Geography and Planning Research Seminar Series
UNE's Geography and Planning discipline holds regular research seminars open to the public. Presenters include members of our own academic staff as well as guest speakers from other institutions. Abstracts and recordings of past seminars are available.
2016 seminars:
Wilderness: 40 years & 40,000 years - A research symposium held 13 May 2016, at Oorala Centre UNE
| Presenter | Title |
|---|---|
| Session 1 | |
| Fiona Utley and Robyn Bartel | Introduction and Publication plans |
| Stephen Harris and Fiona Utley | Another walk on the wildside: a phenomenology of rewilding and edge lands |
| Marty Branagan | The Franklin River: a case study of wilderness preservation (Part 1) |
| Bert Jenkins | Wilderness Transcience |
| Navjot Bhullar | Nature as Therapy: The role of green care in mental health |
| Marty Branagan | The Franklin River: a case study of wilderness preservation. (Part 2) |
| Steve Norris and Tony Lynch | Wilderness Triumphant |
| Session 2 | |
| Boyd Blackwell | Mining Wilderness and Traditional Peoples: How to Transcend and Transform the Imbedded Conflicts Presented Through Multiple and Sequential Use of Remote Resources |
| Paul Reader | Google-eyed wilderness: reconciling visual constructions of remote open spaces and places with other historical and Indigenous understandings |
| Wendy Beck | Wilderness in the distant past- some New England reflections |
| Vanessa Bible and Tanya Howard | History of the Australian Wilderness Preservation Movement and Environmental Law |
| Robyn Bartel, Don Hine, Methuen Morgan, & Graham Marshall | Wilderness binaries and biodiversity management in urban settings (note moved from original programme, and note also Joshua Nash Apologies). |
2015 seminars:
| Date | Presenter | Seminar title |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Sept 2015 |
Celeste Young, Research Fellow, Victoria University | The Role of Values in Decision Making & Bridging the Research to Practice Gap |
| 10 Sept 2015 |
Dr Robyn Bartel, Senior Lecturer, Geography and Planning, UNE | |
| 3 Sept 2015 |
Paul McFarland, Lecturer, Geography and Planning, UNE | Adapting Peri-urban Planning to a Post-Productivist Landscape |
| 13 Aug 2015 |
Professor Neil Argent, Geography and Planning, UNE | Heading down to the local: Craft beer and local economic development in rural Australia |
| 30 July 2015 | James McGregor, Lecturer, Geography and Planning, UNE | Fiction for the Creeping City: A literary Geography of the Postwar Melbourne Novel |
| 14 May 2015 | Dr Michael Reid, Senior Lecturer, | “Too many jumbucks in the billabong? Evidence of early post-European settlement impacts on billabongs of the Murray-Darling" |
Recordings of previous years seminars can be accessed in the playlist below.
