Enabling Indigenous and Country-led understandings of sovereignty. The project aims to transform understandings of sovereignty from a concept to a series of practices by which pluralistic authority is drawn from intimate human and non-human relationships. It will collaboratively facilitate and document ongoing relationships in which Indigenous peoples respond to the active agency of non-human elements. The project will support a series of on-Country workshops and co-author practical resources to ....Enabling Indigenous and Country-led understandings of sovereignty. The project aims to transform understandings of sovereignty from a concept to a series of practices by which pluralistic authority is drawn from intimate human and non-human relationships. It will collaboratively facilitate and document ongoing relationships in which Indigenous peoples respond to the active agency of non-human elements. The project will support a series of on-Country workshops and co-author practical resources to support community-led research. The anticipated goal is to mobilise Indigenous knowledges in Australia to nurture regenerative sovereignties - healing relationships between people and places - with significant implications for our collective response to social and environmental change.Read moreRead less
Yolngu women keening of songspirals: nourishing and sharing people-as-place. This project aims to extend a close collaborative relationship with Yolngu researchers to nourish and, where appropriate, share Indigenous and Country-led understandings of women’s keening of songspirals. The project’s unique spiral-based framework intends to extend ideas of songlines to generate new knowledge that centres Yolngu women’s conceptions of place and time. Intended outcomes are Indigenous and non-Indigenous ....Yolngu women keening of songspirals: nourishing and sharing people-as-place. This project aims to extend a close collaborative relationship with Yolngu researchers to nourish and, where appropriate, share Indigenous and Country-led understandings of women’s keening of songspirals. The project’s unique spiral-based framework intends to extend ideas of songlines to generate new knowledge that centres Yolngu women’s conceptions of place and time. Intended outcomes are Indigenous and non-Indigenous intergenerational and intercultural applied learnings. This project should provide the benefit of ensuring keening of songspirals is not lost, helping to fulfil songspirals' potential to enrich and awaken Country, and support deep, healthy relationships between people and place in the context of disruptive environmental change.Read moreRead less
Closing other gaps: Yolngu perspectives on and proposals for two-ways learning to improve intercultural communication and policy. Current efforts in Indigenous affairs to ‘close the gap’ have not succeeded in sustainably improving intercultural communications or social and environmental outcomes, particularly in remote locations. Indigenous knowledge authorities have thought long and hard about these issues. In a longstanding collaboration with Yol?u knowledge authorities, this project will deve ....Closing other gaps: Yolngu perspectives on and proposals for two-ways learning to improve intercultural communication and policy. Current efforts in Indigenous affairs to ‘close the gap’ have not succeeded in sustainably improving intercultural communications or social and environmental outcomes, particularly in remote locations. Indigenous knowledge authorities have thought long and hard about these issues. In a longstanding collaboration with Yol?u knowledge authorities, this project will develop a replicable two-ways learning approach to communications to inform cross-cultural collaborations, developing a Yol?u mathematics framework that improves tourists’ understanding of human-environment relationships. The research will examine tourist and Yol?u experience and consider policy implications of a framework that counters ontological separation of people from place.Read moreRead less
Weather cultures: Enhancing adaptive capacity to environmental change. This project aims to understand the relationship between weather, people and place. The current context of environmental change makes it essential to understand how people relate to anomalous weather, and how they might respond. The project will research weather cultures, including their expression through songs, songlines and stories. It plans to work with Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures affected by Cyclone Oswald (20 ....Weather cultures: Enhancing adaptive capacity to environmental change. This project aims to understand the relationship between weather, people and place. The current context of environmental change makes it essential to understand how people relate to anomalous weather, and how they might respond. The project will research weather cultures, including their expression through songs, songlines and stories. It plans to work with Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures affected by Cyclone Oswald (2013) – where winds gathered (Timor Leste), where the cyclone formed (Yolngu Sea-Country, Arnhem Land), and where rivers flooded (Gumbaynggirr Country, NSW). The project aims to enhance adaptive capacity to environmental change through Indigenous-non-Indigenous two ways learning.Read moreRead less
Beyond the Private Car: Personal Mobility Futures in Australia. Australian urban dwellers' reliance on the private car is a worsening dilemma for policy makers seeking more sustainable alternatives. The identification and nourishing of these alternatives is hindered by conceptual frameworks in which the private car is seen to be the only transport mode that offers independence and flexibility. This project breaks new ground in this transport conundrum in two ways. It develops a framework in whi ....Beyond the Private Car: Personal Mobility Futures in Australia. Australian urban dwellers' reliance on the private car is a worsening dilemma for policy makers seeking more sustainable alternatives. The identification and nourishing of these alternatives is hindered by conceptual frameworks in which the private car is seen to be the only transport mode that offers independence and flexibility. This project breaks new ground in this transport conundrum in two ways. It develops a framework in which to understand how non-private-car transport forms sustain both individual independence and the environment. It provides evidence on the everyday and governance contexts in which individualised, non-private-car mobility can flourish. Read moreRead less
