Dr Caroline Day
Biography
I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Geography, teaching across both the BA and BSc Geography Programmes. I started at Portsmouth in September 2014 as a lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in early 2016. Since then, I have been Course Lead for both Geography programmes, Programme Lead for Geography and Environmental Science and held a number of other key administrative roles, including leading School‑wide recruitment and engagement as Open Day Coordinator. I undertake a broad range of undergraduate teaching across all three years, coordinating modules at L4, L5 and L6, as well as taught Masters. I supervise MRes and PhD students, with two MRes and 5 PhD completions to date.
I received my PhD in Human Geography from the University of Reading in 2014. It was titled ‘Making the Transition to Adulthood in Zambia: a Comparison of the Experiences of Caregiving and Non-Caregiving youth’ and was supervised by Professor Ruth Evans and Dr Sophie Bowlby. As part of this I spent a year in Zambia looking at how young people’s lives are affected by caring for sick or disabled family members. In recent years this has expanded to look the prevalence of Gender-Based Violence, what measures can building resilience, such as education and employment, and the impact of climate change and climate emergencies on it's escalation and growth. I am a Fellow of the HEA and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.Research interests
My expertise is grounded in human geography, with strengths related to environmental sustainability and socio-environmental change through its social justice dimensions.
My work draws extensively on development studies, gender studies, childhood and youth studies and international relations within a geographical framework. My research has examined the experiences of children, young people, families and caregivers in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular focus on gender, intersectionality, aspirations, care and gender-based violence. Through this work I have developed expertise in understanding complex social challenges within broader development contexts, including issues of inequality, vulnerability, social justice and wellbeing and the role of, and impact on, people within environmental systems, such as climate change and breakdown, hazards and extreme weather events. I am currently involved in evaluating impacts of climate change in youth development in Portsmouth.
I am a member of several research groups/clusters within the environmental systems cognate area, including the Hazards, Risk and Resilience Research Group; the Sustainable Communities Research Group; the Water Hub (Centre for Blue Governance); and the Centre for the Advancement of Gender and Inequality Studies (AEGIS).
My interdisciplinary expertise provides a strong foundation for examining how environmental, social and development challenges intersect, particularly for marginalised children, young people, families and communities globally.
Research outputs
2021
'If you think about the future you are just troubling yourself': uncertain futures among caregiving and non-caregiving youth in Zambia
Day, C.
28 Apr 2021,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)