Qualifications:
B.A. First Class Honours, University of Worcester (Sociology/History) - 2000
PhD - Geography - ‘Stress in agriculture: the patriarchal way of life of farm families in Powys' - Coventry University - 2004
PGCHET (Post Graduate Certificate of Higher Education Teaching) - May 2007
Research/Academic Posts
2006 - Present - Lecturer - School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering,
2005 - 2006 - Lecturer - School of Geography - Queen's University, Belfast
2005-2006 - Lecturer - School of Geography, University of Worcester
2004 -2005 - Countryside Agency - ‘Diversity Review Advisor'
General Interests
Contemporary and historical rural, social relations; impacts on land-use; suicide and stress in farming family's; representation of the countryside; gender/feminist theory; gender mainstreaming and equality agendas in planning policy; qualitative methodology
Special/Current Interests
Agricultural Change, coping and perceptions of well-being - UK and Canada
Discourses and usage of Rural Support Networks
Qualitative methodology/memory/feminist research
The Women's Land Army/agricultural land-use planning during World War Two
Teaching/Co-ordination
Module co-coordinator - 110EVP104 - Introduction to Planning Research Skills
" " 110EVP213 - Planning Theory and Society
" " 210EVP314 - Themes in Spatial Planning - Gender/Rural Development
(Co-ordinated/Taught jointly with Dr. Ruth McAreavey)
Contributions to Other Modules
EVP311 - Independent Research Project - supervision/teaching - undergraduate
115EVP311 - Masters Level - Dissertation Supervision - Environmental Planning
210EVP826 - " " " " Urban/Rural Design
Administrative Roles
Level Two - Year Advisor
Open Day Co-coordinator
Personal Development Planning
Personal Tutor
Member of Environmental Planning Teaching Committee
Member of Environmental Planning Research Committee
Academic Publications
Price, L. (Forthcoming) ‘Doing it with Men': Including Men in Feminist Research Practice in order to Reveal Patriarchy in UK Family Farming, Gender, Place and Culture
Price, L. and Evans, N. (2009) From Stress to Distress: Conceptualising the British Family Farming Patriarchal Way of Life, Journal of Rural Studies. 25, 1, pp. 1-11
Price, L. (2009) (forthcoming) The Damaging Impacts of Patriarchy on UK Male Family Farmers. In ‘The Global-Rural: Rural Change, Connections and Scale', University of Eastern Washing Press, Spokane, Washington, US
Price, L. (2009) (forthcoming) Historical Geographies of Gender, European Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier
Price, L. (2006) A new Farming Subsidy? Women, Work and Family Farm Survival, Royal Agricultural Society England Journal, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, pp. 1-18
Price, L. and Evans, N. (2006) From ‘As Good as Gold' to ‘Gold Diggers': Farming Women and the Survival of British Family Farming, Sociologia Ruralis, 46, 4, pp. 280-299
Price, L. and Evans, N. (2005) Work and Worry: Revealing Farm Women's Way of Life. In Little, J. and Morris, E. (eds.) Critical Studies in Rural Gender Issues, Ashgate, Aldershot
Research Reports
Price, L., Gallagher, E. and Ritchie, H. (2008) Report on Work Phase One of the TQEF Funded Project on ‘Student Engagement and Computer Assisted Self-Assessment (CASA)', ‘A Module-Level Implementation of an Embedded model of PDP to Support and Encourage Student Engagement with the PDP Process of Structured Reflection, Planning, Action and Review', Queen's University, Belfast
Price, L. and Bell, J. (2008) ‘Discourses of Rural Support Networks in the UK and Ireland', Report for Irish Social Science Platform, Queen's University, Belfast
Journal Reviews
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health
Sociologia Ruralis
Journal of Rural Studies
Research Projects
(2007) QTEF - £12,000 Computer Assisted Student Assessment, Work Phase One ‘embedding personal development planning - encouraging critical, reflective learning
(2007) £200.00 Centre for Canadian Studies £200.00 - Travel Award
(2007) Centre for Excellence, Queen's - Public Health - ESRC - (overall £5,000, 000) - part of consortium of qualitative researchers.
(2008) Foundation for Canadian Studies - Partnership Development £800.00
(2008) Queen's Internationalization Fund £1,200.00
(2008) ISSP (Irish Social Science Platform) ‘Discourses of Rural Support Networks' -UK and Ireland £5,000
(2008) Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning ‘Discourses of Rural Support Networks' - Canada £3,000
Conference Presentations
Price, L. (2007) Paper presented to XXII Congress - European Society for Rural Sociology, Wageningen, Netherlands, August, 2007 - ‘interpretive conflict in feminist research'
Price, L. (2007) Paper presented to ‘The Sixth Quadrennial Conference of British, Canadian and American Rural Geographers', July 2007, ‘The Global-Rural: Rural Change, Connections and Scale', Spokane, Washington, US - ‘Should we do it with men? Feminism, Methodology and Family Farming
Price, L. (2008) PGCHET Training Course: Embedding Personal Development Planning in the Curriculum, Belfast, January, 2008
Price, L. (2008) ‘Managing Diversity - UK and Canada', Colloquium of Canadian Studies, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, February, 2008
Price, L. (2008) UK Planning Conference, Queen's University, Belfast, ‘Facilitating Critical and Autonomous Student-Centered Learning through the Development of an Embedded Model of Personal Development Planning; March, 2008
Public Lectures
Price, L. (2007) ‘The Heteropatriachal City and Social Geography' - Public Lecture presented at University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, November, 2008
Price, L. (2008) ‘The Context of Rural Support in the UK', Public Lecture, MacEwan Institute for Research on Family and Youth (MIRFY), Edmonton, Canada, August, 2008
Professional Memberships/Other Positions Held
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers
Member of the European Society of Rural Society
Member/researcher - Irish Social Science Platform
Member - Institute of Rural Health
Member of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Centre for the Advancement of Women and Politics
Member - Women and Geography Study Group
Member - Rural Geography Research Group
Member - Queen's University Human Geography Reading Group
Member - Queen's Gender Initiative
Member of the rural geography research group
Member of the Women and Geography Study Group
Member of the Human Geography and Environmental Planning Reading Groups
Member of the Rural Stress Information Network
Other Activities:
The ongoing development of international collaboration with partners in Canada and Australia
