Dr David Bissell
PROJECT LEADER
David is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He combines qualitative research on embodied practices with social theory to explore the social, political and ethical consequences of mobile lives. His research draws on theories of mobilities and cultural geography to investigate contemporary social problems involving mobility-labour relationships. He is co-editor of Stillness in a Mobile World (2011), and the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2014). His monograph Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming our Cities was published by MIT Press in 2018.
Dr Elizabeth Straughan
Researcher
Elizabeth is a Research Assistant in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. She is a cultural geographer interested in the sensory experiences and embodied practices through which humans engage with environments. Attentive to the social and ethical implications of these engagements, she is particularly interested in their emotional geographies. Elizabeth has published in international journals such as Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Emotion, Space and Society and Cultural Geographies, and is co-editor of Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters (2015).