Qualifications

• Bachelor in Arts (Environmental Studies) - Massey University (2002)
• Masters in Philosophy (Development Studies) - Massey University (2005)
• Doctor of Philosophy - Western Sydney University/University of Western Sydney (2013)

Fellowships and Memberships

• Member, Community Economies Collective (Member) (2017)

Certifications and Registrations

• Licence, Supervisor, Massey University

Prizes and Awards

• University of Cantebury Teaching Award - University of Cantebury (2020)
• College of Science Emerging Research Award - University of Cantebury (2017)
• President's Award for Emerging Research in Geography - University of Cantebury (2017)

Research Interests

I carry out research that supports a transition to postcarbon and postcapitalist economies that better enable the wellbeing of people and planet. My Rutherford Fellowship is entitled Transitioning to caring economies through transformative community investment and it builds on my work with communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and throughout Asia-Pacific. I use action research, ethnographic, and feminist methodologies. I am a member of the Community Economies Institute and co-editor (with JK Gibson-Graham) of The Handbook of Diverse Economies (Edward Elgar, 2020). I supervise postgraduate students in development studies, urban geography, ethnography, more-than-human geographies, and community economies.

Thematics

Design – for Commerce, Community and Culture

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Built Environment And Design (120000): Community Planning (120501):
Economic Geography (160401):
Economics (140000): Heterodox Economics (149903):
Human Geography (160400): Human Geography not elsewhere classified (160499):
Other Economics (149900):
Social and Cultural Geography (160403): Studies In Human Society (160000):
Urban and Regional Planning (120500):
Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) (160404)

Keywords

Community economies

Diverse economies

Community research

Participatory action research

Urban transformation

Social and economic transformation

Postcapitalist futures

Current Projects

Teaching Statement

As a research fellow, my teaching contributions are mainly as guest lecturer or facilitator in other courses. I also design and teach intensive postgraduate workshops in the area of community economies. I am the co-editor of the 4th edition of Introducing Human Geographies, a globally renowned textbook for teaching human geography. I am the co-editor of the Handbook of Diverse Economies, an accessible guide to the field of diverse economies. I have previously won a teaching award (2020).

Graduate Supervision Statement

I am an experienced supervisor with an enabling style. Where possible, I use group and cohort supervision alongside regular individual meetings. I explicitly teach writing skills and disciplinary expectations.

Current

• PhD - McLeod H:Local Food Security and Local Food Initiatives (Lincoln University)
• PhD - Garcia D: HOW TO MAKE A MAPMAKER An Ethnography of a Geographic Information System (University of Canterbury)
• PhD - Lila L: Community economies, work and the commons (University of Canterbury)
• PhD - Wragg U: Gender, power and land innovation: The case of the Cook Islands and Fiji (University of Canterbury)
• PhD - Peryman B:The metabolic rift: Urban farming and transformative change in organic waste infrastructure. NSC funded.Partner: Te Pā o te Rākaihautū (AUT)

Completed

• PhD - Haryani RA: Redefining Women’s Participation in Leadership on Disaster Preparedness and Response in ASEAN - Case studies: Indonesia and the Philippines (2022)
• PhD - Do HT: Embodied Knowing for Climate Change Adaptation Interventions: Moving beyond monitoring and evaluation in Thai Binh, Vietnam. (2019)
• PhD - Dorji C: Decent Livelihoods: Toward Sustainable and Equitable Rural Lives for Tibetan Peasants (2021)
• PhD - Hasan MM: Youth Participation and Green Space in Dhaka
• PhD - Liu A: An ordinary China: Reading ‘small-town youth’ for difference in a northwestern county town (2021)
• PhD - Mutambo L: Crowdsourcing a Spatial Data Infrastructure (2020)
• PhD - Sepie A: Entangled fields: decolonisation, worldviews and knowledge (2018)
• PhD - Waliuzzaman S: A Commoning Perspective on Urban Informal Settlements in Dhaka: A case study of Kallyanpur Slum (2020)
• PhD - Weastall LM: Canterbury farmers' traditional ecological knowledge (2020)
• Masters - Asmarani P: The contribution of local farmers’ markets to social resilience. (2022)
• Masters - Chitondo M: Bringing data back to community after completion of research: A case study of Ndola, Copperbelt Province, Zambia (2017)
• Masters - Goburdhone S: People Plants and Soil: An Ethnography of Urban Farming in Christchurch, New Zealand (2021)
• Masters - Kienja K: Perceptions of informal settlement dwellers on urban waterways and their impacts on water quality for downstream users: case study of Nairobi (2017)
• Masters - Pem S: Understanding local perceptions and values towards Thimphu River, Bhutan (2018)
• Honours - Barnes M: Barriers Preventing Decentralised Urban Composting Initiatives in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington (2021)
• Honours - Jones S: The ethical issues with the Earthquake Comissions insurance policy, EQCover (2015)
• Honours - Pickering E: Diverse Economies in Xinjiang (2015)

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

• Swarnima Kriti - Doctor of Philosophy
  Learning to Host Caring Practices - Co-Creating Liveable Worlds

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