Associate Professor Michelle Duffy
Associate Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
- Email:michelle.duffy@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5097
Finding our place in the world
Associate Professor Michelle Duffy is fascinated by the ways in which we interact with our physical, social and emotional worlds to form our identities, build our relationships and find a sense of belonging.
Associate Professor Michelle Duffy is a human geography educator and researcher. Her work is highly participatory, inviting individuals and communities to tell their stories — from a child’s experience of living in south-east Melbourne, to a crowd’s emotional response at a music festival, or even a nation’s evolving relationship with the natural environment.
“As a cultural geographer, I draw on a range of approaches to tease apart the entangled, embodied and heterogeneous relationships that are fundamental to how we create and imagine place, identity and subjectivity,” says Michelle.
Michelle is particularly drawn to exploring the role of emotions in forming our relationships. Our emotions are constantly at play as we interact with other people and places, she explains, and motivate and mobilise us into action.
“How we are affected and respond to our emotions can tell us much about our capacities and vulnerabilities. It also offers possibilities for transforming our ways of thinking about ourselves, our relationship with community and place, and our responsibility to future generations.”
Early beginnings
Michelle began her career in the allied science industry, before completing a degree in music and arts.
During this time, she became curious about the way that music connects, moves and shapes our identities and relationships. This curiosity led to a PhD in cultural geography and a research interest in music festivals as a microcosm of community and a way to explore people’s relationship with sound.
“Festivals are significant to geographic inquiry as examples of the complex and diverse processes of place-making.
“They also reveal a lot about how our identify is formed and operates and, as my research has since revealed, often have a role in creating stronger communities in rural and per-urban regions in Australia.
“What was very clear from my PhD research was the importance of the emotions that arise out of being part of a music performance – whether that be as a performer or audience member – and how these emotions can continue rippling out after a festival event.”
Methods of music
Michelle also uses music and sound as a novel research method. For one VicHealth-funded project, her team invited children to record their experiences of ‘home’ within Melbourne’s south-east growth corridor.
The children’s recordings, backed up by semi-structured interviews that explored social connection and meanings, were developed into two sound art exhibitions: one at Cardinia Cultural Centre, Pakenham, the other at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne.
“One child told me at our Melbourne exhibition how excited she was that people from the city wanted to hear her story. This really touched me, as during our data collection, many children talked about the negative perceptions that people outside their town had of their community.
“Enabling others to tell their stories is really important for my research.”
Over the past few years, Michelle’s work has sashayed into the world of dance as an alternative way to explore the impact of sound: the connection between how we move to sound and our notions of place.
“When we observe a movement, even inattentively, we understand that movement in terms of its relationship to a particular environment but also with regard to our own capacity to move.”
The work of Michelle and her research team sheds light on how people interpret movement within their own unique contexts and expectations. For their most recent project, the team is exploring how mobile devices have been taken up by ballet companies to continue dancing during the COVID-19 lockdown, which has led to a reimagining of choreography.
Community wellbeing and resilience
Michelle’s research is helping to build stronger communities, and informing new policies and programs. One example of this is her membership with the Community Wellbeing Stream of the Hazelwood Health Study, a 10-year longitudinal study, funded by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services.
The large-scale project has worked closely with community groups and stakeholders to identify the health and wellbeing effects of the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire, located in Morwell, and its associated smoke event and rebuilding efforts.
“Our research demonstrated there was a significant impact on community wellbeing, most notably a loss of trust in authorities when dealing with a crisis. However, our research also highlighted incredible capacities held by individuals and within community groups.
“For example, community-initiated Facebook groups emerged during the mine fire event and were used by the community to comment on the emergency response and to share a range of self-sourced information.”
In response to community discussions about the future for Morwell, Michelle’s team drew on participatory and arts-based research approaches to explore what community groups want for the future of their town.
The resulting photographic exhibition, Our hopes for the Future of Morwell, was exhibited at locations such as Federation University’s Switchback Gallery in Churchill, Victorian State Parliament, and elsewhere.
The team is now developing a regional resilience barometer as a holistic tool to capture the changes in key dimensions that underpin community wellbeing.
“This will enable us to map the overarching strengths and capacities that contribute to community wellbeing, which will be of value to local and state government in planning and allocating resources to further enhance these capacities.”
The sound of progress
Michelle believes the current geological age of human activity, known as Anthropocene, “heralds unparalleled challenges that we urgently need to address.”
Challenges such as climate change, inclusion and belonging, community development and sustainability, and identify.
In response, Michelle’s work is helping us make sense of how we engage with our world and each other using our senses, so that we can take concrete steps towards a healthier, more sustainable and connected future.
“The path I am taking, along with my colleagues, is to find ways to recognise the intricate, deeply entangled relations present between the human and non-human world. We are excited to continue exploring these relations through experimental, emergent, and creative practices.”