Governing urban energy transitions: reconfiguring spaces, sites, subjects. Transitioning energy consumption and provision away from fossil fuels toward renewable resources is an urgent priority for Australia. However, the forms of governance required to facilitate these transitions, especially for critically important cities, are not well developed nor well understood. In a novel analysis of the materiality of governance, this project investigates the pathways, practices, and political dynamics ....Governing urban energy transitions: reconfiguring spaces, sites, subjects. Transitioning energy consumption and provision away from fossil fuels toward renewable resources is an urgent priority for Australia. However, the forms of governance required to facilitate these transitions, especially for critically important cities, are not well developed nor well understood. In a novel analysis of the materiality of governance, this project investigates the pathways, practices, and political dynamics of energy transitions in Australia's two largest cities. Through a focus on Central Business Districts and suburban office parks it aims to identify opportunities for, and barriers to, transition. It also aims to shed new light on the limits and potentials of urban energy transitions and to provide an evidence base to inform policy and governance interventions.Read moreRead less
In it to win it: an interdisciplinary investigation of sports betting. This project aims to better understand how young adults use, communicate about and experience mobile phone sports betting applications. Gambling generates significant health and social harms in Australia. Yet there is little research on the use of betting apps, even though sports betting is the fastest growing segment of the gambling market. This project intends to examine how use of sports betting apps is becoming establishe ....In it to win it: an interdisciplinary investigation of sports betting. This project aims to better understand how young adults use, communicate about and experience mobile phone sports betting applications. Gambling generates significant health and social harms in Australia. Yet there is little research on the use of betting apps, even though sports betting is the fastest growing segment of the gambling market. This project intends to examine how use of sports betting apps is becoming established as everyday social practice normalising problem gambling. The findings will enhance understanding of the social contexts of sports betting, and inform gambling policy and programs leading to better health and social outcomes.Read moreRead less
Living with Urban Heat: Becoming Climate-Ready in Social Housing . This project aims to address liveability in rapidly warming cities by focusing on the role that social practice plays in complementing technical and infrastructural cooling solutions. This project expects to generate new knowledge about equitable heat adaptive practices. It does so by working with culturally diverse social housing residents using an innovative blend of participatory action research and transition design. Expected ....Living with Urban Heat: Becoming Climate-Ready in Social Housing . This project aims to address liveability in rapidly warming cities by focusing on the role that social practice plays in complementing technical and infrastructural cooling solutions. This project expects to generate new knowledge about equitable heat adaptive practices. It does so by working with culturally diverse social housing residents using an innovative blend of participatory action research and transition design. Expected outcomes of this project include practical, low-cost cooling strategies that can be implemented now, along with increased social input into planning for the hotter urban future. This should provide significant benefits, such as enhanced civic capacity to generate society-wide climate readiness. Read moreRead less
Mapping the effect of social enterprise on regional city disadvantage. This project aims to explore how social enterprises affect wellbeing and community capacity in disadvantaged areas of regional cities. Governments increasingly invest in social enterprise to benefit individuals and places. This project will use a spatial methodology to map where and how benefits are realised. To date, robust evidence about how social enterprise affects disadvantage is lacking, partly due to inadequate researc ....Mapping the effect of social enterprise on regional city disadvantage. This project aims to explore how social enterprises affect wellbeing and community capacity in disadvantaged areas of regional cities. Governments increasingly invest in social enterprise to benefit individuals and places. This project will use a spatial methodology to map where and how benefits are realised. To date, robust evidence about how social enterprise affects disadvantage is lacking, partly due to inadequate research methodology. This project expects to provide web-based design tools and applications to assist regional city communities and councils in the development of social enterprises that can help disadvantaged people and places.Read moreRead less
The changing geographies of power, knowledge and access in Australia's financial services sector: a regional development perspective. This project investigates one of the most pressing issues in the development of regional Australia: whether the modern financial services sector acts to reinforce or remediate existing patterns of uneven development. The research focuses on two key issues: 1) how the restructuring of the banking sector has affected the availability of financial services and ventur ....The changing geographies of power, knowledge and access in Australia's financial services sector: a regional development perspective. This project investigates one of the most pressing issues in the development of regional Australia: whether the modern financial services sector acts to reinforce or remediate existing patterns of uneven development. The research focuses on two key issues: 1) how the restructuring of the banking sector has affected the availability of financial services and venture capital in rural and urban Australia; and 2) the relationship between the changing geography of financial services and financial institutions' increasing reliance upon instrumental knowledge about their customers. The research will produce a model of the role of modern financial services provision and market knowledge in regional development.Read moreRead less