THE LRM

Amongst other things I’m an anarcho-flaneuse, performance artist and part-time lecturer in Geography at The University of Liverpool.

My first book, The Feminist Art of Walking, is published by Pluto Books on October 20th 2025. for more details and pre-orders of the book have a look here: https://www.plutobooks.com/.../the-feminist-art-of-walking/There will be a national tour of walks, talks and conversations to promote this work. 

In 2006 I founded the psychogeographical collective The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). Since then I’ve developed a unique academic-activist-artistic praxis asserting that the streets should belong to everyone. My research interests include walking as a cultural, political, artistic and research tool, the importance of public space, access and equality and reimagining Manchester. I love The Handsome Family, Doctor Who, a pint of Guinness in a proper pub, gig going, cake decorating, gardening and perfecting my seitan. 

I have built giant cake maps, played CCYV Bingo, initiated human fox hunts and hunts for canal monsters, been artist in residence at George Street Community Bookshop, appeared at festivals and presented, performed and exhibited my work widely. My PhD Thesis Women Walking Manchester, Desire Lines Through The Original Modern City, explores womens intersectional experiences of walking in Manchester. (My CV is available if you really want to see all this).

I am actively involved in a number of campaigns to make Manchester a fairer, more equal and interesting place. Currently these include Chairing Our Irwell, a community group dedicated to protecting, progressing and promoting public access to the river and opposing various policies and other developments which criminalise homeless people, limit access to public space or privatise our streets.

I was Co-Investigator on Walking Publics / Walking Art: Walking Wellbeing and Community During Covid-19. This research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council explored the potential of the arts to sustain, encourage and more equitably support walking during and recovering from a pandemic. The multi disciplinary team was led by Professor Dee Heddon at the University of Glasgow. For more details please see walkcreate.gla.ac.uk. 

I am also part of the team challenging disregard and disbelief in the lives of people with energy limiting conditions. This ongoing research project, led by Professor Bethan Evans, at the University of Liverpool, imagines better futures of public health care see disbeliefdisregard.co.uk

I welcome invitations for walks, talks, lectures, workshops or other interesting projects. I have performed, exhibited and shared my work widely, please get in touch if you want to find out more or have a chat. A list of performance walks and tours I have written can be found here under events

Selected Writing

If you can’t access any of these publications please email me mlrose@thelrm.org and I will  share my copy

2025
“The City is Not For Us” Ethics, Everyday Sexism and Negotiating Unwanted Encounters During Fieldwork Area  https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12997

Morag Rose, Dee Heddon, Clare Qualmann, Maggie O’Neill and Harry Wilson WalkCreate: Walking Together as Site Specific Performance in The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance edited by Victoria Hunter and Cathy Turner

2024
Bethan Evans, Alison Allam, Ana Bê, Catherine Hale, Morag Rose, & Anna Ruddock. (2024) Being left behind beyond recovery: ‘crip time’ and chronic illness in neoliberal academia. Social and Cultural Geography, 1-21. doi:10.1080/14649365.2024.2410262

2023
Olivia Mason, Jasnea Sarma, James D. Sidaway, Alastair Bonnett, Phil Hubbard, Ghazala Jamil, Jennie Middleton, Maggie O'Neill, James Riding, Morag Rose (2023) Interventions in walking methods in political geography Political Geography ISSN 0962-6298, DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102937 

2022
Morag Rose and The Modernist Heroines (2022) From an Aviatrix to a Eugenicist: Walking With Manchester’s Modernist Heroines Gender Place and Culture
DOI:  10.1080/0966369X.2021.1956436

Understanding Walking and Creativity During Covid-19: Walking Publics / Walking Art Public Report with Dee Heddon, Clare Qualmann, Maggie O'Neill and Harry Wilson https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/walkcreate-report/

The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing with Dee Heddon, Clare Qualmann, Maggie O'Neill and Harry Wilson https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/the-walkbook/

Stuck in the mud? Finding the glee in all fieldworking bodies Area 54:536–540

Fostering a Disconnect: How Verticality is Hindering Human Connection with Urban Spaces with Lorenza Casini
Sociological Review October 2022 online

Choosing Layers, Making Places with Lorenza Casini The Academy of Urbanism Here and Now https://journal.theaou.org/welcome/choosing-layers-making-places/

Catcalls and Cobbles: Gendered Limits of the Right to The City in Burgum S. and Higgins K (ed) 'How the Other Half Lives: Contrasting Experiences of Everyday Inequality'  Manchester University Press

Notes for The Low Drift (sleevenotes and online)
https://thelowdrift.com/writing/blog/a-letter-from-morag-rose

Walking is Democratic, We Must Preserve the Right of Way In The Planner RPTI October

Fragments / celebrating Micro-Climates NAWE magazine

2021
From an Aviatrix to a Eugenicist: Walking With Manchester’s Modernist Heroines (Morag Rose and The Modernist Heroines) in Gender Place and Culture DOI:  10.1080/0966369X.2021.1956436 

Walking Together, Alone During the Pandemic in Geography 106:2, 101-104, DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2021.1919414

A Partial Ornithological Treasury of Salford in You Belong Here Salford Art Gallery

2020
Access Denied? Disabled People and Walking Art in H. Billinghurst, C. Hind and P. Smith et al (ed) Walking Bodies Triarchy Press

Pedestrian Practices: Walking from the Mundane to the Marvellous in S.M. Hall and H. Holmes (ed) Mundane Methods Manchester University Press

Whose City? In Red Pepper #229 August ‘No return to normal’
UnManchester: A Warning to Soul Seekers Shock City 1: Authenticity

Spirit, Canal, Place in P. Dobraszcyzk and S. Butler (eds) Manchester Something Rich and Strange Manchester University Press

"I am not a Sat Nav": Affective Place-Making, Community Action and the Ginnel That Roared in C. Courage and L. Platt (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Place-Making Routledge

Psychogeography and Urban Exploration with Jane Samuels in N. von Benzon, M. Holton, C. Wilkinson and S. Wilkinson (eds) Creative Methods for Human Geographers Sage

2019
There’s Something in The Water! A Psychogeographical Exploration of Manchester’s Waterways in K. Bell (ed) Supernatural Cities Boydell and Brewer

Loitering, Resisting, Moving in C. Rose (ed) Psychogeography and Psychotherapy: PCCS Books

 Pedestrian Provocations: Manifesting an Accessible Future, with Blake Morris  in Global Performance Studies 2.2.

The PSPO Who is Manchester For? Greater Manchester Housing Action blog http://www.gmhousingaction.com/the-pspo-who-is-manchester-for/

2018
Women Walking Manchester: Desire Lines Through The Original Modern City (Phd thesis, University of Sheffied)

2017
Buzzing, Bimbling, Beating Our Bounds: Walking A Line Through Manchester in LivingMaps Review 3 

2015
Confessions of an Anarcho-Flâneuse or Psychogeography The Mancunian Way in Walking Inside Out ed. Tina Richardson Rowman and Littlefield International

Listen: 

I am delighted to contribute to the following, thanks to everyone who made them happen especially Jo Norcup

The Art of Now: Women Who Walk https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000nmn

Geography Workshop Presents ‘Er Outdoors https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/her-outdoors-14-april-2016/