Dr Michelle Duffy - Researcher Profile

Biography

Michelle Duffy is a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Head in Sociology at Monash University Gippsland. Prior to this, she taught Australian Studies at the Australian Centre, and Australian Indigenous Studies and Cultural Geography in the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry, University of Melbourne.

She is engaged in a number of research projects that explores the ways in which sound, listening, emotion and affect are significant to place-making and community building, with a particular focus on the cultural politics of emotion in a broader context of sustainability, resilience and rural Australia.

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Research & Supervision Interests

1. the role emotions and affect play in processes of place-making – including social cohesion, wellbeing, inclusion and alienation

2. the cultural, social and physiological processes of listening

3. the cultural politics of emotion in a broader context of sustainability, resilience and rural Australia

Keywords

place, sound, public space, festivals, community, place-making, sound, affect, embodiment, belonging, tourism studies social and cultural geography

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2002

BACHELOR OF MUSIC (HONOURS)

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1997

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS)

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1997

BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE

Institution: RMIT

Year awarded: 1986

Publications

Books

Duffy, M., 2009, Music of place: Community identity in contemporary Australian music festivals, VDM, Saarbrucken, Germany.

Book Chapters

Duffy, M., Waitt, G., 2011, Rural festivals and processes of belonging, in Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, eds Chris Gibson and John Connell, Channel View Publications, Bristol UK, pp. 44-57.

Duffy, M., 2009, Affective listening, in Culture, Politics, Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds Scott H Boyd, Ana Christina Gil and Baldwin Wong, Interdisciplinary Press, Freeland Oxfordshire UK, pp. 145-157.

Duffy, M., 2007, The possibilities of music: "to learn from and to listen to one another...", in Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture, eds Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK., pp. 319-332.

Journal Articles

Boyd, C., Duffy, M., 2012, Sonic geographies of shifting bodies, Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture [E], vol 1, issue 2, Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (Gradcam) Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, pp. 1-7.

Duffy, M., 2012, The requirement of having a body, Geographical Research [E], vol 50, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 1-7.

Duffy, M., Waitt, G., Gorman-Murray, A., Gibson, C., 2011, Bodily rhythms: corporeal capacities to engage with festival spaces, Emotion, Space and Society [P], vol 4, issue 1, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 17-24.

Duffy, M., Waitt, G., 2011, Sound diaries: A method for listening to place, Aether: The Journal of Media Geography [E], vol 7, California State University, United States, pp. 119-136.

Waitt, G., Duffy, M., 2010, Listening and tourism studies, Annals of Tourism Research [P], vol 37, issue 2, Pergamon, United Kingdom, pp. 457-477.

Duffy, M., 2010, Sound ecologies, Cultural Studies Review [E], vol 16, issue 1, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 43-59.

Permezel, M., Duffy, M., 2007, Negotiating the geographies of cultural difference in local communities: two examples from suburban Melbourne, Geographical Research [P], vol 45, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond, Australia, pp. 358-375.

Wood, N., Duffy, M., Smith, S., 2007, The art of doing (geographies of) music, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space [P], vol 25, Pion Ltd., London, UK, pp. 867-889.

Duffy, M., 2005, Performing identity within a multicultural framework, Social & Cultural Geography [P], vol 6, issue 5, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 677-692.

Conference Proceedings

Duffy, M., 2008, Possibilities: the role of music and emotion in the social dynamics of a music festival, New aspects of cultural heritage and tourism, WSEAS press, Greece, pp. 101-106.

Other

Duffy, M., Merlino, D., Manning, D., 2010, Mapping out the soundlines of new urban developments, Paper published in an on-line website ambiance.net, ambience.net, France.

Duffy, M., 2009, Festival and spectacle, The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, vol encyclopedia, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 91-97.

Duffy, M., 2009, Sound and music, The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, vol encyclopedia, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 230-235.

Grants

Title:

Images of Home: Children's Creative Response to the Changing Landscape of Officer.

Investigators:

Duffy, M, Merlino, D, Manning, D, Bandt, R

Funding:

(2010 - 2014). Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

...And the Trumpet shall sound: The eschatological Function of Sound and Music.

Supervisors:

Duffy, M (Main), Rundell, J (External).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Cooper, S (Joint), Duffy, M (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Duffy, M (Main), Green, M (Associate), Atkins, R (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Customary land administration institutions and the land reform process in the post-apartheid South Africa, Kwa-Zulu-Natal province.

Supervisors:

Duffy, M (Main), Babugura, A (Associate), Lewis, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Daughters of Farmers: Exposing the "Feminine Mystique" of Farming Families in Rural Australia.

Supervisors:

Duffy, M (Main), Osbaldiston, N (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Days of Our Lives: exploring relations between subjectivity, discourse and materiality in a technolo.

Supervisors:

Duffy, M (Main), Smaill, B (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The WHY of learning.

Supervisors:

Green, M (Main), Duffy, M (Associate).