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People

Our staff are all internationally recognised for their research. Their interests encompass social science, humanities and environmental science, and approaches to understanding the complexities of human existence in a diverse and fast-changing world. Their many publications contain original contributions to theory, methodology and policy.

Director and Deputy Director

Academic staff

Professor Ross Gordon

Dr Gillian Gregory

Dr Anna Lewis

Janine Bailey

Thesis: The Art of Multispecies: Developing a sustainable art practice through care and collaboration.
Supervisors: &


Lizzie Buckmaster Dove

Thesis Title: Walking Back: Towards Geographies of Belonging
Supervisors:   


Laura Butler

Thesis: Peri-urban horticulture and biosecurity awareness and action
Supervisors:  and 


Vanessa Cavanagh

Thesis: Aboriginal Women know: Cultural burning and Aboriginal women in NSW
Supervisors: , ,


Ty Challand

Thesis: Critical geographies, political ecologies of forestry and biosecurity in Australia
Supervisors:


Diana Dawson

Thesis: Is sharing responsibility for invasive plant control enough?  How community and government can achieve collective impact for improved biodiversity outcomes in Australia.
Supervisors:  and 


Alexis Farr

Thesis: Fish Futures: Cultural Geographies of Freshwater Ecosystems
Supervisor:


Thomas Fisher

Thesis: Space for cycling?: Infrastructure and Embodied Experiences of Cyclists in an Australian Regional Centre
Supervisors:  and 


John Lahai

Thesis: Exploring diverse experiences of refugee settlement in regional Australia 
Supervisors: &


Natasha Larkin

Thesis: Renewable energy workers in regional Australia: A qualitative study of the Illawarra
Supervisors:  and  


Jennifer Macey

Thesis: Listening Geographies: Capturing Voices And Sounds In A Changing Industrial Landscape - How Podcasting Can Create A Living History
Supervisors:  and 


Teaniel Mifsud

Thesis: Exploring Perceptions and Policies Concerning Shark Mitigation on the East Coast of Australia
Supervisors:  and 


Thesis: The Long Winter: A comparative study of leadership, diversity and inclusion in the guiding and avalanche profession in Canada and New Zealand
Supervisors:  and 


Ville Santala 

Thesis: From experimentations to collaborative governance: The role and implications of experimentations in shaping Australian smart cities
Supervisors:  and 


Jennifer Smart

Thesis: Crossing Land, Social and Biosecurity Boundaries: Recreational Visitor Networks, Values, Practices and Knowledge and the Management of Weeds in the Kosciuszko Region
Supervisors:  and 


Alexandre York

Thesis: Enhanced Humans, Robotics and the Future of Work
Supervisors: and 


Melinda Young

Thesis: Landlines and Tracelines - topographies of place and the body in the field of Australian contemporary jewellery practice
Supervisors:  and 

2023

Freya Croft 

Thesis: Emotional Experiences of Coral Reefs - Can Embodied and Mediated Coral Reef Experiences have Conservation Outcomes? The Case of Ningaloo Reef
Supervisors:  and 


Marc Llewellyn

Thesis: An Examination of the Relationships that the People of Rarotonga have with Native and Non-Native Species; in order to Inform Conservation Strategy on the Island
Supervisors:  and 


Leigh Robinson

Thesis: The highs and lows of the airport: volunteering in an intensely mobile space
Supervisors:  and 


Makrita Solitei

Thesis: Managing Waste in Indigenous Communities Through a 3D Printing Centric Circular Economy
Supervisors:  and  


2022

M. Abdul Malak

Thesis: Exploring the climatic and anthropogenic challenges to build livelihood vulnerability and resilience of Tanguar Haor in Bangladesh
Supervisors: , Professor Noel Castree and 

Hilton Penfold

Thesis: Material Geographies of the Tiny House: Downsizing the 'Great Australian Dream' for Sustainability
Supervisors:  and 

2021

Lance Barrie

Thesis: The embodied dimensions of endurance cycling and the formation of gendered cycling identities
Supervisors:  and 

Kiera Kent 

Thesis: Children’s play encounters: materiality and more-than-human theory
Supervisors: and 

Carrie Wilkinson

Thesis: Beyond Mains Water: A study of households that are self-sufficient for water in regional NSW
Supervisors:  and 


 

Thesis: Living with children in apartments: sharing, materials and space
Supervisors:  and 

2020

Rebecca Campbell

Thesis: Food and kitchens as gendered household sustainability practice in Pacific Island migrant households
Supervisors: and  


Ananth Gopal

Thesis: Growing cultures: cultivating culturally diverse ecological knowledge
Supervisors: Professor Lesley Head and 


Shefali Juneja Lakhina

Thesis: Resilient together: engaging the knowledge and capacities of refugees for a disaster resilient Illawarra
Supervisors: , Professor Noel Castree and 


Razia Sultana

Thesis: Urban Green Infrastructure in the Global South: adapting slums to climate change in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Supervisors:  and 

2019

Ren Hu

Thesis: Australian agricultural restructuring and formers responses: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales
Supervisors:  and  


Ryan Frazer

Thesis: The limits of care: lines, refrains, becomings
Supervisors:  and 


Stephanie Toole

Thesis: Climate change adaptation in culturally-diverse Australian households
Supervisors:  and Professor Lesley Head


2018

Thesis: Maintenance and repair beyond the perimeter of the plant: materials, skills and household life in the industrial city
Supervisors:  and Professor Lesley Head 


Susannah Clement

Thesis: Walking together: child and parent pedestrian mobilities in ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ City centre
Supervisors:   and 


Shaun McKiernan

Thesis: Management, agency and belonging: exploring invasive plant management in high amenity rural areas
Supervisors:  and 


Nick Skilton

Thesis: Privilege and marginalization in Australia’s national imaginary: constructions of mining and sex worker identities through technologies of power
Supervisors:  and   


Thesis: Making space: young people’s routines of consumption and implications for the cultural economy of sustainability
Supervisors:  and  


Alexander Tindale

Thesis: Contesting the urban myth of ethnic segregation
Supervisors: ,  and  


Justin Westgate

Thesis: Responding to crisis: creative practices in volatile spaces
Supervisors:  and