Natalie has designed and implemented ethnographic research projects in UK and abroad over the last 25 years.  She has undertaken participant observation, developed questionnaires, interviewed individuals, and used participatory and reflective focus groups as research strategies. She has conducted practical research in the following areas:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Indian Village Architecture

In the 1990’s she conducted research in India and explored the way people in one village in Karnataka used the landscape and architecture for both religious and secular purposes. She gathered data as part of the Vijayanagara research programme, for a book on architectural ethnography (published 2000). 

5. Mystical experience

Medical Anthropology. Natalie became concerned about cultural interpretations of health and returned to college during 1998-2000 to study Medical Anthropology. For her final MSc dissertation at Brunel University she conducted a research project exploring religious experiences.

6.  Evaluation & research.   At John Moores University, Liverpool Natalie undertook evaluations of local community health initiatives, using focus groups and interviews.  She prepared a handbook for the department’s CD on health evaluation. 

4.  Religious Experience

Religious Experience & Mental Health.  Natalie received an award from RERC in 2005, to study religious experiences that were said to warrant psychiatric attention, based on material in the archive at University of Wales, Lampeter. 

3. Mental Health:    Medical Anthropology 

More recently, Natalie undertook three season’s fieldwork in India, exploring biomedical, religious and spiritual strategies for addressing mental health.  A monograph of this research is in progress.

1. Sudanese potters

Natalie undertook ethnographic fieldwork in Sudan exploring settlement patterns, stability, use of space, housing, and material culture. This cross-disciplinary study (archaeology and anthropology) was the basis of her doctorate, published in 1988.