Lesley HEAD
Position: Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow
Room: 41.G14
Phone No: +61 2 4221 3124
Email: lhead@uow.edu.au
AUSCCER
Research Interests
My long-term research fascination is human-environment relations, both conceptual and material. That is, I want to understand how humans have physically changed earth’s systems, how we think about our place in nature, and how these two things are connected. I have a particular focus on humans and plants. In recent years I have worked mostly in cultural geography, with projects on backyard gardens, wheat and invasive plants. This developed from my earlier interest in Aboriginal land use, ethnobotany and fire. I started my research career using palaeoecology and archaeology to study long term changes in the Australian landscape, and the interactions of prehistoric peoples with their environments.
Today I am building on this multidisciplinary background in the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER), where a team of scholars is applying cultural research methods to the pressing issues of sustainability and climate change.
Current projects:
Making Less Space for Carbon: Cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation
The Backyard Project,
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Representative Publications
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Current Students
Mohammed Alam (MSc) | Invasive Plants and Climate Change |
| Eliza de Vet (PhD) | An ethnography of Australian weather |
| Diego Valencia Korosi (PhD) | A comparative analysis of EIA guidelines and methodologies applied to Ecotourism in Mexico and Australia |
| Heather Moorcroft (PhD) | Engagements between Indigenous Australians and environmental NGOs |
| Alison Scobie (MSc) | Understanding printing behaviours and paper consumption of staff at UOW |
| Rich Olmo (PhD) | Theoretical Perspectives: The Human Ecology of Tarague Embayment. |
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