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Research
Staff and postgraduate research (MA Hons and PhD) is concentrated in three principal research clusters: living with globalisation; social conditions and postcolonial studies. In addition, cross-departmental and cross-institutional collaborative research is being undertaken especially in areas of overlap between these three clusters. Research into aspects of resource and environmental management and urban life integrate all three departmental clusters
Collaborative research and research supervision in environmental management and GIS are carried out with the Department of Physical Geography and within the Geographic Information Systems Centre (GISCMU)
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Living with Globalisation
- Globalisation and agrifood commodity chains in the Asia-Pacific Region [Fagan, Krinks]
- Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific region in the legal and the illegal economies [Langdale]
- Socio-economic change and Australia's role in the Asia-Pacific region [Langdale, Lloyd]
- Geographical scale and resistance to globalisation: trade union strategies [Fagan]
- (with Social Conditions Cluster) Restructuring of local labour markets in Western Sydney [Dowling, Fagan]
- (with Social Conditions Cluster) Social and political construction of geographical scale [Fagan, Howitt]
- Geographical analysis of social and demographic change [McCracken]
- Geography of health in Australia, including public health [Curson, McCracken]
- Class, gender and sexuality in suburban Sydney [Dowling]
- Cultural and feminist perspectives on urban life [Dowling]
- Social and cultural landscapes (including heritage management) [Aplin, Dowling, Lloyd]
- Geographies of racism in Australia [Forrest]
- Geography of ethnic group segregation [Forrest, Poulsen]
- Geography of Australian elections [Forrest]
- Indigenous studies in Australia and overseas including Native Title [Howitt]
- Postcolonial approaches to resource and environmental management [Howitt, Suchet-Pearson]
- Community development in localities affected by resource development and tourism [Lloyd, Suchet-Pearson]
- Tourism and development especially in transitional economies inc. Vietnam [Lloyd]
- (with Globalisation Cluster) Security, governance and development in Australia's northern borderlands (combining Development studies and Indigenous studies) [Lloyd, Suchet-Pearson]
- (with Social Conditions Cluster) Indigenous empowerment and community capacity-building [Howitt, Suchet-Pearson]
- (with Social Conditions Cluster) Culture-nature relationships [Dowling, Suchet-Pearson]
- Australian involvement in international environment negotiations and Australian implementation of agreements [Aplin]
- Social impact assessment of resource projects, particularly for Aboriginal communities [Howitt]
- Changing corporate cultures: mining company responses to cross-cultural mining operations in Asia-Pacific [Howitt]
- Local and indigenous participation in wildlife management [Suchet-Pearson]
- Impacts of overseas migration on Australian cities [Forrest, Poulsen]
- Metropolitan planning strategies in Sydney as a 'global city' [Dowling, Fagan, Langdale]
It is easy to include Human Geography in a BA, BSc or BSocSc degree, the main differences lying in the choice of ancillary subjects. Flexible teaching delivery options are a feature of Human Geography at Macquarie with most units available in distance education mode with extensive use of the internet.
Staff research areas and common areas of interest
See Staff and Postgraduate pages for details of individual research projects.
