This collaborative, interdisciplinary project examines contested understandings of and relations with water along the Cudgegong and Goulburn Rivers in NSW, Asutralia. Through a focus on water cultures this project engages with Indigenous and non-Indigenous understandings, values and practices associated with water. We consider how different uses and values of water influence social-ecological resilience and justice … Continue reading Harming/restoring waters: Researching water cultures along the Cudgegong and Goulburn Rivers (2016 – ongoing)

This research is led by our embodied experiences at, with and as Bawaka. We start by considering how we as a group co-became as Country during our 6 days together.

This research seeks to generate a space through which the so-called ‘precariat’ (Standing, 2011) can articulate their understandings of what it means to work in the margins of academic teaching and research, and the impacts it has on individuals, on the academic workplace and on community. It is guided by the following aims: The expected … Continue reading Negotiating Livelihoods on the Margins of Geography: Mapping the landscape of post-doctoral geographers (2018 – ongoing)

This collaborative project will centre Aboriginal knowledges to story, care for and repair Wiradjuri Country around the Mudgee area, central west NSW. Sharing information is a key goal of this project. Wiradjuri people are keen to see their cultural, economic, social and environmental knowledge about Country recorded and shared for people in the Mudgee area … Continue reading Storying and repairing water places in Wiradjuri Country (2023-ongoing)         

Australian Indigenous histories and contemporary Indigenous lives and relationships with Country are at the heart of Geography. They inform understandings of Australia’s colonial history and its legacy, environmental and heritage management, national identity, racism and structural marginalisation, and urban politics. In the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, a broad range of Indigenous contexts, perspectives … Continue reading ‘A love of Country: mapping and re-imagining a UoW Geography Curriculum’ (2018 – ongoing)

This cross-departmental collaboration (between Human Geography and Anthropology) was awarded a $350,000 Office for Learning and Teaching grant (2015-2017) to co-create an innovative online cross-cultural curriculum with eleven international community-based organisations from seven different countries (including Peru, Cambodia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines and Fiji). The co-created curriculum reflects the values of collaboration, intercultural sharing and … Continue reading Classroom of Many Cultures (2015-2017)