Alice Eaves (College of Literatures, Languages & Cultures Doctoral College Research Award)
Thesis title: Articulating Landscapes: poetry as a topographic method for mapping the Forest of Bowland
PhD Creative Writing
Year of study: 2
- Creative Writing
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: a.barron-eaves@sms.ed.ac.uk
Qualifications
BA, Drama & English Literature, University of Manchester
MSc, Creative Writing, University of Edinburgh
Responsibilities & affiliations
2025/26 Convenor Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN) PhD Lab
Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Internship at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor, Literary Studies 1B
Research summary
My current research interests include eco-poetics, experimental writing, walking as a methodology, topography, cultural heritage, human/wildlife conflict & linguistic histories.
Knowledge exchange
- Digital Exhibition ‘"Ladies Botany": Women Illustrators of Scottish Species' for Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: https://www.rbge.org.uk/ladies-botany/
Current project grants
British Society of Literature & Science
Moniack Mhor, Scotland's Creative Writing Centre
Conference details
- 2026, Poetry's Environments, University of Leeds
- Presented digital mapping project '‘Ghost of the Moors: Poetic responses to Hen Harrier persecution in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire’.
- 2026, Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Imperial College London
- Session organiser 'Interventions in and with environmental publics: Creative approaches to renegotiating (un)just places'
- Presenting 'Beating the Bounds: Reimagining the Anglo-Saxon Tradition of boundary walking through eco-poetics and embodied practice'.
- Sponsored by Landscape Geography & Participatory Geographies Research Groups