PRIMARY RESEARCHERS
Dr. Catherine Phillips
RESEARCHER, University of Canterbury
Catherine combines qualitative research on everyday practices with social theory to explore human-environment relations, and their implications for environmental governance. Her recent work focuses on food and agriculture, waste politics, and urban natures. She works and lives on the unceded lands of Māori people, and grew up on those of the Anishinaabe.
Dr. Jennifer Atchison
RESEARCHER, University of Wollongong
Jenny lives and works in Dharawal Country. She is Associate Professor in Geography in the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong. She has a passion for plants and her research seeks to understand the place of plants in past, present and future lives. She has had the privilege of learning about people, plants and environmental change in Gadjerong Country.
SELECT CONTRIBUTORS
Dr. Elizabeth Straughan holds a postdoctoral position on the research team. She is a cultural geographer with posts at the University of Melbourne and the University of Wollongong. Her research focuses on the sensory and emotional aspects of embodied practices. More information.
Anastasia Gramatakos is contributing to the second phase of research through select data collection and analysis. She is a PhD candidate in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences who is particularly interested in the diverse ways that time is experienced, expressed and negotiated in urban green spaces.
Willow Ross joined the team in the second phase as a research assistant. She has recently completed her Masters at the University of Melbourne, which explores the care, labour, and social transformations involved in dumpster diving.
Dr. Chris Brennan-Horley guided the GIS analysis for phase one, developing a series of maps with the email and urban forest data. He is Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, and the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS), and the University of Wollongong. More information.
Dr. Candice Boyd created the email-a-tree soundscape, with contributions from Catherine, Jen, and Libby. Candice is an artist-geographer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne. More information.
Kim Doyle provided expertise in sentiment analysis for the email-a-tree research. She is Research Data Specialist, and PhD student, at the University of Melbourne. More information.
Sophie Takách photographed select trees for use in research outputs, and contributed to the design of a visual installation for the email-a-tree research. Sophie is an artist and lecturer at Monash University. More information.
RESEARCH PARTNERS
Phase 1: City of Melbourne - Urban Sustainability