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{"title":"Navigating higher education reforms and reinventing the discipline across sectors","authors":"Elaine Stratford","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Geography is undergoing significant change in response to widespread higher education reforms. In this commentary, I reflect on how the discipline’s visibility and geographers’ security and sense of purpose are being reshaped by the likes of programme closures, organisational restructures, or pressures to mould academic priorities to others’ imperatives. These dynamics constitute a background condition that invites deep reflection about where and how geography might be reimagined—and for what ends. I argue that geographers must more actively position the discipline beyond academia by boldly asserting its relevance across public, private, and non-government sectors. I highlight the discipline’s distinctive capacities and consequence—not least among them spatial reasoning, relational thinking, civic engagement, and ethical responsiveness. These qualities make geography crucial for any who seek to deal with complex social, environmental, and political challenges. Ultimately, I call for a (geo)politics of care and radical collegiality among geographers as we navigate uncertain terrains, and stress that we have the ability and responsibility to shape those same terrains. Reinvention is challenging, energising, and purposeful, and this moment offers the possibility to safeguard geography’s enduring civic and intellectual values.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"305-310"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conferencing and care","authors":"Sara Fuller","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70035","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Conferences provide an important opportunity to demonstrate care, both for colleagues and for the discipline of geography. As a PhD student attending my first geography conference at the RGS-IBG in London, I gratefully received advice from more senior colleagues. This covered tips for effective presentations, guidance about how to break up my PhD research into manageable sections for the audience, and wise words about how to make the most of my overall conference experience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of these phrases has stuck in my head more than others: when a senior professor declared that postgraduate presentations are often “where it’s at” in terms of cutting-edge research that pushes the boundaries of the discipline. I found this assertion hard to believe, as, like my fellow students at the time, I was grappling with theoretical frameworks and unwieldy empirical data. However, as my career has progressed and I have had the privilege of occupying more senior roles in the discipline, the truth of this statement has stayed with me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2025 IAG conference in Newcastle, a wonderful annual gathering of geographical colleagues which included presentations from across the full spectrum of geography. I was struck not only by the innovative work that postgraduate students and early career researchers are engaged with—much of which is truly novel in the discipline—but also the care by which colleagues gave thoughtful and considerate feedback. I hope that &lt;i&gt;Geographical Research&lt;/i&gt; echoes this careful approach, by supporting authors at all career stages to engage with constructive critique from reviewers and ultimately publish manuscripts of international significance within the discipline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We would also like to encourage proposals for special sections in the journal. We have a number of topical special sections in the pipeline, and our publication model will increasingly allow contemporary original research to be brought into dialogue with more established papers. We look forward to hearing your proposals, either arising from IAG conference sessions or from further afield.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More information about our prize-winning papers can be found on our LinkedIn page, which continues to grow. We can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/company/geographical-research, and we encourage you to follow us there for news and regular updates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This issue of &lt;i&gt;Geographical Research&lt;/i&gt; reflects the full breath and diversity of geography, with a variety of stimulating papers from across the discipline. The issue comprises a commentary, the 2024 Wiley Lecture, six further original papers, two book reviews, and an obituary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elaine Stratford (&lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;), our Senior Associate Editor, reflects on current higher education reforms and their implications for the discipline of geography. The commentary considers how the discipline’s visibility and geographers’ security and sense of purpose are being reshaped by wide","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"302-304"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nature positive? Commodification, speciesism, abjection in Australia’s environmental law reform","authors":"Jane Palmer,&nbsp;Jennifer Lynn Carter","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Proposed “nature positive” revisions to the Australian Government’s environmental legislation would further entrench an anthropocentric conception of nature as a commodity able to be metricised, traded, and/or replaced. The proposed legislation also manifests a form of speciesism, focusing on threatened species at the expense of other animals whose habitat would continue to be destroyed, and fails to account for future likely changes in the survivability of various species. Moreover, it takes little account of the suffering of individual animals nor the agential role of animals, plants, rocks, and mountains in more-than-human world-making, thus placing those nonhumans in abjection—that is, accorded no moral considerability. Using the Australian case to anchor our discussion, we conclude that truly “nature positive” approaches to the environment require a shift in emphasis from principally enabling “sustainable” exploitation of resources by humans, toward a focus on sustaining the multitude of context-specific, intensely relational networks of humans-other-than-humans. These relations engender a responsibility on the part of humans, when intervening through legislation, policy or practice, to pay deep attention to the specifics of nonhuman standpoints, subjectivities and relations with place—ground truthing—so that greater knowledge and critical, less anthropocentric thinking can underpin more ethical regulatory frameworks.