Professor Adrian Franklin

Professor: Creative Industries and Cultural Policy UniSA Creative

City West Campus (K4-13)
tel +61 8 830 27372

email Adrian.Franklin@unisa.edu.au

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About me

With a background in social anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, my research effort is directed to a range of pressing contemporary questions. How can we extend the role, and benefits of art to more people and more places in contemporary life? How can we grow creative expression? How can we put the festive back in festivals?

How can we create the kind of cities we want and need rather than those produced merely by unplanned, unthinking development? How can we create the kinds of lives we want to live, and build a sense of belonging for all rather than accept the socially isolated, precarious and lonely worlds of contemporary individualism?

And how can we live better lives with our non-human allies and... Read more

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And how can we live better lives with our non-human allies and neighbours? We are only just beginning to understand the creative potential of new kinds of relationships with non-human kin, and it is as exciting as it is urgent and health promoting.

My research seeks to identify, document and understand the nature of these problems as well as work with partners to seek and evaluate new strategies. My research is characterised by a keen interest in the application of contemporary theory, especially using forms of ‘the new materialism’, embodied perspectives, contemporary ritual, mobilities and posthumanism. From social anthropology, I use very intensive methods involving participant observation, biographical interviewing and immersive fieldwork combined with archival, data base and survey research, that derives from my sociology background.

In recent years, my research has looked intensively at a range of museums and cities around the world that have attempted to break free from the limitations of conventional models.

I am opening up a new field of research on art tourism. Hitherto buried under the overcrowded category of ‘cultural tourism’, this increasingly significant flow of travellers (which includes a significant number of art world creatives) drives cultural exchange, creativity and innovation on a global scale. We know very little about it, yet few cities are not trying to attract it.

I have begun to develop new work on festivals and markets through a study of the relatively few that are super successful and those that survived the purges of traditional festivals and street markets in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

I have pioneered new theoretical and research work on loneliness and belonging across the life course, its connections to different kinds of cities and space and its connections with gender cultures, the public sphere, place, housing, domestic relations, companion animals, new technologies and health. With Bruce Tranter I recently embarked on a new study of the relationship between loneliness and belonging in Australia and in particular how forms of belonging derive from arts and culture, generation, time, place and other more-than-human sources.

I am investigating creative new uses of cultural spaces in contemporary cites, from wastelands, empty high street shops, churches and cathedrals, school grounds, pop-ups, cultural spaces of the nightime (beyond the bars and clubs that currently dominate it) and the streets themselves (e.g. through the rescue and recovery of carnival to build new forms of social solidarity and belonging around them).

If you are interested in collaborating with me, as an academic, honours student, postgraduate, industry/government, poet, writer, producer or director or whatever, then please do get in touch.

My work is situated in the Creative People, Products and Places (CP3) Research Centre.

https://www.unisa.edu.au/research/creative-people-products-places/

Research

Research focus

Tourism
Sociology
Anthropology
Cultural Studies
Human Geography

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2023	Franklin, A 2023, The Routledge international handbook of more-than-human studies, Routledge, London.
2022	Franklin, A & Tranter, B 2022, 'Places of belonging, loneliness and lockdown', Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, vol. 172, no. 1, pp. 150-165. Open access 1 9
2022	Franklin, A 2022, 'Loneliness: the decline of cultural and everyday sources of belonging in contemporary societies', in MH Jacobsen (ed.), Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life: Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Explorations, Routledge, UK, ch. 5, pp. 81-98.
2022	Franklin, A, Lee, B & Rentschler, R 2022, 'The Adelaide Festival and the development of arts in Adelaide', Journal of Urban Affairs, vol. 44, no. 4-5, pp. 588-613. Open access 2 1
2021	Franklin, A & Tranter, B 2021, 'Loneliness and the cultural, spatial, temporal and generational bases of belonging', Australian Journal of Psychology, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 1-13. Open access 9 7 5

Books

Year	Output
2023	Franklin, A 2023, The Routledge international handbook of more-than-human studies, Routledge, London.
2020	Franklin, A 2020, Anti-museum, Routledge, UK. 1
2020	Slade, L, Franklin, A, Thompson, M & Moore, T 2020, Tom Moore: abundant wonder, Wakefield Press, Australia.
2014	Franklin, A 2014, The making of MONA, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, Australia.
2011	Franklin, A 2011, Retro: a guide to the mid-20th century design revival, NewSouth Publishing, Australia.
2010	Franklin, A 2010, City life, Sage Publications, UK. 1
2010	Franklin, A 2010, Collecting the 20th century, University of NSW Press, Australia.

