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0000-0002-5664-621X
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Monash University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Sociology | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology | Communication technology and digital media studies | Consumption and Everyday Life | Sociology | Social and Cultural Geography | Sociology and social studies of science and technology | Environmental Sociology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Residential Energy Conservation and Efficiency | Energy Services and Utilities | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
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Publications
Housing, heat stress and health in a changing climate: promoting the adaptive capacity of vulnerable households, a suggested way forward
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-02-2011
Abstract: In many places extreme heat causes more deaths than floods, cyclones and bushfires. However, efforts to manage the health implications of heat and increase the adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations are in their infancy, requiring urgent attention from research and policy. This paper presents a case for research exploring the influence of social and contextual factors on vulnerable populations' capacity to adapt to heat in the context of climate change. We argue such research is imperative given current prioritization of short-sighted policy solutions such as installation and use of greenhouse-intensive domestic air-conditioners as moderators of heat stress. Globally, vulnerability to heat stress is most often assessed by epidemiological analysis of past morbidity and mortality data yet a range of other factors need to be accounted for in interpreting and understanding these patterns of ill-health and loss of life, and further in determining how vulnerability is created, exacerbated and alleviated by broader societal conditions. Such factors include: the cooling technologies and infrastructures available to householders, practical knowledge about how to moderate heat stress, and social and cultural understandings of comfort and vulnerability. To investigate these factors, new methodologies are required. Social practice theory, which conceptualizes the dynamic interactions between in iduals and wider systems of power, infrastructure, technologies, society and culture as components of practices such as household cooling, is presented as a way forward. The development of a practice-based methodology and conceptual framework to understand adaptation to heat will provide a multidimensional, systems-oriented understanding of how vulnerability can potentially be reduced.
Everyday practice and sustainable HCI: Understanding and learning from cultures of (Un) sustainability
Publisher: ACM
Date: 07-05-2011
The global migration of everyday life: Investigating the practice memories of Australian migrants
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Interdisciplinarity and industry collaboration in doctoral candidature: tensions within and between discourses
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-09-2014
Spatio-temporalities of convenience eating for sustainability outcomes at an inner-urban university
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-04-2021
Abstract: This article addresses questions about sustainability outcomes and the convenience‐oriented eating practices that tend to dominate some urban universities and that are largely associated with intensive resource and energy consumption. Instead of considering food consumption on c us as a product of in idual behaviours and choices (commonly the normative frame for provisioning of eating sociospatial infrastructures), we use social practice theory to examine how timespace infrastructures shape and are shaped by eating practices on c us. The digital ethnographic methods used to capture these practices include focus groups, food maps, and discussions on a facilitated Facebook group. Our analysis suggests that university eating times and spaces normalise and promote unsustainable forms of convenience eating. For university leadership teams concerned with promoting sustainable practices, the findings highlight the limitations of in idualistic solutions that aim to encourage students to make healthier and more sustainable food choices. We show that by rescheduling timetables to provide dedicated mealtimes and by providing more shared eating spaces and associated infrastructure, those leadership teams could work to reimagine and intervene in the timespaces of c us life and steer taken‐for‐granted food practices in more sustainable directions.
The unsustainability of academic aeromobility in Australian universities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2017
Air-conditioning and antibiotics: Demand management insights from problematic health and household cooling practices
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-0077
Robotic vacuum cleaners save energy? Raising cleanliness conventions and energy demand in Australian households with smart home technologies
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Playing games with the weather: A card game method for engaging households in conversations about renewable energy generation and everyday practice
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-06-2022
Abstract: This article examines the potential of a novel card game method designed to provide insights into connections between mundane everyday practices and renewable energy generation. The method was developed as part of an ethnographic project exploring Australian householders’ experiences of weather and climate and evaluating their impacts on everyday practices and localised energy production. The card game drew inspiration from other similar methods and exemplifies intentional underdesign. Such design describes deliberately unrefined research methods meant to provoke participant engagement and playfulness because they are incomplete, irrelevant, or inadequate and thereby draw out tacit and unexamined lay expertise. Ex les from the project reported in the article show how the card game method facilitated conversations revealing how weather knowledge and understandings inform awareness of renewable energy availability and practices that depend on it. We conclude that the card game method can help researchers explore relationships that exist across weather, energy, and practice. We also propose other areas where this method and intentional underdesign could generate more productive insights for geographers and others in allied disciplines.
Studying social practices and global practice change using scrapbooks as a cultural probe
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-05-2017
DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12351
Meeting in the Global Workplace: Air Travel, Telepresence and the Body
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-04-2015
Negotiating everyday life: The role of energy and water consumption feedback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2011
Abstract: Trials and evaluations of energy and water consumption feedback are premised on understandings of consumption as a rational and in idual decision-making process. This article draws on two alternative conceptualizations of consumption to understand the role and effectiveness of consumption feedback delivered through an in-home display (IHD). The first considers how consumption is mediated by socio-technical systems of energy and water provision, and the second views it as part of social practices such as laundering, eating and heating. The article draws on these conceptualizations to analyse a qualitative dataset of interviews and tours with 28 Australian households participating in three separate IHD feedback programmes. The article finds that IHDs are an important visualization tool that illuminate otherwise invisible systems of energy and water provision. However, they have the potential to legitimize particular practices and to overlook those considered non-negotiable. The article concludes that IHDs can play a role in making socio-technical systems of energy and water provision more relevant to householders’ everyday lives, and in questioning and debating non-negotiable practices. This will necessitate repositioning and blurring the roles and responsibilities of resource providers and consumers. As a mediating device with the ability to extend both inside and outside the home, the IHD provides a unique platform for reorienting its role towards these ends.
