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Lucy Barkley

Research Assistant (Resurvey)

Lucy joined the CCRI in 2022, to become the Project Officer for the Defra Environmental Land Management Test & Trial.

Biography

An anthropologist and interdisciplinary researcher, Lucy is especially interested in the intersections between food, community, land and landscape. Her doctoral research, at the University of Exeter, focuses on how Palestinians living in the UK use food to envision their connections to people and place: to each other as Palestinians, and to the land of Palestine. This is inherently related to how they imagine and reimagine their pasts and futures.

Working largely with qualitative data sets, Lucy has extensive skills as an ethnographic researcher. In particular, she is able to use her experience conducting interviews and facilitating workshops and focus groups in her role at the CCRI. She is practiced in literature reviews and report writing, and has co-authored several journal articles.

While at Exeter, Lucy worked as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in the Anthropology Department and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. Here, she taught several undergraduate modules on ethnography, gender, and anthropological theory.

Apart from Resurvey and the ELM Test & Trial, Lucy has also worked on a number of other projects at CCRI, including scoping for a Dynamic Food Procurement System for the Marches region, and interviewing and analysis on several agri-environment related projects.

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Anthropology
  • MA International Relations, University of Wales
  • MRes Middle East Studies, University of Exeter.

Publications

More publications from Lucy Barkley can be found in the Research Repository.