Emeritus Professor Jim Walmsley
Emeritus Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
MA (Camb), PhD (ANU), FASSA
Contact
| Email: | dwalmsle@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Earth Sciences (C2) 325 |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3030 |
| Homepage: | http://www.une.edu.au/geoplan/Staff/JimWalmsleySummary.htm |
Jim was born in Lancashire, England, and did a degree at Cambridge University before migrating to Australia in 1968. After a PhD at the ANU, he moved to a lectureship at UNE in 1971. He ‘retired’ in 2008 and is now an Emeritus Professor of Geography.
Affiliations
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), 1994- .
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), 1994-2008 . Member of the Institute of British Geographers, 1975- 2008.
Member of the Institute of Australian Geographers 1975-. President of the Institute of Australian Geographers 2006-2008. Council Member 2004-2010
Member of the Geographical Society of New South Wales, 1972- .
Member of the Planning Institute of Australia (formerly Royal Australian Planning Institute) (MPIA), 1991-2008
Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies Inc. 1999-2008 .
Member of the Editorial Board of The Australian Geographer, 1992-.
Research interests
Jim’s current research focuses on the significance of lifestyle in contemporary Australian society and the way that changes in society serve to strengthen the importance of place and locality. Jim is particularly interested in migration patterns, where people live, their sense of community and their leisure and recreation activities.
Consultancy
Outside Grants (post 2000)
Large ARC Grant 2001-3 for the project: The community without propinquity hypothesis: an elaboration and investigation of its validity and salience in human well-being ($90646).
Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services, Research and Development Programs for Rural and Regional Australia, Best Practice Community Development Grant 2001-2 for “A study of the Coolah case” ($30000 with T. Sorensen, J. Archer, N.Argent and R.Epps). This project was selected for inclusion in the 2003 National Arts Research Showcase at Parliament House in Canberra in August 2003, one of twelve pieces of research in the humanities and social sciences nationally to be brought to the attention of politicians in the Showcase.
Member of the ARC Research Network for Spatially Integrated Social Science. Funded $1,500,000 by the ARC and run from the University of Queensland 2004-.
ARC Discovery Grant 2005-7: Reinventing rural places? The extent and impact of festivals as regeneration strategies (with C.R. Gibson (UNSW), J. Connell (Sydney) and G. Waitt (Wollongong), $185,000.
ARC Learned Academies Special Project 2005: Patterns of population mobility and internal migration in Australia (with M. Bell, G. Hugo, P. McDonald, I. Burnley, D. Rowland, J. Taylor, T. Wilson, S. McIntyre), $100,000
Research contract for a study of ‘The social impact of immigration’ from the Commonwealth Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, 2006 (with the UNE Centre for Applied Research in Social Science: Project Leaders Kerry Carrington, Michael Bittman, Jim Walmsley, Tony Sorensen, Jeff Archer), $200,000
ARC Discovery Grant 2007-2008: Australia’s rural heartlands: declining economic fortune or dynamic regional adjustment? (with J. Martin (Latrobe), N. Argent and T. Sorensen (UNE), P. McManus and B. Pritchard (Sydney), S. Baum (Griffith), and L. Bourke (Melbourne)), $170,000.
ARC Linkage Grant 2008-2012: Cultural asset mapping for planning and regional development in regional Australia (with R. Gibson (Sydney), P. Ashton (UTS), C, Gibson (Wollongong) and Regional Arts NSW, Local Government & Shires Association of NSW, Australia Council of the Arts, City of Wodonga, Albury City, Uralla Shire Council, Armidale Dumaresq Council, Wollongong Council, Central Darling Council), $585,000 + in-kind and partner cash (total c.$850,000).
ARC Discovery Grant 2009-2011: Rural youth migration in NSW (with N. Argent, F. Rolley, R. Dufty)
Publications
Selected Books and Monographs
Human Geography: Behavioural Approaches, Longman, London, 1984, xii + 195pp. ISBN 0 582 30091 6 (with G.J. Lewis). Reprinted 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990.
Urban Living: The Individual in the City, Longman Scientific and Technical, London & John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1988, xiv + 204pp. ISBN 0 582 30167 X in UK, 0 470 20863 5 in USA. Reprinted 1990, 1994.
Contemporary Australia: Explorations in Economy, Society and Geography, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1988, xxiv + 328pp. ISBN 0 582 71150 9 (with A.D. Sorensen). Reprinted 1990.
Contemporary Australia: Explorations in Economy, Society and Geography, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, second edition, 1993, xiv + 397pp, ISBN 0 582 87501 3 (with A.D. Sorensen). Reprinted 1995.
People and Environment: Behavioural Approaches in Human Geography, Longman, London, 1993, xii + 290pp. ISBN 0 582 07866 0 (with G.J. Lewis). Reprinted 1994, 2002.
The New South Wales North Coast 1986-1991: Who Moved Where, Why and With What Effect, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1995, xv + 96pp, ISBN 0 644 45285 4 (with W.R. Epps and C. Duncan).
Global Transformation and Social Development: An Australian Perspective, Occasional Paper No. 2, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Canberra, 1995, iv + 79pp, ISSN 1323 7137 (with G.J.R. Linge).
Atlas of the Australian People – 1996 Census: New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, Department of Immigration & Multicultural Affairs, Canberra, 1999, xxii + 184pp, ISBN 0 642 26049 4 (with F. Rolley and H. Weinand).
The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Canberra, 2007, xiii + 283pp (joint editor with K. Carrington & A. McIntosh)
Selected Journal Articles and Chapters in Books (post 2000)
‘Community, place and cyberspace’, Australian Geographer 31, 5-19, 2000.
