Dr Lesley Instone
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences (Geography and Environmental Studies)
Career Summary
Biography
After gaining my PhD in 2002, I was offered a short term appointment with Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program, ANU, then taught briefly at Monash University before taking up an appointment as an online educational designer at Charles Darwin University. At CDU I worked on a range of online projects including Cross-cultural engagement for natural resource mangers; Tour guide training for Kakadu and Uluru-Kata-Tjuta national parks; and Fire ecology and management in northern Australia. I was award the ASCILITE Prize for ‘exemplary use of electronic technologies in teaching and learning in tertiary education’ in 2005. In 2006 I joined the University of Newcastle where I teach in geography and environmental studies. On my appointment I was awarded the role of convenor of postgraduate coursework programs in Environmental Management. In this role I have redesigned an developed the postgraduate courses and programs which are now offered fully online.
Research Expertise
My research is located at the intersection of cultural studies, environmental studies and geography. I am particularly interested in the key roles that belonging, identity and place play in questions of biodiversity management, environmental regulation and sustainability. Exploring the complex relations between people, animals, land and place requires a multivalent approach, and I draw on a diverse and rich theoretical landscape including non representational theory, postcolonial studies, and performativity. My recent work focuses on critical questions of nature-society delineation and aims to explore the active engagements of bodies, text, land and non-humans that shape Australian landscapes and everyday engagements with them. This approach has led me to work on dingoes, landscapes of detention, fencelines, national parks and northern Australian perspectives. Current research explores socio-cultural dimensions of urban ecological restoration, human-plant relations and urban natures, especially urban parks.
Teaching Expertise
Environmental legislation and planning, sustainability, Australian environmental history, cultural geographies of nature, environmental thought, socio-environmental issues
Administrative Expertise
Program Convenor - Graduate Diploma, Master, and Master (honours) of Environmental Management Program Convenor - Graduate Diploma, Master of Environmental and Business Management Course coordinator - EMGT3070, ENVS2010
Qualifications
- PhD, Monash University
- Bachelor of Arts, Macquarie University
- Master of Environmental Science, Monash University
Keywords
- Australian landscapes and identities
- contemporary social and cultural theory
- cultural geographies of nature
- cultures of environmental regulation
- environmental planning, policy and legislation
- geographies of belonging
- human-animal relations
- social development and the environment
- sustainability
Professional Experience
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/1/2011 - | Editorial Board - GEOView | GEOView Australia |
1/1/2009 - | Membership - Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture - Australia-New Zealand | Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture - Australia-New Zealand Australia |
1/2/2006 - | Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Environmental and Life Sciences Australia |
1/1/2006 - | Membership - Institute of Australian Geographers | Institute of Australian Geographers Australia |
1/1/2005 - | Membership - Australian Animals Study Group | Australian Animals Study Group Australia |
1/11/2003 - 1/2/2006 | Academic Consultant/Educational Designer | Charles Darwin University University Library (formerly Education Services) Australia |
1/7/2002 - 1/12/2002 | Lecturer | Monash University Geography and Environmental Sciences Australia |
1/2/2002 - 1/7/2002 | Visiting Research Fellow | Australian National University Resource Management in Asia Pacific (RMAP) Australia |
1/4/2000 - 1/5/2001 | Lecturer | University of the Sunshine Coast Australian and Cultural Studies Australia |
Awards
Recipient
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2005 |
ASCILITE Prize ASCILITE prize for exemplary use of educational technologies in teaching and learning Unknown |
Invitations
Participant
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2004 |
Visiting research scholar Organisation: ANU Description: I was invited by the Ecological Humanities group of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES) at ANU to be a visting scholar in September 2004. This was in recognition of my contribution to the field of the ecological humanities through my research on cultural studies of Australian nature. |
Speaker
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2010 |
Children and Place Research Symposium Organisation: University of Canberra Description: |
2010 |
Unruly ecologies: Art and Biodiversity Symposium Organisation: SymbioticA, UWA Description: |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (1 outputs)
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2013 |
Instone L, Mee KJ, Palmer J, Williams M, Vaughan N, Climate change adaptation and the rental sector, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, 200 (2013) [A1]
