The Lockdown Game: Meanings of Freedom after the Covid Crisis

Ella Harris is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Geography Department at Birkbeck, University of London. Prior to this, Ella was an ESRC postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She's also worked as a research assistant in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway University on a collaborative project on pop-up social housing. She completed a PhD in Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway University in 2017.

Ella’s research focuses on compensatory cultures in crisis times. Ella also works with creative digital methods including interactive documentary. She has published widely on subjects including the cultural geographies of precarity, pop-up culture and pop-up housing, immersive cinema and interactive documentary. Her book on pop-up culture is out now!