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Alice Watson
@aliceewatson.bsky.social
Cultural and Political Geographer at the University of Oxford | Lecturer in Human Geography at St John’s College | Radio and Media Geographies | Critical and Popular Geopolitics | Migration and Borders | Golf
Great to share my research on the power of Call the Midwife and popular culture at this year’s RGS conference in Birmingham. So pleased to get a copy of ‘The Promise of Cultural Geography’ too 📚 #RGSIBG25
August 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🚨📝 Delighted my latest article has been published online in Social & Cultural Geography today!

‘The power of representations to affect and effect: podcasting, popular culture, and audience stories behind Call the Midwife’.

It’s free to access and read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
July 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Alice Watson
A new co-produced video series from the BBC and Dr Alice Watson, from the School of Geography and the Environment, explores how the acclaimed television drama Call the Midwife inspires audiences to engage, create, and connect.
Read more: bit.ly/43gCrIO
May 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Happy to share my latest project with the BBC exploring how audiences have been inspired by Call the Midwife to engage in a whole range of creative practices, from recording podcasts and collecting memorabilia to designing intricate cross-stitch patterns and knitting nuns and midwives! 🍰 🚲 🏥
May 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reposted by Alice Watson
Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(2): Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4: Journalists and the Geopolitics of Storytelling by Alice Watson @aliceewatson.bsky.social

Download and read for free:
www.tandfonline.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM