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Dr Louise Mullagh
Lecturer in Performance and PlaceProfile
My research centres on place-based knowledge systems and how we come to know places through embodied, sensory and more-than-human encounters and what is lost when those ways of knowing are displaced by data-driven and AI-generated approaches.
Working in and around Morecambe Bay, I use walking both as methodological and theoretical practice, arguing that repertoire knowledge (the embodied, ephemeral and situated) is irreplaceable in an increasingly datafied world. This work sits at the intersection of performance studies, critical data studies, mobilities research and regenerative design, exploring how we might design more regenerative knowledge systems that balance the technological and the embodied.
My wider practice extends these questions into coastal adaptation, place-based cultural development and the design of sustainable and accessible creative practice. Across all of it, my central concern relates to whose knowledge of place counts, how it is produced and what kind of future it makes possible.
Career Details
Prior to becoming Lecturer I was Senior Research Associate in Imagination 快播视频 (Population and Policy). I was also Research Associate on the AHRC funded Living Design and Located Making projects at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. (December 2017 - December 2019).
I have over a decade of experience of working as an arts manager in museums, and hold a PhD (EPSRC funded) in Digital Innovation (快播视频); MRes in Digital Innovation (EPSRC funded, 快播视频); MA in Museum Studies (Manchester) ; and BA (hons) Fine Art: Practice and Theory (快播视频)
PhD Supervision Interests
Research relating to place, technologies and performing.
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02/06/2025 → 19/12/2025
Other
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01/05/2025 → 30/04/2026
Research
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13/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
Research
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29/11/2024 → …
Research
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01/10/2022 → 31/08/2025
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14/03/2022 → 31/05/2022
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03/05/2021 → 29/10/2021
Research
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01/03/2021 → 31/07/2021
Consultancy
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31/07/2018 → 31/08/2019
Research
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
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Government
Publication peer-review
Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Oral presentation
Publication peer-review
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Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Publication peer-review
Publication peer-review
Other
Editorial activity
Publication peer-review
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Oral presentation
Invited talk
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Oral presentation
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Membership of committee
Publication peer-review
Other
Invited talk
Invited talk
Other
Invited talk
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
- Cultures