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"390-404"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144885337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fostering geographical conversations","authors":"Sara Fuller","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70013","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;A conversation can be viewed as a relatively mundane act, one that many of us perform daily. We speak to family members, friends, colleagues, or strangers, in person, on the phone, or online. These conversations play a vital role in connecting us to each other and the world around us. As I write this editorial, global shocks—economic, political, and social—are ever more present in our lives. At the same time, our capacity to respond to such disruptions is also being challenged. Conversations, then, particularly those of a geographical nature, serve as a critical conduit to maintain care, solidarity, and conviviality as we situate ourselves in these increasingly turbulent environments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Academic journals, including &lt;i&gt;Geographical Research&lt;/i&gt;, play an important role in nurturing such conversations. The geographical relevance of current global debates hardly needs to be stated. From the spatial dynamics of global finance to the social impacts of climate change, the richness of geography is reflected in the wide range of manuscripts we publish in the journal, all of which contribute to ongoing dialogues in their fields. We are currently reviewing our article types to allow us to appropriately capture and communicate these important exchanges and will share more information about this in due course. At a more personal level, as the (still relatively new) Editor-in-Chief, I am taking great pleasure in conversations about all elements of the journal, including supporting authors with submissions, engaging with reviewers, and working alongside the editorial team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beyond the array of published articles in &lt;i&gt;Geographical Research&lt;/i&gt;, we are also fostering other means of conversation. As an editorial team, we have decided to move away from Twitter/X as a social media platform. We now have a growing presence on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geographical-research/ and Bluesky @geogresearch.bsky.social. We encourage you to follow us there for news and updates that we will post regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our 2025 webinar series, held in collaboration with Wiley and the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG), is now up and running. Organised by our Senior Associate Editor, Elaine Stratford, our theme this year is &lt;i&gt;Elemental geographies&lt;/i&gt;. In the coming months, we will explore how, at a time of accelerating planetary crises, geography remains attuned to the agency of the elements—earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal—as these more-than-human forces shape landscapes, lifeworlds, and governance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Conversations will consider how elemental processes are theorised, practiced, and mobilised for advocacy. Our first webinar in April was a plenary presented by Elaine Stratford on &lt;i&gt;The Drowned – a cultural and political geography&lt;/i&gt; while our upcoming May webinar comprises a discussion with Catherine Walker and colleagues on young people’s stories of climate change, drawing from a recent special section in the journal (see Walker et a","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"172-173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Indigeneity and infrastructures of settler colonialism","authors":"Phil McManus,&nbsp;Ben Silverstein,&nbsp;Naama Blatman,&nbsp;Lorina L Barker,&nbsp;Angela Webb","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70012","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The fields of Indigenous infrastructure research and critical studies in settler colonial infrastructures are rapidly expanding across much of the world. These complementary fields offer compelling ways of connecting disparate research concerns, enriching our understanding of the historical geographies of infrastructure in settler colonies. In Australia, various academic disciplines have engaged in what is often called the “infrastructural turn.” Yet research on the intersections of infrastructure and Indigenous histories and geographies remains limited. To be sure, Australian scholars have undertaken important research about Indigenous access to infrastructure, looking at infrastructural deficiencies and inequalities generated by the geographies and economies of Australian settler colonialism, where access to water, homes, and basic social infrastructure in Indigenous communities continues to lag far behind non-Indigenous Australians (Moskos et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). By and large, such work illustrates that Indigenous peoples continue to be marginalised in policy spaces where decisions are made about infrastructure developments on their land (Jackson, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Lea, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Norman et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For instance, discussing renewable energy transitions, Norman et al. (&lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) show that Aboriginal landowners have been largely excluded from policy discussions, leaving them unable to