Finding our place in the world
Associate Professor Michelle Duffy is fascinated by the ways in which we interact with our physical, social and emotional worlds to form our identities, build our relationships and find a sense of belonging.
Career Summary
Biography
Biography
Associate Professor Michelle Duffy is a cultural geographer in the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), within the School of Environmental and Life Sciences. Michelle’s primary research focuses on a deeper understanding of the various ways the human and more-than-human worlds are entangled. She is interested in how these entanglements are expressed through emotion, affect and arts practices, and especially the role sound and movement play in creating, enhancing and challenging these relationships. Recent research develops these theoretical and methodological approaches to examine relations between the human and more-than-human. This focus is about recognising the intricate, deeply entangled relations between human and more-than-human worlds, and how such relations are significant to the motivation and mobilisation of people in their everyday places.
Michelle’s other research interests include notions of community and identity, and hence the concepts and processes of belonging and alienation. These concepts underpin her research in rural and regional places, which includes projects that examine the impacts of rapid change on community wellbeing, and the role of public events in regional community development strategies. Michelle is an experienced qualitative researcher, with particular skills in sound-based and more-than-representational methodologies.
Key words
Place, community, identity, emotion, affect, sound, culture, embodiment, belonging, alienation, public space, events, resilience, mobilities
Project: Images of Home (Photography Michelle Duffy) Project: The emotional effect of music festival
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
- Bachelor of Applied Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- Bachelor of Music (Honours), University of Melbourne
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Melbourne
Keywords
- affect
- community
- embodiment
- emotion
- festivals
- mobilities
- resilience
- social cohesion
- social justice
- sound
Fields of Research
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440601 | Cultural geography | 50 |
440609 | Rural and regional geography | 30 |
440608 | Recreation, leisure and tourism geography | 20 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
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Associate Professor | University of Newcastle School of Environmental and Life Sciences Australia |
Academic appointment
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1/1/2014 - 24/3/2017 | Senior Lecturer | Federation University Australia Faculty of Education and Arts Australia |
1/7/2009 - 31/12/2013 | Senior Lecturer | Monash University Faculty of Arts Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (7 outputs)
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2020 |
Located research: Regional places, transitions and challenges, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore (2020)
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Located research: Regional places, transitions and challenges, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore (2020)
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2019 |
Sounding Places More-Than-Representational Geographies of Sound and Music, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK (2019)
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2018 |
Duffy M, Mair J, Festival encounters: Theoretical perspectives on festival events, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon (2018) [A1]
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Chapter (36 outputs)
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2024 |
Mair J, Duffy M, 'The contribution of community events to sustainable urban tourism', Handbook on Sustainable Urban Tourism, Edward Elgar Publishing 248-259 (2024)
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2023 | Duffy M, 'Music', Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography 250-254 (2023) | |||||||
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Duffy M, Boyd C, Barry K, Askland H, 'Collective emotions and resilient regional communities', The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures, Springer Nature, Switzerland AG (2022)
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Duffy M, 'Soundscapes', The Routledge Handbook of Place, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon 125-134 (2020) [B1]
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Campbell A, Duffy M, Edmondson B, 'Regional contexts and regional research', Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges, Springer Nature, Singapore 5-11 (2020) [B1]
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Mair J, Duffy M, 'The role of festival networks in regional community building', Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges, Springer Nature, Singapore 89-116 (2020) [B1]
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Duffy M, 'Festival bodies: The role of the senses and feelings in place-making practices', The Routledge Handbook of People and Place in the 21st-Century City, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon 33-42 (2020) [B1]
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2019 |
Duffy M, Mair J, Waitt G, 'Addressing community diversity the role of the festival encounter', Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Event Studies, Routledge, London, UK 9-20 (2019) [B1]
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Duffy M, Atkinson P, Wood N, 'Thresholds of Representation: Physical disability in dance and perceptions of the moving body', Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore 243-262 (2019) [B1]
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2019 | Duffy M, Campbell A, Chew R, 'Soundings: Sensing and encounters in/ with/ of place', Sounding places : More-than-representational geographies of sound and music, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK 9-20 (2019) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
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Duffy M, 'Music events and festivals: Identity and experience', The Routledge Handbook of Festivals, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon 304-312 (2019) [B1]
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Duffy M, 'Festival and Spectacle', International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition 73-81 (2019) Festivals and spectacles are significant to geographic inquiry as examples of the complex and diverse processes of placemaking and the constitution of identity operating within lo... [more] Festivals and spectacles are significant to geographic inquiry as examples of the complex and diverse processes of placemaking and the constitution of identity operating within local and global contexts. Geographical literature focusing on festivals and spectacles ranges from studies of their cultural region, diffusion, and ecology to more recent analyses of the constitution of identity and place, collective belonging, social cohesion, cultural commodification, place regeneration, tourism, affect, and embodiment. Festivals and spectacles are important communal activities, expressing historical traditions and allegiances and constructing particular social and political identities. They are also forms of commodity that bring both social and economic capital into a community. They are actively constructed by local groups, governments, organizations, and audiences as representative of local communities situated in a particular place, celebrating local communal identity. The festival is an increasingly popular tool for initiating economic renewal, promoting community participation, enhancing community creativity, and fostering community well-being. Nonetheless, we can critique the use of festivals as a tool for economic renewal because using them as such can mean little more than renewing a neoliberal agenda. Festivals also function as sites in which hegemonic practices can be subverted, or in which notions of identity, community, and belonging can be playfully questioned or challenged.
