Professor Christine Milligan

Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies

Recent Publications

Books

Milligan, C. (2009) There's No Place like Home: People, Place and Care in an Ageing Society, Ashgate Geographies of Health BookSeries, Aldershot.

Mort, M., Milligan, C., Roberts, C. and Moser, I. (eds) (2008) Ageing, Technology and Home Care: New Actors, New Responsibilities, Presses de l'Ecole des mines: Paris (pp.124)

Milligan, C. and Conradson, D. (eds) (2006) Geographies of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance, Policy Press: Bristol.

Milligan, C. (2001) Geographies of Care: space, place and the voluntary sector, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Harvey, D., Jones, R. McInroy, N. and Milligan, C. (eds) (2001) Celtic Geographies: old culture, new times, London: Routledge.

Refereed Journal Articles

Andrews, G., Milligan, C., Phillips, D. and Skinner (in press) Geography and Gerontology: mapping a disciplinary intersection,Geography Compass.

Mort, M., and Roberts, C., and Milligan, C. (2009) 'Ageing, Technology and Home: a critical project, Ageing', in Technology & the Home: researching new care configurations special issue of ALTER: The European Journal of Disability Research. 85-89.

Milligan, C. (2009) 'Geography of Voluntarism', commissioned article for The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Elsevier.

Milligan, C. (2007) 'Geographies of Voluntarism: mapping the terrain', Geography Compass, Blackwell (commissioned article) Volume 2, doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00008.x., Blackwell.

Milligan C., Atkinson, S., Skinner, M. and Wiles, J. (2007) 'Geographies of Care - a critical commentary', New Zealand Geographer.

Milligan C, and Bingley, A, (2007) 'Therapeutic places or scary spaces? The impact of woodland on the mental well-being of young adults', Health and Place, 13:3, 799-811.

Bingley, A. and Milligan, C. (2007) 'Sandplay, Clay and Sticks': Multi-Sensory Research Methods to Explore the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of Childhood Play Experience', Children's Geographies, 5:3, 283-296.

Milligan, C. (2006) 'Caring for older people in the 21st Century: notes from a small island', Health and Place, 12, 320-331

Milligan, C. (2005) 'Placing narrative correspondence in the geographer's toolbox: insights from care research in New Zealand', New Zealand Geographer, 61, 213-224.

Milligan, C. (2005) 'From home to 'home': Situating emotions within the care-giving experience', Environment and Planning A, 37:12, 2075-2270.

Milligan, C., Bingley, A. and Gatrell, T. (2005) 'Digging deep: Using diary techniques to explore the place of health and well-being amongst older people', Social Science and Medicine, 61,1882-1892.

Milligan, C. and Fyfe, N. (2005) 'Making Space for Volunteers: exploring the links between voluntary organizations, volunteering and citizenship', Journal of Urban Studies, 42:3.

Davidson, J. and Milligan, C. (2004) ' Embodying Emotion, Sensing Space: introducing emotional geographies', Social and Cultural Geography, 5:4, 523-532.

Milligan, C., Bingley, A. and Gatrell, A. (2004) 'Cultivating health and mental well-being among older people', Growth Point, March 2004.

Milligan, C., Gatrell, T. and Bingley, A. (2004) 'Cultivating Health': therapeutic landscapes and older people in Northern England, Social Science and Medicine, 58, pp. 1781-1793.

Milligan, C and Fyfe, N. (2004) 'Putting the voluntary sector in its place: geographical perspectives on voluntarism and social welfare', Journal of Social Policy, 33:1, 73-93.

Milligan, C. (2003) 'Exploring Therapeutic Landscapes: Footsteps to Praxis: 3', Journal for Healthcare Design and Development, September 2003, pp. 15-16.

Fyfe, N. and Milligan, C. (2003) 'Space, citizenship and the 'shadow state': Exploring the voluntary welfare sector in Glasgow' Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 35: pp.

Fyfe, N. and Milligan, C. (2003) 'Out of the shadows: exploring contemporary geographies of the welfare voluntary sector, Progress in Human Geography, 27:4, 397-413.

Milligan, C. (2003) 'Location or Dis-Location: from community to long term care - the caring experience' Journal of Social and Cultural Geography, 4:4, pp 455-470.

Milligan, C. (2000) 'Breaking out of the Asylum': the impact of the informal sector in a restructured mental health environment', Health and Place, 6:3, 189-200.

Milligan, C. (2000) 'Bearing the Burden: towards a restructured geography of caring', Area, 32:1 49-58.

