Dr Natalie Djohari
- u_ndjohari at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- Post-Doctoral Embedded Researcher
Biography
Natalie is based at the Centre for Seldom Heard Voices. She specialises in creative, participatory and qualitative research, with a focus on understanding how people experience and navigate social organisations, services and systems. Her work draws from anthropology and human geography to understand what ‘matters’ in people’s everyday lives – specifically those things that are valued, prioritised or considered significant for wellbeing and quality of life. This focus on mattering frequently draws her to work on the disparities between policy priorities and the lived experiences of those who lack visibility or are seldom heard. She is particularly interested in working with vulnerable or marginalised groups, disenfranchised communities, and children and young people. Her current work 'Waiting Well' explores the pre-diagnosis experiences of informal carers supporting someone with dementia symptoms.
Natalie prioritises ethnographic methods and the development of creative and participatory approaches... Her work frequently reflects on materialities, affect, emotion, co‐constitution and mutual entanglement in everyday life. She has a special interest in waterscapes and was UK researcher for the ESRC interdisciplinary project Fishercoast: Coastal Transformations and Fisher Wellbeing – A synthesized perspectives from India and Europe (2019-2022); and was lead researcher for the young people’s section of the Big Lottery Funded Social and Community Benefits of Angling Project (2009-2013). From 2021 to 2023 she was co-investigator (with Dr Gavin Weston) for the British Academy/Leverhulme funded project ‘Watching the Coast’ that explored volunteering and vigilance along the Kent and Sussex coast.
She was also research fellow for the ESRC funded ProTechThem: Building Awareness for Safer and Technology-Savvy Sharenting (University of Southampton) exploring the digital harms associated with sharing children’s data throughs parents’ social media posts. Past work has explored young people’s awareness of gambling advertising in Premiership football; the development of moral values in international schools; value and attachment in babywearing; materialities of place in ghost walks; and ‘value’ at the Antiques Roadshow.
moreExpertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Good health and well-being
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"
Responsible consumption and production
"Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns"
Journal Articles
- Ugwudike, P., Roth, S., Lavorgna, A., Djohari, N., 2026. ‘Only people we’re friends with can see the posts’: exploring parental awareness of the systemic complexities and cybersecurity risks of sharing child-centric data on social media. Journal of Cybersecurity, 12 (1).
- Weston, G., Djohari, N., 2025. Generative AI and Socio-Technological Advancements: What Now for Anthropology? Teaching Anthropology, 14 (2), 76-79.
- Weston, G., Djohari, N., 2025. No Clear Line in the Sand:Student Perceptions of Ethical and Practical uses of Generative AI. Teaching Anthropology, 14 (2), 80-87.
- Cornish, H., Weston, G., Djohari, N., Urdea, A., Liber, E., Evans, L., 2024. For love and money: Navigating values at the antiques roadshow event. Journal of Popular Culture, 57 (2), 80-92.
- Ugwudike, P., Roth, S., Lavorgna, A., Middleton, S.E., Djohari, N., Tartari, M., Mandal, A., 2024. Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations. Big Data and Society, 11 (1).
- Rao, N., Djohari, N., 2024. Both visible and invisible: women, risk-taking and the expansion of fisheries technologies in South India. Gender Technology and Development, 28 (1), 29-49.
- Djohari, N., White, C., 2022. How the socio-cultural practices of fishing obscure micro-disciplinary, verbal, and psychological abuse of migrant fishers in North East Scotland. Maritime Studies, 21 (1), 19-34.
- Djohari, N., Weston, G., Cassidy, R., Kulas-Reid, I., 2021. The visibility of gambling sponsorship in football related products marketed directly to children. Soccer and Society, 22 (7), 769-777.
- Djohari, N., Higham, R., 2020. Peer-led focus groups as ‘dialogic spaces’ for exploring young people’s evolving values. Cambridge Journal of Education, 50 (5), 657-672.
- Weston, G., Woodman, J., Cornish, H., Djohari, N., 2019. Spectral cities: Death and living memories in the dark tourism of British ghost walks. Urbanities, 9 (2), 36-51.
- Djohari, N., Weston, G., Cassidy, R., Wemyss, M., Thomas, S., 2019. Recall and awareness of gambling advertising and sponsorship in sport in the UK: A study of young people and adults. Harm Reduction Journal, 16 (1).
- Higham, R., Djohari, N., 2018. From voting to engaging: promoting democratic values across an international school network. Oxford Review of Education, 44 (6), 669-685.
- Djohari, N., Brown, A., Stolk, P., 2018. The comfort of the river: understanding the affective geographies of angling waterscapes in young people’s coping practices. Children S Geographies, 16 (4), 356-367.
- Djohari, N., Pyndiah, G., Arnone, A., 2018. Rethinking ‘safe spaces’ in children’s geographies. Children S Geographies, 16 (4), 351-355.
- Djohari, N., 2016. Trading in unicorns: The role of exchange etiquette in managing the online second-hand sale of sentimental babywearing wraps. Journal of Material Culture, 21 (3), 297-316.
- Djohari, N., Brown, A., Stolk, P., 2016. ‘The one that got away’: how angling as a culture of practice manifests in the teaching and learning relationship within angling-based intervention programmes. Ethnography and Education, 11 (1), 40-56.
- Weston, G., Djohari, N., 2012. The Ship of Theseus and the problem of "postwar" answers to contemporary Guatemalan problems. History and Anthropology, 23 (4), 405-424.
- Djohari, N., 2009. Prisoners of freedom: human rights and the African poor. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, 15 (3), 647-648.
Books
- Weston, G., Djohari, N., 2020. Anthropological controversies: The ‘crimes’ and misdemeanours that shaped a discipline.
Chapters
- Roth, S., Ugwudike, P., Lavorgna, A., Middleton, S.E., Djohari, N., Tartari, M., Mandal, A., 2025. Sharenting Risks and Harms: A Criminological Perspective. In: Walrave, M., Hudders, L., Vanwesenbeeck, I., Beuckels, E., eds. Sharenting Practices, Consequences and Protective Measures. Springer Nature.
Reports
- Djohari, N., 2026. Waiting Well: The Support and Information Needs of Family Carers Prior to a Dementia Diagnosis.. Bournemouth University.
- Djohari, N., 2026. Policy Brief. Waiting Well: The Support and Information Needs of Family Carers Prior to a Dementia Diagnosis. Key Findings.. Bournemouth University.