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Chapter (4 outputs)
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2015 | Instone LH, 'Walking as respectful wayfinding in an uncertain age', Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene, Punctum Books, Brooklyn, NY. 133-138 (2015) [B2] | Nova | |||
2015 | Instone LH, 'Risking attachment in the Anthropocene', Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene, Punctum Books, Brooklyn, NY. 29-36 (2015) [B1] | Nova | |||
2015 |
Instone LH, Mee KJ, Palmer J, Williams M, Vaughan N, Williams M, 'Climate change adaptation and the rental sector', Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation: Australian Experiences, Wiley, Oxford 372-379 (2015) [B1]
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Journal article (25 outputs)
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2021 |
Instone L, D Costa R, 'BECOMING ENTANGLED: QUEER ATTACHMENTS WITH HEMIPARASITES', Performance Philosophy, 6 61-81 (2021) [C1] What is that queer plant that drapes itself chaotically over the top of trees and bushes? You know the one along the road on the way into town? Ah yes! You mean the one with no le... [more] What is that queer plant that drapes itself chaotically over the top of trees and bushes? You know the one along the road on the way into town? Ah yes! You mean the one with no leaves, that looks like tangled yarn caught up in the branches? Yes, it looks like its floating airborne on top of the canopy, smothering and embracing at the same time. Well, that's the one with the common name of snotty gobble or Dodder-Laurel!!! Dodder may look chaotic but that only demands on how you view it. I can¿t stop thinking about it, Let¿s find out what it¿s doing. ¿Learning to be affected¿ says Bruno Latour is to be 'moved, put into motion by other entities, humans or non-humans¿(2004). And this is what happened to Down the Road Projects when we became intrigued with local plant parasites where we live in central Victoria, Australia. This paper explores how we became ensnared by planty agencies. By charting our multispecies and human interactions in the course of developing the art project, Becoming Differently (2018), we trace how parasites came to be an important theme of the art, how they infiltrated the art works, how they changed our understanding of parasites, how they enticed us into the bush and developed our style of collaboration. We ¿queery¿ what it means to be ¿drawn towards¿ particular plants, we wonder who or what is ¿drawing¿, and how these particular plants inflected our art and writing. We consider how we were moved towards different ways of figuring identity and belonging, and how we grappled with practices and modes of engagement with complex issues of identity, belonging and nature in a settler-colonial situation, and how this led to us to become differently entangled in the place where we live.
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2019 |
Instone L, 'Making the geologic with urban naturecultures: Life and nonlife on the Victorian Volcanic Plains grasslands of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia', Geoforum, 106 363-369 (2019) [C1]
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2018 |
Bell SJ, Instone L, Mee KJ, 'Engaged witnessing: Researching with the more-than-human', Area, 50 136-144 (2018) [C1]
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2016 |
McKiernan S, Instone L, 'From pest to partner: Rethinking the Australian White Ibis in the more-than-human city', Cultural Geographies, 23 475-494 (2016) [C1] Calls to rethink our ethical and political responsibilities with nonhuman others abound recent work in cultural geography. Such work unpacks the more-than-human agencies reshaping... [more] Calls to rethink our ethical and political responsibilities with nonhuman others abound recent work in cultural geography. Such work unpacks the more-than-human agencies reshaping and rematerialising our bodies and subjective knowledges. This article uncovers the coproduction of human knowledges and urban spaces by examining the problematic migration of the Australian White Ibis into Australian urban localities. We put forth a storied approach to human-ibis relations, capturing the multiple and situated experiences materialising our urban relations with the species. Drawing on ibis ethology, media narratives, personal and interviewee stories, we explore how ibis take part in the co-constitution of urban spaces and identities. In particular, we examine how the ibis as a pest narrative is mobilised and reproduced in public and media discourses that shape the species identity and influence modes of relating. Both the publics and our own personal intra-actions with ibis shed light on conceptions of nonhuman belonging, death and human desires for living-with. This article forwards a cosmopolitical approach to provoke a reconceptualisation of our ethical and political responsibility with urban ibis. We question the narrative of ibis-as-pest to forward ideas of living-with that provokes new modes of relating, uncomfortable for either party. Within these precarious relations, possibilities open for nonhierarchical modes of cohabitation, challenging our political and ethical responsibilities in living-with uncomfortable others.
