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   Dr. Emily Potter

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Position Research Fellow
Email emily.potter@deakin.edu.au
Area Research Quantum - Arts & Education
Phone +61 3 924 43923
Campus Burwood
Location Building D (2.11)
Role and profile Emily has a PhD in English Literature and a background in interdisciplinary research concerning creative arts practice, environmental and sustainability theory and cultural studies. She has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies at the University of South Australia, and most recently as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Melbourne.

Her postdoctoral project at the University of Melbourne was a collaborative project of creative research (with Paul Carter) that explored the role of poetic practice for sustainable place-making, particularly in drought-affected environments. She is currently working on an ARC Discovery project with Gay Hawkins (UNSW) and Kane Race (USyd), 'From the Tap to the Bottle', that is tracking the social and material life of bottled water concurrent with the water bottle's exponential growth throughout the world as an alternative to publicly provided water.

Her research has been published in a range of Australian and international journals including Continuum, Media International Australia, Australian Humanities Review, Cultural Studies Review and Antipodes. In 2007 she co-edited a collection of writings on water cultures and communities, Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia (MUP).

Emily is also a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network, and is a co-convenor of the Early Career Researcher/Postgraduate Node of the Network, which convenes and provides funds for initiatives that support research development and networking opportunities for this group of researchers.
Research interests Environmental theory; cultural theory; more-than-human methods; creative research; public poetics; new theories of environmental design and place-making; postcolonialism; theories of belonging.
Qualifications BA (University of Adelaide); BA(Hons) (University of Adelaide); PhD (University of Adelaide).
Memberships ARC Cultural Research Network; CSAA (Cultural Studies Association of Australia); ASLE-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Australia and NZ).
Conferences With Melissa Gregg (USyd), Clifton Evers (UNSW) and Alison Huber (UMelb) Emily is convening a forthcoming conference 'State of the Industry' which aims to highlight and examine issues of academic labour, academic culture, research innovation, and institutional change in the Australian cultural research context. The conference, sponsored by the Cultural Research Network (CRN), will be held in Sydney, at UNSW, on November 26-27, 2009. Further details here:
http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/industry/