Dr Melanie Limb

• School representative on the Equality and Diversity Action Group.

• GEO1006 Introducing Human Geographies
• GEO1008 Society and Environment
• GEO1010 Geography and Development 1
• GEO2028 Issues in Human Geography
• GEO3019 Leisure, People and the Environment
• GEO3027 Human Geography in the Field
• GEO4002/3/7 Human Geography Project/Dissertation

Research carried out on behalf of 'Matters of Fact':

• Research on Rights of Way network in Northamptonshire (2005)
• Transport needs for those in further education (2002)
• Provision of training days on research methods for community groups (2002)
• Transport of special needs groups (2001)

Research Topics:

• Children's use of and values for place and space
• Youth participation
• e-learning in the Social Sciences

Other publications

• Matthews H. and Limb M. (2003) 'Another "White Elephant"; Youth council as demographic structures'. Space and Polity 7 (2) 173-192.
• Limb, M. and Dwyer, C. (eds.) (2001) Qualitative Methodologies for Geographers: Issues and Debates, Arnold.
• Limb, M. and Spellman, G. (2001) Evaluating domestic tourists' attitudes to British weather-a qualitative approach, International Society of Biometeorology Commission on Climate, Tourism and Recreation, Proceedings of the conference held in Haldiki, Greece.
• Matthews, H., Limb, M. and Taylor, M. (2000) 'The street as Third space' in S. Holloway and G. Valentine (eds.) Children's Geographies, Routledge.
• Matthews, H., Taylor, M., Sherwood, K. B., Tucker, F. and Limb, M. (2000) 'Growing up in the countryside: children and the rural idyll', Journal of Rural Studies, 16 (2) 141-153.
• Matthews, H., Taylor, M., Percy-Smith, B. and Limb, M. (2000) 'The unacceptable flaneur. The shopping mall as a teenage hangout', Childhood, 7 (3) 279-294.
• Matthews, M. H. and Limb, M. (1999). 'Defining an agenda for the geography of children'; Progress in Human Geography 23, 59-88.
• Matthews, M. H. and Limb, M. (1999). 'Young people's participation and representation in society'; Geoforum 30, 135-144.
• Matthews, H., Limb, M. and Taylor, M. (1999) 'Reclaiming the streets: the discourse of curfew', Environment and Planning A 3, 10 1713-1730.