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Email: gabrielle.ackroyd.10@ucl.ac.uk
MPhil/PhD Anthropology / Material Culture, UCL
(2010 – 2015)
MSc Social Research Methods, The Open University
BA Anthropology, University of Durham (First class honours)
Supervisor: Dr Victor Buchli
Second supervisor: Dr Adam Drazin
Working
title: Financial and symbolic intersections of the
house in the Irish Republic.
Research:
Taking sites in the Irish Republic
as primary examples, my work is concerned with contemporary experiences of home
purchase, ownership and the inhabitation of domestic space. This takes a
working definition of the home (cf. Gudeman’s ‘corporate house’) that is
simultaneously personally experienced, yet strongly and increasingly linked to
regional, national and global markets, particularly through perceived and
actual financial value and risk.
Forthcoming fieldwork is expected to take in questions of lived experiences of changes in material circumstances and prospects, the mortgage and debt; the material enactment of aspirations within homes; and the impact of so-called ‘ghost estates’ on the Irish landscape.
Areas
of interest: houses, domestic cycles, Ireland, Europe, experiences
of debt, anthropology of mortgages, vernacular architecture, anthropology of
design, contemporary mobilities, commercial ethnographic methods, consumer
culture.
