{"id":288,"date":"2019-05-15T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclearsocieties\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:31:14","slug":"dr-leila-dawney-senior-lecturer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/project-team\/dr-leila-dawney-senior-lecturer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Leila Dawney – Associate Professor in Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Dawney is a social theorist and cultural geographer whose research focuses on community experience and social and economic change.<\/span><\/p>\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

In 2024 she worked with photographers Laurie Griffiths and Jonty Tacon to make a short film,\u00a0Decommissioning a Dream,\u00a0<\/i>on community responses to nuclear decommissioning. Previously, she has worked with the Lithuania National Drama Theater on the acclaimed documentary theatre production\u00a0Green Meadow<\/i>\u00a0and with Griffiths and Tacon on the touring photographic exhibition\u00a0Babochka<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Select publications:<\/strong><\/p>\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<\/em>(3), pp. 405-422.<\/p>\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> pp 123-138 London: Routledge.<\/p>\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): pp. 33-49.<\/p>\n

Dawney, L, Harris O, and Sorensen, T., 2017. \u201cFuture Worlds: Anticipatory archaeology and the late human legacy\u201d Journal of Contemporary Archaeology <\/em>4(1 pp107-129.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dawney, L., 2017. \u201cOn finding hope beyond progress\u201d in Dawney et al. (eds.) Problems of Hope <\/em>Lewes: ARN Press.<\/p>\n

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

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