A5076389599- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Research in Social Sciences
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Rural development and sustainability
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Older Adults Driving Studies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
University of Alberta
2019-2024
University of Auckland
2016-2023
The University of Western Australia
2023
University of Vienna
2023
University of Glasgow
2023
University of Otago
2023
Landscape Research Group
2023
Massey University
2023
University of Canterbury
2023
Michigan State University
2006
In light of housing affordability concerns, we examine older people's experiences renting within a context enduring home-ownership norms and aspirations. Adapting Clapham's pathways framework, ask: How is rental tenure experienced by people who have encountered precarity in their history? Drawing on interviews with 13 tenants, observe the uneasy relationship between insecurity quality, tensions choice luck later life. Three related to age were apparent: life-long renting; loss homeownership...
Little is known about the motivations and experiences of freedom campers – travellers who choose to camp in open public spaces rather than formal campgrounds. In particular, 'freedom' their practices has not been examined despite this concept being central tourism, leisure activities more generally. This article fills a gap knowledge by describing perspectives behaviours campers, analysing freedom(s) they experience. It focuses on New Zealand context, where camping increasingly popular,...
Homelessness among older people is growing in western countries including New Zealand. The rise renting middle-aged and highlights tenure insecurity the risk of homelessness for first time later life. We report on a dataset drawn from larger project which 108 tenants aged 55 were interviewed. Of those, nineteen had experienced (as defined by Statistics Zealand) within previous five years, residing temporary housing, temporarily sharing accommodation, living uninhabitable dwellings, being...
Freedom camping is a form of tourism entailing overnight stays in public open spaces, rather than formal campgrounds. It presents varied challenges for local governments charged with maintaining safe and orderly spaces. This article provides empirical conceptual insights into the regulation coastal freedom New Zealand, drawing on notion police power. law centrally concerned preventing disruption disorder space, seeks to advance collective welfare individual rights. The purpose this twofold....
Island living can entail many difficult or challenging experiences for individual residents, as well island communities at large.We use a multifaceted understanding of precarity and resilience to conceptualise these challenges, experienced by older residents.We focus on Waiheke Island, an offshore that sits within the greater Auckland area, where entangled precarities be observed.Our work explores renters' in order understand how uncertainties related ageing, housing community may influence...
As code for spaces of mobile dwelling, the camp and its verb "camping" occupy ambivalent territory. For well-housed, camping out can be a space time recreational discretion, while those living precariously, offer temporary respite from forced continual mobility. We argue that notions are defined in part by their opposite: regular, permanent, secure formal housing. However, not all campers have housing to "return" to. examine these nuances tensions with reference campgrounds Auckland, New...
Abstract The service hub concept is strongly associated with deprived areas of North American inner cities, where agglomerations low‐cost housing and providers form a space survival for marginalised populations. In this paper, we contend that hubs can take other forms, including as small‐scale sites provision, informally networked across an urban region. We develop argument reference to suburban campgrounds in Auckland, New Zealand—a city experiencing severe affordability crisis. Both...
Abstract As a collective of students and teachers, we reflect on student experiences housing in Aotearoa. The commentary began as reflective diary assignment from third‐year course offered semester one 2023 at the University Auckland. Using 15 these diaries our data, take stock multiple intersecting crises that are currently impacting other young people, suggest potential directions for future research.