Space, Place and Body - research group

Researchers in our group take the field of Place Studies as a conceptual tool for addressing significant questions of our time. This conceptual lens foregrounds the mutual constitution of bodies, identities, spaces and places in relation to regional and age-specific identities; climate change, water, sustainable places and new postcolonial identities, informed by Indigenous place practices. These areas of critical contemporary concern are focal points of our research, which unfolds across core themes. These are:

• Creative approaches to research
• Literacy, space and place
• Postcolonial knowledges, bodies and places
• Architecture and education
• Gender, body, work
• Localized geophilosophies
• Everyday spaces and places
• Ethical geographies

Group members

Asterisk (*) denotes accredited supervisors.

• Margaret Somerville* (Co-Leader)
• Nerissa Albon
• Mindy Blaise* 
• Laura Brearley*
• Geraldine Burke
• Phoenix de Carteret*
• Anita Devos*
• Monica Green
• Hongming Ma
• Chris Peers *
• Miriam Potts
• Kerith Power*
• Mary Lou Rasmussen*
• Jennifer Rennie*
• Ann Ryan

Associate Members

• Valerie Harwood (University of Wollongong)
• Karen Vella (HDR student)
• Faye Dent (HDR student)

Contact

Professor Margaret Somerville
Professor
Ph: +61 3 990 26160
Fax: +61 3 990 26361
Margaret.Somerville@education.monash.edu.au

Ms Linda Mink
Admin Officer
Ph: +61 3 990 26333
Fax: +61 3 990 26361
Linda.Mink@education.monash.edu.au