Corrigendum to Air-conditioning Australian households: The impact of dynamic peak pricing [Energy Policy 38, 7312-7622]
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Energy, emerging technologies and gender in homes
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.5334/BC.273
The World is in My Hand Now: Smartphones for Empowering Rural Women in Developing Countries
Publisher: ACM
Date: 27-06-2022
Policing and polluting: The role of practices in contemporary urban environmental pollution governance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Designing eco-feedback systems for everyday life
Publisher: ACM
Date: 07-05-2011
Curious energy consumers: Humans and nonhumans in assemblages of household practice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2016
Abstract: In international energy policy, programmes and consumer research, a dominant ideal consumer is emerging. This consumer is typically a human adult who has the agency to make autonomous, functional and rational decisions about his or her household’s energy consumption. This article seeks to disrupt this dominant anthropocentric conceptualisation of the consumer and provide new ways of knowing and potentially intervening in the lives of energy consumers. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with householders living in Sydney, Australia, and theories of practice, materiality and agency from sociology and science and technology studies, we seek to understand consumers as human and nonhuman actants operating in distributed assemblages of practice. We explore the implications of conceptualising non-traditional consumers of energy, such as babies, pets, pests and pool pumps, as performers of or materials in practices that consume energy. Our analysis provides new ways of potentially intervening in patterns of energy consumption. We argue that policy makers need to refocus their attention on finding routes into assemblages of practice to achieve change. We conclude by calling for further exploration and recognition of the myriad curious consumers found in households.
Comfort expectations: The impact of demand-management strategies in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2008
Utilising Mixed Methods Research to Inform Low-carbon Social Housing Performance Policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-02-2016
Peak electricity demand and social practice theories: Reframing the role of change agents in the energy sector
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2012
Troubleshooting as a method in COVID-19 times: smart home ethnographies and remote aged care innovation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-06-2022
Smart energy futures and social practice imaginaries: Forecasting scenarios for pet care in Australian homes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Air-conditioning Australian households: The impact of dynamic peak pricing
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2010
Convenience and energy consumption in the smart home of the future: Industry visions from Australia and beyond
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Pursuing pleasance: Interrogating energy-intensive visions for the smart home
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Smart metering demand management programs: Challenging the comfort and cleanliness habitus of households
Publisher: ACM
Date: 08-12-2008
Integrating health, housing and energy policies: social practices of cooling
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2011
Materialising energy and water resources in everyday practices: Insights for securing supply systems
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2012
Understanding the Materiality of Neighbourhoods in ‘Healthy Practices’: Outdoor Exercise Practices in a New Master-planned Estate
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
'Going Green'?: The Limitations of Behaviour Change Programmes as a Policy Response to Escalating Resource Consumption
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2014
DOI: 10.1002/EET.1642
Overcoming remoteness: the necessity of air travel in Australian universities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2019
Emerging technologies’ impacts on ‘man caves’ and their energy demand
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.5334/BC.222
Introduction to the special issue on practice-oriented approaches to sustainable HCI
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1145/2494260
Dwelling performance and adaptive summer comfort in low-income Australian households
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-03-2017
Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design
Publisher: ACM
Date: 10-07-2023
Peak demand and the 'family peak' period in Australia: Understanding practice (in)flexibility in households with children
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Introduction: Social practices, intervention and sustainability: Beyond behaviour change
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-11-2014
Environmental culture change in local government: A practised perspective from the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives - Australia/New Zealand
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2004
Adapting to ‘extreme’ weather: mobile practice memories of keeping warm and cool as a climate change adaptation strategy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-02-2017
Abstract: Recent climate change adaptation policy positions previously mundane weather events, such as heatwaves and coldsnaps, as increasingly dangerous. Within this discourse of ‘extreme’ weather, the health sector is promoting climate-controlled indoor environments as a sensible coping strategy. Such responses mask our constant and ongoing adaptations to weather, which are becoming more dynamic and varied in mobile and globalised societies. In this paper, we are interested in reconceptualising adaptation as a series of everyday and remembered experiences with weather, which are situated within and carried by bodily social practices that contribute to keeping warm and cool. We are particularly concerned with what happens to these practices when those who carry them become mobile, through migration to other countries and climates. We consider the proposition that practices involved in staying warm or cool become more adaptable and innovative when they move. We explore these ideas through a study of international students who had recently moved to Melbourne, Australia from a range of countries. Using a ‘practice memory scrapbook’ method, we consider how student practices are resurrected, modified and/or transformed on arrival to a new locale, where memories are carried forward and disrupted by local varieties. Our analysis redefines the goal of adaptation as achieving tolerable, interesting, manageable, exciting, challenging and curious conditions rather than pursuing comfort, familiarity and safety. We conclude that increasing exposure to varied weather conditions may enhance adaptive responses, and call for further research with mobile populations to provide further insight into adaptation to weather.
Media Anthropology and Emerging Technologies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-09-2022
Beyond demand management: Co-managing energy and water practices with Australian households
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
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ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT230100021
Start Date: 06-2025
End Date: 06-2029
Amount: $1,113,421.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100278
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 06-2018
Amount: $370,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP180100203
Start Date: 10-2019
End Date: 12-2023
Amount: $738,130.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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