reap the benefits of emerging new economies and renewable energy projects on their land. Likewise, Jackson (&lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) discusses the exclusion of Indigenous people from water planning and its detrimental effects. Rather than viewing this as a failure to meet cultural or economic expectations, Jackson reckons with the historical production of entitlement and access that generate colonising patterns of water allocation. Considering water policy exclusively as a problem of supply and demand, she claims, amounts to “water colonialism” and obscures the deeper issue of water justice. A critique of water colonialism, by contrast, brings to the fore Indigenous ontologies of and relationships with water as central to issues of justice (Hartwig et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Jackson, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Jackson, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Laborde &amp; Jackson, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;. See also Marshall, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;). Justice considerations extend to other infrastructural domains such as housing. Lea (&lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;) argues that the development of Aboriginal housing policy reproduces an anthropocentrism that is characteristic of settler colonial ontologies, in part a result of the exclusion of Aboriginal people from meaningful policymaking. Lea’s research situates Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory as a policy domain where pressures to meet restricted budgets or discipline Aboriginal subjects as homeowners take precedence over the provision of safe and sustainable housing. Thus, “houses-that-are-not-housing” (Lea &amp; P","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"214-220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geographical imaginaries of escape: Discourses of escapism in the Tasmanian archive","authors":"Alexander Luke Burton","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lifestyle migration and existential threats of the climate crisis are unified through the need for escape. Geographical imaginaries of distant, pristine refuges not only define contemporary relationships with these phenomena, but these imaginaries have their inception in colonialism. Research into how geography and colonial history influence imaginaries of escape is underdeveloped. This article uses the Australian island state of Tasmania to address this gap through a critical discourse analysis of online news articles, travel blogs, and history texts. These texts sample the Tasmanian archive and popular cultural discourses about Tasmania’s identity. Martin Polin’s bunker, the Earth’s Black Box project, and tourism and tree-change emerge as key sites for showing how Western geographical imaginaries of Tasmania are reciprocally related to escapism. Analysing the archive through these texts reveals what place identities are deemed desirable in Tasmania, why and by whom, and illustrates how they are unequally distributed. Investigating escapism in Tasmania offers opportunities for similar analyses in other setter colonies and wilderness places, begins conversations about the relationships between apocalypticism, tourism, and migration, and asks how we may decolonise them.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"405-417"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Australian geography’s challenges and community-based learned societies in its future","authors":"Iain Hay","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Environmental crisis, socio-spatial inequalities, and geopolitical turmoil: geography’s relevance has never been greater. Yet, paradoxically, the discipline of geography in Australia faces diminished public appreciation, semantic and substantive elimination from university programs, falling school enrolments, and the challenges of out-of-field teaching. Against this backdrop voluntary, community-based learned societies (VCBLS) such as Geography Victoria, the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, and the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland bring people, passion, networks, and energy to the discipline. These community organisations promote the intrinsic value of geography, advocate for educational reform, foster original research, cultivate public engagement, and inject crucial resources into the discipline’s future. Given their membership, past and current contributions and scope for more, dynamic, thriving, and professionally appreciated and professionally supported voluntary, community based learned societies are not only vital to the revival of the discipline of geography in Australia but are supportive of broader local, state, and national communities. This paper urges practising geographers (including teachers) and the professional associations that represent them to engage with VCBLS for individual and organisational mutual benefit and for the future wellbeing and sustainability of Australian geography.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"311-325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A review of Gothic in the Oceanic South","authors":"Kane Alexander Sardi","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"418-420"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144885047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paper bags to food relief: Whither the tuckshop?","authors":"Miriam J. Williams","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70010","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;I can distinctly remember the simple joy of writing my name, primary school class, and lunch order on a brown paper bag. After calculating the money my order would cost, I would place the correct amount of coins in the bag before carefully folding the top to prevent the money from falling out. The brown paper bags were collected in class in a basket each morning and taken to the school canteen, to return at lunch time filled with our lunches. Sometimes the change was placed back in the bag along with my lunch. It was the only time I dared to eat a salad sandwich at school. Made