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2016 |
Jones R, Instone L, 'Becoming-urban, becoming-forest: a historical geography of urban forest projects in Australia', Geographical Research, 54 433-445 (2016) [C1] In recent times, local governments in Australia's major cities have embraced the idea that the trees in their streets, parks, and private gardens are parts of a collective ur... [more] In recent times, local governments in Australia's major cities have embraced the idea that the trees in their streets, parks, and private gardens are parts of a collective urban forest that can be managed to address complex policy problems and create more liveable and sustainable cities. In light of this proposition, applied and critical urban forest researchers have typically focused on questions of quantity with regard to some of the factors that influence the density and distribution of urban tree cover. In a few cases, however, researchers have documented qualitative changes to the urban trees and woodlands that ostensibly constitute the urban forest, suggesting that it might be apprehended in a more mutable and dynamic way. Building on these accounts, we turn to Deleuze and Guattari's theory of becoming to read the urban forest in an active and malleable light, developing a historical geography of urban forestry in Australia that discerns three urban forest projects we call the ¿forest in a city¿, the ¿city forest¿, and a new but not yet realised, ¿city in a forest¿. This finding renders the urban forest in more contingent, multiple, and mutable terms, leading us to finish the paper with a consideration of what seeing the urban forest as becoming means for future research. There, we suggest that Deleuze and Guattari's becoming directs us to different kinds of empirical, political, and ethical concerns that haven't received significant interest in the current literature. These include asking how, why, and with what consequences do particular styles of urban forestry emerge at particular space-times. How is qualitative difference and urban forest multiplicity dealt with in practice, as well as focusing on affect and everyday embodied encounters between people and trees in different urban places.
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2015 |
Fisher K, Williams M, Fitzherbert S, Instone L, Duffy M, Wright S, et al., 'Writing difference differently', New Zealand Geographer, 71 18-33 (2015) [C1] This paper investigates the writing of situated knowledge and explores the possibilities of enacting difference by writing differently. We present a selection of research stories ... [more] This paper investigates the writing of situated knowledge and explores the possibilities of enacting difference by writing differently. We present a selection of research stories in which carrier bags, sounds, baskets, gardens and potatoes are interpreted less as objects of research or metaphors to aid in analysing phenomena, than as mediators of the stories. Our stories emphasise the ontological politics of engaging with and representing the relational, the messy, the spontaneous, the unpredictable, the non-human and bodily experiences. These stories demonstrate how writing is performative and how it is integral to the production of knowledge.
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2015 |
Instone L, 'Reprint of "Unruly grasses: Affective attunements in the ecological restoration of urban native grasslands in Australia"', Emotion, Space and Society, 14 57-64 (2015) [O1] This paper explores affect as an 'angle of approach' for re/considering the work of ecological restoration in urban spaces. My focus is on the more-than-human affective ... [more] This paper explores affect as an 'angle of approach' for re/considering the work of ecological restoration in urban spaces. My focus is on the more-than-human affective dimensions of the reintroduction of native grasses in Melbourne's (Australia) urban parklands. Sara Ahmed suggests that 'affect is what sticks or sustains or preserves the connection between ideas, values and objects' (2010, 29), and here I extend this notion to think about the restoration of grasslands not as primarily material transformations (to which we might react), but as the recomposition of the 'ideas, values and objects' that constitute urban park naturecultures. The paper highlights the role of affective relations in the inheritance of landscapes that do not attract widespread positive affection. It employs Sara Ahmed's concept of the affect alien as a figure of nonconformity, to uncover how the affective resonances of grasslands might open new possibilities for attuning to the complex and multiple naturecultures of postcolonial lands.
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2015 |
Instone L, Taylor A, 'Thinking About Inheritance Through the Figure of the Anthropocene, from the Antipodes and in the Presence of Others', ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES, 7 133-150 (2015)
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Palmer J, Instone L, Mee KJ, Williams M, Vaughan N, 'Green tenants: practicing a sustainability ethics for the rental housing sector', Local Environment, 20 923-939 (2015) [C1] The shift towards social, government and corporate ethics which value environmental sustainability has also embraced householders in a plethora of educational guides, policies, re... [more] The shift towards social, government and corporate ethics which value environmental sustainability has also embraced householders in a plethora of educational guides, policies, regulations and consumer information about green home improvements, purchasing choices and household practices. In this paper, we make the claim that the rental housing sector, and in particular the private rental sector, has yet to participate, structurally, culturally and materially, in this shift to an ethics of sustainability. We argue, however, that even on such otherwise arid ground, an alternative ethic is developing, a sustainability ethic practiced by green tenants whose activities inside and outside their homes go beyond the considerable material constraints of their dwellings and incomes, and beyond the purely transactional utility of the rental contract. These activities, relational, interconnected and resilient, offer both glimpses of a greening rental housing sector, and a clearer picture of the areas where work remains to be done. Based on a research study, we conducted of the rental sector in regional Australia, and in particular of the everyday sustainability practices of tenants, we suggest that these activities are a practice-based form of care for the world, in many ways similar to Maria Puig de la Bellacasa's practice-based, human-decentred ethics which she suggests is exemplified in the permaculture movement. The stories of the tenants we interviewed for our study also point the way to other changes which are needed to enable a practice-based sustainability ethic to flourish across the rental housing sector as a whole.
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2014 |
Instone L, Sweeney J, 'Dog waste, wasted dogs: The contribution of human-dog relations to the political ecology of Australian urban space', Geographical Research, 52 355-364 (2014) The city is increasingly recognised as a complex more-than-human space where the lives of humans and non-humans entwine in consequential ways. Human-animal encounters constitute s... [more] The city is increasingly recognised as a complex more-than-human space where the lives of humans and non-humans entwine in consequential ways. Human-animal encounters constitute sometimes convivial and sometimes challenging relations that reflect wider pleasures and tensions in urban society. This paper grapples with concerns about the place of dogs in Australian urban public space and urban life more broadly. Adopting a relational political ecology approach, we ask what pet dogs tell us about the political, emotional, and material struggles that surround multispecies urban cohabitation. Following two human-dog urban waste streams - one concerned with dog waste, the other with dogs as waste - we consider how human-animal relations of both attachment and disposability shape the material flows that constitute urban political ecologies. In particular, by focusing on the 'shadow ecologies' of dog waste and disposal, we uncover the dynamic practices of care, disgust, violence, and love through which dogs, their waste, and their bodies are sanitised, controlled, and ultimately concealed from our everyday urban spaces.
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2014 |
Instone L, Sweeney J, 'The trouble with dogs: 'animaling' public space in the Australian city', CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES, 28 774-786 (2014) [C1]
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2014 |
Jones RM, Instone L, Mee KJ, 'Making risk real: Urban trees and the ontological politics of risk', Geoforum, 56 211-225 (2014) [C1] Over the past several decades, risk has become a distinct field of social inquiry as scholars in a variety of disciplines have developed theories about the 'nature' of r... [more] Over the past several decades, risk has become a distinct field of social inquiry as scholars in a variety of disciplines have developed theories about the 'nature' of risk and the role it plays in contemporary society. Collectively, these theories enrich our understanding of the politics of risk, the dynamics of risk perception, and the way risk shapes and is shaped by space, culture, social change, and modes of governing in the neoliberal era. In this paper, however, we argue these theories are helpful but not entirely suited to understanding risk when it becomes the subject of something Whatmore (2009, p. 587, 2013) calls "environmental knowledge controversies". These controversies are generative events where more-than-human agencies and the political and knowledge making practices of heterogeneous actors reshape our sense of the real. To address this issue, we draw on the concepts of enactment, multiplicity, and ontological politics to explore how different kinds of risk and tree were made more or less real during a contentious debate over the risk posed by a group of urban trees in Newcastle, Australia. This case study suggests we can think of risk and hazardous entities like trees as effects that also affect because they elicit interventions that transform bodies and spaces in more or less enduring ways. Attending to the enactment, multiplicity, and ontological politics of risk, we argue, provides an alternative way to navigate moments of political contestation over the assessment and management of risk that has implications for how these processes are conceived and conducted in the future. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
