Geography and Environmental Studies
Research

Information on each staff member's specific research interests is available on their staff pages. Key research areas in the Discipline include:

• urban and regional change
• urban governance and politics
• housing studies
• asset based community and economic development
• critical development studies
• cultural politics of the environment
• ecosystem health

Research centres and groups

Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS)
CURS focus is contemporary studies of urban and regional change, especially the socio-cultural, political and economic processes currently reshaping the geography of cities and regions in Australia and across the globe.

Ecosystem Health Research Group

Current research projects

Staff are currently involved in the following research projects:

• Privatising neighbourhoods: governance and social life in master-planned residential estates
• Places of crossing and connection in Australia's northern border region
• Inter-agency data and the spatial analysis of social need in a transforming region
• Community cultural development: a performative engagement
• Social practices of bio-diversity
• Urban natures: the secret life of parks
• Governance transformations and the South Pacific
• Cultural geographies of belonging
• Climate change, place and community: An ethnographic study of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales
• Advancing the ecological footprint for application to policy development
• A study of the Australian thoroughbred and racing industry and the construction of 'nature'

Seminars

Regular seminars are held to share information about Geography and Environmental Studies research by staff, students and visitors. Information about upcoming topics can be found on the Geography and Environmental Studies Seminar Program page.