Dr Laura Major
Research Fellow
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Personal statement
Personal statement
I'm an anthropologist specialising in the study of material culture, justice, and community. My research investigates how relationships between people and objects, or landscapes, affect their lives and the choices they make. My work helps in the design of better, fairer, practices and systems with the aim of contributing to sustainable and just management of material cultures and natural landscapes.
I'm currently a Research Fellow based in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde and embedded within a multi-institution interdisciplinary programme hosted by the University of Glasgow.
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Prize And Awards
- Finalist - The Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards
- Recipient
- 2022
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Publications
- Guiding Principles and Actions for Enhancing Community Benefits from Community Benefit Funds
- Hannon Matthew, Gowens Rebecca, Searle Rachel, Roberts Jennifer J, Cairns Iain, Major Laura
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00092494
- Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities' response to the Scottish Government's consultation on 'Community Benefits from Net Zero Energy Developments'
- Hannon M, Cairns I, Roberts J, Gowens R, Major L
- (2025)
- Using water walks as a research method to gather data in water‐related social research
- Holstead Kirsty, Grecksch Kevin, Bonner James, Major Laura, Robertson Donald
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water Vol 12 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1758
- Community Participation for Community Benefits From Natural Capital Projects : A Review for the Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland Programme
- Hannon Matthew, Gowens Rebecca, Roberts Jennifer J, Major Laura, Cairns Iain
- (2024)
- Research Brief : Climate Resilience of Water Supply on the Isle of Barra
- Hunter Kirsty, Major Laura, Roberts Jennifer J
- (2023)
- Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi : Vernaculars of the Right to Truth
- Jamar Astrid, Major Laura
- Social Anthropology Vol 30, pp. 56-78 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2022.300305
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Professional Activities
- Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities' response to the Scottish Government's consultation on 'Community Benefits from Net Zero Energy Developments'
- Recipient
- 4/2025
- World Water Day 2025
- Speaker
- 2025
- Community Insights Update: Barra and Vatersay
- Speaker
- 3/7/2023
- Blue Spaces: Connecting Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM
- Participant
- 5/6/2023
- Community Insights: Isle of Jura
- Speaker
- 24/3/2023
- Decentralised Water Technologies Programme Researchers' Workshop
- Speaker
- 3/3/2023
Projects
- Foundation Scotland Community Benefit Fund Review
- Hannon, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Cairns, Iain (Co-investigator) Major, Laura (Co-investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- “Taps Aff!” Voicing experiences of water scarcity in rural Scotland
- Major, Laura (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- FIRNS Community Benefit Certification for Carbon Offsetting
- Hannon, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Major, Laura (Co-investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2024
- Research Fellow, UKRI GCRF One Ocean Hub
- Major, Laura (Fellow)
- The One Ocean Hub brings together international and national groups of researchers to address the need for an ocean's governance framework that better protects and promotes the wellbeing of the ocean and the lives most reliant on it.
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2021
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Contact
Dr
Laura
Major
Research Fellow
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: laura.major@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted