Head of School
BA(Hons IA) Flinders, MTertEdMgt, UMelb, PhD, UAdel
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Geography-Geology Building |
| Room Reference | Room 321 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2463 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2989 |
| Elaine.Stratford@utas.edu.au |
In 2012 I am facilitating the Tertiary Education Leadership Program for the
LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne.
1984 Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Visual Arts, Flinders University
1986 Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours Degree in Geography, Flinders University. An examination of Appleton's Prospect Refuge Theory as applied to perceptions of controlled environments by the congenitally and adventitiously blind - awarded the University Medal
1996 Doctor of Philosophy, Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide, Construction sites: constituting the feminine, the home and nature in Australian discourses on health - awarded without amendment
2010 Master of Tertiary Education Management, LH Martin Institute, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne - research project Mapping the scholarly, leadership and management practices of Heads of Schools: a case study at the University of Tasmania - awarded with high distinction
I have international standing for scholarship in island places and their cultural geographies and geopolitical circumstances. This scholarship is based on qualitative methods and founded on two decades’ of research on the social and institutional dimensions of environmental management and planning, and on studies of sustainable communities and settlements.
• secured, alone and in collaboration with others, funds of over $2.2 million in nationally competitive research grants and local, national and international consultancies; and
• produced over 140 works, including (but not limited to) 40 refereed papers, two edited monographs, 15 chapters, 6 invited keynote addresses at international conferences, 44 other conference offerings, and 25 commissioned reports.
Five hundred million people live on islands – in 43 nation-states and hundreds of sub-national jurisdictions. With over 8,222 islands, islets and rocky outcrops, Australia is one such place (Geoscience Australia 2009).
There is a marked need to study island-to-island relations because islands are at the forefront of complex changes arising from processes of globalisation. Such changes include depopulation and heavy immigration; global warming and associated sea-level rise; reduced aid disbursements; elimination of preferential prices and markets for cash crops; pressure to regulate offshore finance; coping with increasing energy costs when costs are already significantly higher than on mainlands; and suffering institutionalised exploitation (Niles & Baldacchino 2011).
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Funafuti, Tuvalu, 2005 |
Australia’s Small Island Forum, Lord Howe Island, 2012 |
I have supervised to successful completion 19 PhD and 4 masters by research, dissertations, 8 masters coursework theses, 9 masters planning projects and 34 honours degrees. Please see my WARP page for details.
Laurie Brinklow [with Peter Hay – Primary Supervisor]
Mahni Dugan [with Aidan Davison]
Madiha Farag-Miller [with Jamie Kirkpatrick - Primary Supervisor]
Prudence Slatyer
Phillipa Watson [with Aidan Davison, Michelle Gabriel, Roger Fay]
Stratford, E and Langridge, CF, ‘Critical artistic interventions into the geopolitical spaces of islands’, Social and Cultural Geography ISSN 1464-9365 (In Press)
Stratford, E, ‘A genuine career or impossible heroism? Experiencing the role of the Head of School: an Australian case study’, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management., 34 (3) pp. 225-238. ISSN 1360-080X (2012)
Walker, J., Orpin, P., Baynes, H., Stratford, E., Boyer, K., Robinson, A., Mahjouri, N., Patterson, C. and Carty, J. (in press) Insights and principles for supporting social engagement in rural older people, Ageing and Society
Stratford, E., Baldacchino, G., McMahon, E., Farbotko, C. and Harwood, A. (2011) Envisioning the archipelago, Island Studies Journal 6 (2), 113-130
Stratford, E., McMahon, E., Farbotko, C., Jackson, M. and Perera, S. (2011) Review Forum Reading Suvendrini Perera’s Australia and the Insular Imagination Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies, Political Geography 30, 329–338
Stratford, E. (2011) Islands, Climate Change, and Young People's Artistic Explorations of Resilient Place, Island 124(Autumn) 42–7
Lockwood, M., Davidson, J., Curtis, A., Stratford, E. and Griffith, R. (2010) Governance Principles for Natural Resource Management, Society & Natural Resources 23 (10) 986-1001
Lockwood, M., Davidson, J., Curtis, A., Stratford, E. and Griffith, R. (2009) Multi-level environmental governance: lessons from Australian natural resource management, Australian Geographer 40 (2) 69-186
