Dr Carolyn Gibbeson

Assistant Professor

School: Architecture and Built Environment

I am Assistant Professor in the Built Environment in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at Northumbria University. Prior to joining Northumbria I taught for seven years on Built Environment courses at Sheffield Hallam University. Before joining academia I worked as a commercial surveyor in public and private organisations.

My research explores how practical everyday decisions on the built environment are affected by people’s attachments, views and opinions. I am particularly interested in the resilience of the historic built environment and how the past affects our future decisions. Areas of interest include country houses and medical real estate.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Place attachment, historic built environment, value, property management, dark real estate, building adaptation and reuse.

Key Publications

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Agricultural Shows: connecting people, place and emotions, Gibbeson, C., Westwood, C. 1 Oct 2025, In: Journal of Rural Studies
Negative Heritage, Gibbeson, C. 11 Jan 2025, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
Perceptions of professional stakeholders in the process of historic building regeneration in the UK: a relational perspective, Gibbeson, C. 1 Aug 2024, In: Cities
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums., Gibbeson, C. 3 Jun 2023, In: International Journal of Heritage Studies
Agricultural shows, connectivity and families of choice, Westwood, C., Gibbeson, C. 19 May 2022, Family Events, London, Taylor & Francis
Let's talk about our historical built environment, Gibbeson, C. 1 Dec 2022
Negotiating a negative past in the reuse of historic prisons, Gibbeson, C., Gill, S. 1 Jun 2022, In: Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal
A Boundary Between Two Worlds?: Community Perceptions of Former Asylums in Lancashire, England, Gibbeson, C., Beattie, K. 13 May 2021, Voices in the History of Madness, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
‘Not just a building, a community’: staff reflections on former historic asylum sites, Gibbeson, C. 17 May 2021, In: Oral History
Place attachment and negative places: A qualitative approach to historic former mental asylums, stigma and place-protectionism, Gibbeson, C. 1 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Environmental Psychology

Professional Activity

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Membership of network: The British Academic Early Career Network (External organisation) 2025
Publication Peer-review: International Journal of Heritage Studies (Journal) 2020
Other: PhD- Charlene Cross Sheffield Hallam University 2019
Publication Peer-review: Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal (Journal) 2018
Other: PhD Supervision - Katie Steele - Sheffield Hallam University 2018

PGR Supervision

Jonathan Pearson A Conceptual Model for Adaptive Reuse Development: An empirical analysis of commercial-to-healthcare repurposing in the UK Start Date: 01/10/2024
Lynn Johnson Changing Facades: The impact of changing retail occupational habits on traditional investment valuation methods and the implications for the valuation profession Start Date: 07/11/2023