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2019 | Duffy M, Campbell A, Chew R, 'Soundings: Sensing and encounters in/ with/ of place', Sounding places : More-than-representational geographies of sound and music, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK 9-20 (2019) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
2018 |
Boyd CP, Duffy M, 'Health geographies of art, music, and sound: The remaking of self in place', Routledge Handbook of Health Geography, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon 311-315 (2018) [B1]
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2016 |
Duffy ME, 'The Listening 'I': Children's emotional and affective representations of place', Sharing Qualitative Research: Showing lived experience and community narratives, Routledge, London 96-109 (2016) [B1]
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2015 |
Atkinson P, Duffy M, 'The amplification of affect: Tension, intensity and form in modern dance', Modernism and Affect 94-110 (2015) [B1]
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2015 | Atkinson P, Duffy M, 'The amplification of affect: Tension, intensity and form in modern dance', Modernism and Affect 76-94 (2015) | |||||||
2014 |
Duffy M, Yell S, 'Mediated public emotion: Collective Grief and Australian Natural Disasters', Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives 99-116 (2014) [B1]
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2014 |
Duffy M, Mair J, 'Festivals and sense of community in places of transition: The Yakkerboo Festival, an Australian case study', Exploring Community Festivals and Events 54-65 (2014) [B1]
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Duffy M, 'The emotional ecologies of festivals', The Festivalization of Culture 229-251 (2014) [B1]
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Duffy M, Yell S, 'Mediated public emotion: Collective grief and Australian natural disasters', Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives 99-118 (2014) The Australian summer is framed by a narrative of bushfi re. Southeastern Australia is recognized as one of the most highly bushfi re-prone regions in the world, with fi re very m... [more] The Australian summer is framed by a narrative of bushfi re. Southeastern Australia is recognized as one of the most highly bushfi re-prone regions in the world, with fi re very much part of the life cycle of the environment.1 Large bushfi re events, such as those dubbed Black Friday (1939), Ash Wednesday (1984), and the most recent, Black Saturday (2009), generate much media coverage, which records and narrates the stories of those caught by these fi restorms. Depictions of devastation and ruin, as well as of grief, despair, hope, and courage, are very much part of a national iconography,2 and are readily used to galvanize notions of mateship and community as a means to respond to those in need.
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2011 |
Duffy M, Waitt G, 'Rural festivals and processes of belonging', Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia 44-57 (2011) [B1]
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2009 |
Duffy M, 'Sound and Music', International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 230-235 (2009) Methods relevant to the geographic examination of the sonic world need to take into consideration this world's two broad categories: sound and music. Although these methodolo... [more] Methods relevant to the geographic examination of the sonic world need to take into consideration this world's two broad categories: sound and music. Although these methodologies may overlap, research focus and outcomes are quite different. Nor is this difference simply one of a physical versus a human geographic framework. Rather, the range of methods employed point to the complex ways that sound structures our experience and understanding of the world. The 'cultural turn' in geography in the 1990s led to an interest in the representation and interpretation of landscapes as art or texts, that can then be analyzed in terms of who created such landscapes and why, and how these creations have shaped social relations in that place. Yet even as such reconceptualizations of the landscape have enabled a more nuanced understanding of place and space, they retain a very strong dependence on a visual intellectual framework. Sound offers other ways of interrogating place. However, until recently, studies of place and space have been dominated by the visual, even in those instances where sound is purportedly the focus. For example, studies have examined sound and music as cultural signifiers and expressions of identity, as cultural products, or as markers demonstrating the diffusion of culture or social groups. The methodologies employed for these kinds of analyses are significant to geographical research but they do neglect the uniqueness of sound, the fact that our perceptions of place through sound are very different to that through vision. Geographical study of sound and music has led to critical and creative use of methodologies that explore the role of sound in our esthetic and affective experiences of place, as well as issues of social and economic relations and political agency. However, the nature of sound - its ephemerality and the difficulty in ascribing it meaning - has also led to developing methodologies that can take into account how sound actually acts in the world.