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2014 |
Instone L, Sweeney J, 'Dog Waste, Wasted Dogs: The Contribution of Human-Dog Relations to the Political Ecology of Australian Urban Space', GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 52 355-364 (2014) [C1]
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2014 |
Mee KJ, Instone L, Williams M, Palmer J, Vaughan N, 'Renting Over Troubled Waters: An Urban Political Ecology of Rental Housing', GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 52 365-376 (2014) [C1]
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2014 |
Instone L, 'Unruly grasses: Affective attunements in the ecological restoration of urban native grasslands in Australia', Emotion, Space and Society, 10 79-86 (2014) [C1] This paper explores affect as an 'angle of approach' for re/considering the work of ecological restoration in urban spaces. My focus is on the more-than-human affective ... [more] This paper explores affect as an 'angle of approach' for re/considering the work of ecological restoration in urban spaces. My focus is on the more-than-human affective dimensions of the reintroduction of native grasses in Melbourne's (Australia) urban parklands. Sara Ahmed suggests that 'affect is what sticks or sustains or preserves the connection between ideas, values and objects' (2010, 29), and here I extend this notion to think about the restoration of grasslands not as primarily material transformations (to which we might react), but as the recomposition of the 'ideas, values and objects' that constitute urban park naturecultures. The paper highlights the role of affective relations in the inheritance of landscapes that do not attract widespread positive affection. It employs Sara Ahmed's concept of the affect alien as a figure of nonconformity, to uncover how the affective resonances of grasslands might open new possibilities for attuning to the complex and multiple naturecultures of postcolonial lands. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
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2012 |
Instone LH, 'Living rock and human bird: An Antipodean refrain', Dialogues in Human Geography, 2 280-283 (2012) [C2]
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2010 |
Instone LH, 'Walking towards Woomera: Touring the boundaries of 'unAustralian geographies'', Cultural Geographies, 17 359-378 (2010) [C1]
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2010 | Instone LH, 'Encountering native grasslands: Matters of concern in an urban park', Australian Humanities Review, 91-117 (2010) [C1] | Nova | |||||||||
2010 |
Hillman M, Instone LH, 'Legislating nature for biodiversity offsets in New South Wales, Australia', Social & Cultural Geography, 11 411-431 (2010) [C1]
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2009 |
Instone LH, 'Northern belongings: Frontiers, fences, and identities in Australia's urban north', Environment and Planning A, 41 827-841 (2009) [C1]
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2006 |
Instone LH, 'Eating the Country', Journal of Australian Studies, Australia's Public Intellectual Forum, 135-141 (2006) [C1]
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2004 |
Instone L, 'Situating Nature: on doing cultural geographies of Australian nature', AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER, 35 131-140 (2004) [C1]
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1998 |
Instone L, 'The coyote's at the door: Revisioning human-environment relations in the Australian context', ECUMENE, 5 452-467 (1998)
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Conference (31 outputs)
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2015 |
Mee KJ, Instone L, Vaughan N, Williams M, Palmer J, '"Those everyday things that s where I feel like I have the most control at the moment : The Everyday Politics of Rental Housing Adaptation', Housing Theory Symposium 2015, Housing Adaptation and Resilience Program, Melbourne (2015) [E3]
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2014 | Instone LH, Instone L, 'New environmental histories of the Anthropocene: reports from the coalface', Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions:The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture, Australia & New Zealand; an Environmental Humanities collaboratory with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800); and a Minding, Australian National University (2014) [E3] | ||||
2013 |
Instone LH, Mee K, Williams M, Palmer J, Vaughan N, Vaughan N, 'Renting over troubled water: an Urban Political Ecology of Rental Housing', Abstracts. Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2013, University of Western Australia (2013) [E3]
