Kieran Gleave, a second-year PhD student at the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge writes:
I am conducting part of my PhD research in Cambridge’s Petersfield and Romsey areas. Through my data collection, I aim to explore the relationships that community identities within the Mill Road area have with the ‘everyday’ traces of the industrial past. In essence, I’m trying to understand how the remnants of the industrial past inspire or shape what it means to belong to a community within the area.
To collect my data, I’m recruiting local people to get involved with my project by participating in one-to-one interviews.
Kieran Gleave
Kieran seeks to recruit local people who feel a sense of belonging to a community within Petersfield and Romsey to participate in one-to-one interviews for PhD research between June and October 2024. The research aims to explore how the ‘everyday’ traces of the industrial past inspire what it means to belong to a local community within the area.
The research will be through informal one-to-one interviews, of between 30 – 60 minutes, talking about:
- The community or communities to which you feel a sense of belonging;
- What it means to belong to these communities;
- The relationships your community has with the industrial past.
If you are interested in participating, or in learning more about this research, please email Kieran Gleave at ktg29@cam.ac.uk.
If somebody you know might be interested in participating in an interview, or in learning more about this research, please forward this blogpost to them.