Middlesex Filterbeds Nature Reserve, Hackney, London, UK Drawing on ecological posthumanism and creative practice as research 'In the midst of rich meadows […]' responds to calls for new ways of paying attention to sites of historic and contemporary human and fellow being entanglements. Through my fieldwork, in which I include off site film making, I hoped to answer the question 'How can creative practice at engender a more ecological approach to heritage sites?'. Rather than ‘fill a gap’ I aimed to add to the emerging body of research calling for an ecological rethinking of heritage that recognises the deep entanglements of nature and culture. Drawing on this, and on the ecological posthumanism that has influenced it, I used creative practice and film making to the call for new ways of paying attention to the world and working with the vibrant entanglements of humans, fellow beings, and the places we all inhabit.

This film sets out to explore how two very different relatives encountered one community with their respective residential triumph and trials in mind. How do two different women find meaning in home in one gentrifying Miami community? I used my training in history, cinema and ethnography to push my thinking on a project that began with 37 ethnographic interviews. The initial outcome of these interviews was an article published in the Journal of Urban History.

Crawling across a field with a macro lens, we are flung into more-than-human encounters and other ways of seeing

Stories of the journeys, interactions, and influences of Cheshire salt over a history of extraction that has lasted over two thousand years, and continues today