Email t.a.lowe@nus.edu.sg

I am a Research Fellow working within the SAGE project, headed by Dr Zoe Hildon at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. Much of my research expertise revolves around lived experiences, especially of older adults living in the community and in many cases providing informal care for a loved one. My research is largely qualitative in nature and often utilizes arts-based approaches such as graphic elicitation. Throughout my education and research, I have conducted research in the UK, India, Ethiopia and Hong Kong. I am also an active academic citizen, acting as a peer reviewer for several journals and also acting as an editor for the journal ‘Postgraduate Pedagogies’. I am also a committee member for the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

• Older adults’ lived experiences
• Empowerment & vulnerabilities
• Qualitative methods
• Arts-based methods

• Qualitative methods and practices
• Ageing in place studies

• PhD (Spatial Sciences), University of Groningen, Population Research Centre (2024)
• MSc (International Development Studies), Utrecht University (2018)
• BA (Human Geography with International Study), University of Manchester & Hong Kong University (2017)

• Research Fellow, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health NUS, December 2024-Present.
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Population Research Centre, University of Groningen, January 2024-November 2024.

• Lowe, T. A. (2024). Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Nostalgia and mobility perceptions of informal dementia carers. Emotion, Space and Society, 53, 101028.
• Meijering, L., Osborne, T., Lowe, T. A., Sattari, Z., de Haas, B., Schreuder, L., … & Maeckelberghe, E. (2024). Challenges and opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A layered vulnerabilities perspective. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 100419.
• Lowe, T. A., Meijering, L., & de Haas, B. (2023). The role of performativity in informal dementia carers’ capability to be mobile. Social Science & Medicine, 329, 116030.
• Lowe, T. A., Osborne, T., & Bell, S. (2023). Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research. Area, 55(2), 264-273.
• Lowe, T. A., de Haas, B., Osborne, T., & Meijering, L. (2022). Older adults’ adaptations to life events: a mobility perspective. Ageing & Society, 1-19.