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I’m a transdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of food systems, sustainability, and environmental memory.

 

Central to my work is an understanding of place and food not just as physical or material realities, but as anchors of identity, belonging, and resilience. I explore how intergenerational learning, place-based practice, and community co-design can reconnect people to the ecologies they inhabit, to each other, and to the food that sustains them - culturally, emotionally, sensorially and nutritionally. Through community gardens, policy advocacy, and grassroots engagement, I examine how growing and sharing food can become acts of resistance, care, and cultural continuity in the face of ecological and social disruption.

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Beyond academic research, this space also includes a personal blog where I reflect on the ideas shaping my work. I see research as praxis—an ongoing process of living the ethos of my work in my own life. Through writing, collaborative projects, and everyday practices, I engage with the questions I study, seeking to bridge theory and action in ways that are grounded, relational, and nourishing.

Here, you’ll find insights into my research and current projects—thank you for visiting.

Fresh Organic Vegetables
Vegetable Garden

Awards

Dissertation of Excellence
Australian Institute of Geographers

Deans Excellence Award 
James Cook University 

Postgraduate Paper Award
Australian Institute of Geographers 

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I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of where I live, work, and play. The Yirrganydji and Gimuy Walubarra Yidinji of the Gimuy (Cairns) region where I began my research journey and the surrounding lands; as well as the Ngunnawal people on whose lands I currently live on. I pay my respects to the Elders past, present and those who are yet to come. It is important that we recognise their long histories with Country, and Country herself. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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