Everyday life, environmental change and small island states
This work explores how the day-to-day dimensions of people’s lives intersect with how their physical environment changes and the implications of these for diverse individuals and groups. By undertaking research with island and coastal communities, we aim to better understand how people support, accommodate, negotiate and resist such changes in their everyday lives.
Imagining environmental research in the Maldives
By Mizna Mohamed. The coastal island setting of the Maldives, is often described in alluring and poetic terms.For me it is where I call home and one I believe to be a very unique environment. Although now I live in the concrete city of Male’, with little time to...
Images of the Maldives
In October 2017, the project team ran a day-long training workshop for the Research Assistants on methods for researching the everyday. The training focussed on four kinds of exercise in particular: participant observation, photo elicitation, semi-structured...
Mizna Mohamed talks about the Everyday Lives project
Mizna's Mohamed is a key member of the project research team. Her main research interests concern the environment, particularly human-nature interactions and in this video she discusses why the Everyday Lives project is important to her. ...
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