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Duffy M, 'Festival and Spectacle', International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 91-97 (2009) Festivals and spectacles are significant to geographic inquiry as examples of the complex and diverse processes of place-making and constitution of identity operating within local... [more] Festivals and spectacles are significant to geographic inquiry as examples of the complex and diverse processes of place-making and constitution of identity operating within local, as well as global, contexts. Geographical literature ranges from earlier studies of these events in terms of cultural region, diffusion, and ecology, to more recent analysis in terms of the constitution of identity and place, collective belonging, social cohesion, cultural commodification, place regeneration, tourism, affect, and embodiment. These events are important communal activities, expressing historical traditions and allegiances, constructing particular social and political identities, and forms of commodity that bring into a community both social and economic capital. They are actively constructed by local groups, government, organizations, and audiences as representative of local communities situated in a particular place and celebrating local communal identity. In turn, the festival is an increasingly popular tool for initiating economic renewal, in the promotion of community participation, enhancement of community creativity, and fostering of community well-being. Yet festivals also function as sites in which hegemonic practices are subverted, or where notions of identity, community, and belonging are playfully questioned or challenged.
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Journal article (50 outputs)
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2023 |
Atkinson P, Duffy M, Ailwood J, 'Ballet in a Box: Iso-Ballet, Lockdown, and the Reconstruction of the Domestic Space', Geohumanities, 9 411-426 (2023) [C1] In the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the principal mitigation strategies were physical distancing and the dramatic restriction of socializing with others. The absence of li... [more] In the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the principal mitigation strategies were physical distancing and the dramatic restriction of socializing with others. The absence of live performances meant arts institutions had to reconsider their relationship with audiences and thoroughly rethink what they do. While many institutions uploaded videos of past performances, some dance companies created new performances specifically for online media that have provided an opportunity for dancers to remain active and visible during the COVID lockdowns. We borrow the term iso-dance to collectively refer to these performances, a term that succinctly invokes both the medium (dance) and the conditions under which the performance is conducted (isolation). We examine how performances of ballet dancers from professional companies were informed by the home environment. We propose the examination of iso-ballet helps us understand relationships between video, bodily movement and the particular affordances of the home, as well as invite us to question the ways we inhabit and constitute places through creative, bodily practices.
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Duffy M, Yell S, Walker L, Morgan D, Carroll M, 'The social justice issues of smoke im/mobilities', Australian Geographer, 54 573-587 (2023) [C1] In 2014, the Hazelwood mine fire burned for 45 days. Local communities were impacted by smoke and ash, and there were reports of raised carbon monoxide levels. Local news and soci... [more] In 2014, the Hazelwood mine fire burned for 45 days. Local communities were impacted by smoke and ash, and there were reports of raised carbon monoxide levels. Local news and social media reported residents experiencing numerous physical symptoms of smoke inhalation, including bleeding noses, coughing, wheezing and chest tightness. Paper masks to filter particulate matter were made available to residents to wear outside. The dust and ash constantly seeped into homes and offices, which required cleaning daily and sometimes multiple times during the day. Smoke was free to move across physical and bodily boundaries while those most vulnerable were hampered by lack of movement: pregnant women, the elderly and children were advised to leave the area. However, this suggestion to ¿simply¿ move ignored the context of a community disproportionately impacted through years of economic decline and societal change. This paper explores the unequal mobilities of smoke and people that arose as a result of this event and draws on concepts of mobility justice (Sheller 2018) and emergency mobilities (Adey 2016) to reflect on the political dimensions of uneven mobility in times of crisis.
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2023 |
Bissell D, Birtchnell T, Duffy M, Fozdar F, Iaquinto BL, Radford D, Rickards L, 'Region power for mobilities research', Australian Geographer, 54 251-275 (2023) [C1]
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2021 |
Duffy M, Mair J, 'Future trajectories of festival research', Tourist Studies, 21 9-23 (2021) [C1]
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2021 |
Barry K, Duffy M, Lobo M, 'Speculative listening: Melting sea ice and new methods of listening with the planet', Global Discourse, 11 115-129 (2021) [C1] In this paper we speculate on ways of listening with the planet as a way of producing multisensory knowledges of climate change. ¿Listening¿ is a visceral experience that helps us... [more] In this paper we speculate on ways of listening with the planet as a way of producing multisensory knowledges of climate change. ¿Listening¿ is a visceral experience that helps us consider the intricate, deeply entangled relations between human and non-human worlds through multisensory attentions. We draw on Oliveros¿ notion of ¿deep listening¿ and methodological experimentation to explore and speculate about the effects of climate change in the polar regions. Such speculative practices are informed by audio recordings of the movement of iceberg and glaciers, sea ice measurements and satellite imagery of the Antarctic and Arctic. By experimenting with the mergers of scientific data and creative practices we suggest that practices of listening make experiences of multiscalar climate change in distant places visceral and immersive.