fresh, it was bearable and much better with pineapple and tomato, those risky fruits that need to be consumed with haste. If I had packed the same sandwich in my lunch box, it would have been an inedible soggy mess. But as a sandwich fresh from the canteen, made by one of the many volunteers, it was the perfect lunch for a primary school student growing up in regional New South Wales, Australia in the 1990s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Students would also visit the canteen at break times. We would line up eagerly awaiting our turn at the canteen window. I would purchase rings of frozen pineapple (there was a lot of tinned pineapple in my diet as a child), a bag of red frog lollies, cups of frozen juice with a popsicle stick inside to make an ice block, or a flavoured milk. The options were not always healthy, but the experience of looking after money in my bag, learning to wait patiently in line, politely ordering from the counter and receiving change were prime social and life skills.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Growing up, I did not question that we would have access to a school canteen. It was just there. Each primary and high school had a different canteen, reflecting the communities that sustained them. Canteens were often run by the parents and citizens associations of the school and staffed by parents, grandparents, or guardians who would volunteer their time. I do not know how they decided what was on the menu. I’m sure many canteens sold the ubiquitous sausage roll, meat pie, and cheese sandwich, maybe even a vegemite sandwich. But did all canteens have frozen pineapple rings, or was this unique to my public primary school?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the 2000s, there were many more food options available at my high school canteen. I distinctly remember hot chips, chicken burgers, salads, and sandwiches being on the menu. However, the canteen line was much longer at a school with 950 students. There were no paper bags full of lunch orders delivered to classrooms. Instead, frequenting the canteen was more of a patience game with only those willing to wait in line able to purchase the food available, which I rarely did. By senior high school, my friends and I were more likely to walk across the park to the supermarket for more convenient food than spend our precious lunch breaks waiting in line to visit the school canteen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward a couple of decades and I once again am connected to the world of school canteens, a","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 2","pages":"174-178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Obituary: Stewart Fraser","authors":"Alaric Maude","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70007","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Archibald Stewart Fraser (always known as Stewart) was born on 4th August 1933 in Carmyle, a suburb of Glasgow. He died on 3rd March 2024, at Mount Barker, South Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 1941, Stewart’s family moved to Aberdeen and he went on to study at the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1955 with a First Class Honours Science degree and the Silver Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. He worked for short periods as an assistant geologist in Labrador and Greenland, and studied soil survey and land classification at the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. He was then awarded a scholarship to study the geographical and pedological problems of crofting in Scotland.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stewart’s university career began in 1957, when he was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Aberdeen (1957–1959) and then as Lecturer (1959–1961). In 1961, he moved hemispheres to the University of Auckland, on the way meeting his future wife Margaret when both were travelling by ship from England back to the Antipodes. They married in 1963, and then, in 1965, Stewart joined the newly established Department of Geography at the University of Western Australia, in Margaret’s home state. In 1967, Stewart made his final move to the also new Discipline of Geography at Flinders University, where he was appointed as Senior Lecturer and remained until he retired in 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At Flinders, Stewart served the University and the School of Social Sciences in a wide variety of administrative and advisory roles. He played a major role in establishing and maintaining the Foundation Course, a Flinders innovation that helps to prepare mature age students to undertake university study. He was also an elected staff member of the University Council for almost 14 years, a member of the University’s Academic Committee for six years, a president of convocation, chief examiner in geography for the South Australian Public Examinations Board, and university representative on the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia, to name only some of his activities. In recognition of this service, Stewart was given a Distinguished Service Award by the University in 1995.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stewart was proud of his Scottish heritage and would wear a kilt on formal occasions. Music was important; he described himself as an ‘accidental fiddler’ and played the violin in the Flinders Chamber Orchestra and later in the Adelaide Scottish Fiddle Club. Church was also important, as well as an interest in athletics. I introduced him to the film Chariots of Fire, which I thought would appeal to him as it featured a deeply religious Scottish athlete. He watched it twice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before retirement, Stewart and Margaret moved to a small rural property, where they could keep their daughter’s three horses and enjoy a country life. After retirement, Stewart was characteristically active in the Adelaide Hills Soils Board and its chairman for 3 years. He is surv","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"424-425"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144885359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}