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Franklin, A 2023, 'The more-than-human city', in A Franklin (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of More-Than-Human Studies, Routledge, UK, ch. 10.
2023	Franklin, A 2023, 'The separation?', in A Franklin (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies, Routledge, UK, ch. 1.
2023	Franklin, A 2023, 'Walking into the sunset…', in A Franklin (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of More-Than-Human Studies, Routledge, UK, ch. 28.
2022	Franklin, A 2022, 'Loneliness: the decline of cultural and everyday sources of belonging in contemporary societies', in MH Jacobsen (ed.), Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life: Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Explorations, Routledge, UK, ch. 5, pp. 81-98.
2020	Franklin, A 2020, 'Glassmaker for a becoming world', in L Slade, M Thomson & A Franklin, Tom Moore: abundant wonder, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 88-137.
2020	Franklin, A 2020, 'Mona and the political-cultural economy of independent galleries', in T Bennett et al. (eds), The Australian Art Field Practices, Policies, Institutions, Routledge, US, ch. 2, pp. 31-43. 1
2020	Franklin, A 2020, 'Urbanizing', in S Matthewman, B Curtis & D Mayeda (eds), Being Sociological, 3, Red Globe Press, UK, ch. 5, pp. 65-82.
2019	Hookway, N, Barbosa Neves, B, Franklin, A & Patulny, R 2019, 'Loneliness and love in late modernity: sites of tension and resistance', in R Patulny et al. (eds), Emotions in late modernity, Routledge, England, ch. 6, pp. 83-97. Open access 71
2018	Franklin, A & Colas, T 2018, 'Feral tourism', in K Caton, L Cooke & B Grimwood (eds), New moral natures in tourism, Routledge, US, ch. 9, pp. 131-148.
2017	Franklin, A 2017, 'Far from the madding crowd: big cats on Dartmoor and in Dorset', in S Hurn (ed.), Anthropology and cryptozoology: exploring encounters with mysterious creatures, Routledge, UK, ch. 10, pp. 186-202. 1 14
2016	Franklin, A 2016, 'The MONA effect', in A Hoyne (ed.), The place economy, Hoyne, Australia, ch. 5, pp. 168-199.
2015	Franklin, A 2015, 'Ecosystem and landscape: strategies for the anthropocene', in Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective (eds), Animals in the anthropocene: critical perspectives on non-human futures, Sydney University Press, Australia, ch. 4, pp. 63-88.
2014	Franklin, A 2014, 'The adored and the abhorrent: nationalism and feral cats in England and Australia', in G Marvin & S McHugh (eds), Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies, Routledge, UK, ch. 10, pp. 139-153.
2014	Franklin, A 2014, 'Tourist studies', in P Adey et al. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, Routledge, UK, ch. 6, pp. 74-84.
2013	Franklin, A 2013, 'Family networks, reciprocity and housing wealth', in R Forrest & A Murie (eds), Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives, Routledge, UK, ch. 12, pp. 231-260. 1
2013	Franklin, A 2013, 'Relating to aquatic insects: becoming English fly fishers', in RM Lemelin (ed.), The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism, Cambridge University Press, UK, ch. 8, pp. 123-137.
2013	Franklin, A 2013, 'The ethics of second-hand consumption', in T Lewis & E Potter (eds), Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, UK, ch. 11, pp. 156-168. 6 1
2013	Franklin, A 2013, 'Viewing nature politically', in A Holden & DA Fennell (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment, Routledge, UK, ch. 8, pp. 75-83.
2012	Franklin, A 2012, 'Burning cities: a posthumanist account of Australians and eucalypts', in S Elden et al. (eds), Environment and Planning, Volume 4: Society and space, Sage, UK, pp. 243-272.
2012	Franklin, A 2012, 'The choreography of a mobile world: tourism orderings', in R van der Duim, C Ren & GT Jóhannesson (eds), Actor-network theory and tourism: ordering, materiality and multiplicity, Routledge, UK, ch 4, pp. 43-58.
2011	Franklin, A 2011, 'An improper nature? Introduced animals and 'species cleansing' in Australia', in B Carter & N Charles (eds), Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, ch. 10, pp. 195-216. 9
2011	Franklin, A 2011, 'Ethnography and housing studies', in D Hobbs (eds), Ethnography in Context. Volume One: The urban condition, Sage, UK, pp. 25-56.
2010	Franklin, A 2010, 'The tourism syndrome: an interview with Zygmunt Bauman', in M Sorbello & A Weitzel (eds), Transient spaces: the tourist syndrome, argobooks, Berlin.
2009	Franklin, A 2009, 'A choreography of fire: a posthumanist account of Australians and eucalypts', in A Pickering & K Guzik (eds), The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society and Becoming, Duke University Press, US, ch. 1, pp. 17-45.