Stratford, E. (2009) Belonging as a resource: the case of Ralphs Bay, Tasmania, and the local politics of place, Environment and Planning A 41 (4) 796-810
Wells, S. and Stratford, E. (2009) “Let the Direct Factory Outlet have a go!” Spatial anxieties, geographies of belonging and the changing landscape of an Australian airport, Australian Geographer 40 (1) 69-84
Burges-Watson, D. and Stratford, E. (2008) Feminizing risk at a distance: critical observations on the constitution of a preventive technology for HIV/AIDS, Social and Cultural Geography 9 (4) 353-71
Stratford, E. (2008) Islandness and struggles over development: a Tasmanian case study, Political Geography 27, 160-75
Davidson, J. and Stratford, E. (2007) Engendering the debate about water’s management and care – views from the Antipodes, Geoforum 38 (5) 815-27
Stratford, E. (2006) Isolation as disability and resource: considering sub-national island status in the constitution of the ‘New Tasmania’, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 95 (386) 575-88
Matysek, K., Stratford, E. and Kriwoken, L. (2006) The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Program in Australia: Constraints and opportunities for localized sustainable development, Canadian Geographer 50 (1) 86-100
Stratford, E. (2006) Technologies of agency and performance: Tasmania Together and the constitution of harmonious island identity, Geoforum 37 (2) 273-86
Armstrong, D. and Stratford, E. (2004) Partnerships for local sustainability and local governance in a Tasmanian settlement, Local Environment 9 (6) 541-60
Stratford, E. and Jaskolski, M. (2004) In pursuit of sustainability? Challenges for deliberative democracy in a Tasmanian local government, Environment and Planning B 31 (2) 311-24
Zagorski, T., Kirkpatrick, J.B. and Stratford, E. (2004) Gardens and the bush: gardeners’ attitudes, garden types and invasives, Australian Geographical Studies 42 (2) 207-20
Stratford, E. (2003) Flows and boundaries: small island discourses and the challenge of sustainability, community and local environments, Local Environment 8 (5) 495-9
Stratford, E, Armstrong, D, Jaskolski, M, (2003) ‘Relational spaces and the geopolitics of community participation in two Tasmanian local governments: a case for agonistic pluralism?’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers New Series 28 (4) 461-72
Stratford, E. (2011) Vantage points, in G. Baldacchino (ed) Extreme Heritage Management: Policies and Practices from Island Territories, Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, pp. 1-20, ISBN-13: 978-085745259-7.
Bradshaw, M. and Stratford, E. (2010) Qualitative research design and rigour, in I. Hay (ed), Qualitative Research Methods in Geography, Meridian Series in Geography, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 67-76 – fully revised contribution to third edition ISBN 9780195430158
George, K. and Stratford, E. (2010) Oral history and human geography, in I. Hay (ed) Qualitative Research Methods in Geography, Meridian Series in Geography, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 106-15 – fully revised contribution to third edition ISBN 9780195430158
Armstrong, D. and Stratford, E. (2009) Thoughts on scale, land-use, and opportunities for good governance: a tale of two sub-national island jurisdictions, in G. Baldacchino, L. Felt, R. Greenwood (eds), Remote Control: Lessons in Governance from/for Small Places, ISER Press, St John’s, Newfoundland, 187-207
Stratford, E. (2009) Isolation as disability and resource: considering sub-national island status in the constitution of the 'New Tasmania', The Case for Non-Sovereignty: Lessons from sub-national island jurisdictions, G Baldacchino, D Milne (ed), Routledge, Abingdon, UK and New York, pp. 87-99. ISBN 978-0-415-45550-3
Stratford, E. (2007) Key challenges facing island development, A World of Islands: An Island Studies Reader, G. Baldacchino (ed) Agenda Academic Publishers, Charlottetown, 527-9
Stratford, E. (2007) Self-care and the supervisor, in T. Dwyer and C. Denholm (eds) Supervisors Down Under, ACER Press, Melbourne 173-80
Davidson, J. and Stratford, E. (2006) Economic globalization, sustainability, gender and water, in K. Lahiri-Dutt (ed) Fluid Bonds: Views on Gender and Water, Stree, Calcutta, 29-47
Bradshaw, M. and Stratford, E. (2005) Qualitative research design and rigour, in I. Hay (ed) Qualitative Research Methods in Geography, Meridian Series in Geography, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 67-76 – fully revised contribution to second edition
George, K. and Stratford, E. (2005) Oral history and human geography, in I. Hay (ed) Qualitative Research Methods in Geography 2nd edition, Meridian Series in Geography, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 106-15
Stratford, E. (2004) Think global, act local: scalar challenges to sustainable development of marine environments, in R. White (ed) Controversies in Environmental Sociology, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 150-67
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