Dr Fran Rolley

Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Fran Rolley

Phone: +61 2 6773 2822

Email: frolley@une.edu.au

Qualifications

BSc(Hons) (NSW), PhD (NE)

Teaching Areas

GEPL338 Understanding Research
GEPL538 Applied Research Methods

Supervision Areas

Socio-demographic change in rural Australia and the impacts of changes in service provision on rural residents and communities.

Research Interests

Dr Rolley has completed her PhD at the University of New England, where her research focused on the health needs of rural Australians and the problems associated with the provision of health care services to rural areas.

Research Grants

Walmsley J, Rolley F, Rajaratnam R (with CARSS): Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs 2006-2007: "The social impact of immigration in Australia"

Argent N, Rolley F & Sorensen A: Consultancy for NSW Department of Environment & Climate Change 2007: "The geography of Gwydir and Macquarie river catchment towns"

Carrington K, Sorensen A, Rolley F & Scott J (with A Davies & M Tonts, UWA): Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation Grant 2008-2010: "Resilient rural communities"

Argent N, Rolley F, Dufty R & Walmsley J: ARC Discovery (2009 – 2010) DP0985831: "Home and away?: Defining and conceptualising rural youth migration in Australia"

Publications

Book Chapters

Bittman M, Brown J, McIntosh A, Rolley F, Rajaratnam R & Walmsley J, 2007: "Human Capital" in K Carrington, J Walmsley & A McIntosh (eds) The social costs and benefits of migration into Australia, Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra.

Walmsley J, Rolley F, Rajaratnam R & McIntosh A, 2007: "Settlement patterns and experience" in K Carrington, J Walmsley & A McIntosh (eds) The social costs and benefits of migration into Australia, Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra.

Walmsley J, McIntosh A, Carrington K, Bittman M, Rolley F & Rajaratnam R, 2007: "Social Capital" in K Carrington, J Walmsley & A McIntosh (eds) The social costs and benefits of migration into Australia, Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra.

Walmsley J, Rolley F & Argent N & Tonts M: "Internal migration in inland Australia" in M Bell, G Hugo & P McDonald, ARC Learned Academies, Special Project: Internal migration in Australia (forthcoming).

Journal Articles

Rolley F & Argent N, 2007: "The geography of rural homelessness in Australia: Towards a new research agenda", Parity 20 (7): 31-32. (Full version also published online in National Homelessness Research Seminar papers at: www.chp.org.au)

Argent N, Rolley F & Walmsley J, 2008: "The sponge city hypothesis: Does it hold water?" Australian Geographer, 39(2): 109-130.

Other Publications

Rolley F & Argent N, 2007: "The geography of rural homelessness in Australia: Towards a new research agenda", Invited paper presented to the National Homelessness Research Seminar, Melbourne, April 12-13.

Argent N, Rolley F & Sorensen A, 2007: "The economic geography of the Gwydir and Macquarie river catchment towns: Current features, future prospects and challenges", Report to NSW Department of Environment & Climate Change, UNE Armidale.

Argent N & Rolley F, 2008: "Counterurbanisation in Australia: Two case studies", GEODate, July: 4-7.

Rolley F, Stayner R & Sorensen A, 2009: "Stories from Australian rural towns" Chapter 5 in Davies A & Tonts M What makes a rural community resilient? RIRDC, Canberra.

Argent N & Rolley F, 2010: "Drivers of net migration for non-metropolitan local areas in NSW, 1996-2006", Report to NSW Department of Planning, UNE Armidale.

Rolley F, Argent N, Walmsley J & Dufty R, 2010: "Rural youth migration in Northern NSW", Paper presented at 15th Biennial Australian Population Association Conference, Gold Coast, 30 Nov – 3 Dec.