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2020 |
Waitt G, Buchanan I, Duffy M, 'Lively cities made in sound: A study of the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing in Wollongong, New South Wales', Urban Studies, 57 2131-2146 (2020) [C1]
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2020 |
Ey M, Mee K, Allison J, Caves S, Crosbie E, Hughes A, et al., 'Becoming Reading Group: reflections on assembling a collegiate, caring collective', Australian Geographer, 51 283-305 (2020) [C1]
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2020 |
Mair J, Duffy M, 'Who has the right to the rural? Place framing and negotiating the Dungog festival, New South Wales, Australia', JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM, 29 176-192 (2020) [C1]
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2020 | Duffy M, Boyd C, 'Sound, geography and non-representational theory', Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, (2020) [C1] | Nova | |||||||||
2020 |
Lobo M, Duffy M, Witcomb A, Brennan-Horley C, Kelly D, Barry K, et al., 'Practising lively geographies in the city: encountering Melbourne through experimental field-based workshops', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 44 406-426 (2020) [C1]
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2019 |
Duffy M, Gallagher M, Waitt G, 'Emotional and affective geographies of sustainable community leadership: A visceral approach', Geoforum, 106 378-384 (2019) [C1]
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2019 |
Atkinson P, Duffy M, 'Seeing movement: Dancing bodies and the sensuality of place', Emotion Space and Society, 30 20-26 (2019) [C1]
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2018 |
Yell S, Duffy M, 'Community empowerment and trust: social media use during the Hazelwood mine fire', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, 33 66-70 (2018) [C1]
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Mair J, Duffy M, 'The role of festivals in strengthening social capital in rural communities', Event Management, 22 875-889 (2018) [C1]
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2018 |
Duffy M, Mair J, 'Engaging the senses to explore community events', Event Management, 22 49-63 (2018) [C1]
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2017 |
Waitt G, Harada T, Duffy M, ' Let s Have Some Music : Sound, Gender and Car Mobility', Mobilities, 12 324-342 (2017) This paper draws on a visceral approach to explore the role of sound/music for people who drive cars. We examine the ways in which gendered subjectivities emerge from the pleasure... [more] This paper draws on a visceral approach to explore the role of sound/music for people who drive cars. We examine the ways in which gendered subjectivities emerge from the pleasures associated with listening to sound/music during short car trips. The first part of the paper reviews the recent literature on ¿feelings for cars¿. We highlight why gender is often absent from the literature before offering a conceptual lens drawing on geographical feminist thinking to consider sound/music, feelings, gender and mobility. We draw on driving ethnographies to explore the role of sound/music in how gender is assembled with the flow of connections between bodies, spaces and affects/emotions. Considering the contextual pleasures of listening to sound/music on these trips and emergent gender subjectivities we provide a more nuanced interpretation of why people choose to drive cars. To conclude, we point to the implications for applied research for new context-specific transport and climate change policy.
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Duffy M, Whyte S, 'THE LATROBE VALLEY: THE POLITICS OF LOSS AND HOPE IN A REGION OF TRANSITION', AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF REGIONAL STUDIES, 23 421-446 (2017) [C1]
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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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Osbaldiston N, Picken F, Duffy M, 'Characteristics and future intentions of second homeowners: a case study from Eastern Victoria, Australia', Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 7 62-76 (2015) [C1] Underpinning much of the literature surrounding lifestyle migration, counter-urbanisation and second-home use is the question of motivations and future intentions. In this paper, ... [more] Underpinning much of the literature surrounding lifestyle migration, counter-urbanisation and second-home use is the question of motivations and future intentions. In this paper, we explore the characteristics and orientations for future use of land by second-home owners in two locales in Victoria Australia, Phillip Island and Inverloch. Using both qualitative and quantitative survey data we find that there are three areas of second-home governance which ought to be considered strongly for future planning in these areas, health, roads and infrastructure and climate change or sustainability. Using data from permanent residents and second-home owners from these areas in collaboration with demographic data, we argue that underlining these areas is a primary concern, that of ageing. However, while these issues burn brightly for both users of property in these places, the ability for the local government authorities to deal with them is limited because of a lack of resources.
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Mair J, Duffy M, 'Community events and social justice in urban growth areas', Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 7 282-298 (2015) [C1] Community festivals appear to be proliferating, partly in response to local government social justice policy imperatives around strengthening sense of community among their consti... [more] Community festivals appear to be proliferating, partly in response to local government social justice policy imperatives around strengthening sense of community among their constituents. This has led to policies that encourage participation by all so as to minimise social isolation, increase opportunities for interaction and facilitate greater understanding of difference, as well as the maintenance of minority cultural practices [Lee, I., Arcodia, C., & Jeonglyeol Lee, T. (2012). Benefits of visiting a multicultural festival: The case of South Korea. Tourism Management, 33, 334¿340]. However, community is a contested and multifaceted term, and sense of community is intangible and therefore hard to measure. Taking a case study approach, this paper examined two community festivals in the growth corridor in the south-east of Melbourne, Australia; one a long-running grassroots festival celebrating the rural traditions of the area and the other a new festival designed and staged by the local authority to address their community strengthening objectives. The findings of the study show that both councils accept within their policies that festivals and events have strong connections with community and identity. However, their focus on a place-based definition of community and a relatively narrow view of what constitutes community has led to limited success in achieving their objectives.
