Ria Ann Dunkley
Biographic Data
| ID | 199187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ria Ann Dunkley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ria Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunkley |
| SIGNATURE | DUNKLEY R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0238-7344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Staying With the Waste: Litter, Learning and Slow Violence in Wasted‐Edgelands
Post‐industrial landscapes, often dismissed as wastelands, are increasingly recognised as important sites for rethinking environmental education. This paper conceptualises wasted‐edgelands, landscapes shaped by industrial legacies and capitalist disposability, as pedagogical sites that work on children's attention, ethics and relations, rather than as spaces requiring repair or restoration. Drawing on a 10‐week John Muir Award project with primar…
Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: Situated encounters with country in times of climate change
This paper, by an intergenerational and international author collective, uses postqualitative 'mosaicking' to assemble and reassemble 'material moments' of childhoodnature encounters. Mosaicking is an experimentation that combines materials, digital devices, nonhuman nature, and humans to co-create something new; it enables us to ponder nature relations from multiple perspectives and in post-anthropocentric ways. Enacting this speculative inquiry…
Ecological kin‐making in the multispecies muddle: An analytical framework for understanding embodied environmental citizen science experiences
Despite the current proliferation of citizen science projects, the affordances of ecological citizen science to generate transformational thinking amongst project participants are seldom considered. This study investigated citizen science as an experiential ecopedagogic praxis that may provide a context for developing relational perspectives and sensorial engagements between human and non‐human participants. A new humanist, phenomenological stand…
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage
Digital interpretation in wild and remote landscapes is hugely challenging, yet offers enormous potential for widening access to heritage in these settings. We provide a critical evaluation of the Walking with Romans app, developed by the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, to interpret two Scheduled Ancient Monuments: Y Pigwn Roman marching camp and Waun Ddu Fortlet (c. AD78). Analysis of digital interpretation has paid less attention to soc…
Off the beaten map: Navigating with digital maps on moorland
Resources made available through the digital map app change, but do not replace, the skills of “ordinary wayfinding.” Looking at the challenges of wayfinding with new mobile devices helps inform the development of digital mapping tools for navigating through difficult terrain. With this background in mind, in this paper we consider how the contemporary navigational resources of mobile devices with GPS, and the resources of countryside landscape f…
Geocoaching: Memories and habits of learning in practices of ecopedagogy
Ecopedagogy, or place-based, experiential, and environmental education, has become a critical part of contemporary environmental and geographic learning, in attempts to tackle perceived moral panics around childhood and environmental crisis. Drawing upon research with children taking part in a "summer club" in the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, Wales, this paper critically explores instances of ecopedagogy within the educational landscap…
By-standing memories of curious observations: Children's Storied Landscapes of Ecological Encounter
Founded in contemporary concerns that children are increasingly disconnected from nature, this article explores how children re-imagine their memories of childhood experiences within the landscape of a National Park. The concept of 're-connecting' children with 'nature' has recrystalised around conceptualisations of 'slow ecopedagogy' as a form of ecological conscientisation.Through creative mapping with children from the Brecon Beacons National …
Enabling the Ipbes conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries
The IPBES conceptual framework (CF) serves an instrumental value to translate usable knowledge into policy across spatial scales, alongside a normative function to engage diverse knowledge systems, promoting inclusivity and enhancing legitimacy. It has been argued that the CF operates as a boundary object, a communication and organisation tool for those working across diverse knowledge systems, designed to help them reach shared goals. The paper …
Monitoring ecological change in UK woodlands and rivers: An exploration of the relational geographies of citizen science
The adoption of citizen science methodologies by environmental organisations and ecologists entrusts the task of collecting ecological data to non‐experts operating at a local scale. This presents individuals and communities with opportunities to monitor ecological change and contribute to local environmental management. Little is known about why volunteers choose to participate in burgeoning contemporary citizen science research initiatives. The…
Technology-nonhuman-child assemblages: Reconceptualising Rural Childhood Roaming
This paper argues for reconceptualising how children use technology ‘outdoors’ as a technology-nonhuman-child assemblage, or roaming pathway. Founded in contemporary fears about children’s reduced opportunities to access nature and roam in rural environments, in part due to the ubiquitous presence of technology in their lives, we instead illustrate how the agencies of technologies and plants are folded into children’s outdoor roaming. Combining v…
Becoming a (green) identity entrepreneur: Learning to negotiate situated identities to nurture community environmental practice
This paper explores the relationship between 'green' identity and community environmental practice. It focuses on the ways in which professional community development facilitators and lead members of community groups attempt to actively shape how environmental projects are locally received. Drawing principally on identity, social sustainability and social practice theory scholarship, it reviews the often very personal and place-specific ways in w…
