Libby Straughan
Joins the expedition for week 1
Elizabeth Straughan is a Geographer currently working on an international project jointly funded by the AHRC and NSF, which is conducting research into the process of collaboration between artists and scientists. This investigation explores not only the collaborative process as it emerges in practice, but also considers the wider institutional, political and funding contexts in which such collaborations emerge. Elizabeth also volunteers as a scuba diving instructor with her University BSAC Club.
Elizabeth‘s own research has explored geographies of the skin through a focus on three, practice based, case studies focusing on: scuba diving, taxidermy and the beauty salon. Each explores the manipulation or alteration of the skin through a focus on the sense of touch and its capacity for emotion mobilization. She has published in Science, Leonardo, Social and Cultural Geography, Emotion, Space and Society and Geography Compass.
