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Elizabeth (Libby) Straughan
@lstraughan.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. Cultural geographer interested in the politics and ethics of embodied experience researching geographies of home and work, human-environment relations and mobilities.
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New in Area:

'Being land, becoming research: Relational and Country-led accountability in research outputs and milestones' by Liz Murphy-May with Yandaarra et al.

This paper reflects on research milestones and Gumbaynggirr Ngambaa ways of being in current-day Australia.

doi.org/10.1111/area...
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
An evening visitor
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New initiative from the IAG cultural geography study group
Dear Study Group Members, a postcard to your inbox is incoming!
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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New Commentary w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social in @tibg.bsky.social.

Daniel and I comment further on the politics of attention at work, building from @davidjbissell.bsky.social, @lillicrovara.bsky.social, Andrew Gorman-Murray, and @lstraughan.bsky.social excellent recent article.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This commentary responds to and extends recent research by Bissell al. (2025). We add to their analysis of attention, focusing on social difference and workplace politics by drawing on examples from ....
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October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
What is microculture and why does it matter?

Happy to share a new paper by myself @davidjbissell.bsky.social, @lillicrovara.bsky.social and Andrew Gorman-Murray. We consider issues of workplace culture and awkwardness in remote and hybrid modes of working.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Microcultural Geographies: Navigating Awkwardness in the Postpandemic Workplace
The concept of culture is central to geographical inquiry, yet it remains a vexed concern for geographers, in so far as the expansiveness of what counts as culture has raised questions regarding wh...
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣

🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.

🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
September 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Call for participants!

Have you camped in an urban area in the UK for leisure, fun, wellbeing, or adventure? In a bivvy, tent, van, car…? In your garden, a park, side street…?

Please complete my survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... (anon., 10-15 mins).

Please share.

Thank you!
Urban camping survey
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk
May 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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We’ve got a 3 year lecturership in human geog and gender now advertised.

Deadline 6th May 2025

Please spread the word!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS710/l...
Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education) at King's College London
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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April 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The 2 year old just walked into the kitchen demanding that I "read it".
April 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Looking forward to this next week!
March 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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❁ If you're considering coming to the Institute of Australian Geographers Conference in Newcastle NSW this year, please do think about contributing to our session that we're organising on the concept of 'acceptance' in geography ❁ We think that it's a really intriguing and timely theme ❁
March 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I’m delighted to share a new podcast released this week by Dense City showcasing our research on urban trees (Myself, C. Phillips and J. Atkinson). The discussion builds on our article in cultural geographies ‘Finding comfort and conviviality with Urban trees’:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/den...
40: If you could talk to trees, what would you say? by Dense City
On today's episode, we welcome Dr. Catherine Phillips who joins us from Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/The University of Canterbury in Aotearoa/New Zealand along with Dr. Elizabeth Straughan from the Univ...
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March 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The first launch event of @darkmatterlabs.org Planetary Civics Inquiry is starting now!

www.youtube.com/live/ZQtyehL...

This thought-provoking conversation between artist and philosopher about the interconnectedness of all life.

Er - good morning!
Patricia Piccinini and Rosi Braidotti in conversation: Planetary Civics and Regenerative Futures
YouTube video by RMIT Culture
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February 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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for those who are geographically inclined, the Cultural Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers now has a bluesky account! Follow us here -- @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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My book “Somatic States” is coming out in a few weeks with @dukepress.bsky.social

A decade in the making, it’s not just “another book,” it’s the most important I have written.

Introduction available here:
shorturl.at/8zMy5

#geography #anthropology #politicaltheory
February 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Great opportunity to work with the lovely @sarah-mills.bsky.social on an important topic.
Closes this Friday 31st January... PhD opportunity @lborouniversity.bsky.social collaboration with DCMS #youth #sector #geosky #academicsky
*New PhD opportunity* @lborouniversity in partnership with
DCMS - "Out of School Youth Provision: An Analysis of Funding and Operational Resilience within the Sector" - deadline 31/01/25, UK applicant funding + details here: www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...
January 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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In this session we are discussing mental ill health, interdisciplinarity and the humanities - with @felicitycallard.bsky.social Ed Kiely, Cheryl McGeachan and Chris Philo. Come along .. sign up! This Wednesday..
Geography, Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities
This session presents and discusses ideas relating to the themes of mental (ill-)health geographies, interdisciplinarity and the humanities.
www.eventbrite.ie
January 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The first commute home of 2025 involved spotting 5 kangaroos, 2 wallabies, 1 fox cub and 1 human pulling the emergency cord of the train because they missed their stop before asking the conductor if the train could be reversed.
January 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Breaking the bluesky ice with some pig face blooms from the garden.
November 20, 2024 at 5:00 AM