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2013 | Instone LH, Sweeney J, Sweeney J, 'Fido, faeces and fatality: the anxious political ecologies of human-dog cohabitation in Australian urban space', Abstracts: Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2013, University of Western Australia (2013) [E3] | Nova | |||
2013 | Taylor A, Instone LH, 'Risking attachments: Learning to inherit postcolonial multispecies worlds', http://aasgconference.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/abstract_details_8jul13v5.pdf, Sydney Unievrsity (2013) [E3] | Nova | |||
2012 |
Instone LH, Mee KJ, Palmer J, Williams M, Naughan N, 'Rental housing, climate change and adaptive capacity: An asset-based approach', Climate Adaptation in Action 2012: Sharing Knowledge to Adapt. Conference Handbook, Melbourne, Vic (2012) [E3]
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2012 | Instone LH, Sweeney J, 'The trouble with dogs: 'Animalising' urban public space in the Australian city', Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference. Materialities: Economies, Empiricism, & Things, Sydney, NSW (2012) [E3] | ||||
2012 | Instone LH, 'Desire, destruction, delight and detestation: Situating human-grass relations in Australia', Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in World and Image. 4th ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference. Abstracts, Melbourne, Vic (2012) [E3] | ||||
2011 | Instone LH, 'Unruly grasses: Human-native grass entanglements in urban park space', Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2011 Abstracts, Wollongong (2011) [E3] | ||||
2011 |
Fisher K, Baker T, Instone LH, Mee KJ, McGuirk PM, Sherval M, et al., 'Kitchen stories: An introduction to the Situated Knowledge Production Sessions', Institute of Australian Geographers Conference Abstracts, Wollongong (2011) [E3]
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2011 |
Lewis N, Baker T, Instone LH, Mee KJ, McGuirk PM, Sherval M, et al., 'Journeying towards propositions about situated knowledge practices', Institute of Australian Geographers Conference Abstracts, Wollongong (2011) [E3]
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2009 | Instone LH, '(In)temperature dreams: Tropicality, climate change and the northern 'food bowl'', Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2009: Book of Abstracts, Cairns, QLD (2009) [E3] | ||||
2009 | Instone LH, 'Regulating Rover: Legislating the public place of urban pet dogs', Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2009: Book of Abstracts, Cairns, QLD (2009) [E3] | ||||
2009 |
Instone LH, Mee KJ, 'Doggy encounters: Performing new pet relations in the park', Minding Animals 2009. Oral Presentation Abstracts, Newcastle, NSW (2009) [E3]
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2008 | Instone LH, 'If you go down to the woods park today...: Performing Flockhart Reserve', Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2008: Abstracts, Hobart, TAS (2008) [E3] | ||||
2007 | Hillman M, Instone LH, 'Which Bank? Legislating nature for biodiversity offsets in New South Wales', Abstracts - Contemporary Geography for Australia. Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Melbourne, VIC (2007) [E3] | ||||
2007 | Instone LH, 'The secret life of parks', Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment: Abstracts, Toronto, Ontario (2007) [E3] | ||||
2006 | Instone LH, 'Walking towards Woomera: Touring the Boundaries of 'UnAustralian Geographies'', Abstracts, Canberra, Australia (2006) [E3] | ||||
2006 | Instone LH, 'Northern belongings', Speaker Abstracts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2006) [E3] | ||||
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Other (2 outputs)
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2014 | Instone LH, 'Multispecies mobilities moving and being moved.', ( pp.np-np): http://iag-nzgs2014.org/program/ (2014) [O1] | ||
2014 | Instone LH, Instone L, 'Thinking through the Anthropocene, co-habiting with other species', ( pp.1): Unnatural Futures (2014) [O1] |
Report (13 outputs)
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2014 | Instone LH, Instone L, 'Placing companion animals in the city: towards the constructive co-habitation of humans and dogs in urban areas', Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), The University of Newcastle, Australia, 50 (2014) | ||||
2012 |
Williams M, Palmer J, Instone L, Mee K, Vaughan N, 'Sustainability and climate change in the rental sector: stories from the media', CURS, 15 (2012)
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2012 |
Palmer J, Instone L, Mee K, Williams M, 'Climate change and the rental sector: Mapping the legislative and policy context: NSW', CURS, 33 (2012)
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 10 |
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Total funding | $594,879 |
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20122 grants / $207,519
Rental housing, climate change and adaptive capacity: a case study of Newcastle, NSW$195,519
Funding body: NCCARF (National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility)
Funding body | NCCARF (National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility) |
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Project Team | Doctor Lesley Instone, Associate Professor Kathleen Mee |
Scheme | Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants Program |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2012 |
GNo | G1101036 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
