Director, UOW Global Challenges Program & Professor of Human Geography, University of Wollongong
Urban and regional geographer with background in cultural-economy, tourism and regional development. His most recent books are Outback Elvis: The story of a festival, its fans & a town called Parkes (2017, NewSouth, with John Connell), Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: Craft, Creativity and Cultural Heritage in Hawai’i, California and Australia (2014, University of Hawai'i Press, with Andrew Warren), Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013, with Carol Farbotko, Nick Gill, Lesley Head and Gordon Waitt) and Music Festivals and Regional Development (2012, Ashgate, with John Connell).
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