Donna Houston is an urban and cultural geographer in the Discipline of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University.  Her research focuses on environmental justice in the Anthropocene; 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 Director of the Master of 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 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
• GEOP3030 Liveable Cities: Infrastructure, Mobilities and Place-making
• GEOP8075 Planning, Development & Assessment
• GEOP8090 Gateway to the Planning Profession