I design and lead research, programmes, and evaluation across public, private organisations, public policy and cultural institutions. My work combines academic and commissioned research and consulting for local authorities, NGOs, and foundations with longer-term academic and programmatic projects. Three case studies below give a sense of what this looks like in practice. I’m always happy to talk if you have questions about research or consulting for your specific context.
Safer Parks
Commissioned policy research, qualitative research design, public safety
Designing a park standard for women and girls’ safety, in partnership with Northumbria Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner and Newcastle University. Adopted as regional guidance and now informing a forthcoming paper in The Geographical Journal.
Gittell Collective Programming
Programme design, institutional review, postdoctoral fellowship
Three years of fellowship programming, book-workshop design, and experimental research formats at the CUNY Graduate Center, supporting 22 emerging scholars and culminating in a zine of geopoetic explorations published in December 2025.
Regrounding: Belonging beyond citizenship
Doctoral research, migration and belonging, institutional ethnography
Long-term ethnographic research with migrant-supporting organisations in northeast England, which produced the concept of regrounding as an alternative to citizenship-based frameworks of belonging. Published in The Geographical Journal, 2026.
Interested in commissioning research, consulting, or programme design? Get in touch.
Kahina Meziant 