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Directory of Expertise - Cultural Geography
This IAG cultural study group directory of expertise is organised alphabetically by surname. The directory consists of brief statements of current and past projects, and methodological expertise. Links to homepages and e-mail contacts provide the opportunity to explore members research in more detail.
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Dr Rachel Hughes
Geography Program
University of Melbourne
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Professor Kay Anderson
Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
E-MAIL: k.anderson@uws.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://pubapps.uws.edu.au/teldir/personprocess.php?7614
Research area/methodological expertise: The racialisation of identity and difference; urban ethnic enclaves including Chinatowns and urban Aboriginality; the cultural politics of nation-building; cultures of urban nature; colonial science, knowledge and power. These topics fit within the more inclusive field of cultural geography, which which I have had a long history of intellectual engagement.Her most recent book is Race and the Crisis of Humanism, published by Routledge in 2007. She is also author of Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada 1875-1980 and coeditor and contributor of the Handbook of Cultural Geography (Anderson et al., 2003). She was joint editor of the flagship Progress in Human Geography (2000-4), is an editorial board member of various journals including Cultural Geographies, Geographical Research, and City, and section editor on ‘Cultural and Social Geography’ for a forthcoming Encyclopedia of Human Geography(Elsevier).
Richard Baker
Deputy Dean of ANU College of Science
Environmental policy and planning, Indigenous resource management issues, environmental education, university teaching methods
E-mail: Richard.Baker@anu.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/academics/bakerr.php
http://fennerschool-people.anu.edu.au/richard_baker/index.html
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise: Aboriginal land management, public participation in environmental policy and resource management, environmental education, cultural landscapes and teaching and learning.
Dr Simon Batterbury
Assistant Professor Dept. of Geography and Regional Development The University of Arizona
409 Harvill Building, Box #2 Tucson, AZ 85721-0076, USA
E-MAIL: simonpjb@unimelb.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.simonbatterbury.net/home/
@ University of Arizona till June Dr Batterbury will be based at the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne from July.
A short statement on current and past projects, and your methodological expertise: Landscape, political ecology, transnational livelihoods, Africa.
Bill Boyd
Professor, School of Environmental Science & Management, Southern Cross University
E-MAIL: william.boyd@scu.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/palaeo/Bill.index.html
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise: Research theme 1: Human-landscape interaction in the S.W. Pacific margin, 25,000 years ago to present.
Projects: Environmental archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Bangkok Plain and the Khorat Plateau, Thailand; Environmental archaeology of the Lapita culture of New Britain, P.N.G.; Palaeogeography and environmental history of the central east coast of Australia (S.E. Queensland & N.E. N.S.W.); Environmental archaeology of the Polynesian and European occupations of New Zealand.
Research theme II: Theory and practice in cultural geography and cultural heritage studies.
Projects: Application of cultural theory to cultural heritage management; Geographical perception and the social construction of place image; Role of cultural influences in environmental science higher education.
Kathleen Broderick
E-MAIL: kathleen.broderick@gbrmpa.gov.au
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise: My PhD research project examined the role and nature of social and cultural factors in Ecosystem Management. My background is in public participation and environmental education.
Jamil Brownson
Visiting Professor, Geography & Asian Studies, University of Iowa,
E-MAIL: jbrownson@csuchico.edu
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: Structuralist & post-structuralist communication, ethnological, geopolitical & World Systems theories of cultural change & development; Cultural/Arts Industries Policy & Planning… Central Asian, Circumboreal, Mediterranean Cultural Realms, exchange & diffusion along the Silk Road & Indian Ocean Spice Route.
Dr Christy Collis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland
E-MAIL: c.collis@uq.edu.au
Research Interests: Australian Antarctic spatiality (current project: “The Spirit of Possession: A Spatial History of the Australian Antarctic Territory”), critical legal geographies of Australian territorial possession, contemporary exploration in Australia’s central deserts and in Antarctica, Australian 4WD culture and its role in producing desert spatialities, Australian Antarctic station design and function, ‘footsteps of the explorers’ expeditions in Australian Antarctica, terra nullius, critical geopolitical spatialities of Australian Antarctica.
Methodological expertise: textual analysis.
Lauren Costello
Lecturer, School of Geography and Environmental Science Monash University
E-MAIL: lauren.costello@arts.monash.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://arts.monash.edu.au/ges/staff/lcostello.php
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: My research interests are diverse and cover a range of social, urban and cultural issues. Most recently I have investigated the ways that ethnic identities are constructed and performed within the changing global context of Melbourne’s housing markets. This work aims to contribute to knowledges of urban development, citizenship, transnationalism and ethnic identity. Other research I have undertaken includes representations of sexual difference in geographical understandings of the socio-spatial world. This research questioned the silencing of women and homosexual identities in contemporary knowledges. I have also conducted research on women and political activism focussing on resident action groups in Sydney and research projects investigating groups at the economic and social margins, including young homeless women and single parents.
