DAVID BISSELL

David is Professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He combines qualitative research on embodied practices with social theory to explore the social, political and ethical consequences of mobile lives. His current research draws on cultural geography and mobilities research to investigate contemporary social problems involving mobility-labour relationships. Recent and forthcoming research projects are about the impact of commuting on cities; how mobile working practices are reshaping the home; and how new forms of workplace artificial intelligence are impacting on employment futures and family mobilities. He has been Chair of AusMob since 2017.

PETER ADEY

Peter is Professor in Human Geography at Monash University. His empirical research orbits around three interrelated concerns surrounding the cultures, geopolitics of security, and aesthetics of, mobility (including transport and migration). These are: 1. Air-travel, infrastructures and emerging technologies; 2. The climate emergency and just transitions to decarbonisation and low-carbon mobilities; 3. A climate of emergency, examining the emotions, affects and mobilities of emergency and its governance. While his home discipline is Human Geography my research and teaching also intersect fields such as Sociology, Anthropology, International Relations, History and Design.

KAYA BARRY

Kaya is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. She is a cultural geographer and artist who researches experiences of migration and mobility, the influences of weather and climate, as well as visual aesthetics. Her current project "Momentarily Immobile: the futures of backpacking and seasonal farm workers" was awarded a ARC DECRA (Australian Research Council - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, 2022-2025) explores the exeriences of temporary migrants working in farming in regional and rural Queensland, and their socio-cultural contributions to the communities who host them. Kaya is a convenor of the Cultural Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers. 

THOMAS BIRTCHNELL

Thomas is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong. Before this, he was a Research Associate at Lancaster University in the UK in a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and led by Distinguished Professor John Urry. The research project (ES/J007455/1) examined the past and future impacts of 3D printing on transport and society. His latest book is A New Industrial Future? 3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption (2016 Routledge). His research interests lie in the mobilities of people, knowledge and materials globally.

MICHELLE DUFFY

Michelle is a cultural geographer at the University of Newcastle, with research interests that are strongly interdisciplinary. The broader context of her work is in understanding how interactions between people and place contribute to notions of community and identity, and hence the concepts and processes of belonging or alienation. A major focus in her work explores the role of sound in a geographical context. Her most significant contributions to this research field lie in the interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological frameworks she has developed that seek to uncover the complex and 'unsayable' ways in which we connect to the human and non-human world. More recent work seeks to understand the significance of the emotional responses and affective relations that originate in sound, and this has led to undertaking creative and collaborative work that is focused on community engagement.

FARIDA FOZDAR

Farida is Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at Curtin University. Her research focuses on a range of ‘mobility’ related social issues, including race relations and migrant settlement, racism, citizenship, nationalism and postnationalism, refugees and asylum seekers. She has published widely including 5 books, 15 book chapters and more than 45 journal articles, as well as authoring reports to government and research consultancies.

BENJAMIN IAQUINTO

Ben is an Assistant Professor in Tourism in the Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong. He uses mixed methods and theories of social practice to understand the fluctuating relations between tourist mobilities and practices of sustainability. He is particularly interested in how a low carbon tourism industry can be developed in the context of climate change and the erratic planetary transformations associated with the onset of the Anthropocene. Forthcoming research projects examine how the Chinese tourism industry could reduce its carbon footprint and better adapt to a changing climate.

DAVID RADFORD

David is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of South Australia. David’s research interests revolve around mobilities, identities and social change. These have included research on aeromobilities and contemporary mobile lives with Profs Anthony Elliott and the late John Urry; religious and ethnic mobilities through conversion processes between religious traditions, particularly in Central Asia; and migration mobilities, which is his current research focus, investigating the dynamics associated with the growing non-European [including refugee] migration in rural and regional Australia.

LAUREN RICKARDS

Lauren is Professor and Director of the La Trobe Climate Change Adaptation Lab. With colleagues within and affiliated with the Lab, she is using innovative social research to examine: the impacts of climate change on the sectors of society that sustain us (including environmental sustainability, government, agriculture, water, education, health and emergency management); the far-reaching implications of these impacts for our collective wellbeing; and the deep, multi-level adaptation required. As part of this, the Lab is complementing conventional approaches to adaptation by exploring the adaptation of work itself (formal and informal, paid and unpaid) including the escalating work of trying to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Intersecting with her work on climate change, Lauren's research examines approaches to research impact and the UN SDGs, the changing role of universities, ideas about innovation, and the interconnected systemic changes referred to as the Anthropocene.