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Dr Abbi Flint

Research Associate in History

Background

I am a Research Associate in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, working on the AHRC funded project 'In all our footsteps: tracking, mapping and experiencing rights-of-way in post-war Britain'.

Education: BSc Archaeological Science (University of Sheffield), PhD in Archaeology (University of Sheffield), Certificate in Creative Writing (University of Sheffield).

Prior to joining Newcastle University I worked on the 'WetFutures: wetland futures in contested environments' project at the University of Bradford, and before that spent over 15 years as an educational researcher and developer in Higher Education. PFHEA.

I also write poetry. 

E-mail: abbi.flint@newcastle.ac.uk 

Twitter: @DrAFlint

Visit my ORCID profile to view more of my publications.

Research

My current research focuses on experiences of rights-of-way in post-war Britain.

I have a long standing research interest in human-environment relationships, and human relationships with other-than-human animals. My PhD thesis explored a multi-causal model for the intensification of reindeer-herding among Sami communities in northern Sweden during the Little Ice Age; with a focus on interactions between climate, ecology and culture and study visits to the University of Umea (Sweden). Within the WetFutures project I used qualitative approaches to explore how people experience and think about peatlands and their tangible and intangible cultural heritage. 

I am an experienced qualitative researcher with an interest in creative research methods, especially visual and poetic approaches. 



Publications