Doctor Emma Power
ACADEMIC COURSE ADVISOR,
Dean's Unit School of Social Sciences & Psychology
LECTURER,
Geography and Urban Studies (SoSSP)
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD Macquarie University
- BSocSci Macquarie University
- GradDipEd Macquarie University
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit School of Social Sciences & Psychology
- Geography and Urban Studies (SoSSP)
Contact
| Email: | E.Power@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 2107 |
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| Location: | P.G.13 Penrith (Kingswood) |
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Biography
Emma Power is a Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies at the University of Western Sydney.
Emma is a cultural geographer. Her research examines urban natures, everyday practices of sustainability and homemaking, and human - animal relations. She teaches cultural and social geographies, human-nature relations and urban sustainability and planning as part of the Bachelor of Social Science and Master of Urban Management and Planning.
Her PhD, titled "A more-than-human geography of homemaking", examined the ways that people interact with nature and nonhuman animals in the home and garden. It used qualitative methodologies to examine the experiences of people living with dogs in the home, and people cohabiting with uninvited common brushtail possums.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Power.
Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 101590 Cultural and Social Geographies, 2012
- 101636 Developing Sustainable Places, 2012
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Power, E. (2012), 'Nature in the Home', International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier 9780080471631.
- Dowling, R. and Power, E. (2011), 'Beyond McMansions and Green Homes: Thinking Household Sustainability Through Materialities of Homeyness', Material Geographies of Household Sustainability, Ashgate Publishing Limited 9781409408154.
Journal Articles
- Power, E. and Power, E. (2012), 'Domestication and the dog: Embodying Home', Area, 8.
- Dowling, R. and Power, E. (2012), 'Sizing home, doing family in Sydney, Australia', Housing Studies, 15.
- Dowling, R., Gorman-Murray, A., Power, E. and Luzia, K. (2012), 'Critical reflections on doctoral research and supervision in human geography : the 'PhD by publication'', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 13.
- Power, E. (2012), 'Kill 'em dead! : the ordinary practices of pest control in the home', Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 13.
- Power, E. (2009), 'Border-processes and homemaking: encounters with possums in suburban Australian homes', Cultural Geographies, 26.
- Power, E. (2009), 'Domestic temporalities: nature times in the house-as-home', Geoforum, 9.
- Muller, S., Power, E., Suchet-Pearson, S., Wright, S. and Lloyd, K. (2009), 'Quarantine Matters!: Quotidian relationships around quarantine in Australia's northern borderlands', Environment and Planning A, 16.
- Power, E. (2008), 'Furry families: making a human-dog family through home', Social and Cultural Geography, 21.
- Power, E. (2007), 'Pests and home-making: Depictions of pests in homemaker magazines', Home Cultures, 24.
- Power, E. (2005), 'Human-Nature Relations in Suburban Gardens', Australian Geographer, 15.
Research
Cultural geography; everyday practices of sustainability and homemaking; human - environment relations; more-than-human geographies.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Power.
Current Projects
| Title: | Renting with Pets in Sydney, Australia: a social and animal welfare challenge |
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| Years: | 2012-08-08 - 2013-08-31 |
| ID: | P00021004 |
| UWS Researchers: | Emma Power |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | Collaborative Housing Innovations in Austrealian Cities: International Lessons |
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| Years: | 2010-05-28 - 2011-05-27 |
| ID: | P00018717 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn, Deborah Stevenson, Emma Power and Rae Dufty-Jones |
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| Title: | Examining innovations in aged care: affordable housing, healthy ageing - Kentgrove Community Living Project |
| Years: | 2011-03-01 - 2012-03-16 |
| ID: | P00020063 |
| UWS Researchers: | Emma Power |
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| Title: | Community, homemaking and human-animal relations: living with dogs in high rise apartments |
| Years: | 2010-11-02 - 2011-11-01 |
| ID: | P00019297 |
| UWS Researchers: | Emma Power and Donald Mcneill |
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Supervision
Current Supervision
| Title: | Relating Social Representations and Social Practices of Caring: The Case of Caring for Companion Dogs |
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| Title: | Making Our Neighbourhood Work: Exploring a New Perspective in Public Housing |
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| Title: | Consuming Master-Planned Estates in Australia: The Political, Social and Economic Factors that Underpin the Rise in Popularity of Master Planned Estates in Australia |
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| Title: | Climate Change Awareness and Adaptation by Local Planning in Punjab, Pakistan |
| Field of Research: | URBAN DESIGN AND REGIONAL PLANNING |
