Elaine Stratford

Experience

• 2021–2021
  Professor and Associate Executive Dean, Schools of Architecture and Design; Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences; Information and Communication Technology [limited term decanal role 2021]
• 2020–2020
  Professor and Acting Head, School of Technology, Environments and Design [disaggregated 31/12/2020]
• 2017–2019
  Professor, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of Tasmania
• 2015–2017
  Inaugural Director, Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, University of Tasmania
• 1997–2015
  Level B to Level D academic, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania
• 2005–2013
  Head of School, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania

Education

• 2010 
  LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne, Masters of Tertiary Education Management
• 1996 
  Environmental Studies, The University of Adelaide, PhD
• 1986 
  Flinders University, Adelaide, BA(Honours)Geography
• 1984 
  Flinders University, Adelaide, BA in Geography and Visual Arts

Publications

• 2021
  Stratford, E, Waitt, G, Harada, T, A relational approach to walking: body, practice, meaning, method, Geographical Research
• 2021
  Stewart, S, Te Riele, K, Stratford, E, A trialectical approach to understanding ‘classroom readiness’ for teaching literacy, Studies in Continuing Education
• 2021
  Stewart, S, Te Riele, K, Stratford, E, Making sense of school learning environments as infrastructures of care and spatial typologies, Australian Geographer
• 2021
  Stewart, S, Te Riele, K, Stratford, E, Whole school change for literacy teaching and learning: Purposes and processes, Language and Education
• 2021
  McArthur, M, Stratford, E, Housing aspirations, pathways, and provision: contradictions and compromises in pursuit of voluntary simplicity, Housing Studies
• 2020
  chapter: Social Geography, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition
• 2020
  chapter: Stratford, E, Kilpatrick, S, Katersky-Barnes, R, Burns, G, Fischer, S. Interpreting silence and absence in perceptions of school-parent-community engagement, Harnessing the Transformative Power of Education. Brill
• 2020
  chapter: Social Geography, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition
• 2020
  chapter: Disciplinary formations, creative tensions, and certain logics in archipelagic studies, in M.A. Stephens and Y. Martínez-San Miguel (eds) Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations, Rowman & Littlefield International
• 2019
  Waitt, G, Stratford, E, Harada, T, Rethinking the geographies of walkability in small city centers, Annals of the American Association of Geographers
• 2019
  Adey, P, Holdsworth, C, Lorimer, H, Merriman, P, Schwanen, T, Stratford, E, Book review: Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities, with commentaries, cultural geographies
• 2019
  Stratford, E, Waitt, G, Harada, T, Walking city streets: spatial qualities, spatial justice, and democratizing impulses, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
• 2018
  chapter: with Therese Murray, Bodies: The body of the drowned: convicts and shipwrecks', in Territory Beyond Terra, K Peters, P Steinberg, E Stratford (eds), Rowman & Littlefield International
• 2018
  Territory Beyond Terra [Kim Peters, Philip Steinberg, Elaine Stratford], Rowman & Littlefield International
• 2018
  Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire, Rowman & Littlefield International
• 2018
  Guy AJ and Stratford E, 'Planning reform and heritage conservation: debating the greater good in historic Battery Point, Tasmania', Australian Planner
• 2017
  Island Geographies: Essays and Conversations [Elaine Stratford, editory], Routledge
• 2017
  chapter: 'Journey to the "undiscovered country": growing up, growing old, and moving on', in Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, Age and Lifecourse, L Murray and S Robertson (eds), Routledge
• 2017
  chapter: 'Imagining the Archipelago', in Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture, Duke University Press
• 2017
  chapter: Journey to the ‘undiscovered country’ – considering the geographies, mobilities, and rhythms of growing up, growing old, and moving on, Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, Age and Lifecourse. Ashgate
• 2016
  chapter: '"Dear Prime Minister": Mapping Island Children's Political Views on Climate Change', in Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics, M Benwell and P Hopkins (eds), Routledge
• 2016
  chapter: with Karen George, 'Oral History and Human Geography', Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, I Hay (ed), Oxford University Press
• 2016
  Farbotko C, Stratford E, Lazrus H, 'Climate migrants and new identities? The geopolitics of embracing or rejecting mobility', Social and Cultural Geography
• 2016
  Mobilizing a spatial politics of street skating: thinking about the geographies of generosity', Annals of the Association of American Geographers
• 2016
  chapter: 'Skateboarding as Social and Environmental Praxis: Navigating a Sustainable Future', in Geographies of Children and Young People: Geographies of Global Issues, Change and Threat, Springer, T Skelton, N Klocker, N Ansell (eds), Springer
• 2016
  chapter: with Matthew Bradshaw, 'Qualitative Research Design and Rigour', Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, I Hay (ed), Oxford University Press
• 2016
  chapter: 'Oral History and Narrative', in The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Association of American Geographers
• 2016
  Cook S, Davidson A, Stratford E, Middleton J, Plyushteva A, et al., 'Co-producing mobilities: negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move', Journal of Geography in Higher Education
• 2015
  chapter: with Nel Smit and Jenny Newton, 'Engaging Young People in Climate Change and Sustainability Trails: Local Geographies for Global Insights', in Space, Place and Environment, Geographies of Children and Young People, K Nairn, P Kraftl, T Skelton (eds), Springer
• 2015
  Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course, Routledge
• 2015
  'A critical analysis of the impact of Island Studies Journal: a retrospect and prospect', Island Studies Journal
• 2015
  Stratford E, Low N, 'Young islanders, the meteorological imagination and the art of geopolitical engagement', Children's Geographies
• 2014
  Castles A, Stratford E, 'Planning reform in Australia's island-state', Australian Planner
• 2013
  Walker J, Orpin P, Baynes H, Stratford E, Boyer K, et al., 'Insights and principles for supporting social engagement in rural older people', Ageing and Society
• 2013
  Stratford E, Farbotko C, Lazrus H, 'Tuvalu, sovereignty and climate change: considering fenua, the archipelago and emigration', Island Studies Journal
• 2012
  Stratford E, ''Ah! could I tell the wonders of an isle'... contemplating island futures', Southerly
• 2012
  Stratford E, Langridge CF, 'Critical artistic interventions into the geopolitical spaces of islands', Social and Cultural Geography
• 2012
  chapter: 'Vantage points: Observations on the Emotional Geographies of Heritage', in Extreme Heritage Management: The Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands, Baldacchino, G (ed) , Berghahn
• 2011
  Stratford E, Baldacchino G, McMahon E, Farbotko C, Harwood A, 'Envisioning the Archipelago', Island Studies Journal
• 2010
  Lockwood M, Davidson JL, Curtis J, Stratford E, Griffith R, 'Governance principles for natural resource management', Society and Natural Resources
• 2009
  chapter: 'Isolation as disability and resource: considering sub-national island status in the constitution of the 'New Tasmania'', in The Case for Non-Sovereignty: Lessons from sub-national island jurisdictions, G Baldacchino and D Milne (ed), Routledge
• 2009
  Lockwood M, Davidson JL, Curtis A, Stratford E, Griffith R, 'Multi-level Environmental Governance: lessons from Australian natural resource management', Australian Geographer
• 2006
  Stratford E, 'Technologies of agency and performance: Tasmania Together and the constitution of harmonious island identity', Geoforum
• 2002
  Stratford E, 'On the edge: a tale of skaters and urban governance', Social and Cultural Geography
• 2001
  Stratford E, Harwood A, 'Feral Travel and the Transport Field: Some Observations on the Politics of Regulating Skating in Tasmania', Urban Policy and Research
• 1999
  Australian Cultural Geographies, Oxford University Press

