Staff profile

I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the COAST project, which looks at active and sustainable travel in rural coastal areas. I work in East Durham, finding out how people get about in their day-to-day lives.

My PhD (2024, University of Aberdeen) was about island life in Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Working on the Isle of Coll, I researched aspects like provisions, in-person and online sociability, ferry mobilities and walking practices.

In all of this research, my interests is in how people make a life in coastal and island places, coping with socio-economic and climate change related uncertainties. In my research and writing, I enjoy using creative methods as a means of engaging with embodied, affective ways of knowing and of sharing research with different audiences.

Chapter in book

• Making Remoteness through Pandemic Im/mobilities on the Isle of Coll, Scotland
  
  Bosbach, C. (2023). Making Remoteness through Pandemic Im/mobilities on the Isle of Coll, Scotland. In P. Vannini (Ed.), Mobilities in Remote Places (pp. 17-28). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003321163-3

Journal Article

• Weathering COVID
  
  Bosbach, C. (2025). Weathering COVID. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 26(1), 121–128.
• Editorial Note: Atlantic Archipelago
  
  Bosbach, C., Cleary, C., & Eades, L. (2025). Editorial Note: Atlantic Archipelago. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 26(1), 7–14. https://doi.org/10.33178/ija.26.1
• Lifeline Ferries: Existential dimensions of ‘essential’ mobility
  
  Bosbach, C. (2024). Lifeline Ferries: Existential dimensions of ‘essential’ mobility. Critique of Anthropology, 44(4), 457-472. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X241299354