Donna Houston is an urban and cultural geographer in the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University. Her research explores the intersections of urban political ecology and environmental justice in the Anthropocene; cultural dimensions of climate change; toxic landscapes and bodies; spaces of extinction, and planning in the 'more-than-human' city.  She is particularly interested in how cultural methodologies such as storytelling, visual methods and memory-work can be used to address current social and environmental challenges.
 
Associate Professor Houston is the Director of the Bachelor of Planning and the Co-Director of the Faculty of Arts Environmental Humanities research stream.  She is a member of the Shadow Places Network, an international environmental humanities initiative funded by the Swedish government.

She currently teaches the following classes:

GEOP181 Urban Planet: Cities and Planning in the Anthropocene 
GEOP262 Ecological Humanities: Australians and their Environments

Associate Professor Houston is currently available to supervise PhD and Masters Research students interested in any of the research areas and themes identified above.