Charlotte Hunt

Email: c.hunt.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Research title: Peatland as Story: A Journey through Time and Death in an Entangled World

Research Summary

My research is practice-based using the peatlands as a methodology for a writing practice.

Supervisors

Conferences

Presenter

  • 2025, 29th January "Unsustainable futures: Transformation through decay" Solway Seminar, joint seminar with Miranda Cichy
  • 2024, 2nd November "Queer legs dying in bottomless bogs: The im/possibility of telling stories from the peatlands" University of North Texas: Radical Entanglements - Navigating the Abyss of Human Supremacy and Biodiversity Loss
  • 2024, 5th September "The Loss of Peatland is the Loss of Story" The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Postgraduate Conference: Attention and Noticing
  • 2023, 2nd November "Using folktales for a world dealing with environmental crisis" University of Birmingham: How can literary studies contribute to a just transition to sustainable societies?

Organiser

I am a co-founder of the annual PGR conference at the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability. The first annual conference took place in May 2025 read about it here, the second will take place in June 2026. 

 

Co-organiser of the PGR seminar series at the School of SES 2023-24. 

Additional Information

Winner of the 2025 Kirkpatrick Dobie Prize for Creative Writing.

Finalist of the 2023 3-Minute Thesis competition.

Student rep for PGRs at the School of SES in 23-24, and co-rep 25-26.

I am a reasearch assistant on AHRC/DCMS awarded project Triangulation of Values Using Different Methods: Caveat Triangulation of values using different methods - CAVEAT