Ian Grosz, a third year PhD research student in creative writing, publishes work in the cross-border, collaborative deep mapping project Four Rivers: Deep Maps, edited by Dr. Jo Jones of Curtin University with Chris Fowlis as part of the Aberdeen-Curtin University Alliance and will be presenting a paper at the Practicing Place Centre mid-term conference at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany on the overt he 10-11th November.
Ian Grosz, a PhD research student in creative writing funded through a New King’s Studentship, has a chapter in a new book 'Four Rivers: Deep Maps: Collected Responses on the Don and Dee Rivers (North-East Scotland) and the Derbarl Yerrigan and Dyarlgarro Beeliar (Swan and Canning Rivers, Western Australia)’ published by UWA this September. The book stems from a project led by Dr. Jo Jones of Curtin University as part of the Aberdeen-Curtin University Alliance. Ian’s contributing chapter ’The Don: A Sacred River' takes a narrative journey from source to sea, exploring how the sacred associations of the river from the Neolithic through the Pictish and early medieval periods have helped to shape the geography and identity of the region. Ian’s PhD research project ‘Exploring Place and Identity through Autobiographical Narrative Landscapes’ takes an autoethnographic approach to landscape and place to better understand the different ways landscapes help to shape a sense of who we are. In November of this year, he will be presenting a paper based on his approach at the mid-term Practicing Place Centre conference ‘Here, There and Somewhere in Between: Placing, Practicing, Configuring’ at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt over the 10th and 11th November, with planned subsequent publication.