Research and Teaching
Aedín Ní Loingsigh (aedin.loingsigh@stir.ac.uk) is Lecturer in French at the University of Stirling. Her research profile has developed from an early interest in African cultures of travel, migration and translation to a post-lockdown critical exploration of the movement and change of places perceived as ‘rooted’. She is widely published on topics related to cultures of travel. The more recent shift in focus is evident in upcoming publications (2025) on the hedgeland and the arboreal and new research-led teaching on sustainability. She is currently developing a project on cultures of growing in the French-speaking world.
A shelter This resource provides details of a practical seminar activity carried out by staff and tutors as part of a University of Stirling-wide interdisciplinary module entitled ‘Wicked Problems and Sustainable Solutions’. The activity requires students to make a dead hedge after they have attended a lecture entitled ‘The literary “Hedgeland”’. In the lecture, literary […]