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Thomas A Lowe

@thomasalowe.bsky.social

Research Fellow at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. Creative methods, ageing in place and later life experiences and perceptions, including informal care.

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healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

We are delighted to invite papers for the 22nd ENRGHI Conference, a two-day event organised by & for postgraduate & ECRs Showcasing the breadth of health & wellbeing research, with a focus on Blue Bodies - human, animal & ecological connections to blue spaces 👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/enrghi-2025-...

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ENRGHI 2025: Embodiment and water – blue bodies

We are delighted to invite papers for the 22nd Emerging Researchers in Geographies of Health and Impairment (ENRGHI) Conference, a two-day event organised by and for postgraduate and early career r…

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

📢New Issue of Area!📢 December's Issue features a Special Section on 'Health Geographies' and 9 papers on topics from slow emergencies in Hong Kong to collaborative zine making in public libraries. 13/15 papers are open access & free to read now: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geo

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Health Geographies'. The papers are:
1) Reflections on a healthy discipline: Celebrating 50 years of health geography within the Royal Geographical Society
Thomas A. Lowe, Andy Harrod, Richard Gorman, Chloe Asker, Jeremy Auerbach
2) ‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia
Meghánn Catherine Ward, Christine Milligan, Emma Elizabeth Rose, Mary Elliott
3) ‘It's probably more about the people’: For a person-centred approach to understanding benefits of nature-based interventions
Andy Harrod, Nadia von Benzon, Mark Limmer
4) ‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing-in-place in Ireland during COVID-19
Viveka Guzman, Ronan Foley, Frank Doyle, Maria Pertl
5) The role of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group in shaping an evolving field over time
Andrew Power
6) The past, present and future of health geography: An exchange with three long standing participants in the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group
Chloe Asker, Richard Gorman, Thomas Aaron Lowe, Sarah Curtis, Graham Moon, Julia Jones

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue.
The papers are:
1) Normalisation of evacuation under slow emergencies: The imposed story of ‘Beautiful New Hong Kong’
Shu-Mei Huang, Ying-Fen Chen, Wing Yin Cheung, King-Hung Leung
2) ‘Things have changed since we last spoke…’: The impacts of parental death on the life and livelihood of a young informal vendor in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Nathan Salvidge
3) Principles for delivering transformative co-design methodologies with multiple stakeholders for achieving nature recovery in England
Lucy Barkley, Charlotte-Anne Chivers, Chris Short, Hannah Bloxham
4) Naming the abyss: The symbolic politics of the oceanic toponymic frontier
Sergei Basik
5) Island geologic connections: Reimagining Guernsey's spatial dynamics through land–sea–geologic relations, past and present
Fiona Ferbrache
6) Rural songs for COVID-19 times? UK folk music's resurgent engagement with the countryside
Keith Halfacree
7) I say a little prayer for me: Poetry as spiritual self-care in the ethnographic field
Josep Almudéver Chanzà
8) Making the case for ‘care-full’, ‘slower’ research: Reflections on researching ethically and relationally using mobile phone methods with food-insecure households during the COVID-19 pandemic
Alison Briggs
9) Studying and stimulating a sense of community through co-productive zine-making in public libraries
Rianne van Melik, Jamea Kofi, Friederike Landau-Donnelly

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