Children place and sustainability
This publication results from almost a decade of research by its authors, Margaret Somerville and Monica Green. The book makes a significant contribution to the topic of sustainability education an
Beyond temporal reflections in thanatourism research
Fortifications, post-colonialism and power: Ruins and imperial legacies
Fortifications, post-colonialism and power: ruins and imperial legacies, by Joao Sarmento, Farnham and Burlington VT, Ashgate, 2011, xv + 174 pp., £50.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-4094-0303-6 Though primar
Visiting the trenches: Exploring meanings and motivations in battlefield tourism
Visiting the trenches: Exploring meanings and motivations in battlefield tourism
Technology-nonhuman-child assemblages: Reconceptualising Rural Childhood Roaming
This paper argues for reconceptualising how children use technology ‘outdoors’ as a technology-nonhuman-child assemblage, or roaming pathway. Founded in contemporary fears about children’s reduced opportunities to access nature and roam in rural environments, in part due to the ubiquitous presence of technology in their lives, we instead illustrate how the agencies of technologies and plants are folded into children’s outdoor roaming. Combining v…
Off the beaten map: Navigating with digital maps on moorland
Resources made available through the digital map app change, but do not replace, the skills of “ordinary wayfinding.” Looking at the challenges of wayfinding with new mobile devices helps inform the development of digital mapping tools for navigating through difficult terrain. With this background in mind, in this paper we consider how the contemporary navigational resources of mobile devices with GPS, and the resources of countryside landscape f…
Ecological kin‐making in the multispecies muddle: An analytical framework for understanding embodied environmental citizen science experiences
Despite the current proliferation of citizen science projects, the affordances of ecological citizen science to generate transformational thinking amongst project participants are seldom considered. This study investigated citizen science as an experiential ecopedagogic praxis that may provide a context for developing relational perspectives and sensorial engagements between human and non‐human participants. A new humanist, phenomenological stand…
Enabling the Ipbes conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries
The IPBES conceptual framework (CF) serves an instrumental value to translate usable knowledge into policy across spatial scales, alongside a normative function to engage diverse knowledge systems, promoting inclusivity and enhancing legitimacy. It has been argued that the CF operates as a boundary object, a communication and organisation tool for those working across diverse knowledge systems, designed to help them reach shared goals. The paper …
Monitoring ecological change in UK woodlands and rivers: An exploration of the relational geographies of citizen science
The adoption of citizen science methodologies by environmental organisations and ecologists entrusts the task of collecting ecological data to non‐experts operating at a local scale. This presents individuals and communities with opportunities to monitor ecological change and contribute to local environmental management. Little is known about why volunteers choose to participate in burgeoning contemporary citizen science research initiatives. The…
Geocoaching: Memories and habits of learning in practices of ecopedagogy
Ecopedagogy, or place-based, experiential, and environmental education, has become a critical part of contemporary environmental and geographic learning, in attempts to tackle perceived moral panics around childhood and environmental crisis. Drawing upon research with children taking part in a "summer club" in the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, Wales, this paper critically explores instances of ecopedagogy within the educational landscap…
Beyond temporal reflections in thanatourism research
Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: Situated encounters with country in times of climate change
This paper, by an intergenerational and international author collective, uses postqualitative 'mosaicking' to assemble and reassemble 'material moments' of childhoodnature encounters. Mosaicking is an experimentation that combines materials, digital devices, nonhuman nature, and humans to co-create something new; it enables us to ponder nature relations from multiple perspectives and in post-anthropocentric ways. Enacting this speculative inquiry…
By-standing memories of curious observations: Children's Storied Landscapes of Ecological Encounter
Founded in contemporary concerns that children are increasingly disconnected from nature, this article explores how children re-imagine their memories of childhood experiences within the landscape of a National Park. The concept of 're-connecting' children with 'nature' has recrystalised around conceptualisations of 'slow ecopedagogy' as a form of ecological conscientisation.Through creative mapping with children from the Brecon Beacons National …
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage
Digital interpretation in wild and remote landscapes is hugely challenging, yet offers enormous potential for widening access to heritage in these settings. We provide a critical evaluation of the Walking with Romans app, developed by the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, to interpret two Scheduled Ancient Monuments: Y Pigwn Roman marching camp and Waun Ddu Fortlet (c. AD78). Analysis of digital interpretation has paid less attention to soc…
Visiting the trenches: Exploring meanings and motivations in battlefield tourism
Fortifications, post-colonialism and power: Ruins and imperial legacies
Fortifications, post-colonialism and power: ruins and imperial legacies, by Joao Sarmento, Farnham and Burlington VT, Ashgate, 2011, xv + 174 pp., £50.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-4094-0303-6 Though primar
Beyond temporal reflections in thanatourism research
Children place and sustainability
