Journal Articles
What’s (not) on the digital food menu: from ‘visual feasts’ to a sustainable future food imaginary on Instagram
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This article explores how Instagram's idealised food imagery conceals the realities of food waste, labour and hospitality infrastructure, arguing for more inclusive and climate-conscious representations that make these hidden dimensions visible.
Developing a capabilities-based low carbon transition framework: Insights from an empirical study of home improvement practices in Australia
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It examines why low-carbon home improvements remain unevenly adopted, showing how social, material and economic factors shape household decisions and arguing for policies that address the lived realities of creating energy-efficient homes.
‘Healthy’ food practices: moving beyond healthy choices and food systems
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Article argues that understanding food, health and wellbeing requires moving beyond the divide between individual choice and structural influences, highlighting how everyday food practices shape health through the interaction of people, society and their environments.
Towards housing retrofit as care infrastructure: (aka) seeing, feeling and making visible the warm/cool and low carbon home
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Drawing on concept of infrastructures of care, it explores how caring responsibilities, everyday routines and household dynamics shape low-carbon home retrofits, arguing that more effective climate and housing policies must recognise the social realities of creating comfortable, energy-efficient homes.
Rhythms of recycling: reconfiguring apartment waste practices in London and Melbourne
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Using recycling in apartments as a case study, this paper explores how the rhythms of everyday urban life shape waste practices, arguing that more equitable and effective recycling systems must account for the social and material realities of apartment living.
Freezing time, freezing in time: reconfiguring freezing practices for reducing meat waste and energy consumption
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Exploring the role of domestic cold storage in food waste and energy use, this paper examines how household freezing practices, retailer systems and consumer understandings of convenience & food longevity interact to shape more sustainable & equitable food supply chains.
Developing a capabilities-based low carbon transition framework: Insights from an empirical study of home improvement practices in Australia
Journal Article
This article explores how Instagram's idealised food imagery conceals the realities of food waste, labour and hospitality infrastructure, arguing for more inclusive and climate-conscious representations that make these hidden dimensions visible.
Developing a capabilities-based low carbon transition framework: Insights from an empirical study of home improvement practices in Australia
Journal Article
This article explores how Instagram's idealised food imagery conceals the realities of food waste, labour and hospitality infrastructure, arguing for more inclusive and climate-conscious representations that make these hidden dimensions visible.
Enlisting the work of boundaries and boundary objects in shaping apartment waste
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Focusing on apartment recycling, this paper explores how shared spaces, infrastructure and governance shape waste practices, identifying new ways to redistribute responsibility and improve resource recovery through more inclusive and sustainable waste systems.
Countering exclusionary infrastructure in apartment waste management: Towards a relational place-based governance in Victoria
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Examining apartment waste management through a circular economy lens, this paper argues for a more relational, place-based approach that recognises the social and material realities of apartment living to create more inclusive and effective waste systems.
Exploring Intermediary Digital Platforms for a Circular Construction Economy: A Social Perspective
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This paper explores the role of intermediary digital platforms in advancing a circular construction economy, highlighting the social factors that influence their adoption and effectiveness within the building industry.
Housing inequalities and resilience: the lived experience of COVID-19
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Drawing on households' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper examines how housing inequalities shaped people's ability to cope with lockdowns and argues for more resilient, equitable housing and welfare policies in future crises.
It's not as easy as ‘heat or eat’ - Exploring the intersecting vulnerabilities of energy and food in domestic practices in Australia
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Rather than viewing "heat or eat" as a simple trade-off, this paper reveals how food and energy insecurity are shaped by interconnected household practices, routines and support systems.
High-rise plastic: Socio-material entanglements in apartments
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Examining the role of plastic in apartment living, this paper reveals how everyday reliance on plastic is shaped by space, housing design and inequality, arguing that reducing plastic waste requires systemic changes beyond individual behaviour.
Man caves, granny flats and alternative living spaces: Low carbon home retrofit and implications for policymaking
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Challenging conventional ideas of home retrofits, this paper reveals how garages, granny flats and other overlooked spaces influence household energy use and calls for more inclusive approaches to retrofit policy.
Pop-up food provisioning as a sustainable third space: reshaping eating practices at an inner urban university
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Using a university campus as a case study, this paper explores how mobile food pop-ups can create more flexible, inclusive and sustainable food environments by reshaping the way people gather, eat and interact.
Urban Food Infrastructures: The Role of Inner-City Universities
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This article examines food spaces on a university campus. It explores how everyday eating environments shape sustainability, arguing for more inclusive and community-oriented food infrastructures over commercial, retail-driven models.
Expectations and realities of digital public spaces: A case study of digital community engagement in Melbourne, Australia
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This article examines digital platforms for community engagement in urban planning, showing that meaningful public participation depends on combining online and in-person approaches to create more inclusive and effective decision-making.
Spatio-temporalities of convenience eating for sustainability outcomes at an inner-urban university
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Examining how university food environments shape unsustainable convenience eating practices, arguing that redesigning campus timetables and shared spaces can enable more sustainable food behaviours beyond individual choice-based solutions.
Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia
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This article uses the Capability Approach to examine energy vulnerability in Victoria, Australia, revealing how structural conditions and policy gaps shape households’ ability to achieve energy security and live in efficient, healthy homes.
Spaces of capability: Consumption geographies at an inner-city university
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This article explores how campus food spaces and infrastructure, such as student microwaves, can create “spaces of capability” that support regular eating practices, student wellbeing, and more sustainable consumption.
Everyday digital engagements: using food selfies on Facebook to explore eating practices
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Exploring food selfies shared on social media, the research reveals how digital practices can provide new ways to understand everyday eating behaviours and capture social practices beyond the limits of traditional research methods.