Rebecca Dobbs
Doctoral candidate , Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
E-MAIL: grdobbs@email.unc.edu
HOMEPAGE: http://www.unc.edu/~grdobbs/
Cultural geography work I’ve done or am working on includes:-cultural landscapes of disability and access in Sydney’s urban rail system-powwows and Indian space in North Carolina-a new therapeutic landscapes model for non-Western culture situations-Navajo sacred geography and therapeutic landscapes.
Robyn Dowling
Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Geography, Macquarie University
E-MAIL: rdowling@els.mq.edu.au
HOME PAGE: http://www.humgeog.mq.edu.au/staff/dowling.htm
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: Robyn’s primary research interests are in cultures of cities, and in particular the ways gender and class identities overlap in the everyday lives of urban residents. She has a special interest in the cultural geographies of Sydney, but has also undertaken research in Canada. Robyn’s secondary research interests are in retailing, and especially the interconnections of culture and capital in contemporary retailing strategies. Robyn has methodological expertise in qualitative methods including interviewing and discourse analysis.
Kevin M. Dunn
Associate Professor, Geography Program, University of New South Wales
E-MAIL: k.dunn@unsw.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/school/staff/dunn/dunnkevin.html
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: Kevin’s major research interest is the cultural geography of citizenship in Australia. This work explores the culturally and spatially uneven distribution of citizenship in Australia. It has involved five core research streams: geography of racism, multicultural policy in local government, media representations of ethnic groups and their spaces, the formation of migrant communities, and the construction of place identity.
Kevin has particular methodological expertise with landscape interpretation, and interviewing (including the computer aided storage and retrieval of such data).
Dr Leah Gibbs
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Email: leah.gibbs@ges.gla.ac.uk
HOMEPAGE: http://www.ges.gla.ac.uk/staff/lmgibbs
My research focuses on the interface between nature and culture. ‘Environmental knowledge production and water governance in the global south’ investigates the extent to which diverse environmental knowledge is acknowledged in water governance, and the methods used to elicit knowledge. This project draws on field research in Tanzania, and contributes to debates around the politics and practice of environmental knowledge production, and the production of knowledge about nature within academic discourse. Ongoing work, ‘Valuing Water: variability and the Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia’, considers the discord between dominant approaches to valuing water and the values associated with particular water and water places. I take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human interactions with nature, and draw on a number of analytical traditions including postcolonialism, social construction, materiality, and critiques of natural resource management.
Chris Gibson
Associate Professor in Human Geography
Geoquest Research Centre
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Email: cgibson@uow.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/eesstaff/UOW003006.html
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise:
My research interests include geographies of cultural and creative industries (music, film, fashion etc); tourism; cultural industries in regional and remote Aboriginal contexts; linkages between critical theory and political economy; history and philosophy of geography; regional and rural economies, ideologies and identities; cultural planning and youth cultures. Current and recently completed ARC-funded projects explore rural festivals, cultural industries in regional development, and cultural planning in non-metropolitan NSW. I have employed a range of methodologies including ethnography, large-scale surveys, cultural applications of GIS, and critical discourse analysis.
Bronwyn Hanna
Independent researcher Faculty of the Built Environment UNSW, also working in qualitative research at AEGIS Research Centre,UWS.
E-MAIL: b.hanna@unsw.edu.au
HOME PAGE:PhD thesis online at: http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/publi/adt-NUN2000.0006/
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise: Humanities background focusing on feminist approaches to history and theory of the Australian built environment, with PhD on early women architects in Australia. Offering social science skills in qualitative research and analysis and additional research experience in issues of multiculturalism, local government and professional practice.
Iain Hay
Professor, Head of School, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University
E-MAIL: iain.hay@flinders.edu.au
HOME PAGE: http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/geog/staff/hay.php
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: Interested in geographies of oppression
(exploitation, marginalisation, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, violence); geographies of social regulation and justice;student skills development; and qualitative research methods.
Paul Hodge
Post Graduate Student, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies,
School of Environmental and Life Sciences,University of Newcastle
E-MAIL: pericles@ozemail.com.au
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: Current research involves detailing the potential for NGO collaboration and influence at the national, regional and international levels in the Pacific and Fiji in particular. One concern is to highlight the extent to which outcomes are determined by cultural and ethnic related factors. One preliminary conclusion finds that static institutional cultures often perpetuates lack of engagement between development agencies in the Pacific. Previous studies involved discussions on cross-cultural methods in research.
