The School of Geography and Sustainable Communities is located within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong.
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Carpooling Cultures: learning from University students on-the-move, Jacqueline Horton
Building momentum: an urban and regional geography of municipal food waste composting, Timothy P. Wall
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The sexual politics of clubbing: a feminist corporeal analysis of Palms, Oxford Street, Sydney Australia, Dominique Pezzutto
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Gambling platforms and sporting masculinities: place, performance and the negotiation of subjectivities, Hayden Cahill
Uncovering Knowledge Conflicts Surrounding Mulloway in NSW, Bridget Mullany
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Asian Australian Cultures of Recreational Fishing, Collette Fontaine
Indigenous Geographies of Home at Orient Point, NSW, Hilton Penfold
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Emotional Politics of Syrian Refugees Evoked by Australian Media Reporting Shame, Compassion, Fear, Tom Bambrick
Exploring Migrant's Contributions to Agriculture: The Story of Of Italians in the Sunraysia Region, Tess Spaven
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Exploring ethnicity, socio-economic status and the distribution of airborne emissions in Sydney, Australia, Nathan Cooper
Exploring the everyday performances of white anti-racists in Camden, NSW, Elizabeth Roslyn Oliver
Assembling Horses in Kosciuszko National Park, Jennifer Owens
Cultures of Water: Exploring the role of water as a home-making practice of Burmese migrant households in metropolitan NSW, Louisa Welland
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Exploring Everyday Cultures of Transport in Chinese Migrant Households in Sydney, Sophie-May Kerr
Making Sense of Urban Parks: In Wollongong City Centre, Hayden Knobel
Collaboration on Country: Participatory Evaluation of the Girringun Indigenous Protected Areas, Eli Taylor
Theses from 2013
Femininities, ruralities and alcohol geographies: Women’s life narratives of ‘going out’ and ‘staying in’ in an Australian country town, Susannah Clement
No Longer the Fantasy of an Endless Supply: Water Value, Water Practice, and Changing Water Availability in Illawarra Households, Jonathon Cook
“It's the need that brings me back": Ageing Bodies and Volunteer Tourism, Ryan Frazer
Understanding the embodied geographic knowledge of people who watch birds: an exploration of encounter, performance and “becoming”, Carrie Wilkinson
Theses from 2012
Geographies of football: why do men play football in the Bega Valley, NSW, David Clifton
A new way of living with nature? Zones of friction and traction in Nangarin Vineyard Estate, a rural residential estate in Sydney’s South-West, Charles Gillon
Flat-Packing the Suburbs, IKEA, Tempe, and a Sense of Place, Beth Laurenson
Conflict in Common: Heritage-making in Cape York, Nick Skilton
Coal Seam Gas: Issues for Consideration in the Illawarra Region, NSW, Australia, Joe Stammers
Geographies of inter‐ethnic intimacy in NSW, Alexander Tindale
Theses from 2011
Cultural Sustainability in Regional Australia: Young Women out and about in the Bega Valley, Anna de Jong
Caring for Place: Negotiating World Heritage on Lord Howe Island, Lucy Farrier
It’s Not Easy Being Orange: Exploring NSW State Emergency Service Volunteer attitudes and practices towards nature, Jacqueline L. McKinnon
Map-Making Methods: Young People and the Shoalhaven River, Annalee Moes
Transport choices - to and from Primary Schools in the Sutherland Shire, Stephanie Toole
Cultures of Coal and Climate Change in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Kiri Yapp
Theses from 2010
Skippy the ‘Green’ Kangaroo: Identifying Resistances to Eating Kangaroo in the Home in a Context of Climate Change, Bryce Appleby
Theses from 2009
Driving Cultures and Climate Change: Bodies, Space and Affluence., Theresa Harada
Perceptions of Geography as a vocation: a study of secondary school students in the Illawarra and South East region of New South Wales, Heather Smith