- Research Fellows
- Honorary Fellows
- Higher Degree Researchers
- Recently completed Higher Degree Researchers
- Dr Elizabeth Straughan
- Dr Eliza Crosbie
- Peta Wolifson
Thesis: Creative Relationalities: The Terrain of Making-With-Kin
Supervisors: Associate Professor Leah Gibbs, Associate Professor Sonia Graham, Associate Professor Brogan Bunt
Stephanie Beaupark
Thesis Title: Defining the Art and Science of Eucalyptus Dyes from Indigenous Principles
Supervisors: Associate Professor Leah Gibbs, Professor Danielle Skropeta, Associate Professor Agnieszka Golda, Dr Emma Woodward
Thesis: Peri-urban horticulture and biosecurity awareness and action
Supervisors: Associate Professor Jennifer Atchison, Associate Professor Natascha Klocker, Dr Elyse Stanes
Thesis: Critical geographies, political ecologies of forestry and biosecurity in Australia
Supervisors: Associate Professor Jennifer Atchison, Associate Professor Andrew Warren
Thesis: Slippery Connections: Understanding the short finned eel (Anguilla australis) for holistic fisheries management in Australia & Aotearoa
Supervisor: Associate Professor Leah Gibbs, Dr Laura Hammersley, Dr Marc Tadaki
Thesis: Space for cycling?: Infrastructure and Embodied Experiences of Cyclists in an Australian Regional Centre
Supervisors: Professor Gordon Waitt and Professor Ian Buchanan
Thesis: Housing experiences of young adults from refugee backgrounds in regional Australia
Supervisors: Associate Professor Natascha Klocker & Dr Nicole Cook
Jennifer Macey
Thesis: Listening Geographies: Capturing Voices And Sounds In A Changing Industrial Landscape - How Podcasting Can Create A Living History
Supervisors: Professor Chris Gibson and Dr Chantel Carr
Catherine Moyle
Thesis: Being, becoming and belonging as Aboriginal people in the settler state
Supervisors: Associate Professor Lisa Slater, Associate Professor Leah Gibbs
Thesis: The Long Winter: A comparative study of leadership, diversity and inclusion in the guiding and avalanche profession in Canada and New Zealand
Supervisors: Dr Christine Eriksen and Dr Andrew Warren
Thesis: From experimentations to collaborative governance: The role and implications of experimentations in shaping Australian smart cities
Supervisors: Professor Pauline McGuirk and Dr Nicole Cook
Thesis: Crossing Land, Social and Biosecurity Boundaries: exploring biosecurity-recreation-tourism in the Kosciuszko-Snowy-Monaro region, NSW, Australia
Supervisors: Associate Professor Nicholas Gill, Dr Leonie Miller, Dr Isabelle Wolf, Associate Professor Sonia Graham, Hillary Cherry
Thesis: Enhanced Humans, Robotics and the Future of Work
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Birtchnell and Dr Tillmann Boehme
Thesis: Landlines and Tracelines - topographies of place and the body in the field of Australian contemporary jewellery practice
Supervisors: Professor Chris Gibson and Dr Chantel Carr
2026
Diana Dawson
Thesis: Catalyzing collective action for effective invasive plant management through community-led group and government arrangements
Supervisors: Associate Professor Sonia Graham, Professor Nicholas Gill
2025
Lizzie Buckmaster Dove
Thesis: Walking Back: Towards Geographies of Belonging
Supervisors: Dr Lucas Ihlein, Dr Chantel Carr, Dr Anthony McKnight
Thesis: Aboriginal Women know: Cultural burning and Aboriginal women in NSW
Supervisors: Associate Professor Leah Gibbs, Dr Laura Hammersley, Associate Professor Michael Adams
Thesis: From national laws to local contestation: A legal geography of Australia’s emerging offshore wind sector
Supervisors: Dr Chantel Carr, Associate Professor Natascha Klocker, Professor Chris Gibson
Thesis: Mapping the Effects of Human-Shark Encounters on the South Coast of NSW, Australia
Supervisors: Associate Professor Leah Gibbs and Dr Chris Brennan-Horley
2024
Thesis: What teachings are being shared by weeds? Lessons from the Shoalhaven River
Supervisors: Associate Professor Jennifer Atchison, Dr Anthony McKnight
2023
