DrArlene Crampsie

Dr Arlene Crampsie is a Lecturer/ Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, UCD. A historical geographer, her research interests lie at the intersection of political, socio-cultural and environmental geographies with a particular focus on Ireland from the early modern period to the present. Her research explores the past to better understand the evolution of everyday lives and landscapes today and actively engages with local communities to address global challenges through participatory methods and community outreach using local cultural heritage including archival, folklore and oral history methodologies. She was awarded her PhD entitled 'Governmentality and Locality: An Historical Geography of Rural District Councils in Ireland, 1898 - 1925' from the Department of Geography, TCD in 2008. She went on to work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the GAA Oral History Project at Boston College-Ireland from 2008 - 2012. From 2019 - 2022 she was PI of the IRC Coalesce funded project Irish Droughts: Environmental and Cultural Memories of a Neglected Hazard and from 2022 - 2023 she was Co-PI on the ERDF funded Coastal Uplands: Heritage and Tourism Project run in collaboration with Aberystwyth University which examined regenerative approaches to heritage based tourism across the Irish Sea. She is a director of the Oral History Network of Ireland and President of the Geographical Society of Ireland.