Rachel Hughes
Lecturer, School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Melbourne.
E-MAIL: hughesr@unimelb.edu.au
HOME PAGE: http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person3808.html
http://www.social-environmental.unimelb.edu.au/geography/geostaff/hughes.html
Rachel’s recent research examines national and local-level memorial sites in Cambodia in relation to civil conflict, processes of national reconciliation and cultural and religious regeneration in the post-1979 era. This study also interrogates popular geopolitical representations of Cambodia in film, international photographic exhibitions and tourism literatures. Rachel has current research interests in the ‘mobile life’ of Khmer antiquities - involving Anglo-American private collection practices, questions of Cambodian state sovereignty and the politics of in-situ restoration at the ancient Angkor temple complex in northern Cambodia.
Roy Jones
Dean, Research & Graduate Studies
Professor of Geography, Curtin Sustainable Tourism Centre.
The Centre is affiliated to the national Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism (CRC-ST) , Curtin University of Technology.
E-MAIL: r.jones@curtin.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.humanities.curtin.edu.au/staff.cfm/r.jones
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise: Roy’s research interests include Urban and Rural Change
(UK and Australia); Contested Heritage (Canada and Australia, including indigenous issues), Tourism and Sport. Roy is currently
Co-Editor, Geographical Research (formerly Australian Geographical Studies).
Dr Matthew Kearnes
Research Associate, Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University,
Lancaster, LA1 4YG, UK
E-MAIL: m.kearnes@lancaster.ac.uk
Interested in geographies of matter and the physical (especially the material imbrication of discourse in physical objects - in
bodies, works of art and architecture). Also interested in post-structuralism, ontology, mysticism and the nature-culture dualism.
Currently working on a research project on nanotechnology: Nanotechnology, Risk and Sustainability: Moving Public Engagement
Upstream.
Fraser McDonald
Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Melbourne
E-MAIL: fraserm@unimelb.edu.au
HOME PAGE: http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/staff/macdonald.html
Fraser’s research lies primarily in the intersection of geopolitics and visual culture, specifically relating to the testing of Britain and America’s first nuclear missile. His interests also span critical histories of photography; animal geographies;geographies of religion; the politics of folklore; ethnography; the material culture of ruins and refuse; and the history and philosophy of geography. Fraser has a regional specialisation in the historical geography of Scotland, but is also developing work on photography in late nineteenth century Australia.
Professor Pauline McGuirk
Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
E-MAIL: Pauline.McGuirk@newcastle.edu.au
HOME PAGE: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/environ-life-science/our_staff/mcguirk_pauline.html
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: My research interests primarily involve aspects of urban governance, in particular the role of planning in urban governance. Past projects have investigated communicative planning theory, urban redevelopment programs, the relationship between place and identity and concepts of community. I am currently involved in two major projects. The first investigates the governance of global Sydney. The second project examines the management of public housing in the Hunter Region of New South Wales. I have methodological expertise in discourse analysis, in-depth interviewing, questionnaires, policy analysis, media analysis and the analysis of tourist texts. Pauline is currently President of the New South Wales Geographical Society.
Kathleen Mee
Project Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
E-MAIL: kathy.mee@newcastle.edu.au
HOME PAGE: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/environ-life-science/our_staff/mee_kathy.html
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: My research interests involve suburbia, marginalised places and public housing. Past and current research projects include investigations into the discursive constructions of the western suburbs of Sydney by various forms of the media, the housing industry and local government as well as environmental activism in western Sydney. I am currently involved in a number of projects related to public housing how public housing is understood in policy, by the media and by tenants as well as investigating the management of public housing in the Hunter region and the Department of Housing as an institution. I have methodological experience in discourse analysis, media analysis (including newspaper and film texts), policy analysis and marketing analysis.
Patricia (Trish) O’Connor
Postgraduate student, University of New South Wales
E-MAIL: trish.oconnor@pacific.net.au
Research interest: Trish is currently undertaking a study of the contemporary Irish immigrant experience in Australia, based on
an interview questionnaire survey of 203 post-1980 immigrants now resident in the Greater Melbourne area.
Ruth Panelli (formerly Liepins)
Reader, Department of Geography, University College London
E-MAIL: r.panelli@ucl.ac.uk
HOMEPAGE: http://intranet.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the-department/people/academics/ruth-panelli/
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: My interests focus on notions of community as well as the discursive constructions and struggles occurring over youth and gender in rural settings. Recent work has included geographies:of community change; youth experiences in rural and urban settings; gendering of agriculture; and constructions of farm health issues. I regularly use methods in discourse analysis and various forms of participatory and/or action research.
