Miss Helena Shojaei1 1University Of The South Pacific, Kingdom of Tonga   This paper provides anecdotal evidence on the influence of the researcher in the collection of information using participatory action research methods. Participatory methods in social science research are...

Dr Penelope Rossiter1 1Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia   There is a flourishing contemporary interest in the contributions of blue spaces to human well-being. Although ‘wild swimming’ in oceans and inland waterways has seized the public imagination for its aesthetic...

Miss Laura Brown1 1Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom   The practise of sport and exercise has historic and social importance grounded in ancient Greek civilisation. The continued practise of sport and exercise through the ages, and its existing...

Mrs Jora Broerse1 1Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia   Multiculturalism and the management of diversity are of growing personal and political importance due to changing demographic urban settings. This presentation discusses ethnographic data and explores how people in Footscray, Melbourne, engage...

Dr Adele Pavlidis1, Ms Erin Nichols1 1Griffith University, Parklands, Australia   In recent times there has been a definite shift in the ways sport spaces are being (re)configured. From a site of slim, lean, feminine bodies, to a space of...

Dr Tyler Sonnichsen1 1The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States   For the past two years, my favourite course to teach has been the Geography of American Popular Culture, and assignments I’ve created for the class mix emotional geographies, media...

Dr Melissa Kennedy1 1La Trobe University, Bendigo , Australia   The issue of the creative economy as a solution to decline is extensively debated in research, with cultural geographers urging a turn away from generic blueprint approaches to creative economies...

Ms Vickie Zhang1 1School of Geography, The University of Melbourne   A by-now large and well-established body of contemporary cultural geographical literature teaches us to attend to the senses, routed through a focus on the capacities of the geographer’s own...

Ms Tracy De Cotta1, Mr Peter Kamstra1, Dr Anthony McCosker1, Ms Ebony Gaylor2 1Swinburne Social Innovation Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia 2Australian Red Cross, Melbourne, Australia   The emergence of mobile technologies and social media platforms now allow...

Dr Aspa Baroutsis1 1Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia   Locations of high poverty are often publicly constituted as being educationally deficit, with location-based successes being identified as exceptional variances. This is particularly the case in the public domain through online visual...