Dr Richard Fawcus is thinking about:
Dissonant heritage, tourism, video games, and neurodiversity.
Research
Ruins and the hyper-sensorium: Embodied spatial engagement and other neurodivergent practices in urban exploration
2026
Paper in: World Leisure Journal.
Co-author: Becky Alexis-Martin.
Published Version (DOI) | Author’s Accepted Manuscript (PDF)
A play to banish the darkness: The domestication of death in Bulgarian folk traditions
2026
Chapter in: Routledge Handbook of Dark Events.
Editors: B. Wyatt, H. Stewart, J. Kennell, & P. R. Stone.
Publisher: Routledge.
Published Version | Author’s Accepted Manuscript (PDF)
Virtual monument wars: The digital future of difficult heritage
2024
Chapter in: The Future of Dark Tourism.
Editors: P. R. Stone & D. W. M. Wright.
Publisher: Channel View Publications.
Published Version (DOI) | Author’s Accepted Manuscript (PDF)
Interrogating virtual architectures
2023
Guest lecture: Brave new worlds: Ethnography of/on online and digital worlds.
BA Anthropology, University of Plymouth.
Ghosts of unrealised futures: The liminality of socialist memorial spaces in southeast Europe
2023
Presented at: States and Spaces of Liminality (conference)
15 June, University of Plymouth.
The Buzludzha Memorial House and the precarious fate of communist monuments in post-communist space
2022
Doctoral dissertation, University of Central Lancashire.
Supervised by Dr Philip R. Stone.
Dark tourism as psychogeography
2018
Chapter in: The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies.
Co-authors: P. R. Stone & D. Jarratt.
Editors: P. R. Stone, R. Hartmann, T. Seaton, R. Sharpley, & L. White.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.
Published Version (DOI) | Author’s Accepted Manuscript (PDF)
Melbourne drains / Odessa catacombs / Moscow’s secret river / Pyongyang metro
Chapters in: Global Undergrounds.
Editors: P. Dobraszczyk, C. L. Galviz, & B. L. Garrett.
Publisher: Reaktion Books / University of Chicago Press.
2018
Communist encounters with the dead
2017
Presented at: Encountering Corpses (conference)
8–9 December, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Research Interviews:
Georgi Stoilov (2015)
Alyosha Kafedzhiyski (2015)
Valentin Starchev (2023)