2009	Franklin, A 2009, 'Plant geographies', in R Kitchin & N Thrift (eds), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, UK, pp. 199-203.
2009	Franklin, A 2009, 'The sociology of tourism', in T Jamal & M Robinson (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies, Sage, UK, ch. 4, pp. 65-81. 24
2008	Franklin, A 2008, 'Ethnography and housing studies revisited', in PJ Maginn, S Thompson & M Tonts (eds), Qualitative Housing Analysis: An International Perspective, Emerald, UK, ch. 12, pp. 249-268. 3
2008	Franklin, A 2008, 'The 'animal question' and the consumption of wildlife', in B Lovelock (ed.), Tourism and the consumption of wildlife: hunting, shooting and sport fishing, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 31-44.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2022	Franklin, A & Tranter, B 2022, 'Places of belonging, loneliness and lockdown', Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, vol. 172, no. 1, pp. 150-165. Open access 1 9
2022	Franklin, A, Lee, B & Rentschler, R 2022, 'The Adelaide Festival and the development of arts in Adelaide', Journal of Urban Affairs, vol. 44, no. 4-5, pp. 588-613. Open access 2 1
2021	Duffy, M, Scarles, C, Edensor, T, Waitt, G & Franklin, A 2021, 'Twenty years on: reflections on the journeys travelled and future directions for tourist studies', Tourist Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 3-8. Open access 2 2
2021	Franklin, A & Tranter, B 2021, 'Loneliness and the cultural, spatial, temporal and generational bases of belonging', Australian Journal of Psychology, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 1-13. Open access 9 7 5
2019	Franklin, A 2019, 'Where 'art meets life': assessing the impact of Dark Mofo, a new midwinter festival in Australia', Journal of Festive Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 106-127. Open access 1
2019	Franklin, A, Neves, BB, Hookway, N, Patulny, R, Tranter, B & Jaworski, K 2019, 'Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging', Journal of Sociology, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 124-143. Open access 40 33 74
2018	Franklin, A & Sansom, M 2018, ''Aimless and absurd wanderings'? Children at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)', Museum and Society, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 28-40. Open access
2018	Franklin, A 2018, 'Art tourism: a new field for tourist studies', Tourist Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 399-416. Open access 25 20
2017	Booth, K, O'Connor, J, Franklin, A & Papastergiadis, N 2017, 'It's a museum, but not as we know it: issues for local residents accessing the museum of old and new art', Visitor Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 10-32. 10 6 37
2017	Franklin, A & Papastergiadis, N 2017, 'Engaging with the anti-museum? Visitors to the Museum of Old and New Art', Journal of Sociology, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 670-686. 24 17
2017	Franklin, A 2017, 'The more-than-human city', Sociological Review, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 202-217. 45 35 27
2016	Franklin, A 2016, 'Journeys to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: towards a revised Bilbao Effect', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 59, pp. 79-92. 40 33
2015	Franklin, A 2015, 'Miffy and me: developing an auto-ethnographic approach to the study of companion animals and human loneliness', Animal Studies Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 78-115. Open access
2014	Franklin, A 2014, 'On why we dig the beach: tracing the subjects and objects of the bucket and spade for a relational materialist theory of the beach', Tourist Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 261-285. 21 18 73
2013	Franklin, A, Picken, F & Osbaldiston, N 2013, 'The changing nature of the beach for low carbon societies: the Australian case', International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1-10.
2012	Franklin, A 2012, 'A lonely society? Loneliness and liquid modernity in Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 11-28. 17 14
2011	Franklin, A & Tranter, B 2011, 'AHURI essay: housing, loneliness and health', AHURI Final Report, no. 164, pp. 1-30. Open access
2011	Franklin, AS 2011, 'Performing acclimatisation: the agency of trout fishing in postcolonial Australia', Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 19-40. 10 12
2010	Franklin, A 2010, 'Aboriginalia: souvenir wares and the 'Aboriginalization' of Australian identity', Tourist Studies, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 195-208. 9
2009	Franklin, AS 2009, 'On loneliness', Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 343-354. 34 25
2008	Franklin, A 2008, 'The tourism ordering: taking tourism more seriously as a globalising ordering', vol. 57, pp. 25-39. Open access

