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.
Professor Pauline McGuirk
Director
Professor Chris Gibson
Deputy Director
Thesis: What teachings are being shared by weeds? Learning from the Shoalhaven River
Supervisors: Dr Jennifer Atchison and Dr Anthony McKnight
Laura Butler
Thesis: Peri-urban horticulture and biosecurity awareness and action
Supervisors: Associate Professor Jennifer Atchison and Associate Professor Natascha Klocker
Vanessa Cavanagh
Thesis: Exploring the lived experiences and aspirations of Aboriginal women’s participation in cultural burning practices in NSW
Supervisors: Dr Leah Gibbs, Associate Professor Michael Adams and Dr Laura Hammersley
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
Diana Dawson
Thesis: Catalysing collective action for effective weed management
Supervisors: Dr Sonia Graham and Associate Professor Nicholas Gill
Thesis: Space for cycling?: Infrastructure and Embodied Experiences of Cyclists in an Australian Regional Centre
Supervisors: Professor Gordon Waitt and Professor Ian Buchanan
Natasha Larkin
Thesis: Imagined Futures and Intergenerational Change; The Future Of Work For Young People In Coal-Mining Families In The Illawarra
Supervisors: Dr Chantel Carr and Associate Professor Natascha Klocker
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: Producing peripheral space: infrastructure, urban renewal, and social reproduction in Port Kembla, Australia
Supervisors: Professor Chris Gibson, Professor Pauline McGuirk and Dr Andrew Warren
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
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: Exploring Perceptions and Policies Concerning Shark Mitigation on the East Coast of Australia
Supervisors: Dr Leah Gibbs and Dr Chris Brennan-Horley
Thesis: Material Geographies of the Tiny House: Downsizing the 'Great Australian Dream' for Sustainability
Supervisors: Professor Gordon Waitt and Professor Pauline McGuirk
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: The highs and lows of the airport: volunteering in an intensely mobile space
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Birtchnell and Professor Peter Caputi
Thesis: Sharing Cities: new strategies for communal sharing
Supervisors: Professor Pauline McGuirk and Professor Chris Gibson
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: Recreational Visitor Networks, Values, Practices and Knowledge and the Management of Weeds in the Kosciuszko Region
Supervisors: Associate Professor Nicholas Gill and Dr Leonie Miller
Thesis: Managing Waste in Indigenous Communities Through a 3D Printing Centric Circular Economy
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Birtchnell and Dr Tillmann Boehme
Thesis: Enhanced Humans, Robotics and the Future of Work
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Birtchnell and Dr Tillmann Boehme
Melinda Young
Thesis: Landlines and Tracelines - topographies of place and the body in the field of contemporary jewellery & small object-based craft practices
Supervisors: Professor Chris Gibson and Dr Chantel Carr
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thesis: Responding to crisis: creative practices in volatile spaces
Supervisors: Professor Chris Gibson and Dr Anja Kanngieser