Placing companion animals in the city: towards the constructive co-habitation of humans and dogs in cities and towns$12,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Science & IT
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Science & IT |
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Project Team | Doctor Lesley Instone |
Scheme | Strategic Small Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2012 |
GNo | G1401100 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20101 grants / $10,000
Strategic support to enhance collaborations and grants performances$10,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Prof PAULINE McGuirk, Associate Professor Jenny Cameron, Doctor Lesley Instone, Associate Professor Kathleen Mee, Doctor Meg Sherval, Professor Sarah Wright |
Scheme | Internal Research Support |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2010 |
Funding Finish | 2010 |
GNo | G1000678 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20081 grants / $660
Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, University of Tasmania, 29/6/2008 - 3/7/2008$660
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Lesley Instone |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0189332 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20073 grants / $216,700
Enabling inter-agency data sharing to support the spatial analysis of social vulnerability in a transforming region$155,000
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Prof PAULINE McGuirk, Professor Phillip O'Neill, Associate Professor Kathleen Mee, Doctor Robert King, Doctor Lesley Instone |
Scheme | Linkage Projects |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2010 |
GNo | G0187218 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
Enabling inter-agency data sharing to support the spatial analysis of social vulnerability in a transforming region$60,000
Funding body: Regional Coordination Management Group
Funding body | Regional Coordination Management Group |
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Project Team | Prof PAULINE McGuirk, Professor Phillip O'Neill, Associate Professor Kathleen Mee, Doctor Robert King, Doctor Lesley Instone |
Scheme | Linkage Projects Partner Funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | G0188090 |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - State |
Category | 2OPS |
UON | Y |
Nature Matters: Materiality and the more than human in cultural delta studies of the environment, Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, Canada, 25/10/2007 - 28/10/2007$1,700
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Lesley Instone |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0188037 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20052 grants / $60,000
Industry e-learing examplar project for National Park tour guide training $50,000
Funding body: Australian Flexible Learning Framework
Funding body | Australian Flexible Learning Framework |
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Project Team | Alicia Boyle |
Scheme | Education Grants |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2006 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Not Known |
Category | UNKN |
UON | N |
Development of online educational package in fire ecology and management in Northern Australia$10,000
Funding body: Tropical Savannas CRC
Funding body | Tropical Savannas CRC |
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Project Team | Dr Penny Wurm |
Scheme | Environmental Education Program |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Not Known |
Category | UNKN |
UON | N |
20041 grants / $100,000
Improving cross cultural communication for natural and cultural resource managers$100,000
Funding body: Tropical Savannas CRC
Funding body | Tropical Savannas CRC |
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Project Team | Associate professor Allan Arnott |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2006 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Not Known |
Category | UNKN |
UON | N |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2007 | Honours | Environmental values and biodiversity conservation in NSW: an evaluation of conservation values expresed in the Threatened Species Conservation Amendment (Bio-Banking) Bill 2006 | Enviro Studies Not Elswr Class, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2007 | Honours | Environmental values and biodiversity conservation in NSW | Human Geography, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2000 | PhD | Governance for sustainable regional development | Human Geography, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2000 | PhD | Governance for sustainable regional development | Human Geography, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2018 | PhD | The Sum of its Parts? Complexity Theory, Geophilosophy, and the Urban Forest | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2017 | PhD | Wayfinding through Shadowlands: Making Minescapes Matter | PhD (Fine Art), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Frictions of Management: Engaging and Performing 'Nature' in Kur-ring-gai Chase National Park | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2011 | PhD | Post-human Geographies of the Southern Ocean | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Dr Lesley Instone
Position
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
College of Engineering, Science and Environment
Focus area
Geography and Environmental Studies
Contact Details
lesley.instone@newcastle.edu.au |