Located Research Regional places, transitions and challenges

Angela Campbell is a Senior Lecturer at the Arts Academy, Federation University, Australia where she teaches into the Performing Arts program. Her research and published work in theatre and performance has been both practical and theoretical and has investigated performance from the archives, site-specific theatre, the politics and poetics of place, intercultural theatre, Indigenous theatre, contemporary paradigms and practices in theatre and performance, and practice led research.

Michelle Duffy is an Associate Professor in Human Geography, in the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include community resilience, wellbeing, and sustainability; the significance of emotion and affect in creating notions of belonging and exclusion; the role of art and sound practices in creating and/or challenging notions of identity and belonging in public spaces and public events; and an exploration of the body as a means of embodied, emotional and affective communication.

Beth Edmondson has lived and work in regional locations for most of her life. As a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, Federation University, Australia, she engages in co-designed research in Gippsland Victoria. She is Series Editor of the Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability  series.