WISERD | Dr Kate Moles

Dr Kate Moles

Job title: WISERD Researcher (Localities team)

Institution: WISERD, Cardiff University

Telephone: 029 208 75155

Role: Kate is a member of the localities team and also works on the local knowledge in context (KliC) research programme on the Young People and Place project.

Biography

Kate completed her PhD entitled: Narratives of Postcolonialism in Liminal Space: The Place called Phoenix Park in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University in 2007. She then worked in the Wales Rural Observatory for two years where she conducted a series of localities studies in ‘deep rural’ areas across Wales.

Research Interests

Kate’s research interests include place, identity, young people, and the interaction between policy, history and place-making. Using qualitative methods, Kate is interested in the ways people come to know places, how they are constructed through different discourses and the ways people who live in them, move through them and visit them are positioned. As part of this, Kate has published on mobile methods, specifically walking, and organised an interdisciplinary workshop, ‘Walking as Method and Practice’ in June 2009.

Current Research

Kate is one of the localities researchers in WISERD, and is the linked researcher to the Education and Young People’s theme. This ties in with her other research in the KLiC project, ‘Young People and Place, where she is conducting qualitative work with young people in the Heads of the Valleys.

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Selected Publications

Journals

Moles K, Renold E, Ivinson, G, Martsin M, 2011, ‘Innovating as we go: Ethnography as an evolving methodology’ Qualitative Researcher 13, Spring 2011 (Available here)

Housley W, Moles K, Smith R, 2009, ‘Identity, brand or citizenship: The case of post devolution Wales’ Contemporary Wales 22 pp 196-210 (Available here)

Anderson J, Moles K, 2008, ‘Walking into Coincident Places’ Qualitative Researcher Issue 9 September 2008 pp 5-7 (Available here)

Moles K, 2008 ‘A Walk in Thirdspace: Place, Methods, Walking’ Sociological Research Online 13(4) (Available here)

Book Chapters

Moles K, Radcliffe J, 2011, ‘Deep rural communities: Exploring service provision in rural Wales’ in Rural Wales in the Twenty First Century: Society, economy and environment Ed(s) P Milbourne (University of Wales Press, Cardiff) (Available here)

Moles K, 2009, ‘Landscape of Memories: Layers of Meaning in a Dublin Park’ in Heritage and Identity: Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World (Museum Meanings) Eds M Anico, E Peralta (Routledge, London) (Available here)

Working Papers

Moles K, 2009, ‘Narrating a National Space’ Cardiff University School of Social Science Working Paper 124. (Available here)

Reports

Moles K, Saunders A, 2011, ‘Audio Walks: The purpose, practice and politics of production’ WISERD/MBS/002 (Available here)