Cassanra Phoenix BSc, PhD

Dr Cassandra Phoenix is a qualitative researcher who uses narrative approaches, visual methods, and ethnography to explore the concept of ‘ageing well’.

Dr Phoenix is particularly interested in exploring the embodiment of ageing across the life course; the impact of ageing on self, identity, and well-being; intergenerational relationships; disability; and the ageing body within the natural environment. This work currently spans three complementary themes.

Her publications are as follows:
Bell S, Phoenix C, Lovell R, Wheeler B (In Press). Green space, health and wellbeing: making space for individual agency. Health & Place.
Phoenix C, Griffin, M., Smith, B. (In Press). Physical activity among older adults with sight loss: a qualitative research study to inform policy and practice. Public Health.
Bell SL, Phoenix C, Lovell R, Wheeler BW (2014). Green space, health and wellbeing: Making space for individual agency. Health and Place.
Griffin M, Phoenix C (2014). Learning to run from narrative foreclosure: One woman's story of ageing and physical activity. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 22, 393-404.
Orr N, Phoenix C (2014). Photographing physical activity: Using visual methods to 'grasp at' the sensual experiences of the ageing body.
Phoenix C, Orr N (2014). Pleasure: a forgotten dimension of ageing and physical activity. Social Science and Medicine, 115, 94-102.