagement for climate and water action: a comparative study - Petra Codato, Transformative Shorelines: Creative Community Engagement for Cultural Adaptation in Sites Affected by Coastal Changes - Giulia Repetti, Investigating the links between climate-related water stresses, migration and human trafficking - Emily Ingram, Participatory Education & Environment cluster - Lucy Brookes, Participatory Education & Environment cluster |