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Biography
Donna Houston is an urban and cultural geographer specializing in urban and environmental humanities. Her research focuses on:
- Environmental justice in regions affected by climate change
- Planning for more caring and just multispecies cities
- Geographies of extinction
She explores how storytelling and creative methods can address social and environmental challenges.
Prof. Houston is the Deputy Director of Urban Policy and Planning at the Centre for Housing and Urban Research and a member of the Environmental Humanities Research Network at Macquarie University. She is also a founding researcher in the Shadow Places Network, a group of international scholars and artists reimagining connections between places, people, and climate change.
Current Research Projects:
- ARC Discovery Project: "Everyday, Humble, Messy: Understanding place-based repair in climate-affected communities" (2025-2028) - Lead: Prof. Emily Potter, Deakin University
- ARC Discovery Project: "Surfacing Urban Wetlands in Two Urban Renewal Sites in Sydney" (2024-2026) - Lead: A/Prof. Alexandra Crosby, UTS
- ARC Linkage Project: "Urban Rewilding: Ecologically and Community Informed Futures" (2022-2026) - Lead: A/Prof. Thomas Newsome, University of Sydney
- ARC Linkage Project: "Extinction Imaginaries: Mapping Effective Visual Cultures in Australasia" (2023-2027) - Lead: Em. Prof. Linda Williams, RMIT
- ARC Linkage Project: "The Power of Public Spaces to Connect Communities and Places for Resilient Futures" (2022-2026) - Project Lead
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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 → 1/12/21
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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DP24 (UTS led): Surfacing wetlands through design ethnography and visualisation in two urban renewal sites in Sydney
Crosby, A., Vanni Accarigi, I., Jones, S., Houston, D., Goodman, J. & Salazar, J.
22/02/24 → 21/02/27
Project: Research
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RMIT led: Extinction Imaginaries: Mapping Affective Visual Cultures in Australasia
Williams, L., James, P., Amati, M. & Houston, D.
4/08/23 → 3/08/26
Project: Research
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Multispecies wellbeing: placing pollinators at the center of urban planning and design in Curridabat (Costa Rica)
Wolch, J., Gonzalez, M. F. & Houston, D., 16 Apr 2025, Urban Climate Change Research Network . 4 p. (UCCRN Case Study Docking Station)Research output: Book/Report › Other report › peer-review
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Pollinator protection in a master planned community: Baseline, Colorado (USA)
Wolch, J., Houston, D. & Gonzalez, M. F., 16 Apr 2025, Urban Climate Change Research Network . 4 p. (UCCRN Case Study Docking Station)Research output: Book/Report › Other report › peer-review
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Environmental humanities
Houston, D. & O'Gorman, E., 2024, Introducing human geographies. Dombroski, K., Goodwin, M., Qian, J., Williams, A. & Cloke, P. (eds.). 4th ed. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 860-872 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Infrastructural frictions: care, shadows, and ruins in multispecies smart cities
Houston, D., McLean, J. & Osborne, N., 2024, Designing more-than-human smart cities: beyond sustainability, towards cohabitation. Heitlinger, S., Foth, M. & Clarke, R. (eds.). London: Oxford University Press, p. 19-36 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Offsetting
Govind, P., Houston, D., Lim, M., McGregor, A., O'Gorman, E., Suchet-Pearson, S. & Symons, J., Jul 2024, In: Environmental Humanities. 16, 2, p. 426-432 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award
Fuller, Sara (Recipient), Houston, Donna (Recipient), Anson, Daniel (Recipient), Field, Caitlin (Recipient), McDermid, Kirsten (Recipient), Carter-White, Richard (Recipient), Lloyd, Kate (Recipient), Kelly, Linda (Recipient) & Williams, Miriam (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Teaching award
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Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award
Fuller, Sara (Recipient), Houston, Donna (Recipient), Anson, Daniel (Recipient), Field, Caitlin (Recipient), McDermid, Kirsten (Recipient), Carter-White, Richard (Recipient), Kelly, Linda (Recipient), Lloyd, Kate (Recipient) & Williams, Miriam (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Teaching award
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
Impacts
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Power of Public Spaces
Donna Houston (Participant), Kate Lloyd (Participant), Miriam Williams (Participant), Justine Lloyd (Participant), Harriet Narwal (Participant) & Nerida Carter (Participant)
Impact: Society impacts, Policy impacts, Organisation impacts