This publication results from almost a decade of research by its authors, Margaret Somerville and Monica Green. The book makes a significant contribution to the topic of sustainability education an
Technology-nonhuman-child assemblages: Reconceptualising Rural Childhood Roaming
This paper argues for reconceptualising how children use technology ‘outdoors’ as a technology-nonhuman-child assemblage, or roaming pathway. Founded in contemporary fears about children’s reduced opportunities to access nature and roam in rural environments, in part due to the ubiquitous presence of technology in their lives, we instead illustrate how the agencies of technologies and plants are folded into children’s outdoor roaming. Combining v…
Becoming a (green) identity entrepreneur: Learning to negotiate situated identities to nurture community environmental practice
This paper explores the relationship between 'green' identity and community environmental practice. It focuses on the ways in which professional community development facilitators and lead members of community groups attempt to actively shape how environmental projects are locally received. Drawing principally on identity, social sustainability and social practice theory scholarship, it reviews the often very personal and place-specific ways in w…
Enabling the Ipbes conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries
The IPBES conceptual framework (CF) serves an instrumental value to translate usable knowledge into policy across spatial scales, alongside a normative function to engage diverse knowledge systems, promoting inclusivity and enhancing legitimacy. It has been argued that the CF operates as a boundary object, a communication and organisation tool for those working across diverse knowledge systems, designed to help them reach shared goals. The paper …
Monitoring ecological change in UK woodlands and rivers: An exploration of the relational geographies of citizen science
The adoption of citizen science methodologies by environmental organisations and ecologists entrusts the task of collecting ecological data to non‐experts operating at a local scale. This presents individuals and communities with opportunities to monitor ecological change and contribute to local environmental management. Little is known about why volunteers choose to participate in burgeoning contemporary citizen science research initiatives. The…
Off the beaten map: Navigating with digital maps on moorland
Resources made available through the digital map app change, but do not replace, the skills of “ordinary wayfinding.” Looking at the challenges of wayfinding with new mobile devices helps inform the development of digital mapping tools for navigating through difficult terrain. With this background in mind, in this paper we consider how the contemporary navigational resources of mobile devices with GPS, and the resources of countryside landscape f…
Geocoaching: Memories and habits of learning in practices of ecopedagogy
Ecopedagogy, or place-based, experiential, and environmental education, has become a critical part of contemporary environmental and geographic learning, in attempts to tackle perceived moral panics around childhood and environmental crisis. Drawing upon research with children taking part in a "summer club" in the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, Wales, this paper critically explores instances of ecopedagogy within the educational landscap…
By-standing memories of curious observations: Children's Storied Landscapes of Ecological Encounter
Founded in contemporary concerns that children are increasingly disconnected from nature, this article explores how children re-imagine their memories of childhood experiences within the landscape of a National Park. The concept of 're-connecting' children with 'nature' has recrystalised around conceptualisations of 'slow ecopedagogy' as a form of ecological conscientisation.Through creative mapping with children from the Brecon Beacons National …
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage
Digital interpretation in wild and remote landscapes is hugely challenging, yet offers enormous potential for widening access to heritage in these settings. We provide a critical evaluation of the Walking with Romans app, developed by the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, to interpret two Scheduled Ancient Monuments: Y Pigwn Roman marching camp and Waun Ddu Fortlet (c. AD78). Analysis of digital interpretation has paid less attention to soc…
Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: Situated encounters with country in times of climate change
This paper, by an intergenerational and international author collective, uses postqualitative 'mosaicking' to assemble and reassemble 'material moments' of childhoodnature encounters. Mosaicking is an experimentation that combines materials, digital devices, nonhuman nature, and humans to co-create something new; it enables us to ponder nature relations from multiple perspectives and in post-anthropocentric ways. Enacting this speculative inquiry…
Ecological kin‐making in the multispecies muddle: An analytical framework for understanding embodied environmental citizen science experiences
Despite the current proliferation of citizen science projects, the affordances of ecological citizen science to generate transformational thinking amongst project participants are seldom considered. This study investigated citizen science as an experiential ecopedagogic praxis that may provide a context for developing relational perspectives and sensorial engagements between human and non‐human participants. A new humanist, phenomenological stand…
Staying With the Waste: Litter, Learning and Slow Violence in Wasted‐Edgelands
Post‐industrial landscapes, often dismissed as wastelands, are increasingly recognised as important sites for rethinking environmental education. This paper conceptualises wasted‐edgelands, landscapes shaped by industrial legacies and capitalist disposability, as pedagogical sites that work on children's attention, ethics and relations, rather than as spaces requiring repair or restoration. Drawing on a 10‐week John Muir Award project with primar…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)