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2013 |
Duffy M, 'Space-body-ritual: performativity in the city', GENDER PLACE AND CULTURE, 20 1044-1046 (2013)
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2013 |
Duffy M, Waitt G, 'Home sounds: Experiential practices and performativities of hearing and listening', Social and Cultural Geography, 14 466-481 (2013) [C1] We argue that a closer attention to the everyday visceral experiences of hearing and listening offers new insights into geographies of home and practices of sustainability. We sug... [more] We argue that a closer attention to the everyday visceral experiences of hearing and listening offers new insights into geographies of home and practices of sustainability. We suggest that this approach is significant to understanding how sound helps to assemble and reassemble the relationships that comprise home. We concentrate on a group of 10 amenity-led migrants in their 'new coastal home' in Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia. Each participant recorded a sound diary composed of their everyday sounds. Our interpretation explores the visceral connections in the processes of making bodies feel 'at home'. First, we discuss how the rhythmic affordances of both human and non-human sounds help configure and reconfigure the spatiality and temporality of home. Second, our interpretation explores how sound is bound up with sustainability politics of homemaking. We investigate experiential practices and performativities of listening and hearing that may help constitute and reconstitute 'a' subject. This approach extends current thinking that encourages engagement with the corporeal, affective and emotional dimensions of home. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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2013 |
Duffy M, 'The requirement of having a body', Geographical Research, 51 130-136 (2013) [C1] In a project that explores the role affect plays in processes of place-making, children aged 10-12 were asked to record meaningful sounds about their home spaces. This focus on so... [more] In a project that explores the role affect plays in processes of place-making, children aged 10-12 were asked to record meaningful sounds about their home spaces. This focus on sound and listening reminds us that the body is very much entangled in, and indeed fundamental to, processes of subjectivity and place-making. The methodologies used in this work are, therefore, about techniques of researching through bodies, rather than an examination about bodies. This paper explores what researching place through bodies means, with a close reading of one particular response from a young girl who captured the sounds of her friend playing on the slide. In a conversation about this captured sound, she explained that the slide was where she can be with one special person who 'understands', but how she presented this relationship was in the movement of the body moving down the slide and the expression of affect and its release - a joyous call of 'wheeee' as the body slid down. This paper seeks to contribute to discussions around the moving and feeling body as a means to think geographically about the requirement of having a body, how the physicality of the body and its actions with (and within) affective states constitute a sense of place and notions of connectedness. © 2013 The Author. Geographical Research© 2013 Institute of Australian Geographers.
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2011 |
Duffy M, Waitt G, Gorman-Murray A, Gibson C, 'Bodily rhythms: Corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces', Emotion, Space and Society, 4 17-24 (2011) [C1] This article examines what an embodied sense of rhythm can add to understandings of the relationship between festival spaces and people. Insights are given to how the rhythmic qua... [more] This article examines what an embodied sense of rhythm can add to understandings of the relationship between festival spaces and people. Insights are given to how the rhythmic qualities of sound help orientate bodies in festival spaces, and how bodies produce festival space through embodied responses to the rhythmic qualities of sound. Our interpretation draws on extending examples of how researchers are using their bodies as 'instruments of research' by reflecting on a project conducted on rural festivals in Australia. We explore the different embodied rhythmic sound qualities of two parades held in the twin towns of Daylesford-Hepburn Springs, Victoria: the Swiss-Italian Festa and the ChillOut, pitched as Australia's largest lesbian and gay rural festival. We pay close attention to how the rhythmic qualities of sounds trigger embodied responses. Incorporating the embodied knowledge of bodily rhythms triggered by sounds is a crucial component to understanding the analysis of festival spaces as sites-of-belonging. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
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2010 |
Waitt G, Duffy M, 'Listening and tourism studies', Annals of Tourism Research, 37 457-477 (2010) Drawing upon critical social theory on embodiment this article offers a contribution to the field of tourist performance through a focus on listening. Research findings on a class... [more] Drawing upon critical social theory on embodiment this article offers a contribution to the field of tourist performance through a focus on listening. Research findings on a classical musical festival in Australia are presented to argue that exciting challenges are available to tourism research when closer attention is given to the sonic knowledge of listening. The article discusses the conceptual and methodological implications when attention turns to the ear and then describes how festival attendees listened offers insights to how they conceived of themselves in and through time and place. Taken together, listening bodies offers an exciting future research agenda for tourism studies. © 2009.
