Kirsten Stevens-Wood

Overview

Kirsten has taught in Higher Education for the last 16 years and currently delivers on both the Health and Social Care degree programme and the MA/Post Graduate Diploma in Youth and Community Work. She also supervises undergraduate and post graduate research projects. Kirsten is a qualified Community Development worker who has worked in a wide variety of community based organisations including the City Farm movement and the voluntary sector. Kirsten has an MSc in Research Methods and is currently in her final year of PhD exploring creativity in communal living. She is also the lead for the Intentional Communities Research Group and an editor for Diggers and Dreamers Publishing group.

My research focuses on the formation, lived experience and the experimentality of intentional communities. I am particularly interested in the ways in which intentional communities foster and engage with social and practical experiments and testing ways of living which can potentially influence wider social practices. This work includes a focus upon the process that enable experimentality, and the way in which being ‘alternative’ can facilitate and action utopian thoughts and ideas. I am also the lead for the Intentional Communities research group at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

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