Position Title: Research Associate Research Team: Associate Professor Jessica McLean (MQ), Professor Corrinne Sullivan (WSU), Professor Fiona Miller (MQ), Lisa Menke (NSWNPWS), Aleshia Lonsdale (MLALC) Funder: ARC Linkage Project 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. … Continue reading Storying and repairing water places in Wiradjuri Country (2023-ongoing)         

Position Title: Research Associate Research Team: Associate Professor Kate Lloyd, Professor Greg Downey, Dr Rebecca Bilous, Dr Laura Hammersley, Dr Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei, Dr Michaela Baker, Dr Maria Amigo, Samantha Gilchrist, Eryn Coffey Funder: Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching ($350,000) Website: classroomofmanycultures.net 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 … Continue reading Classroom of Many Cultures (2015-2017) 

Position Title: Research Associate Research Team: School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, UoW Funder: University of Wollongong, Jindaola: Indigenous Knowledge Grants ($30,000) 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 … Continue reading ‘A love of Country: mapping and re-imagining a UoW Geography Curriculum’ (2018 – ongoing)

Position Title: Self-funded academic precariat Research Team: Dr Matalena Tofa; Dr Karina Luzia; Dr Rebecca Bilous; Dr Laura Hammersley Website: https://precariousplaces.net/ Twitter: @PrecariousPlace 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 … Continue reading Negotiating Livelihoods on the Margins of Geography: Mapping the landscape of post-doctoral geographers (2018 – ongoing)

Position Title: Research Assistant Research Team: Mudgee Local Aboriginal Land Council; Dr Jess McLean, Dr Emily O’Gorman, Dr Fiona Miller, Dr Laura Hammersley Funder: Macquarie University 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 … Continue reading Harming/restoring waters: Researching water cultures along the Cudgegong and Goulburn Rivers (2016 – ongoing)

Position Title: Research Associate Research Team: Bawaka Country including Ritjilili Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Rrawun Maymuru, Djawa Burarrwanga, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Laura Hammersely, Lara Daley, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright and Maartje Roelofsen 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 … Continue reading Learning to share, sharing to learn: More-Than-Human Sharing/Learning as Bawaka Country (2016 – 2017)