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2007 |
Wood NX, Duffy M, Smith SJ, 'The art of doing (geographies of) music', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25 867-889 (2007) Like every other work of art, music has become the stuff of social research: it has been interrogated for its economy, its politics, and its role in elaborating human life. Music ... [more] Like every other work of art, music has become the stuff of social research: it has been interrogated for its economy, its politics, and its role in elaborating human life. Music has its geographies too: its cultural landscapes; its positioning in a soundworld; its embodiment; its materiality. But, intriguingly, until recently musical methodologies have remained half formed, fragmentary, hidden, elusive, out of sight, beyond words. This is partly a result of disciplinary histories and an unhelpful division of intellectual labour, it is partly an expression of what music is. This paper is a performance enacted to assemble the field of musical methodologies: to enlarge its scope; to engage with its strengths and limitations; to animate the soundworld; to participate in the art of doing and being (geographies of) music. © 2007 a Pion publication printed in Great Britain.
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2007 |
Permezel M, Duffy M, 'Negotiating the geographies of cultural difference in local communities: Two examples from Suburban Melbourne', Geographical Research, 45 358-375 (2007) This paper explores the ways in which cultural difference is negotiated in local communities through the practices and actions of local individuals, groups and the policies of loc... [more] This paper explores the ways in which cultural difference is negotiated in local communities through the practices and actions of local individuals, groups and the policies of local government. Cultural difference is commonly managed through policies such as multiculturalism, and critiques of such policies tend to be either in terms of celebratory discourses of inclusiveness, or in negative terms which argue that such policies reiterate models of exclusivity and paternalism. The authors draw on current research in planning and cultural geography in order to explore the ways in which actual difference is negotiated at the local level through the institutional and civic spaces of local government. Two case studies for this discussion, the City of Greater Dandenong and Moreland City Council, demonstrate the importance of the physical body and its interactions with, and activities in, place to processes of local change and policy making. © 2007 The AuthorsJournal compilation © 2007 Institute of Australian Geographers.
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2005 |
Duffy M, 'Performing identity within a multicultural framework', Social and Cultural Geography, 6 677-692 (2005) The role of music in community festivals is often to assist in constructing a particular identity of place, and music functions in such instances as a means to provide a sense of ... [more] The role of music in community festivals is often to assist in constructing a particular identity of place, and music functions in such instances as a means to provide a sense of belonging for participants. However, multicultural festivals complicate any simple relationship between place and identity, because such festivals demonstrate the heterogeneous state of both identity and place. Anxieties that arise around issues of cultural authenticity within such festivals point to concerns of hybrid identities that may challenge and threaten the maintenance of clearly demarcated identities in the face of transnational relations. Drawing on ethnographic material and theoretical conceptualizations of the self, this paper explores the dynamic and fluid constructions of identity at two Australian community music festivals, and raises questions on the sorts of practices that seek to regulate the ways in which these identities are constituted and performed. © 2005 Taylor & Francis.
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2000 |
Duffy M, 'Lines of drift: Festival participation and performing a sense of place', Popular Music, 19 51-64 (2000)
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Conference (2 outputs)
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2010 | Duffy ME, 'Listening for a Change: Sound and Agency at the Urban/Rural Interface', Melbourne (2010) | ||||
2008 |
Duffy M, 'Possibilities: the role of music and emotion in the social dynamics of a music festival', PROCEEDINGS OF THE WSEAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM (CUHT'08), Heraklion, GREECE (2008)
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Report (5 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2019 | Duffy M, Yell S, Whyte S, Walker L, Carroll M, Walker J, 'Hazelwood Health Study Community Wellbeing Stream Report Volume 1: Community perceptions of the impact of the smoke event on community wellbeing and of the effectiveness of communication during and after the smoke event', Victorian Government, Department of Health and HumanServices (2019) | ||
2019 | Duffy M, Yell S, Whyte S, Walker L, Carroll M, Walker J, 'Community Wellbeing Stream Report Volume 2: Community perceptions of the effectiveness of community rebuilding activities', Victorian Government, Department of Health andHuman Services (2019) | ||
2018 | Duffy M, Prezioso M, 'ChillOut Feasibility Study', ChillOut Daylesford Inc (2018) | ||
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 10 |
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Total funding | $463,000 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20164 grants / $45,000
Evaluation of the Suicide Safer Schools program$20,000
Funding body: Eastern Regions Mental Health Association (ERHMA)
Funding body | Eastern Regions Mental Health Association (ERHMA) |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Monica Green |
Scheme | Consultancy: Eastern Regions Mental Health Association (ERHMA) |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
Formation and Transformation of Regional Places and Communities $10,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University |
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Scheme | FEA 2016 Strategic Research Initiatives Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Rethinking Independent Learning: Best practice applied pedagogy for diverse elearning cohorts$10,000
Funding body: Federation University
Funding body | Federation University |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Susan Yell, Beth Edmondson, Fleur Gabriel, Charlie Dudderidge, Haydie Gooder |
Scheme | Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice (CLIPP) Mini Learning and Teaching Grant Application |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Watermark@Narmbool $5,000
Funding body: Federation University Australia
Funding body | Federation University Australia |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Angela Campbell |
Scheme | Small Research Grant Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20152 grants / $338,000
Hazelwood Health Study (Community Wellbeing)$335,500
The Hazelwood Health Study is about identifying potential health outcomes for people who may have been impacted by the smoke from the mine fire. These might include heart and lung disease, cancer or mental health problems. It will also look at the effects on vulnerable groups such as infants and children, young people, and older people.
