Associate Professor Emily O’Gorman’s research is situated within environmental history, more-than-human geography, and the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University and is currently an Associate Professor at Macquarie...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Donna Houston is an urban and cultural geographer.  Her research focuses on environmental justice in climate-changing worlds; geographies of extinction, and urban planning in more-than-human cities.  She is particularly interested in how cultural methodologies such as storytelling, visual methods and cultural memory can be used to address current social and...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Dr Shawkat Alam is a Professor of International and Environmental Law  at Macquarie Law School. Dr Alam holds an LLB with Honours from Rajshahi University, an LLM from Dhaka University and a PhD from Macquarie University. Dr Alam's primary teaching and research expertise lies in the areas of international law,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Nicole Anderson is currently Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, and affiliate faculty at Arizona State University.  Prior to this her administrative roles have included: Director of The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at Arizona State University, USA; Head of the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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I was born in Glen Innes in northern NSW and received my tertiary education (doctorate) at the University of New England in Armidale. I served as a Lecturer in Roman History at the University of New England for two years in the early 1990s. From 1994 I have worked in...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Mio Bryce is Head of Japanese Studies and has been developing and teaching a diverse range of units including Japanese language (from Introductory to Advanced), literature, manga/anime and popular culture, as well as a PACE unit, aimed at capturing and magnifying students' passion for Japanese culture and language....View full profile in our Researcher's database

David Christian (D.Phil. Oxford, 1974) is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University.  He is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, but since the 1980s he has become interested in world history and in history at very large scales and...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Kirsten Davies has extensive: education, policy, governance, management, marketing and board experience. In her career she has held senior management, directorship and chair roles. She holds two PhDs, one in Sustainable Management the other in International Enviornmental Law.  Kirsten was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to conduct research in...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Greg Downey received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1998. After working at Columbia University and the University of Notre Dame, he moved to Australia in 2006 to take a position at Macquarie University. Greg’s first book, Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art (Oxford University...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Louise is a literary and cultural historian whose main current research area is medievalism. Medievalism examines post-medieval receptions and constructions of the Middle Ages, and considers the impact of these constructions on modern cultural, political, and social life. Her current research is on theMiddle Ages in modern global culture, comic...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am an Egyptologist specialising in environmental history, who explores the relationship between humans and non-human animals in the ancient world as reflected in religious ideas, symbolism, philosophy, and especially art....View full profile in our Researcher's database

Corrinne is an Indigenous woman from the Wiradjuri Nation, New South Wales, Australia. Corrinne was recently awarded an Australian Award for University Teaching citation for the development of a transformative and motivating learning space in Indigenous Studies that has inspired students to critically and sensitively reflect on their perspectives and worldviews. To learn more, click...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Paul Govind is a Lecturer at the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University Law School. He completed a BA/LLB (Hons) at Macquarie and a LLM at Sydney University focusing on distributive justice and funding for climate change adaptation. He is currently researching the intersection between value change and the...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Fields Environmental literature, environmental humanities, creative pedagogy and practice, eco-criticism, nature and science writing, landscape studies, writing about animals, the uncanny, ficto-criticism, literary nonfiction, the essay and Australian literature....View full profile in our Researcher's database

Michael Gillings is in the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University, where he is Professor of Molecular Evolution. In general, his interests focus on genetic diversity and its role in evolution. This allows an eclectic research program, with papers on viruses, bacteria, fungi, diatoms, green algae, invertebrates, plants, sharks,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Usha Harris teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in International Communication in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies. She has 15 years of professional media experience which includes working as a television researcher and producer in Australia and as a print journalist in Fiji. She...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Alison is a leading researcher in Australian Indigenous history in the twentieth century, with a focus on rights discourses, race, colonialism and humanitarianism. She has a BA (Hons class 1) and Diploma of Museum Studies from the University of Sydney and a PhD from UNSW. Her monograph, Just Relations. The...View full profile in our Researcher's database

