Penny Travlou has been awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship in Arts, Humanities and Societies by the Royal Society of Edinburgh/Caledonian Research Foundation. This prestigious funding scheme supports research in Scotland which aims to establish a two-way flow of scholars between Scotland and Europe.
Penny Travlou has been granted one of the four CRF European Visiting Research Fellowships awarded in Scotland. Her fellowship will be for two months, between September and October 2009. During this period Penny will visit the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at Helsinki University in Finland and the Department of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University in Denmark to pursue a key collaboration with researchers from both institutions, whose seminal work on place-experience links directly with her own research at OPENspace on young people’s experience of outdoor (public) space.
The Royal Society of Edinburgh/Caledonian Research Fellowship will offer Penny the opportunity to develop a research programme of international scope and methodological novelty, looking at young people’s experiences of their everyday environment in Scotland, Finland and Denmark.