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Alex BurtonProfile page
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences
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- Higher Degree by Research CandidateGeography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences
BIO
I am Alexander Luke Burton (he/him). I'm a PhD candidate in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, at the University of Tasmania. My research focuses on how the Australian island state of lutruwita/Tasmania is imagined as a potential site of escape, tree-change, and how the climate crisis is talked about. Nature and research communication are my passions. I sit at the nexus between storytelling and research, fiction and non-fiction, and imagining and enacting. I navigate this space both as a qualitative researcher and as a writer.
I use my background in qualitative research methods for casual work across several projects. This includes the Tasmania Project and the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project. I have worked in several courses and units within the University of Tasmania. I have previously researched experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among young adults in Tasmania.
I live and work on the lands of the Mumirimina and Muwinina people, whose lands and waters were never ceded.
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Teaching Experience:
KGA520 Qualitative Research Methods
KGA318 Geographies of Island Places
KGA171 Global Geographies of Change
XBR102 Developing your Creative and Entrepreneurial Potential
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Memberships:
Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG)
IAG Cultural Geography Study Group
I use my background in qualitative research methods for casual work across several projects. This includes the Tasmania Project and the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project. I have worked in several courses and units within the University of Tasmania. I have previously researched experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among young adults in Tasmania.
I live and work on the lands of the Mumirimina and Muwinina people, whose lands and waters were never ceded.
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Teaching Experience:
KGA520 Qualitative Research Methods
KGA318 Geographies of Island Places
KGA171 Global Geographies of Change
XBR102 Developing your Creative and Entrepreneurial Potential
*****
Memberships:
Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG)
IAG Cultural Geography Study Group
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Book Review Editor, Geographical ResearchWiley, Hoboken, United States2023 - present
SCHOOL AND PORTFOLIO
- School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences