Teaching

• ENVI 111 Environment and Society
• ENVI 211 Environmental History of New Zealand
• GEOG 280 Research Methodology in Human Geography
• GEOG 380 Field Research Studies (Arts)
• GEOG 376 Geographies of Contestation, Action and Change
• GEOG 463 Geographies of Justice

Research interests

• Community responses to and engagement in issues associated with increased flood events and sea-level rise associated with climate change;
• Climate justice;
• Democratic engagement and an ethic of care;
• Spaces of democracy, contestation, resistance and the formation of collectivities in response to environmental and/or social change;
• Social sustainability, intergroup relationships, ‘community’ and identity formation;
• Autonomous geographies and alternative economies;
• Urban sustainability and participation in planning processes;
• Qualitative and feminist methodologies, poststructural approaches, political ecology, discourse theory.

Potential student projects

I am interested in supervising students on projects that relate to any of the above themes, or more specifically:

• environmental politics of extractive industries in Aotearoa New Zealand, particularly in relation to fossil fuels or intensified agriculture and water management
• responsibility for climate justice (in global north)
• environmental activism and climate justice
• community development for climate change adaptation (in global north)
• community engagement in climate change adaptation governance

Postgraduate supervision

Current doctoral supervision

• Jule Barth (Geography University of Otago): Political Subjectivities, Knowledge and Care.
• Rachel Yzelman (Geography University of Otago): Former Refugees Settling Well: An ethic of care?
• Nadia Tenouri (Geography University of Otago): Gender and conservation.
• Elizabeth Soal (Geography University of Otago): Collaborative catchment management.
• Kyle Matthews (Education University of Otago - Co-Supervisor with Karen Nairn): Radical youth activities and hope.
• Sarah Harrison (Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Otago): Health impacts of increased flooding and SLR from climate change, co-supervisor with Alex MacMillan and Janet Stephenson

Current Master's supervision

• Rebecca Kennedy-Perkins (Geography University of Otago): Should we give a poo? Farming and Climate Change Mitigation

Completed PhDs

• Taimaz Lariman (2018) (Geography University of Otago): Defining the Social Dimensions of Urban Sustainability. (Secondary Supervisor).
• Rini Astuti (2016) (Geography at Victoria University of Wellington): REDD+ Governmentality: Governing Forest Power and Politics in Indonesia. (Secondary Supervisor).
• Morten Gjerde (2015) (Geography at Victoria University of Wellington): Urban Design Guidance and Control. (Secondary Supervisor).
• Gradon Diprose (2015) (Geography at Victoria University of Wellington): Beyond waged work: the everyday politics of alternative socio-economic practices.
• Amanda Thomas (2014) (Geography at Victoria University of Wellington): Accessing Nature: The battle of Huruni (which received the NZGS President’s Award for Best Thesis 2014).

Completed Master's

• Neelum Patel (2019) (MA Geography, University of Otago): Male Advocacy as a Means to Address Gender Based Violence in Post-Conflict Bougainville
• Charlotta Heyd (2018) (MPlan, University of Otago): Community Engagement in the Context of Increased Flooding
• Livi Whyte (2018) (MPlan, University of Otago): Co-Housing and Sustainability
• Nathaniel Christensen (2017) (MA Geography University of Otago): The Sharp Edge of Precarity: Homelessness in Aotearoa/New Zealand and a framework of multiple precarities.
• Holly McGrouther (2016) (MPlan University of Otago): Public Participation in Resource management Hearings: post-politics in planning?
• Nyssa Payne-Harker (2016) (MPlan University of Otago): Shared Spaces or Contested Places? Examining the role of Kāi Tahu Whānui in Port Chalmers and Bluff.
• Madeline Hall (2016) (MA University of Otago): From Producers to Polluters: Farmers’ experiences in the Lake Taupo Water Quality Trading Programme. (Secondary Supervisor).
• William Harrington (2014) (MPlan University of Otago): Irrigation for the sake of irrigation: Situating the Social Effects of Large Scale Irrigation Projects within New Zealand’s Neoliberal Planning System.
• Benjamin Speedy (2013) (MEnvSt Victoria University of Wellington): Seizing the Opportunity? CO2 emissions from land transport and the redevelopment of Christchurch.
• Cristian Leaman (2013) (MDevSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Encounters of Neoliberalism and Nature in the Chilean Context. A case study of the Nuble River.
• Lillian Fougere (2013) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Democracy, Disagreement and Environmentalists’ Participation: A case study of coal mining on conservation land.
• Raven Cretney (2013) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Community Resilience from the Bottom Up: A place based perspective of grass roots community resilience.
• Emma Moon (2013) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Youth and Climate Change Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Camilla Morley (2011) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Motivating Public Transport Use: Travel behaviour and integrated ticketing for Greater Wellington.
• Benjamin Barrett (2011) (MEnvSt, Victoria University of Wellington): Sustainable Development Narratives in New Zealand Business.