About: Website & Me

Website/Blog

This is a website primarily about my research. It will offer accounts of my work, the ideas and places concerned and will comment on related matters. It is also features my wider musing and observations on a variety of topics. Posts under the category of Research are directly related to my PhD work, while those under Comment are thoughts on particular ideas or themes, which generally have a geographic slant; and, the posts that fall under the category of Other is anything else.

Liminal (adj) refers to being in a transitional state or at a threshold/boundary.

Entwining (v, with object) refers to interweaving, interlacing or twisting together of one or more things.

Liminal Entwinings, then, refers to essence of my research as a geographer. It intends to evoke the fundamental relationship between people and place that I seek to explore;  while also, indicating that the inter-relationship between these entities changes their nature in a process that defines them in a meaningful way. There is a further questioning about the existance of people and place outside of this process.

Personal

My name is Richard Scriven. I am a geography PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, UCC. I am looking at different forms of pilgrimage in Ireland and considering how they shape the places and people involved. I hope that my research will provide new understandings of a unique aspect of Irish culture and society, while also showing people something of themselves and the world around them.

Membership: 

Geographical Society of Ireland

Postgraduate Fellow – Royal Geographical Society, with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)

Positions and Roles:

Co-ordinating Editor 2012/13, Chimera 26, (UCC’s Geographical Journal)

Geographical Society of Ireland Committee 2012-2014 (Postgraduate Representative)

RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum (PGF) Committee Member 2012/13 (PGF-ACTS Co-ordinator)