Institute of Australian Geographers

GEOView

GEOView is an online journal that supports, through publication, the diverse range of high quality research being undertaken by undergraduate students of Geography, Environmental Studies and allied disciplines (e.g. Planning and Heritage Management) across Australian universities. GEOView is published online by the Institute of Australian Geographers.

GEOView is one of the earliest online journals of its type. It was established in 1996 by Iain Hay and a group of his second year students at Flinders University to encourage and publicise the diverse range of high quality research being undertaken by undergraduate students in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management (SGPEM). The journal takes its name from the students’ society associated with the School at that time: ‘GEOS – Geography, Environment, Oekumene Society’.

The original ambitions of the journal were to give undergraduate students of Geography and Environmental Studies the chance to have their excellent work recognised publicly, provide a growing collection of high quality student work that could be referred to for a variety of learning-and-teaching reasons, and to provide students with the opportunity to participate actively in editorial and critical reviewer roles for an electronic journal.

In late 2008, Iain Hay and Flinders PhD student Edoardo Rosso approached IAG Council with a proposal that the Institute publish GEOView, offering it as a national outlet for undergraduate students. Council accepted the proposal and Edoardo Rosso became the journal’s first national Editor, with Andrew Gorman-Murray and Sean Sloan as the first members of the national editorial board.

GEOView publishes the best of student work on the recommendation of assessors and with the consent of the student-authors. Submitted papers are peer-reviewed. The responsibility of the content lies with the authors.

GEOView can now be accessed through http://geoview.iag.org.au/index.php/GEOView/index which is using Open Journal Systems (OJS) software.

When you click on the ABOUT tab you will find further details on the principal contact, editorial team, focus and scope of the journal, and most importantly the online submission process.

Please click on the ARCHIVES tab to access previous issues of the journal, from 1997.

Principal Contact:
Dr Andrew Gorman-Murray
University of Western Sydney
School of Social Sciences and Psychology,
University of Western Sydney,
Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9772 6649
Fax: +61 2 9772 6584
Email: a.gorman-murray@uws.edu.au

Editorial Board:

• Dr Robyn Bartel, University of New England, Australia
• Dr Scott Sharpe, UNSW@Canberra, Australia
• Dr Matthew Rofe, University of South Australia, Australia
• Dr Emma Power, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Dr Melissa Nursey-Bray, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Dr Martine Maron, University of Queensland, Australia
• Dr Paul Maginn, University of Western Australia, Australia
• Dr Ruth Lane, Monash University, Australia
• Dr Lesley Instone, University of Newcastle, Australia
• Dr Donna Houston, Macquarie University, Australia
• Dr Daniell Drozdzewski, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Dr Bruce Doran, Australian National University, Australia
• Dr Kristin Den Exter, Southern Cross University, Australia
• Dr Aidan Davison, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Dr Amanda Davies, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• Dr Jason Antony Byrne, Griffith University, Australia
• Dr Hugo Bekle, Edith Cowan University, Australia
• Sean Sloane, University of Melbourne, Australia