Parklands, Culture and Communities - researchers
Associate Professor Heather Goodall
Professor of History, Graduate Adviser
Profile on Social Inquiry web site
Heather Goodall has researched and published in three major areas:
- indigenous histories and relationships in Australia;
- environmental history, in particular the ways environmental issues are used in social conflicts and inter-cultural social relations;
- oral history and memory, particularly in cross cultural contexts and which are produced as biography and in new media forms.
Her early research arose during her involvement in the anti-racist campaigns of the 1970s and she has worked in collaborative research projects with Aboriginal communities in western NSW and in central Australia. Heather worked as historical researcher in two Royal Commissions, that into British Nuclear testing in Australia [reporting 1985] and that into Black Deaths in Custody [1991]. Her ground breaking book Invasion to Embassy [1996] charts the sustained focus on land in NSW Aboriginal politics from the 1860s to the present and won the NSW Premiers Award for Australian History in 1997. It is widely cited and regarded as a key work in the field. Much of her recent research has been on the histories of rivers and water, with a focus on gendered and racialised interactions through the landscape of inland rivers.
Heather is currently researching the use of parklands in urban Sydney by a range of class and ethnic groups, working with Indigenous, Anglo, Vietnamese and Arabic-speaking communities in the Georges River area: Parklands, Culture and Communities. [http://www.georgesriverparks.org.au/]. This project is funded by an ARC Linkage grant, with UTS and DEC as contributing partners.
Her collaborative work with rural Aboriginal communities continues in her current web site project documenting the Aboriginal challenge to segregated public education in NSW. Her most recent publication is the co-authored life story: Isabel Flick: the many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman. [2004]. This book received the inaugural Magery Medal 2005 (for more information on this book see http://www.theaha.org.au/2005_MagareyWinner_citation.doc )
She also co-edited the significant publication Echoes from the poisoned well: Global memories of environmental injustice (2006) with Sylvia Hood Washington and Paul C. Rosier in which oral history, memory and environmental issues are explored in an international context. The book has been well received by critics such as Professor Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa:
"This bold and broad ranging book presents the pan-global phenomenon of environmental injustice from an historical perspective for the first time. In a volume of well-written and sophisticated analyses, expert authors explore the roots and effects of environmental inequality in societies as different as Finland, Zimbabwe, Australia, Martinique, Taiwan and the United States. Covering a diversity of urban and rural communities in the developing and developed world, periphery and metropole, indigenous and academic voices are finely balanced"
Dr Allison Cadzow
Profile on Social Inquiry web site
Senior Research Officer for the Parklands, Culture and Communities program.
Her key research interests explored in her PhD in Social Sciences (UTS) and more recent work are: environmental history, gendered relationships with place, sexuality, oral history, writing and storytelling.
She has worked as an assistant curator on an innovative social history exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Eternity: stories from the emotional heart of Australia. She also worked at the NMA with the public programs team on Sky Lounge and Tracking Kultja: a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Festival (2001).
Recently she contributed research, public program and exhibition assistance for a touring exhibition on mountaineer, feminist, Buddhist and environmentalist Marie Byles: A Spirited Life.
Dr Denis Byrne
Adjunct Professor, Transforming Cultures Centre, UTS.
Profile on the Humanities and Social Sciences web site
Denis Byrne manages the Research Section of the Cultural Heritage Division in the Department of Environment and Conservation. Denis' interests include the contemporary religious/spiritual context of heritage sites in Asia and Australia (the subject of his recent fellowship at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles), the history and heritage of racial segregation in Australia, and the push towards greater acknowledgement of the social value of heritage places.
Associate Professor Stephen Wearing
Associate Researcher, Transforming Cultures Centre, UTS
Profile on Faculty of Business web site
Stephen Wearing is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business at UTS. He has been responsible for a variety of projects in the area of Leisure and Tourism Studies at an international, national, state, regional and local level. He is currently the co-editor of the journal Parks and Leisure Australia and his research areas are: ecotourism, community based and volunteer tourism, environmentalism, sociology of leisure and tourism and social sciences in protected area management. He is involved in key advisory bodies such as the Sydney Parks Group (formerly SUPER).