About
I am a storyteller, writer, researcher and urban walker. I love to find the hidden stories and experiences which connect us to the places where we live.
As a journalist I specialised in place making, urban regeneration and the environment. After completing a PhD, I spent many years as an academic research fellow and lecturer in human geography, focusing on cultural, historical and social geography. I have undertaken research projects and teaching on the geographies and histories of home, the domestic uncanny, local heritage, and on religious and folkloric beliefs in relation to the meanings given to places. I hold an honorary research fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London.
I have written three books during my time as an academic. In 2020 I published a monograph based on research exploring how people encounter the various pasts of their homes – previous inhabitants, found objects, atmospheres. This built upon a previous book (2016) based on interviews with people living in ‘haunted homes’ which explored the effects of uncanny experiences and how people interpreted them in relation to feelings of belonging to home. I have also written a book (2012) tracing the lives of those buried in two historic London cemeteries, exploring the social history of the first modern Anglo-Jewish community to settle in England during the time of Oliver Cromwell.
I currently divide my time between writing books which extend my interests in history, place and belief, and developing the Stories of our Streets project and a research consultancy. As a lecturer, I loved taking students on field trips, and it’s a natural progression for me to share stories of place in situ with a wider range of people, young and old; engaging with local communities is important to me, and it also provides the perfect complement to the introspection of the writing and research process.
I look forward to sharing the stories I have unearthed, hearing the stories you have to tell, and, together, creating new ones! Dr Caron Lipman
As a journalist I specialised in place making, urban regeneration and the environment. After completing a PhD, I spent many years as an academic research fellow and lecturer in human geography, focusing on cultural, historical and social geography. I have undertaken research projects and teaching on the geographies and histories of home, the domestic uncanny, local heritage, and on religious and folkloric beliefs in relation to the meanings given to places. I hold an honorary research fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London.
I have written three books during my time as an academic. In 2020 I published a monograph based on research exploring how people encounter the various pasts of their homes – previous inhabitants, found objects, atmospheres. This built upon a previous book (2016) based on interviews with people living in ‘haunted homes’ which explored the effects of uncanny experiences and how people interpreted them in relation to feelings of belonging to home. I have also written a book (2012) tracing the lives of those buried in two historic London cemeteries, exploring the social history of the first modern Anglo-Jewish community to settle in England during the time of Oliver Cromwell.
I currently divide my time between writing books which extend my interests in history, place and belief, and developing the Stories of our Streets project and a research consultancy. As a lecturer, I loved taking students on field trips, and it’s a natural progression for me to share stories of place in situ with a wider range of people, young and old; engaging with local communities is important to me, and it also provides the perfect complement to the introspection of the writing and research process.
I look forward to sharing the stories I have unearthed, hearing the stories you have to tell, and, together, creating new ones! Dr Caron Lipman
