Research outputs will be listed here as they become available.

Publications

Phillips, C., Straughan, E., & Atchison, J. 2024. Gratitude for and to nature: insights from emails to urban trees. Social & Cultural Geography, DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2023.2177715

Atchison, J., Brennan-Horley, C., Phillips, C., Doyle, K., Lewis, A., & Straughan, L. 2023. Emotional Geographies of an Urban Forest: Insights from an email-a-tree initiative. Geographical Research, DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12626

Phillips, C., Atchison, J., & Straughan, E. 2023. The power of lament: Reckoning with loss in an urban forest. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, DOI: 10.1177/25148486231153329

Hase, L. 2023. Community participation in urban greening: insights from Singapore, unpublished Honours thesis. University of Wollongong, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities.

Straughan, E., Phillips, C., & Atchison, J. 2022. Finding comfort and conviviality with urban trees. cultural geographies, DOI: 10.1177/14744740221136284

Phillips, C. & Atchison, J. 2020. Seeing the trees for the (urban) forest: urban and more-than-human geographies. Australian Geographer, special issue: The Politics of Urban Greening (eds. Cooke, B. and Coffey, B.). DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2018.1505285

Conference presentations and installations

Straughan, E., Phillips, C., & Atchison, J. (forthcoming, Aug 2024). Experimenting with volume in the urban forest: gentleness and violence in two Australian cities. International Geographers Congress 2024, Dublin.

Phillips, C., Atchison, J., & Straughan, E. (forthcoming, Aug 2024). Vegetal politics of care in the city. International Geographers Congres 2024, Dublin.

Hase, L., Atchison, J., & Coffman, G. 2023, Sept. Community participation in urban greening: Insights from Singapore and lessons for Australia, poster. International Society for Ecological Restoration conference, Darwin.

Atchison, J., Brennan-Horley, C., Phillips, C., Lewis, A. & Straughan, E. 2023, May. Talking to urban trees. Insights from the Melbourne email-a-tree initiative’. Department of Human Geography, Martin-Luther Universität, Halle Wittenberg, Germany.

Atchison, J., Phillips, C., Straughan, E., Brennan-Horley, C., Doyle, K., & Lewis, A. 2023, March. Talking to Urban Trees. Insights from the Melbourne email-a-tree initiative. Alexander von Humboldt-Kolleg / International Conference Networks of Plants and Language of Resonance in Science and Literature / Netzwerke der Pflanzen und Sprache der Resonanz in Wissenschaft und Literatur, Sydney, March 2023.

Atchison, J., Brennan-Horley, C., Phillips, C., Lewis, A. & Straughan, E. 2023, March. Insights on human-tree relationships and urban forest governance from the Melbourne email-a-tree initiative. Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS), University of Wollongong.

Co-organised sessions (Atchison, J. & Phillips, C.) on ‘Making Time for Plants: Marking the temporalities, rhythms, and durations of vegetal life in times of crisis.’ International Geographer’s Union Centennial Congress, Paris, July 2022.

Atchison, J., Brennan-Horley, C., Phillips, C., Doyle, K., & Lewis, A. 2022, April. Urban forest futures: crystallising public sentiment and concern through insights from the Melbourne, Australia ‘email a tree’ initiative. Nature Risk Resilience (NRR) Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Atchison, J., Brennan-Horley, C., Phillips, C., Doyle, K., & Lewis, A. 2022, March. Urban forest futures: crystalising public sentiment and concern through insights from the Melbourne, Australia ‘email a tree’ initiative. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.

Co-organised sessions (Phillips, C., Atchison, J., Saltzman, K.) on ‘The Politics and Places of Plants’. Nordic Geographers Meeting, Trondheim, Norway, June 2019.

Boyd, C. 2019, July. ‘If the trees spoke…’, installation of soundart by C. Boyd, with C. Phillips, J. Atchison, L. Straughan. Institute of Australian Geographers meeting, Hobart, Australia.

Phillips, C. 2019, June. ‘Feeling for trees in Melbourne’. Nordic Geographers Meeting, Trondheim, Norway.

Phillips, C. 2019 June. ‘Feeling the Urban Forest: gratitude and grief in Melbourne’, invited seminar. Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Boyd, C. 2019, June. ‘If the trees spoke…’, presentation of soundart by C. Boyd, with C. Phillips, J. Atchison, L. Straughan. Nordic Geographers Meeting, Trondheim, Norway.

Boyd, C. 2019, May. ‘If the trees spoke…’, installation of soundart by C. Boyd, with C. Phillips, J. Atchison, L. Straughan. EcoArts Australis, 3rd national conference. Wollongong, Australia.

Podcast

Atchison, J. (2021, September 8). Entanglements: Urban Trees, on J. Macey (host), There’s No Place Like … [podcast]. Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS): Wollongong.

Knowledge translation

Lowe, T. (dir, prod) 2024. Arbor-Amor. [video]. Melbourne: Polygraph Productions.

Boyd, C., with Phillips, C., Atchison, J., and Straughan, L. 2019. ‘If the trees spoke …’ SoundArt, 16 min.

Public events

Atchison, J. 2020, Feb. Talking to urban trees, presentation to University of the Third Age, Northern Illawarra Inc. Wollongong, Australia.

Phillips, C. 2020, Feb. The Social Lives of Trees, panel discussion at Trees, an Emergence Magazine event and gallery installation. Melbourne, Australia.

Atchison, J. 2019, August. Urban Forests: Trees in the city, a geography activation event at the University of Wollongong Open Day. Wollongong, Australia.

Phillips, C. 2019, May. How do people value Melbourne trees? Panel discussion, Living Pavillion, University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

Tour of Melbourne’s Trees, led by C. Phillips and J. Atchison. 18 July 2019.