Thesis: Emotional Experiences of Coral Reefs - Can Embodied and Mediated Coral Reef Experiences have Conservation Outcomes? The Case of Ningaloo Reef.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Adams and Dr Jennifer Atchison
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: Dr Jenny Atchison and Associate Professor Nicholas Gill
Thesis: The highs and lows of the airport: volunteering in an intensely mobile space
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Birtchnell and Professor Peter Caputi
Thesis: Managing Waste in Indigenous Communities Through a 3D Printing Centric Circular Economy
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Birtchnell and Dr Tillmann Boehme
2022
Thesis: Exploring the climatic and anthropogenic challenges to build livelihood vulnerability and resilience of Tanguar Haor in Bangladesh
Supervisors: Dr Jennifer Atchison, Professor Noel Castree and Associate Professor Natascha Klocker
Thesis: Material Geographies of the Tiny House: Downsizing the 'Great Australian Dream' for Sustainability
Supervisors: Professor Gordon Waitt and Professor Pauline McGuirk
2021
Lance Barrie
Thesis: The embodied dimensions of endurance cycling and the formation of gendered cycling identities
Supervisors: Professor Gordon Waitt and Dr Chris Brennan-Horley
Thesis: Children’s play encounters: materiality and more-than-human theory
Supervisors: Dr Leah Gibbs and Associate Professor Natascha Klocker
Thesis: Beyond Mains Water: A study of households that are self-sufficient for water in regional NSW
Supervisors: Dr Leah Gibbs and Professor Gordon Waitt
Thesis: Living with children in apartments: sharing, materials and space
Supervisors: Associate Professor Natascha Klocker and Professor Chris Gibson
2020
Rebecca Campbell
Thesis: Food and kitchens as gendered household sustainability practice in Pacific Island migrant households
Supervisors: Professor Gordon Waitt and Associate Professor Nicholas Gill
Thesis: Growing cultures: cultivating culturally diverse ecological knowledge
Supervisors: Professor Lesley Head and Associate Professor Natascha Klocker
Thesis: Resilient together: engaging the knowledge and capacities of refugees for a disaster resilient Illawarra
Supervisors: Dr Christine Eriksen, Professor Noel Castree and Associate Professor Nicholas Gill
Thesis: Urban Green Infrastructure in the Global South: adapting slums to climate change in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Birtchnell and Associate Professor Nicholas Gill
2019
Thesis: Australian agricultural restructuring and formers responses: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales
Supervisors: Associate Professor Nicholas Gill and Dr Andrew Warren
Ryan Frazer
Thesis: The limits of care: lines, refrains, becomings
Supervisors: Professor Gordon Waitt and Professor Ian Buchanan
Thesis: Climate change adaptation in culturally-diverse Australian households
Supervisors: Associate Professor Natascha Klocker 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: Professor Chris Gibson and Professor Lesley Head
Thesis: Walking together: child and parent pedestrian mobilities in Wollongong City centre
Supervisors: Professor Gordon Waitt and Professor Ian Buchanan
Thesis: Management, agency and belonging: exploring invasive plant management in high amenity rural areas
Supervisors: Associate Professor Nicholas Gill and Dr Jenny Atchison
Nick Skilton
Thesis: Privilege and marginalization in Australia’s national imaginary: constructions of mining and sex worker identities through technologies of power
Supervisors: Professor Chris Gibson and Dr Leah Gibbs
Thesis: Making space: young people’s routines of consumption and implications for the cultural economy of sustainability
Supervisors: Professor Chris Gibson and Associate Professor Natascha Klocker
Thesis: Contesting the urban myth of ethnic segregation
Supervisors: Dr Natascha Klocker, Dr Chris Brennan-Horley and Professor Chris Gibson
Justin Westgate
Thesis: Responding to crisis: creative practices in volatile spaces
Supervisors: Professor Chris Gibson and Dr Anja Kanngieser