Bethan Prosser strives to bring academic and community-based practices together to creatively understand and tackle issues of social justice and place. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, leading on the community research strand of the FAIR project.
She holds a BSc in Philosophy & Politics from Bristol Unievrsity, an MA in Migration Studies from Sussex University, an MSc in Social Research Methods from Southampton University and a PhD in Social Policy from Brighton University. Her PhD investigated how listening and sound-based methods could be used to understand residents’ experiences of seaside gentrification along the Sussex coast.
She has extensive experience of community-university partnerships, including in her postdoctoral project, through which she collaborated with a community music organisation to co-design participatory soundwalks to engage residents, community groups, and local policymakers in the PhD findings. She has a background in the community voluntary sector, working in a range of frontline and management roles with young people, families, older people, refugees and asylum seekers, Black and racialised minorities, and people experiencing homelessness.
