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Biography
Donna Houston is an urban and cultural geographer. Her research focuses on environmental justice in climate-changing worlds; geographies of extinction, and urban planning in more-than-human cities. She is particularly interested in how cultural methodologies such as storytelling, visual methods and cultural memory can be used to address current social and environmental challenges.
A/Prof Houston is the Chair of the Discipline of Geography and Planning, Co-Director of the Faculty of Arts Environmental Humanities Research Group and a founding member of the Shadow Places Network, an international environmental humanities initiative funded by the Swedish government's Seedbox.
A/Prof Houston's teaching and research is focused on creating more caring and just multispecies cities and societies. Recent projects include an ARC Linkage Project [2021-2024] ‘The Power of Public Spaces to Connect Communities and Places’ and an ARC Discovery Project [2015-2019] Enabling Innovation in Local Climate Adaptability. With A/Prof Andrew McGregor, she has formed a Multispecies Geographies research group that explores just climate transitions in urban and rural food systems and the development of critical frameworks for multispecies justice.
A/Prof Houston currently teaches in the following units:
- GEOP3090 Thinking Space
- GEOP8075 Planning, Principles & Places
Education/Academic qualification
Geography, PhD, University of Southern California
Award Date: 12 May 2006
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Social Experiments in Urban Food: Investigating Environmental Food Networks in Sydney
1/01/16 → …
Project: Research
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Enabling Social Innovation for Local Climate Adaptability
Houston, D., Hillier, J., Steele, W., Byrne, J. & MacCallum, D.
14/04/15 → …
Project: Research
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Valuing Adaptive Re-use of Heritage Buildings
Houston, D., McNeill, D., Dowling, R. & Rogers, D.
16/06/17 → …
Project: Research
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MQRC: Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment (CACHE) - MQRC 2019
Power, R., Sowada, K., Ens, E., Keegan, P., Choat, M., Salvemini, F. (., Davis, G., Sheedy, K., Tristant, Y., Neil, B., Herberstein, M., Carthey, A., Evans, L., Pryke, L., Kotarba, A., Ralph, T., O'Gorman, E., McEvoy, M., Davenport, C., Worthington, I., Alvarez-Mon, J., Ockinga, B., Keimer, K., Anagnostou, E., Beness, L., Yuen-Collingridge, R., Gore, D., Sowada, K., Chan, S., Binder, S., Woods, A., Hardtke, F., Di Biase-Dyson, C., Wicks, Y., Mourad-Cizek, A., Westaway, K., Handley, H., Haynes, P., Rampe, M., Lupack, S., Murray, T., Ross, S., Kosnik, M., Russell, S., Miller, F., McLean, J., Houston, D., Collinson, I., Suchet-Pearson, S. & Taylor, M.
1/01/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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'Growing Food and Density Together': Enabling Sustainable Urban Transformation through Local Food Production
Houston, D., Ghosh, S., Mann, A. & McGregor, A.
1/08/17 → …
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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A manifesto for shadow places: re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change
Potter, E., Miller, F., Lövbrand, E., Houston, D., McLean, J., O'Gorman, E., Evers, C. & Ziervogel, G., Mar 2022, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 5, 1, p. 272-292 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Delivering the discipline: teaching geography and planning during COVID-19
Fuller, S., Ruming, K., Burridge, A., Carter-White, R., Houston, D., Kelly, L., Lloyd, K., McGregor, A., McLean, J., Miller, F., O'Gorman, E., Suchet-Pearson, S., Taylor, H., Walkerden, G., Williams, M. & Ziller, A., Aug 2021, In: Geographical Research. 59, 3, p. 331-340 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Ordinary people, extraordinary change: addressing the climate emergency through 'quiet activism'
Steele, W., MacCallum, D., Houston, D., Byrne, J. & Hillier, J., 24 Aug 2021, The Conversation. Academic rigour, journalistic flair.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
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Planning in the shadow of extinction: Carnaby's Black Cockatoos and urban development in Perth, Australia
Houston, D., 2021, In: Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. 16, 1, p. 43-56 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Quiet activism: climate action at the local scale
Steele, W., Hillier, J., MacCallum, D., Byrne, J. & Houston, D., 2021, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 166 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Activities
- 2 Editorial work
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Dialogues in Human Geography (Journal)
Donna Houston (Member of editorial board)
2020 → 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
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Geohumanities (Journal)
Donna Houston (Member of editorial board)
2019 → 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work