Karen Lloyd
Future Places Research AssociateResearch Overview
I am a Senior Research Associate and Writer in Residence with Lancaster University's Future Places Centre. I've been in post since July 2021, since completing my doctoral thesis in Creative Writing at Lancaster also in 2021. My PhD reseach was published as a book of literary essays addressing the theme of abundance, restoration and repair in the natural world, under the title Abundance: Nature in Recovery, published by Bloomsbury and longlisted for the Wainwright Prize Writing on Conservation category in 2022. The essays resulted from field research in England, Scotland, the Carpathian mountains, the Netherlands and Extremedura in Southern Spain.
My work has been published by Goldsmith's Press, The Ecologist, Dark Mountain, in Spectulative Nature Writing: An Anthology, LitHub and others. My poetry has been published by Wayleave Press, and on various online platforms.
I currently teach part time on Lancaster's Creative Writing MA, as a tutor with the Arvon Foundation and for Lancaster's Litfest.
Inside the Rockpool Shrimp there is a Dying Star
02/09/2024 → 16/09/2024
Research
Natural Kendal
01/12/2023 → …
Other
The Right to Roam - For Whom and for What?
01/01/1900 → …
Research
Nature writing in the environmental crisis: Nature writing workshop
Invited talk
Abundance: Nature in Recovery
Invited talk
Abundance: Nature in Reovery
Invited talk
Book talk
Invited talk
Activism for nature
Invited talk
Writing the Environmental and Nature Essay short course for LitFest Lancaster
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Nature Writing week
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Future Places Centre Environment Season
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
A Short Environmental and Cultural Journey in Morecambe Bay
Invited talk
https://asle.org.uk/events/northumbria-2022/
Participation in conference - Academic
- Cultures
- Practices