My research focuses on Indigenous rights and the interface between Indigenous communities, natural resource development, governments and corporations at the scales of the project, the community, the landscape and the nation. Much of my work uses highly participatory social impact assessment methodologies (first discussed in a widely cited paper in...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Aline Jaeckel is a Research Fellow at Macquarie Law School where she is a recipient of the highly competitive Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF). Her work focuses on ocean resources management and is characterised by close collaboration with marine scientists. Aline has published extensively in the field of law...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am a field philosopher who investigates questions in science and medicine. My current research focuses on 3 main areas. First, on animal ethics and epistemology (reconceptualizing how we think about nonhuman animals in research to improve their treatment); second on the ethics of surgical innovation (identifying ethical issues and...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Ray is a Professor of Ancient History. He joined Macquarie University in 2017. Previously, he worked in universities in the UK, where he was Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent. He is an enthusiastic communicator of his research and has founded the start-up Ancient Rome...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Alison studied history, political economy and Italian, majoring in social anthropology at the University of Sydney in the early 1980s. After completing her undergraduate studies, Alison spent two years living and working in Tuscany. This experience inspired her to undertake ethnographic research into the world of work in the marble...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Justine Lloyd is a cultural sociologist in the Discipline of Sociology at Macquarie University. Her research focuses on the relationship between spatial and social change, particularly investigated through cultural histories of media and urban space. She has also published in the area of transnationalism and border theory. Dr Lloyd is...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Mianna joined the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie in 2005 as Associate Lecturer in Ethics/Applied Ethics. Prior to her arrival she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, and a Lecturer at La Trobe University. Mianna holds a PhD from Monash...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Biography Dr Nicole Matthews lectures across media and cultural studies at the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney.  Nicole graduated from Adelaide University with a BA (Hons) in English and Politics in 1991 and undertook her PhD at Griffith University, graduating in 1998. ...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am a human geographer who studies innovative responses to global environmental change in Australia and Southeast Asia.  My current focus is on societal transitions towards more sustainable, ethical and just food systems.  I work with concepts from political ecology and transitions research. I have three main research programs:1.  ...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Biography Dr Jess McLean does research on how humans, more-than-humans, environments and technologies interact to produce geographies of change. Her research focuses on digital technologies, water politics, climate action and activism. As an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University, she teaches smart urbanism, Anthropocene politics,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Fiona Miller is a human geographer who conducts research from a political ecology perspective on the social and equity dimensions of environmental change in the Asia Pacific, notably Vietnam and Cambodia, as well as Australia. She specialises in social vulnerability, society-water relations and climate change adaptation and is currently undertaking...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am a human geographer and Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Social Sciences on the ARC linkage project titled The Power of Public Spaces to Connect Communities & Places for Resilient Futures and an MD-WERP project titled Winanga-li Gunimaa Gali: Incorporating Cultural Values into Environmental Flows. My research is...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Ronika K. Power is Professor of Bioarchaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Director of the Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment (CACHE), and Co-Chair of the Faculty of Arts Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee. Ronika is an elected Fellow of Academia Europaea, the Society of Antiquaries London,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Shawn Ross FRSN, FSA, is a Professor of History and Archaeology and the Director, Strategic Initiatives, Digitally Enabled Research, at Macquarie University.  He initially joined the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations in 2015 (with a joint appointment with the Department of Ancient History), and is now a...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Ben Spies-Butcher teaches Economy and Society in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. He is co-director of the Australian Basic Income Lab, a collaboration between the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, the School of Social and Political Science at Sydney University and the Crawford School at ANU. Ben completed his...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Associate Professor Kenneth Sheedy is the founding director of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (from 2000). He is also a member of the teaching staff of the Department of History and Archaeology, and a member of CACHE (Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage). He received his doctorate in Classical...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am an associate professor in Geography and Planning at Macquarie University. My research and teaching experiences over the last 25 years have been in the area of Indigenous rights and environmental management. I worked on Cape York Peninsula on community development in the context of a major mining operation,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Jon's current research  focuses on environmental politics and global climate policy, including governance of solar geoengineering, engingeering biology and carbon dioxide removal. His most recent book Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and Climate Crisis (Polity, 2019) explores the argument for increased state investment in low-carbon innovation. Jon also works on processes of international...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Violinist/composer, zoömusicologist, and ornithologist Hollis Taylor is a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University. She previously held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, and the University of Technology Sydney. Taylor has an abiding interest in animal aesthetics, particularly vis-à-vis...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I studied history at the University of Melbourne, graduating with first class honours in 2003. My honours work concerned the legacy of the British atomic testing program in the northern desert region of South Australia. When I later returned to university to undertake a PhD in anthropology at the University...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Lisa L. Wynn is Professor in the School of Social Sciences (Discipline of Anthropology) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  She received her PhD in 2003 from Princeton University's Anthropology Department, then subsequently held two postdoctoral research positions at Princeton's Office of Population Research and Center for Health and Wellbeing. ...View full profile in our Researcher's database