Prof David Bissell
researcher
David is Professor of Human Geography 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 research draws on theories of mobilities and cultural geography to investigate contemporary social problems involving mobility-labour relationships. He is co-editor of Stillness in a Mobile World (2011), and the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2014). His monograph Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming our Cities was published by MIT Press in 2018.
Prof Andrew Gorman-Murray
Researcher
Andrew is Professor of Geography and Discipline Leader of Geography at Western Sydney University. He is a social, cultural and political geographer whose research encompasses urban and regional transformations with respect to social and cultural diversity; household dynamics with respect to home/work interchange, mobile work and commuting; and gender, sexuality and space. He is co-editor of Material Geographies of Household Sustainability (2011), Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography (2013), Masculinities and Place (2014), Queering the Interior (2018) and The Geographies of Digital Sexuality (2019).
Dr Elizabeth Straughan
REsearcher
Elizabeth is a Research Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. As a cultural geographer she uses qualitative methods to investigate how embodied practices of everyday life effect wellbeing to reflect on issues of social justice. Through this research agenda Elizabeth uses feminist and social theory to consider the micro-politics of mobile work, the home, body focused technologies and more-than-human relations. She is co-editor of Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters (2015) and has published in international journals such as Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, cultural geographies and Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
Dr Elisabetta Crovara
Researcher
Elisabetta is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. She uses qualitative methods to explore the spatial, temporal, and ethical consequences of contemporary changes happening in the worlds of work. Drawing on feminist geographies and theories of mobility, Elisabetta's research investigates embodied experiences of flexible work, chronic pain, commuting and care labour. Through these research areas, she reflects on social and mobility justice within work-life relations. She has published in international journals, such as Geoforum.