Dr Poppy Budworth

Dr Poppy Budworth is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Liverpool, working at the intersection of youth and disability. Her research focuses on young people’s everyday lives, relationships, and encounters through a relational and crip lens.

Poppy has worked on projects exploring diversity, learning disability, and belonging, as well as the impacts of austerity on young people’s life-courses across Europe.

Her current fellowship builds on her PhD research with young people with an ileostomy or colostomy in the UK, with an emphasis on creative, flexible and collaborative approaches that fit with/around people’s diverse (and fluctuating) bodies and lives.

Recent publications

Budworth, P., (2023). Care, comfort, and capacity: The importance of being flexible in research with disabled and chronically ill people. Social Science and Medicine, 4, pp. 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100352

Budworth, P., (2025). Beyond normativity: negotiating chronicity as young people with an ostomy. Social & Cultural Geography, pp. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2574710

Wilkinson, C. and Budworth, P., (2025). Pooh-poohing school toilet policies:(more than) leaky bodies as resistance for school children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Children's Geographies, pp. 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2025.2467276