About

Education: 2001-2005 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield: DPhil (ESRC awarded) 2000-2001 University of Sheffield: MA in Social and Cultural Geographies 1994-1997 University of Sussex: BA(Hons) Geography and Development Studies Research: My ongoing research interests concern the social, cultural and political geographies of (mental) health and wellbeing. These have been explored through two interrelated areas. First, through my PhD (awarded 2006) and ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007-2008), I have looked at political contestations which surround both mental health law and end of life care in England and Wales. Much of this research is grounded in the work of Foucault and his notions of biopolitics, governmentality, counter-conduct, and agonism. Second, I have looked at the relationship between ‘Eastern’ spiritual disciplines and everyday health and wellbeing practices. To explore this, I was fortunate to work with Professor Chris Philo (Glasgow) and Dr Jennifer Lea (Exeter) as a research fellow on an AHRC funded project which looked at the integration of practices, such as yoga and meditation, in everyday urban lives. Currently I am researching proposed reforms to the Mental Health Act in England and Wales. Publications: Lea, J., Philo, C., & Cadman, L. (2018). The small stuff of barely spiritual practices. In Bartolini, N., Mackian, S., & Pile, S (Eds.), Spaces of Spirituality. London: Routledge. Cadman, L., Philo, C., & Lea, J. (forthcoming). Using time-space diaries and interviews to research spiritualities in an everyday context. In Woodhead, L (Ed.), How to Research Religion: Putting Methods into Practice. Oxford: OUP. Lea, J., Philo, C., & Cadman, L. (2016). ‘It’s a fine line between... self discipline, devotion and dedication’: negotiating authority in the teaching and learning of Ashtanga yoga. Cultural Geographies, 23(1), 69-85. Lea, J., Cadman, L., & Philo, C. (2015). Changing the habits of a lifetime? Mindfulness meditation and habitual geographies. Cultural Geographies, 22(1), 49-65. Philo, C., Cadman, L., & Lea, J. (2014). New Energy Geographies: a Case Study of Yoga, Meditation and Healthfulness. Journal of Medical Humanities, 36(1), 35-46. Cadman, L. (2010). How (not) to be governed: Foucault, critique and the political. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(3), 539-556. Cadman, L. (2009). Life and death decisions in our posthuman(ist) times. Antipode, 41(1), 124-149. Cadman, L. (2009). Non-representational theory/non-representational geographies. In Kitchen. R., and Thrift. N (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (1st ed., pp. 456-63). Oxford: Elsevier.

Teaching

Department of the Natural and Built Environment

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Geography, Environment and Planning

Approaches to Human Geography Key Concepts in the Social Sciences Critical Geographies Geographies of Everyday Life Research Methods in Environmental, Geographical and Social Sciences Place, Memory and Meaning Dissertation

Publications