Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Professor, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
A cultural and political geographer, my research is motivated by trying to understand the conditions in which people flourish in place, in their movements, in daily life, and over the life-course. My work is deeply interdisciplinary in scope. I have engaged in enriching collaborations with geographers, ecologists, public health professionals, policy experts, historians, sociologists, planners, literary scholars, anthropologists, lawyers, linguists, philosophers, and artists. Much of that work has been funded by nationally competitive research grants, or commissioned research contracts with all tiers of government. Much of it has given effect to policy debates and policy shifts, and most of it has also been reported in high quality international journals, international keynote speeches, or in books and book chapters with leading publishers. I also write a daily tribute to women on Twitter @ElaineS_Hobart and essays on Medium.
Experience
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2021–2021Professor and Associate Executive Dean, Schools of Architecture and Design; Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences; Information and Communication Technology [limited term decanal role 2021]
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2020–2020Professor and Acting Head, School of Technology, Environments and Design [disaggregated 31/12/2020]
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2017–2019Professor, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of Tasmania
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2015–2017Inaugural Director, Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, University of Tasmania
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1997–2015Level B to Level D academic, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania
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2005–2013Head of School, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania
Education
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2010LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne, Masters of Tertiary Education Management
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1996Environmental Studies, The University of Adelaide, PhD
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1986Flinders University, Adelaide, BA(Honours)Geography
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1984Flinders University, Adelaide, BA in Geography and Visual Arts
Publications
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2021Stratford, E, Waitt, G, Harada, T, A relational approach to walking: body, practice, meaning, method, Geographical Research
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2021Stewart, S, Te Riele, K, Stratford, E, A trialectical approach to understanding ‘classroom readiness’ for teaching literacy, Studies in Continuing Education
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2021Stewart, S, Te Riele, K, Stratford, E, Making sense of school learning environments as infrastructures of care and spatial typologies, Australian Geographer
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2021Stewart, S, Te Riele, K, Stratford, E, Whole school change for literacy teaching and learning: Purposes and processes, Language and Education
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2021McArthur, M, Stratford, E, Housing aspirations, pathways, and provision: contradictions and compromises in pursuit of voluntary simplicity, Housing Studies
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2020chapter: Social Geography, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition
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2020chapter: Stratford, E, Kilpatrick, S, Katersky-Barnes, R, Burns, G, Fischer, S. Interpreting silence and absence in perceptions of school-parent-community engagement, Harnessing the Transformative Power of Education. Brill
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2020chapter: Social Geography, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition
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2020chapter: Disciplinary formations, creative tensions, and certain logics in archipelagic studies, in M.A. Stephens and Y. Martínez-San Miguel (eds) Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations, Rowman & Littlefield International
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2019Waitt, G, Stratford, E, Harada, T, Rethinking the geographies of walkability in small city centers, Annals of the American Association of Geographers
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2019Adey, P, Holdsworth, C, Lorimer, H, Merriman, P, Schwanen, T, Stratford, E, Book review: Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities, with commentaries, cultural geographies
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2019Stratford, E, Waitt, G, Harada, T, Walking city streets: spatial qualities, spatial justice, and democratizing impulses, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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2018chapter: with Therese Murray, Bodies: The body of the drowned: convicts and shipwrecks', in Territory Beyond Terra, K Peters, P Steinberg, E Stratford (eds), Rowman & Littlefield International
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2018Territory Beyond Terra [Kim Peters, Philip Steinberg, Elaine Stratford], Rowman & Littlefield International
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2018Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire, Rowman & Littlefield International
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2018Guy AJ and Stratford E, 'Planning reform and heritage conservation: debating the greater good in historic Battery Point, Tasmania', Australian Planner
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2017Island Geographies: Essays and Conversations [Elaine Stratford, editory], Routledge
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2017chapter: 'Journey to the "undiscovered country": growing up, growing old, and moving on', in Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, Age and Lifecourse, L Murray and S Robertson (eds), Routledge
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2017chapter: 'Imagining the Archipelago', in Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture, Duke University Press
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2017chapter: Journey to the ‘undiscovered country’ – considering the geographies, mobilities, and rhythms of growing up, growing old, and moving on, Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, Age and Lifecourse. Ashgate
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2016chapter: '"Dear Prime Minister": Mapping Island Children's Political Views on Climate Change', in Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics, M Benwell and P Hopkins (eds), Routledge
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2016chapter: with Karen George, 'Oral History and Human Geography', Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, I Hay (ed), Oxford University Press
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2016Farbotko C, Stratford E, Lazrus H, 'Climate migrants and new identities? The geopolitics of embracing or rejecting mobility', Social and Cultural Geography
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2016Mobilizing a spatial politics of street skating: thinking about the geographies of generosity', Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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2016chapter: 'Skateboarding as Social and Environmental Praxis: Navigating a Sustainable Future', in Geographies of Children and Young People: Geographies of Global Issues, Change and Threat, Springer, T Skelton, N Klocker, N Ansell (eds), Springer
