Harriet Sams

Harriet Sams

  • hsams at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • PGR
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Research

Archaeotherapy, cultural heritage therapy, psychology of place, therapeutic landscapes, paganism, druidry, phenomenology, ecotherapy, animism, pantheism.

Sustainability Science, environmental and social justice

Journal Articles

  • Sams, H., 2023. Archaeology, heritage, and wellbeing: authentic, powerful, and therapeutic engagement with the past. ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 180 (2), 179-180.
  • Sams, H., Heaslip, V. and Darvill, T., 2023. "Finding the Orphaned Irish Parts of Me" at the New Cut: Defining Self-Identity Through Encountering an Archaeological Site. AHM CONFERENCE 2023: DIASPORIC HERITAGE AND IDENTITY, 23-30.

Chapters

  • Sams, H., 2024. Radical Joy for Hard Times and the Attending to Place practice. In: Bednarek, S., ed. Climate, Psychology and Change- Psychotherapy in a Time when the Familiar is Dying. UK: Random House, 229-234.

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Frontiers of Sustainability Science, Green Economy Masters

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Ritual in the Anthropocene (09 Oct 2021)
  • Archaeology and Ecotherapy- Day workshop (19 Jun 2021-19 Mar 2021)
  • Archaeology and Ecotherapy (27 May 2021)
  • What is Ecotherapy? Day Conference (22 May 2021)
  • Attending to Place (29 Apr 2021-01 Jul 2021)
  • Personal ecotherapy blog (01 Jan 2016)