Kelsey Monteith

Gypsy-Traveller Domicide? Exploring the making and unmaking of Gypsy-Traveller homes

Kelsey is a DPhil student who works with nomadic peoples, specifically Gypsies and Travellers in the United Kingdom - a misunderstood, marginalised, and misrepresented ethnic minority group. Her research draws together cultural, legal, political, and animal geographies to explore what meanings of home are important to Gypsy-Travellers, and how these understandings are (mis)understood, threatened, and even destroyed by societal, legal, and political persecution.

She previously completed her BA in Geography and MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance at the Oxford School of Geography and the Environment. For her undergraduate dissertation, she was awarded the internal AJ Herbertson Prize for "the best Human Geography Dissertation in FHS Geography 2023" alongside the external Royal Geographic Society (with IBG) Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize for "the best undergraduate dissertation in a UK geography department."

• Monteith, K. (2025) “Can’t Mandy cure?!” Examining practices of cultural resistance within the Gypsy-Traveller community. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0(0).