Dr Matthew W Rofe
Program Director
Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School of Natural and Built Environments
E-MAIL: Matthew.Rofe@unisa.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?Name=Matthew.Rofe
Matthew is an Urban/Cultural Geographer. His Doctoral (The University of Newcastle) research, entitled ‘I want to be global’:
theorising the gentrifying class as an emergent elite global community, examined the restructuring of social structures and spatial networks under the contemporary influences of globalisation. A central theme of Matthew’s research agenda is critiquing discourses of global city development and the power imbalances embodied both between and within global cities.This approach draws from a wide range of theories addressing issues such as culture, consumption, community, globalisation, localisation and gentrification. Matthew has also conducted research into residential segregation, gated communities, sexuality, masculinity and identity performance amongst sub-cultural groups. Presently Matthew is researching city marketing and gentrification in Adelaide, the media construction of the Snowtown murders and the Lobethal Christmas Lights Festival.
Kristian Ruming
Post-Graduate Student, Centre for Urban and regional Studies, School of Environmental and Life Sciences University of
Newcastle
E-MAIL: kristian.ruming@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au
Current project: Power Relations and the Institutional Construction of the Central Coast Residential Property Market - This project explores the complex power relations that are involved in the creation of the property market. Using Foucaultian and Latourian theories of power it moves away from traditional neo-classical theories of the market towards a theory highlighting the importance of social relations and institutions. The primary aims of this research are to identify the most important players in the market and identify how they interact with each other in the process of developing the market. It will identify which players are most powerful, and what objectives, goals and strategies they employ in an attempt to ensure their desires come to fruition.
Bruce Ryan
Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Current Address: 5 Minnamurra Street, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Australia
E-MAIL:cincinnati@ozemail.com.au
Past Projects: heritage conservation (buildings, neighbourhoods, industrial archaeology); architectural evolution and diffusion; landscape imagery; inner city renewal; urban social space; urban recreation (tennis, cinema); small town demographics Appalachia, Australia); history of urban form; history of geography. Present Projects: demographic history of Kiama; historical urban geography of Cincinnati; architectural evolution; coastal planning.
Current Activities: Council Member and Public Officer, Geographical Society of New South Wales; National Committee for Geography (Australian Academy of Science) Methodological Experience: cartography; biography; archival research.
Steffanie Scott
Lecturer, FNAS School of Earth & Geographical Sciences,
University of Western Australia
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: Steffanie Scott teaches units on third world development, Australia and the Asia Pacific region, and research methods. Her research interests relate to Vietnam’s decollectivisation and post-socialist transition, land and property rights reform, gender, ethnicity, and development. She’s also involved in a capacity building program, involving five universities in Vietnam, on participatory project planning and policy assessment for poverty reduction. Beyond Vietnam, she has research experience in Southeast Asia and Latin America assessing social safety net programs and rural development projects.
Dr Elaine Stratford
Associate Professor & Head of School, School of Geography and Environmental Studies,
University of Tasmania
E-MAIL: Elaine.Stratford@utas.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/geog/pagedetails.asp?lpersonId=240
Dr Elaine Stratford’s focus is urban, regional and environmental planning and cultural geography, with particular emphasis on qualitative methods. She has published in various international journals and edited monographs. Current work relates to sustainable transport; the management of street skating in Australian local governments; islands, sustainability and community; and the social and institutional dimensions of natural resource management. She has been engaged in tertiary teaching and training in geography and environmental studies since 1987. In 1999, she established the Sustainable Communities Research Group with Dr Davidson, and they have worked on several successful projects and consultancies for local, State and Federal organizations. Dr Stratford is a Corporate Member of the Planning Institute of Australia, a Councillor of the Institute of Australian Geographers, and on the Editorial Boards of Urban Policy and Research and Common Ground. She currently chairs the Settlements Committee of the Tasmanian State of the Environment Report, and is a member of the Hobart City Council’s Greenhouse Implementation Committee, the Southern Research Node of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, the Board of Directors of the Global Islands Network, and the International Small Islands Studies Association.
