Participatory Geographies Research Group

Tatiana Bodnar is a doctoral researcher studying community-led urban regeneration and creative placemaking in South Welsh town and city centres, with the social enterprise Urban Foundry for the ESRC Collabrative PhD at Swansea University. Her research practice blends walking methods with playful, creative, and participatory ways of inquiring and engaging with place.

Alongside her PhD , she works part-time as Community Involvement Officer with Urban Foundry where she helps to creative engaging and engagements for a wide range of place-led urban regeneration initatives in South Wales.