Grants and Contracts

• 2019
  PhD Scholarship (Michelle Morgan) A systems approach to enable community-driven change to improve health and wellbeing

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre

• 2019
  MONA: Evaluation of MONA’s 24 Carrot Garden Project

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  MONA

• 2018
  Child maltreatment, violence, offending, and educational attainment: policy and practice implications for women, children, and adolescents

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  University of Tasmania

• 2016
  Launceston Big Picture School Evaluation

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Department of Education, Tasmania

• 2016
  Facilitating school-parent-community partnerships throughout Tasmanian to help children realise their educational potential

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Ian Potter Foundation

• 2016
  Review of Literacy Teaching, Training and Practice in Government Schools

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Department of Education, Tasmania

• 2016
  Kentish Local Government Area Community Learning Plan

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Kentish Council, Tasmania

• 2016
  Understanding education and career pathways for young Tasmanians

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Department of State Growth, Tasmania

• 2015
  Mobilities and Active Experiences in Tasmania

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  University of Tasmania

• 2014
  The Lively Regional City: Mapping City Centre 'Assemblages' that Work

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2008
  Community Engagement for Productive Ageing: Models to Support Rural Healthy Ageing through the Maintenance of Community Involvement and Contribution

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2006
  Pathways to Good Practice in Regional NRM Governance

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Land and Water Australia

• 2003
  Island Communities, Island Rhetoric: Sustainable Development and the Global Promise?

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

• Member, Australian Research Council College of Experts (2016-2018)
• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
• Fellow, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers
• Member, Association of American Geographers
• Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers
• Editor-in-Chief, Geographical Research journal
• Editorial Board member, Journal of Geography in Higher Education
• Editorial Board member, Geohumanities journal
• Executive Board Member, International Small Islands Studies Association
• Deputy Editor, Island Studies Journal

Research Areas

• Human Geography (1604)
• Land Use And Environmental Planning (120504)
• Social And Cultural Geography (160403)
• Urban And Regional Planning (1205)
• Policy And Administration (1605)

Honours

University Medallist, Flinders University; Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers; Griffith Taylor Medallist for Distinguished Service to Australian Geography