AffricaTaylor
Associate Lecturer, School Management and Policy,
University of Canberra
E-MAIL: affrica@bigpond.com
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: Still in its very early days, my current research project is an exploration of urban Australian cultures of nature and national belonging, including a deconstructive study of Canberra as the ’sustainable bush capital’. I will be tracing crossings between nature and culture, bush and city, urban planning and nation-building. I am particularly interested in the challenges that multiple cultural perspectives on Australian natures contribute to the official practices of nation building (in urban planning) as well as to the cultural politics of national belonging (within communities). My doctoral research was a postcolonial geography of place and belonging at Jervis Bay. It focused on the ways in which select concepts of nature and indigeneity are mobilized in order to ‘naturalise’ white belongings. I draw upon a mixed-mode of theorised cultural methodologies; including applying many of the tools of postcolonial critique, queer theory and ANT in fieldwork observations, interviews and textual analysis.
Elizabeth KenworthyTeather
E-MAIL: liz_teather@hotmail.com
Retired, based in Canberra from October 2002.
PO Box 346, Civic Square, ACT 2608
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise: Recent research interests have concentrated on cultural landscapes of Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, China (deathscapes;heritage).
Gordon Waitt
Associate Professor, School of Geoscience,
University of Wollongong
E-MAIL: gwaitt@uow.edu.au
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: The geographies of tourism, in particular nature based tourism and event tourism, have been central to my current and past research projects. In past projects I have critically examined the role of heritage, nature and special event tourism in the (re) fashioning of place (Millers Point and The Rocks, Sydney; The Kimberley, Western Australia and Sydney’s 2000 Olympic Games). I also addressed the social impacts of Sydney’s 2000 Olympic Games. My present project critically explores the social impacts of the Gay Games.In undertaking these research projects I have developed a range of methodologies. Techniques I used to collect data included open and closed questionnaires, telephone interviews and in-depth interviews. Analytical techniques I have employed include inferential and descriptive statistics, framework analysis and deconstruction.
Professor JimWalmsley
University of New England
E-MAIL: dwalmsle@metz.une.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.une.edu.au/shes/staff/dwalmsle.php
Currently working on the changing nature of leisure in Australian society, encompassing the “end of work” and “leisure shock” theses, the growth of tourism, lifestyle-led migration, and the demise of the growth fetish.
Sally Weller
Post Graduate Student, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University
E-MAIL: sallyaw@now.com.au
Sally is an economic geographer who has been working in labour market, restructuring, clothing industry, homebased work, globalisation. Most of her published work is co-authored with Michael Webber. Her PhD extends previous work on the clothing industry by examining how fashion influences the location and organisation of production. This involves issues of meaning and value in material objects and the interface between production and consumption. Sally has been conducting social research projects for twenty years. These always combine multiple methods as appropriate. She sometimes teaches survey methods and statistics.
Hilary Winchester
PVC and Vice President: Organisational Strategy and Change, University of South Australia
E-MAIL: Hilary.Winchester@unisa.edu.au
HOMEPAGE:
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/Homepage.asp?Name=hilary.winchester
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: Professor Hilary Winchester is the Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President: Organisational Strategy and Change at the University of South Australia. Her management portfolio includes Human Resources, Information Strategy and Technology Services, Planning and Assurance Services, the UniSA Northern Adelaide Partnerships (UNAP) and the Centre for Regional Engagement.A human geographer, Professor Winchester completed a BA (Hons)and D.Phil at Oxford University in the UK and worked in Oxford, Cheltenham and Plymouth before coming to Australia in 1987, initially as a Research Fellow at the University of New England. She then moved to the University of Wollongong for three years, before joining the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Newcastle in 1991 as a Senior Lecturer. She spent 1992 as a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University then returned to Newcastle, where she was appointed Head of Department in 1996 and President of the Academic Senate in 1997.
In that role she was Chair of numerous university committees, including the Teaching and Learning Committee and the TAFE-University Articulation Committee. She also was Chair of the Committee of Chairs of Academic Boards and Senates (covering all NSW and ACT universities) and the NSWVCC representative to the NSW Board of Studies. Professor Winchester was a member of the Social Sciences Panel of the Australian Research Council from 1998 to 2000.
Her own research interests are focussed on key social issues such as urban poverty, population change, the geography of families and the impact of development. Much of her most recent and most heavily-cited work has been concerned with the processes and geography of marginalisation. She has written three books or monographs and numerous book chapters and refereed articles. She is presently completing a book, which will be co-authored with L. Kong and K.M. Dunn, titled Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World,that will be published later in 2002. In addition, she is currently supervising two PhD students. In August 2001, she was appointed an academic auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). She also has been appointed as the AVCC representative on the Australian Qualifications Framework Advisory Board AQFAB) Working Party on the Recognition of Prior Learning.
Would you like to join this list? If you would like your details added to this list, please e-mail your details to Rachel
Hughes. Convenor of the Cultural Geography Study Group:
Dr Rachel Hughes
Geography Program
University of Melbourne
hughesr@unimelb.edu.au