Louise Holt

Louise’s research interests as a critical social and cultural geographer focus upon exploring how enduring inequalities are reproduced and/or transformed at a variety of intersecting spatial scales. She is intrigued by the ways in which everyday practices in specific spaces/places are connected to, reproduce, and can potentially transform, broader-scale inequalities that coalesce around intersecting bodily morphologies (particularly childhood and disability, but also class, ethnicity and gender). Louise has developed the concept of embodied social capital to clarify these concerns. Her most recent work about young people, space and power and immersive geographies considers the potential for young people to challenge and change enduring power relations as they come together repeatedly in school spaces.

Louise is co-investigator on an ESRC funded project with Francisco Azpitarte ‘A postcode lottery of SEND provision and outcomes? Analysing spatial variability in inclusion and outcomes of children with SEND after the 2014 Children and Families Act’. Ongoing research includes collaborations with families, government and non-governmental organisations about young people and families’ experiences of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.