Conferences

Year	Output
2017	Franklin, A 2017, 'Creative exchanges between public and private: the case of MONA (The Museum of Old and New Art) and the city of Hobart', in LM Alves, P Alves & F García García (eds), ACTAS ICONO14 - V Congresso Internacional Cidades Criativas, University of Porto, vol. 2, pp. 994-1004. Open access
2011	Franklin, A 2011, 'Imagined big cats in the British countryside', in S Threadgold, E Kirby & J Germov, 2011 TASA Conference: Local Lives/Global Networks, TASA, pp. 1-13. Open access
2010	Franklin, A & Tranter, B 2010, 'Loneliness, housing and health in Australia: results from a 2009 national survey', in S Velayutham, N Ebert & S Watkins (eds), 2010 TASA Conference, TASA, pp. 1-18. Open access

Non Traditional Outputs

Year	Output
2019	Franklin, A 2019, ABC radio national program: Life Matters, ABC Radio National program Life Matters, Adelaide, South Australia, 17 September 2019, ABC. Open access
2019	Franklin, A 2019, Loneliness crisis, The Feed: Loneliness Crisis, SBS TV series The Feed, 28 February 2019, SBS. Open access
2018	Franklin, A 2018, Why are Australian men so prone to loneliness? And what are we going to do about it?, ABC Radio National Big Ideas podcast, originally presented as part of Social Sciences Week, Adelaide, Australia, 12 September 2018, ABC. Open access
2012	Franklin, A & Maxwell-Stewart, H 2012, The research life of arts objects, University of Tasmania, Australia, 1-20 March 2012, UniPrint. Open access
2010	Franklin, A 2010, City gifts, City Gallery;Melbourne, Australia, 19 May-15 August 2010. Open access
2008	Franklin, A 2008, A collector's year, NewSouth Publishing.

Reports

Year	Output
2008	Franklin, A & Tranter, B 2008, Loneliness in Australia, University of Tasmania, Australia. Open access

Other outputs

‘Nature’ in C. Rojek and G. Ritzer (Eds.) 'Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology.' Oxford: Blackwell. forthcoming 2023.

'Society and Biology' in C. Rojek and G. Ritzer (Eds.) 'Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology.' Oxford: Blackwell. forthcoming 2023.

'Zoos' in C. Rojek and G. Ritzer (Eds.) 'Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology.' Oxford: Blackwell. forthcoming 2023.

‘Loneliness - The Decline of Cultural and Everyday Sources of Belonging in Contemporary Societies’ in Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Ed.) Emotions in culture and everyday life - Conceptual, theoretical and empirical explorations. London: Routledge. To be published on 11 August 2022.

Franklin, A.S. and Tranter B. (2022) ‘Places of belonging, loneliness and lockdown’, Accepted for Thesis 11 Vol 172 on April 11 2022; to be published in October 2022.

Research Books Pre- 2008

Single Authored

Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. 2006 (330 pp)

Tourism. London: Sage. 2003. (250 pp).

Nature and Social Theory. London: Sage. 2002. (220 pp).

Animals and Modern Cultures – A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity, London: Sage. 1999. (208 pp).