The study involves multiple research streams targeting different health outcomes and groups.
More detailed information can be accessed at http://hazelwoodhealthstudy.org.au/
Funding body: Department of Health and Human Services Victoria
Funding body | Department of Health and Human Services Victoria |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Ssan Yell, Sue Whyte, Ainsley James, Judi Walker, Matthew Carroll, Darryl Maybery |
Scheme | Hazelwood Long Term Health Study |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2025 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - Local |
Category | 2OPL |
UON | N |
The role of festivals and events in creating community cohesion $2,500
Funding body: faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University
Funding body | faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Judith Mair |
Scheme | Small Research Grant Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20141 grants / $10,000
Coalmine Fire Initial Impact on Health & Wellbeing Project $10,000
Funding body: Federation University
Funding body | Federation University |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Pamela Wood, Susan Yell, Sue Whyte, Matthew carroll |
Scheme | Collaborative Research Network |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20133 grants / $70,000
Developing a Community Resilience Tool$50,000
Funding body: Regional Development Victoria
Funding body | Regional Development Victoria |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Alan Lawton, Ernesto Valenzuela, Damian Morgan |
Scheme | Regional Development Victoria grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2013 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - State |
Category | 2OPS |
UON | N |
Discussion paper: Quality of Life in Baw Baw Shire$10,000
Funding body: Baw Baw Shire
Funding body | Baw Baw Shire |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Pamela Wood, Joy Chia |
Scheme | Seeding grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2013 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - Local |
Category | 2OPL |
UON | N |
Baw Baw Community Planning Pilot Evaluation$10,000
Funding body: Baw Baw Shire Council
Funding body | Baw Baw Shire Council |
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Project Team | Michelle Duffy, Joy Chia, Pamela Wood |
Scheme | consultancy |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2013 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - Local |
Category | 2OPL |
UON | N |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2023 | PhD | Climate Change - Denial, Deception, Disinformation and Delay | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | The Relationship between Aboriginal (Gathang) Language Sounds and Country | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Indigenous-led, Strengths-based, Creative and Performing Arts Programs: Opportunities to Reduce Factors that Contribute to High Incarceration Rates for Indigenous Youth | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Dancing Across Time and Place: Exploring Resistance Through Dance | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Can Human Geography, Ecology and Contemporary Art be Combined Through Installation Art Practices to Share the Concept of the Human Self as Part of the Environment? | PhD (Fine Art), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | …And the Trumpet Shall Sound: The Eschatological Function of Sound and Music | Philosophy, Monash University | Principal Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2022 | PhD | Rethinking Resilience: A Study in Australian Grain Farming | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Resilience Informed Organising: a Northern Rivers Case Study | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | The Affects of Unpredictability for Everyday Wayfinding and Being Lost and Found | PhD (Human Geography), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Urban Spaces: Public art’s contribution to restorative environments in public spaces (working title) | Human Geography, Monash University | Principal Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Space, Spatial Perceptions and Movement (working title) | Fine Arts, Australian National University | Consultant Supervisor |
2017 | PhD | Intergenerational Family-Farm Transfer: Family Members’ Experiences and Rural Social Issues | Sociology, Monash University | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Fabric-ating Place Story: an experiential approach to imprinting landscape and land culture | Society and Culture, Monash University | Principal Supervisor |
2010 | Masters | Customary land governance in post-apartheid South Africa: Gumbi case study | Human Geography, Monash University | Principal Supervisor |
2010 | PhD | Setting out with Dreams of Home: German Tourists in the Australian Desert | Human Geography, The University of Melbourne | Principal Supervisor |
2007 | PhD | The Sorry People: Non-Indigenous Australians and emotional geographies of co-presence | Human Geography, The University of Melbourne | Principal Supervisor |
News
News • 2 Jul 2020
Faculty of Science academics shine in inaugural Merit List awards
Reinforcing the Faculty of Science commitment to providing an exceptional student experience, three Faculty Program Convenors have been recognised in a new award created as part of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Merit List program.
Associate Professor Michelle Duffy
Position
Associate Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
College of Engineering, Science and Environment
Contact Details
michelle.duffy@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 5097 |
Office
Room | SR294 |
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Building | Social Sciences Building |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |