Leonie Charlton

Leonie Charlton is a part time PhD student. The title of her project is: Of Trees, Deer, Humans, and the Spaces Between: Orientating towards the future by giving voice to the disparate groups and individuals involved in Scotland’s ‘deer question’ through creative practice research. Leonie is using different genres of creative writing to explore the complexity of land use and deer management in the Highlands, with a particular focus on Assynt and Argyll.

Leonie is enrolled at UHI Inverness and based at UHI Perth. She is supervised by: Dr Malcolm Innes (Centre of Island Creativity), Dr Mandy Haggith (Centre for Living Sustainability), and Dr Rosalind Bryce (Centre for Mountain Studies).

Contact: 15028832@uhi.ac.uk

Qualifications

MLitt Creative Writing
University of Stirling

BA (Hons) Hispanic Studies
University of Edinburgh

Research Interests

Positionality of the human animal within the more-than-human world

How using creative research methodologies can widen the possibilities for seeing things through other people’s and being’s eyes, to develop empathy, sensitivity, tolerance, and imagination.

How an empathy-based imagination acts as a springboard for futures thinking, and for supporting environmental, emotional, and cultural resilience.