animawiki

Sidney, AU

https://dremmapower.com

She is an urban cultural geographer in the Institute for Culture and Society and School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University.

Her research is organised across three intersecting strands:

Cities of care – develops new insights into how the urban fabric, markets and governance processes configure the capacity to care in cities. In this work I conceptualise housing as an infrastructure of care and am concerned with how housing and welfare systems impact the ability of people to meet basic care needs. Research in this strand include the new ARC DP ‘Shadow Care Infrastructures: sustaining life in post-welfare cities’, ARC LP ‘The Social Value of Cooperative Housing’ and our collaborative ‘Cooling the Cities’ program. The ARC DECRA ‘Older Women at Risk’ was a platform for this program of work.

Cultures of home – develops knowledge of how housing and welfare governance impact on household activities including shaping housing security, household care practices including budgeting and ‘making ends meet’, and homemaking. Research in this strand includes the ARC LP ‘The Social Value of Cooperative Housing’, the ARC DECRA ‘Older Women at Risk’ and the AHURI funded ‘Housing and housing-assistance pathways with companion animals’.

Companion animals and cities – a long running program of research investigates the important bond that people share with their companion animals. My work investigates how the relationship between people and their pets takes shape across a range of housing and urban contexts. This work has been advanced across a number of grants and collaborations, including most recently the AHURI funded ‘Housing and housing-assistance pathways with companion animals’.