Jessica McLean

Research 

As a human and environmental geographer, my current core research programs are:

• geographies of digital change, and
• water cultures, encompassing rural and urban water issues.

Both research programs involve developing and growing collaborative research relationships with institutions and people from non-academic contexts, and draw on interdisciplinary approaches.

Within the geographies of digital change research program, I have two research subprojects that will come together in my book ‘Changing Digital Geographies’ – geographies of digital feminism and digital climate action. This research recognises the ways in which multi-scalar social, environmental, cultural and political dynamics interact to produce change and will be published in mid 2019. 

I teach core subjects in human geography, environmental geography and planning at Macquarie and am available to supervise students in postgraduate studies. 

I am currently taking on new PhD and Masters of Research students in the following areas:

• Digital technologies - including digital sustainability, digital justice, feminist digital action, digital geographies.
• Water cultures - urban and rural contexts, Indigenous knowledges and rights with respect to water, power and water cultures.
• Anthropocene studies - climate change, water dilemmas, justice in the Anthropocene.