Lena Ferriday

Lena Ferriday is a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, affiliated with the Bristol Doctoral College and the Faculty of Arts. She serves as co-director for the Senses and Sensations research group and has previously contributed to the Centre for Environmental Humanities and the Literary and Visual Landscapes seminar series.

Research Interests: Her work focuses on the intersection of sensory experience, environmental history, and spatial practices in 19th- and early 20th-century Britain, particularly in Devon and Cornwall. She explores embodied encounters with rural and urban environments, emphasizing processes and practices over cultural/material dichotomies.

Publications highlight her expertise in environmental history, urban mobility, and historical geography. Her projects include collaborations with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute on the history of Bristol's gasworks.

• Teaching: War and Society (2024-25), Approaching the Past, Wild Things, Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography.

Prizes: Recipient of the AHRC SWW Doctoral Training Partnership Award (2020) and the George Hare Leonard Prize (2019).