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Associate Professor in Human Geography<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Leila Dawney is a social theorist and cultural geographer whose research focuses on community experience and social and economic change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2025 to write a monograph based on her research on the relationship between deindustrialisation and community in a former nuclear town in Lithuania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024 she worked with photographers Laurie Griffiths and Jonty Tacon to make a short film, Decommissioning a Dream, <\/em>on community responses to nuclear decommissioning. Previously, she has worked with the Lithuania National Drama Theater on the acclaimed documentary theatre production Green Meadow<\/em> and with Griffiths and Tacon on the touring photographic exhibition Babochka<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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She has published on nuclear temporalities, the concept of deep time and nuclear waste storage. She is currently developing a larger project on infrastructure communities and leads a project in partnership with the Nuclear Waste Services Research Support Office, entitled Temporalities of Nuclear Infrastructures: Histories and Futures of Energy and Community, which encompasses two doctoral studentships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Select Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dawney, L. (2021) The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures.\u00a0Environment and Planning D: Society and Space<\/em>,\u00a039 (3), 405-422. [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawney, L. (2021) \u201cDramatising deindustrialisation\u201d in W. Price, M. Rhodes II, A. Walker (eds.) Geographies of Post-Industrial Memory, Place, and Heritage<\/em>, 123-138. London: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawney, L. (2020) Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers<\/em>, 45 (1): 33-49. [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawney, L., Harris O., and Sorensen, T. (2017) Future Worlds: Anticipatory archaeology and the late human legacy. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology <\/em>4 (1): 107-129.<\/em> [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawney, L. (2017) \u201cOn finding hope beyond progress\u201d in Dawney, L., Blencowe, C., and Bresnihan, P. (eds.) Problems of Hope<\/em>, 11-29. Lewes: ARN Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawney, L. and Brigstocke, J. (2016) \u201cInto Eternity\u201d in Brigstocke, J and Noorani, T. (eds.) Listening with Non-Human Others<\/em>, 75-84. Lewes: ARN Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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