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I am a geographer whose research examines human-environment relations, both conceptual and material. My current focus is on the cultural dimensions of climate change and sustainability issues. I am President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. From 2015-2021 I was Head of the School of Geography here at the University of Melbourne. I came to this position from many years at the University of Wollongong where, from 2009-2014, I was an Australian Research Council Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER). Before that, from 2007-2009, I was Head of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. In 2005-06 I was King Carl XVI Gustaf Visiting Professor of Environmental Science, Kristianstad University, Sweden, and have been a Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In recent years I have worked mostly in cultural geography, with projects on ethnically-diverse environmental knowledge, backyard gardens, wheat and invasive plants. My latest ARC-funded research includes three projects: investigating the social and cultural benefits of market-based environmental policy instruments for carbon and water, Water Cultures of the Murray-Darling Basin, and Understanding contestation in urban greening.