Cummins, S. and Milligan, C. (2000) Guest Editorial: 'Taking up the challenge: new directions in the geographies of health and impairment', Area, 32: 1, 7-10.

Milligan, C. (1998) 'Pathways of Dependency: the Impact of Health and Social Care Restructuring - the Voluntary Experience', Social Science and Medicine, 46:6, 743-753.

Milligan, C. (1996) 'Service Dependent Ghetto Formation - a transferable concept?' Health and Place, 2:4, 199-211.

Book chapters

Bingley, A. and Milligan, C. (in press) 'Sandplay, Clay and Sticks': Multi-Sensory Research Methods to Explore the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of Childhood Play Experience', Methodologies in Children's Geographies, Taylor and Francis, London.

Milligan, C. (2008) 'Restoration or risk? Exploring the place of the common place', in Williams, A. (ed) commissioned chapter for Therapeutic Landscapes: Advances and Applications, Ashgate, Aldershot. pp. 245-272

Milligan, C. (in press) "Location or Dis-location? Towards A Conceptualization of People and Place in the Care-giving Experience", in Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips and Ajaya Kumar Sahoo (eds) Geographies of Ageing: A Reader, Rawat Publisher, New Delhi, India (forthcoming).

Milligan, C., Gatrell, A., and Bingley, C. (in press) 'Cultivating Health': Therapeutic Landscapes and Older People in Northern England', in Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips and Ajaya Kumar Sahoo (eds) Geographies of Ageing: A Reader, Rawat Publisher, New Delhi, India (forthcoming).

Milligan, C. (2007) "Location or Dis-location? Towards A Conceptualization of People and Place in the Care-giving Experience", in Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips and Ajaya Kumar Sahoo (eds) Geographies of Ageing: A Reader, Rawat Publisher, New Delhi, India (forthcoming).

Milligan, C., Gatrell, A., and Bingley, C. (2007) 'Cultivating Health': Therapeutic Landscapes and Older People in Northern England', in Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips and Ajaya Kumar Sahoo (eds) Geographies of Ageing: A Reader, Rawat Publisher, New Delhi, India (forthcoming).

Milligan, C. and Fyfe, N. (2006) ' Renewal or relocation? Voluntarism, Social Welfare and the City', in Milligan, C. and Conradson, D. (eds) Geographies of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance, Policy Press, Bristol (publication date June 2006).

Conradson, D. and Milligan, C. (2006) 'Reflections on Landscapes of Voluntarism', in Milligan, C. and Conradson, D. (eds) Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance, Policy Press, Bristol. Chapter 16.

Milligan, C. and Conradson, D. (2006) 'Spaces of Welfare: the voluntary turn?' in Milligan, C. and Conradson, D. (eds) Geographies of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance, Policy Press, Bristol (publication date June 2006).

Milligan, C., Bingley, A. and Gatrell, T. (2005) 'Healing and Feeling: the place of emotions for older people' in Davidson, J., Smith, M. and Bondi, L., (eds) Emotional Geographies, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 49-62.

Milligan, C. (1999) 'Without these Walls: a geography of mental ill health in a rural environment', in Butler R. and Parr H., Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability, London, Routledge.

Reports

Milligan, C., Roberts, C., Mort, M., Moser, I. (2006) 'The impact of new technologies and responsibilities for health care for older people living at home across diverse European cultures and systems: a policy paper', MEDUSE, http://meduse.pbwiki.com.

Attree, P., Milligan, C., and Roen, K. (2006) Thematic Healthy Living Centres - an evaluation, Research Report, Age Concern, North West.

Milligan, C. (2004) Caring for Older people in New Zealand: informal carers' experiences of the transition of care from the home to residential care Research Report, July, 2004.

Bingley, A.F., Milligan, C. (2004) Climbing trees and building dens: mental health and well-being in young adults and the long-term effects of childhood play experience. End of project report. Click here to download

Milligan, C., Bingley, A.F., Gatrell, A.C. (2003) Cultivating Health Project: end of project report. Click here to download

Bingley, A. Milligan, C. and Gatrell, T. (2003) Cultivating Health and Mental Well-being among Older People in Northern England: Participants' Summary Report, June 2003.

Fyfe, N. and Milligan, C. (2001) Voluntary Organisations, Space and the City: End of Project Report, June 2001.

Milligan, C. and Stengel, K. (2000) Cumbria-wide Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, North Cumbria Health Authority.