About

My name is Lauren Pikó, and I am a researcher, writer, and evaluator based in Melbourne, Australia. 

My academic research has explored the recent cultural history of ideal landscapes, particularly how contentious twentieth-century urban spaces reflect broader orientations towards time, heritage, and imaginings of the future. I am the author of the book Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England (Routledge, 2019) which was based on my PhD (2018, Melb).
 
Since then I have researched and published on urban and heritage studies, British and Australian media and cultural history, and on archival accessibility and academic historical research.  I was a 2019 Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and have taught and researched at universities around Australia on urban and heritage studies, British and Australian history, qualitative and interdisciplinary research methods, cultural studies and philosophies of knowledge organisation. My current work investigates how spatial and temporal norms shape contemporary knowledge production, including material practices of researching and teaching through and with disability. 
My evaluation and consultancy work focuses on transdisciplinary research literacy and effective collaboration between science, social science and humanities research. Accessibility, inclusion and design justice are central to my approach.
 
I am available for freelance writing, editing, research support, disability and evaluation consultancy, and I provide research methods training with a focus on equity, inclusion and justice.

To get in touch, please email me at lauren[dot]anne[dot]piko[at]gmail.com.

Liz Leyh, "Concrete Cows", 1978. Life sized sculptures of cows photographed in a field surrounded by trees. Photographed 2015.