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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.

Co-Directors

Academic staff

  • Dr Elizabeth Straughan
  • Dr Eliza Crosbie

Professor Nicholas Gill

 

 

Dr Gillian Gregory

 

 

Janine Bailey

Thesis: Creative Relationalities: The Terrain of Making-With-Kin
Supervisors: , ,


Stephanie Beaupark

Thesis Title: Defining the Art and Science of Eucalyptus Dyes from Indigenous Principles
Supervisors: , , , Dr Emma Woodward


Laura Butler

Thesis: Peri-urban horticulture and biosecurity awareness and action
Supervisors: , Dr Elyse Stanes


Ty Challand

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


Alexis Farr

Thesis: Slippery Connections: Understanding the short finned eel (Anguilla australis) for holistic fisheries management in Australia & Aotearoa 
Supervisor: , Dr Laura Hammersley, Dr Marc Tadaki


Thomas Fisher

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


John Lahai

Thesis: Housing experiences of young adults from refugee backgrounds in regional Australia 
Supervisors: &


Jennifer Macey

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


Catherine Moyle

Thesis: Being, becoming and belonging as Aboriginal people in the settler state
Supervisors: ,


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: exploring biosecurity-recreation-tourism in the Kosciuszko-Snowy-Monaro region, NSW, Australia
Supervisors: , Dr Isabelle Wolf, , Hillary Cherry


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 

2026

Diana Dawson

Thesis: Catalyzing collective action for effective invasive plant management through community-led group and government arrangements
Supervisors: , Professor Nicholas Gill


2025

Lizzie Buckmaster Dove

Thesis: Walking Back: Towards Geographies of Belonging
Supervisors:   


Vanessa Cavanagh

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


Natasha Larkin

Thesis: From national laws to local contestation: A legal geography of Australia’s emerging offshore wind sector
Supervisors: , , Professor Chris Gibson


Teaniel Mifsud

Thesis: Mapping the Effects of Human-Shark Encounters on the South Coast of NSW, Australia
Supervisors:  and 


2024

Thesis: What teachings are being shared by weeds? Lessons from the Shoalhaven River
Supervisors: ,


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 ÁñÁ«ÊÓÆµapp 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