Postgraduate research students

Nolly: At the Intesection of Two Scottish Canals

This practice-based PhD research explores the social history and working-class communities of the Forth & Clyde and Union canals in Scotland. The research will engage with the political and personal connections between the canals and the working-class communities who live and work along them, as well as how the regeneration of the canals can impact them. Through a combination of research, practice, and community engagement, this thesis will interrogate the historical and cultural preservation of working-class lives. 

This will be informed by archival and historical research, oral history collection, urban political ecology, ecopoetics, and community engagement to interrogate how the canals and working-class communities along them are connected. Structurally, the thesis will take the form of a hybrid text, combining critical and creative writing as well as poetry and prose to capture the flow and structure of the two canals.

• Dr Jane Goldman
• Dr Miza Moreau