HIKE: Risky Cities goes to the seaside: community engagement & policy impacts

Professor Briony McDonagh B.McDonagh@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Environmental Humanities

Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found Jun 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2020
A guided walk around the area associated with Hubert Nicholson’s East Coast novel Sunk Island (1956) focusing on specific geographical features and including readings from the novel, followed by a ‘Yorkshire Tea’ in Holy Trinity Church and a rehears... Read More about Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found.

Experiencing the landscape: popular geographical imaginations in the English Midlands, 1450-1650 Sep 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2017
This project explores popular geographical imaginations, asking how ordinary people in medieval and early modern England thought about, experienced and themselves sought to shape the world around them. Drawing on recent work in cultural geography, ar... Read More about Experiencing the landscape: popular geographical imaginations in the English Midlands, 1450-1650.

Gendering the commons Jan 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2022
Interest in the politics of land and property has undergone a recent resurgence with commons celebrated as models for sustainable living and a politics of inclusion. Yet whilst scholars recognise that commons were never public spaces open to all, the... Read More about Gendering the commons.

By the rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell's Hull Oct 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020
https://risingtide.hull.ac.uk/

This project engages new and young audiences with the story of ‘tide of Humber’ poet, Andrew Marvell (1621-78), highlighting Marvell’s relationship with Hull and the Humber in the lead-up to Marvell’s 400th birthday... Read More about By the rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell's Hull.

Risky Cities: Living with water in an uncertain future climate Aug 1, 2020 - Nov 30, 2023
https://riskycities.hull.ac.uk/

Estuarine and coastal cities are acutely vulnerable in the face of climate uncertainty. 40% of the world's population lives within 100km of the sea and coastal populations are directly at risk from rising sea levels... Read More about Risky Cities: Living with water in an uncertain future climate.