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2016chapter: with Matthew Bradshaw, 'Qualitative Research Design and Rigour', Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, I Hay (ed), Oxford University Press
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2016chapter: 'Oral History and Narrative', in The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Association of American Geographers
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2016Cook S, Davidson A, Stratford E, Middleton J, Plyushteva A, et al., 'Co-producing mobilities: negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move', Journal of Geography in Higher Education
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2015chapter: with Nel Smit and Jenny Newton, 'Engaging Young People in Climate Change and Sustainability Trails: Local Geographies for Global Insights', in Space, Place and Environment, Geographies of Children and Young People, K Nairn, P Kraftl, T Skelton (eds), Springer
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2015Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course, Routledge
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2015'A critical analysis of the impact of Island Studies Journal: a retrospect and prospect', Island Studies Journal
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2015Stratford E, Low N, 'Young islanders, the meteorological imagination and the art of geopolitical engagement', Children's Geographies
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2014Castles A, Stratford E, 'Planning reform in Australia's island-state', Australian Planner
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2013Walker J, Orpin P, Baynes H, Stratford E, Boyer K, et al., 'Insights and principles for supporting social engagement in rural older people', Ageing and Society
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2013Stratford E, Farbotko C, Lazrus H, 'Tuvalu, sovereignty and climate change: considering fenua, the archipelago and emigration', Island Studies Journal
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2012Stratford E, ''Ah! could I tell the wonders of an isle'... contemplating island futures', Southerly
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2012Stratford E, Langridge CF, 'Critical artistic interventions into the geopolitical spaces of islands', Social and Cultural Geography
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2012chapter: 'Vantage points: Observations on the Emotional Geographies of Heritage', in Extreme Heritage Management: The Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands, Baldacchino, G (ed) , Berghahn
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2011Stratford E, Baldacchino G, McMahon E, Farbotko C, Harwood A, 'Envisioning the Archipelago', Island Studies Journal
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2010Lockwood M, Davidson JL, Curtis J, Stratford E, Griffith R, 'Governance principles for natural resource management', Society and Natural Resources
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2009chapter: 'Isolation as disability and resource: considering sub-national island status in the constitution of the 'New Tasmania'', in The Case for Non-Sovereignty: Lessons from sub-national island jurisdictions, G Baldacchino and D Milne (ed), Routledge
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2009Lockwood M, Davidson JL, Curtis A, Stratford E, Griffith R, 'Multi-level Environmental Governance: lessons from Australian natural resource management', Australian Geographer
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2006Stratford E, 'Technologies of agency and performance: Tasmania Together and the constitution of harmonious island identity', Geoforum
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2002Stratford E, 'On the edge: a tale of skaters and urban governance', Social and Cultural Geography
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2001Stratford E, Harwood A, 'Feral Travel and the Transport Field: Some Observations on the Politics of Regulating Skating in Tasmania', Urban Policy and Research
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1999Australian Cultural Geographies, Oxford University Press
Grants and Contracts
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2019PhD Scholarship (Michelle Morgan) A systems approach to enable community-driven change to improve health and wellbeing
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- Chief Investigator
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- The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre
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2019MONA: Evaluation of MONA’s 24 Carrot Garden Project
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- MONA
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2018Child maltreatment, violence, offending, and educational attainment: policy and practice implications for women, children, and adolescents
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- University of Tasmania
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2016Launceston Big Picture School Evaluation
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Department of Education, Tasmania
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2016Facilitating school-parent-community partnerships throughout Tasmanian to help children realise their educational potential
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Ian Potter Foundation
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2016Review of Literacy Teaching, Training and Practice in Government Schools
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Department of Education, Tasmania
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2016Kentish Local Government Area Community Learning Plan
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Kentish Council, Tasmania
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2016Understanding education and career pathways for young Tasmanians
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Department of State Growth, Tasmania
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2015Mobilities and Active Experiences in Tasmania
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- University of Tasmania
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2014The Lively Regional City: Mapping City Centre 'Assemblages' that Work
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
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2008Community Engagement for Productive Ageing: Models to Support Rural Healthy Ageing through the Maintenance of Community Involvement and Contribution
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
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2006Pathways to Good Practice in Regional NRM Governance
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Land and Water Australia
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2003Island Communities, Island Rhetoric: Sustainable Development and the Global Promise?
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
Professional Memberships
- Member, Australian Research Council College of Experts (2016-2018)
- Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
- Fellow, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers
- Member, Association of American Geographers
- Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers
- Editor-in-Chief, Geographical Research journal
- Editorial Board member, Journal of Geography in Higher Education
- Editorial Board member, Geohumanities journal
- Executive Board Member, International Small Islands Studies Association
- Deputy Editor, Island Studies Journal
Research Areas
- Human Geography (1604)
- Land Use And Environmental Planning (120504)
- Social And Cultural Geography (160403)
- Urban And Regional Planning (1205)
- Policy And Administration (1605)
Honours
University Medallist, Flinders University; Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers; Griffith Taylor Medallist for Distinguished Service to Australian Geography
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