Dr Natalie Morningstar

Chandaria Teaching Associate, Bye-Fellow & Director of Studies in HSPS, Fitzwilliam College; Affiliated Lecturer at Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

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Chandaria Teaching Associate, Bye-Fellow & Director of Studies in HSPS, Fitzwilliam College; Affiliated Lecturer at Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Natalie is a social anthropologist with an interest in activism, party politics, cost of living and housing crises, urban development and inequality. Her work has focused on the effects of the 2008 recession and housing crisis on young people’s employment and housing opportunities in the Republic of Ireland, as well as the relationship between democratic disenchantment and a range of social movements, especially the campaign to the Repeal the 8th amendment and legalise abortion, and ongoing campaigns for social and affordable housing. More recently, she has also explored the relationship between the housing crisis, anti-austerity activism after 2008, and the rising popularity of the pro-unification and nationalist party Sinn Féin, north and south of the Irish border, as well as what residents judge to be good quality housing and social infrastructure in social and affordable housing estates in Ireland and the UK. She is also interested in how ethnographic data can be put in conversation with quantitative datasets to generate informed evidence bases for policymakers, a methodological question she is currently considering in relation to housing policy.

Natalie is currently the Chandaria Teaching Associate, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Human, Social & Political Sciences (HSPS) at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Prior to this, she held posts as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow and a Teaching Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge. Since 2021, Natalie has also held a post as a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. She earned her PhD and MPhil at the University of Cambridge and her BA in Anthropology at Yale University.

  • 18 June 2024, 9:30am

    2024 CSaP Annual Conference

    The Royal Society played host to a successful Annual Conference, where experts from academia, policy, and civil society and others from CSaP's network gathered to explore the future of science and technology in the UK.