‘Online teaching in urban and regional planning’, in D.J. Rosier and V.E. Forgie (eds) Proceedings of the 2000 Meeting of Australian and New Zealand Planning Schools, School of Resource and Environmental Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, 93-106, 2000 (with C.J. Cunningham).
‘The “consumption society” and the changing nature of leisure’, in P. Holland, F. Stephenson and A Wearing (eds) 2001, Geography – A Spatial Odyssey: Proceedings of the Third Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, 2002, pp. 432-8.
“A community perspective on life in Coolah”, in A. Sorensen et al. Telling the Coolah Story: Towards best practice in regional development, Report to the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services, 2002 (with P.C. Jobes). (Published on the DoTaRS website and selected for the National Arts Research Showcase, Parliament House, Canberra, August 2003.)
‘Rural tourism: a case of lifestyle-led opportunities’, Australian Geographer, 34, 61-72, 2003.
“Cognition” in J. Jenkins and J. Pigram (eds) Encyclopaedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation, London, Routledge, 57, 2003.
“Leisure” in J. Jenkins and J. Pigram (eds) Encyclopaedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation, London, Routledge, 279-282, 2003 (with J.M. Jenkins).
“Social impacts” in J. Jenkins and J. Pigram (eds) Encyclopaedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation, London, Routledge, 247-250, 2003 (with B.A. Rugendyke).
“Community” in J. Jenkins and J. Pigram (eds) Encyclopaedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation, London, Routledge, 61-64, 2003 (with B.A. Rugendyke).
“Authenticity” in J. Jenkins and J. Pigram (eds) Encyclopaedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation, London, Routledge, 25-27, 2003.
“Social indicators” in J. Jenkins and J. Pigram (eds) Encyclopaedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation, London, Routledge, 464-465, 2003.
‘Behavioural approaches’ in A.A. Lew, M. Hall and A.M. Williams (eds) A companion to tourism, London, Blackwell, 49-60, 2004.
‘Putting community into place’, Dialogue, 25, 5-12, 2006.
‘Retail change in southern Sydney: lifestyle-linked restructuring?’, Urban Policy and Research 24, 509-523,2006.
‘A million centimetres a year: quality newspaper coverage of “leisure” in Australia’, Annals of Leisure Research, 9, 1-16, 2006.
‘Stagnation’, in I. Douglas, R. Huggett and C. Perkins (eds) Companion Encyclopaedia of geography: From Local to Global: Volume 1, London, Routledge, 419-429, 2007.
‘Rural youth migration trends in Australia: an overview of recent trends and two inland case studies’, Geographical Research, 46, 139-152, 2008 (with N. Argent)
“Introduction”, in K. Carrington et al. (eds) The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia, Canberra, Department of Immigration & Citizenship, 1-7, 2007 (with K. Carrington & A. McIntosh).
“Settlement patterns and experiences”, in K. Carrington et al. (eds) The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia, Canberra, Department of Immigration & Citizenship, 8-24, 2007 (with F. Rolley, R. Rajaratnam & A. McIntosh).
“Human capital”, in K. Carrington et al. (eds) The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia, Canberra, Department of Immigration & Citizenship, 25-47, 2007 (with M. Bittman, J. Brown, A. McIntosh, R. Rolley & R. Rajaratnam).
“Social capital”, in K. Carrington et al. (eds) The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia, Canberra, Department of Immigration & Citizenship, 48-80, 2007 (with A. McIntosh, K. Carrington, M. Bittman, F. Rolley & R. Rajaratnam).
“Produced and financial capital – product diversity”, in K. Carrington et al. (eds) The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia, Canberra, Department of Immigration & Citizenship, 81-97, 2007 (with A. McIntosh & R. Rajaratnam).
“Natural capital”, in K. Carrington et al. (eds) The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia, Canberra, Department of Immigration & Citizenship, 98-104, 2007 (with A. McIntosh & R. Rajaratnam).
“The sponge city hypothesis: does it hold water?” Australian Geographer, 39, 109-130, 2008 (with NArgent & F. Rolley)
“The work-life balance: geographical perspectives on lifestyle, leisure, stuff and the future”, Geographical Research, 46, 245-254, 2008
“From the inside looking out and the outside looking in: Whatever happened to ‘behavioural geography’?, Geographical Research 47, 192-203, 2009 (with N. Argent)
“Something old, something new, something borrowed, something ...? Rediscovering the comparative advantage of the ‘new’ pastoral economies of northern New South Wales”, in G. Halseth, S. Markey and D. Bruce (eds), Constructing Rural Place in Global Economies, London, CABI Publishing (in press) (with N. Argent and T. Sorensen)
“Cultural festivals and economic development in nonmetropolitan Australia”, Journal of Planning Education and Research 29, 280-93, 2010 (with C. Gibson, G. Waitt, and J. Connell)
“Mapping vernacular creativity: the extent and diversity of rural festivals in Australia”, in T. Edensor, D. Leslie, S. Millington & N.M. Rantisi (eds) Spaces of vernacular creativity: rethinking the cultural economy, Routledge, London, pp. 89-105, 2010 (with C. Gibson and C. Brennan-Horley).
“The extent and significance of rural festivals in Australia”, in C. Gibson and J. Connell (eds), Festival places: revitalising rural Australia, Bristol, Channel View Press, 2010, pp. 3-24 (with C. Gibson, J. Connell and G. Waitt).
“Local – if possible: how the spatial networking of economic relations amongst farm enterprises aids small town survival in rural Australia”, Regional Studies, in press (with B. Pritchard, N. Argent, S. Baum, L. Bourke, J. Martin, P. McManus, and A. Sorensen).
“Contemporary social change as the context for geographical enquiry: towards a reinvigoration of the concept of place”, Geographical Research, in press for Volume 50, 2011