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Hannah is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Centre on Healthcare & Urbanisation, at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Hannah joined the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing in 2024 as a Research Associate.
Hannah is an urban health geographer and planner, with an interest in how social and physical environments influence health and wellbeing throughout the lifecourse. With experience that bridges academia, policy, and practice, she is interested in how we can co-design environments and communities that promote a good quality of life, whilst recognising and addressing existing socio-spatial injustices and health inequities. Hannah’s research interests span urban health and social geography, healthy urban planning, critical social policy, and geographies of ageing. She is passionate about innovative methods and methodologies including the use of qualitative, geo-spatial and community-based participatory approaches to understand lived experiences of place.
Hannah previously worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Dublin City University, a Research Assistant at Queens University Belfast, and as a Planning Policy Officer. She completed her PhD in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University, which explored how older people in the Greater Dublin Area define and enact ageing well in place. Hannah’s previous work has explored the importance of community mobility to older people, the ways in which socially connecting with others is vital for a good quality of life in old age, and how older people negotiate and navigate risk whilst leaving the home with health and mobility challenges. This work has been published in Social Science & Medicine and Area.
Recent Publications:
Manzo, L. & Grove, H. (2024) Inadequate Social Housing and Health: The case of Oliver Bond House in inner-city Dublin. Open Research Europe, 3:211. DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.16767.1.
Grove, H. (2022) Combining qualitative and geo-spatial approaches to explore older adults’ lived experiences of ageing – as well as they can – in place. PhD Thesis. Maynooth University. Available at: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/16560/ (Accessed 15th November 2023).
Grove, H. (2021) Ageing as well as you can in place: applying a geographical lens to the Capability Approach. Social Science & Medicine, 113525. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113525.
Drilling, M., Grove, H., Ioannou, B. & Moulaert, T. (2021) Towards a Structural Embeddedness of Space in the Framework of the Social Exclusion of Older People, In: Walsh, K., Scharf, T., Van Regenmortel, S. & Wanka, A. (eds.) Social Exclusion in Later Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives. Springer. Chapter 15. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-51406-8_15.
Foley, R., Bell, S. L., Gittens, H., Grove, H., Kaley, A., McLauchlan, A., Osbourne, T., & Power, A. (2020) ‘Disciplined research in undisciplined settings’: Critical Explorations of In‐Situ and Mobile Methodologies in Geographies of Health and Wellbeing. Area, 00, 1-9. DOI: 10.1111/area.12604.