Portrait of Dr. Paul Hodge

Dr. Paul Hodge

PhD, BA (Honours)

Senior Lecturer - Geography

School of Education and the Arts

Centre for Research in Equity & Advancement of Teaching & Education (CREATE)


About Me

I acknowledge the sacredness of this place and pay respect to the Darumbal People where I live and work. I was born on Kamilaroi Country, Tamworth NSW, and have spent most of my life on Worimi Country, Nelson Bay, just north of Newcastle, the land of the Awabakal and Worimi People. Long time gunganbu, friend and Gumbaynggirr Elder, Aunty Shaa Smith, invites everyone to honour their ancestors - so heeding her call, I pay my respects to my ancestors from Devon, south-western England, and Connacht, central-western Ireland.

  

General

Background

My research and teaching relationships have emerged in the discipline of human geography which I acknowledge was implicated and used to justify colonisation and imperial expansion. My current work in environmental humanities, specifically Indigenous geographies, geographies of asylum seeking and regional migration, and critical development studies, aims to highlight the challenges and possibilities of working with communities to assert and advocate self-determination and psycho-social wellbeing.     

Universities Studied At

The University of Newcastle (Open Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies).

Universities Worked At

The University of Newcastle (Associate Lecturer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer).

Awards

2022, Young People's History Prize, NSW Premier's History Awards for The Dunggiirr Brothers and the Caring Song of the Whale, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Melbourne, London, Auckland (Yandaarra co-author)

2020, University of Newcastle Community Engagement Award, Yandaarra Research Collective, University of Newcastle

2019, University of Newcastle Excellence in Teaching Award for integrating Indigenous people, knowledge and pedagogies into course design and delivery

Previous teaching

University of Newcastle:

1st Year Undergraduate: GEOG1030 Global Poverty and Development, ENVS1003 Environmental Values and Ethics, ENVS1004 Social Development and the Environment, SCIE1002 Multidisciplinary Laboratories

2nd Year Undergraduate: ENVS2008 The Sustainable Society

3rd Year Undergraduate: GEOG Rethinking Development

Professional Memberships

Development Studies Association of Australia

The Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc.

Development Network (DevNET)

Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG)

Recent Research Projects

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Research Supervision

Accreditation

I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:

  • 4406 Human Geography
  • 4404 Development studies
  • 4503 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges and management

Current Capacity

I am currently available to supervise more research candidates
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Research Interests

Human Society

Development studies - Labour, migration and development

Indigenous Studies

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges and management - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land and water management

Publications

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Teaching

Higher Education

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Vocational Education and Training

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