Experts, landlords and tenants: The private rented sector in Bristol. Bristol: Policy Press. 1992 (56 pp).

Co-Authored Research Books

Home from Home - Refugees in Tasmania. Canberra: Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, AGPS. 1997. (with Roberta Julian and Bruce Felmingham), (191pp).

Housing Finance and the Housing Market in Bristol, London: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1990. (with G. Bramley, W. Bartlett and C. Lambert), (145 pp).

Journal Articles Pre-2008

‘The Tourism Ordering: Taking Tourism More Seriously as an Ordering of a Global World’ Civilisations: Revue International d’Anthropologie et de Sciences Humaine. 57 (1-2):25-39. 2008.

‘Relating to Birds in Postcolonial Australia’ Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Culture 29(2): 102-141. 2008.

‘Investigating the therapeutic benefits of dogs’, with Donna Haraway, Max Travers and Mike Emmison, Qualitative Sociology Research Vol. III :42-58 2007.

‘Human-animal relations in Australia: an overview of results from the first national survey and follow-up case studies 2000-2004. Animals and Society. Vol 15: 7-27 2007.

‘Beware the dog: A posthumanist approach to housing’ Housing, Theory and Society 23(3):137-156. 2006.

‘Burning Cities: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(4):555-576 2006

‘The [In]Humanity of the Wilderness Photo’ Australian Humanities Review, 28, April 2006: 1-16.

‘Tourism as an ordering’, Tourist Studies, 4 (3) pp. 277-301. (2004).

“The Tourist Syndrome’: an Interview with Zygmunt Bauman’, Tourist Studies, 3 (2):205-17 . 2003.

Review Article J. Germov and L. Williams (eds), The Social Appetite: A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: Oxford University Press. Journal of Sociology 37(1): 99-103. 2002.

‘Human-Animal Relations in Australia: The Unique Case of Tasmania?’ Tasmanian Social Issues 4(1): 2002:2-3.

‘Explaining Support for Animal Rights: A Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Postmodernity’, Society and Animals, 9 (2) 127-144. 2001 [With Bob White and Bruce Tranter]

‘The Performance of Museums and World Fairs: an Interview with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’ Tourist Studies, 1 (3): 1-22. 2001.

‘Neo-Darwinian Leisures: the Body and Nature in Modernity’, Body and Society, Vol 7(2): 57-76. 2001.

‘The Trouble with Tourism and Travel Theory?’ Tourist Studies, 1 (1): 5-22. 2001. [with Mike Crang, University of Durham].

‘Animals and Modernity: Changing Human-Animal Relations 1945 -1998’ Journal of Sociology, 37 (3): 219-238, 2001. [with Bob White University of Tasmania].

‘The Tourist Gaze and Beyond: An Interview with John Urry´ Tourist Studies, 1 (2):115-131. 2001.

‘Naturalizing Sports: Hunting and Angling in Modern Environments’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 33 (1): 355-366. 1998.

'An Unpopular Food? The Distaste for Fish and the Decline of Fish Consumption in Britain’, Food and Foodways, 7(4): 227-264. 1997.

'Australian Hunting and Angling Sports and the Changing Nature of Human-Animal relations in Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology. 32(3), 39-56. 1996.

'On Fox hunting and Angling: Norbert Elias and the Sportisation Process', Journal of Historical Sociology, 9(4): 432-456. 1996

'Ethnography and Housing Studies', Housing Studies, 5 (2): 92-111. 1990.

'Housing Finance in Bristol', with G. Bramley, C. Lambert & W. Bartlett (all University of Bristol), Housing Research Findings, 20: 1-4. 1990.

'Working class privatism and the home: an historical case study of Bedminster, Bristol', in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 7 (1): 93-113. 1989.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Member of ARC College of Experts 2023=2
Loneliness, Belonging and Healthy Ageing Across the Lifecourse’, Healthy Ageing and Wellbeing Policy Forum, Inner West Council, Ashfield, Sydney. May 7 2019.
Assessing the Impact of Dark Mofo on Hobart City Life’, Town Hall, Hobart City Council. For Dark Mofo 2019, 6 June.
‘Feral Tourism: The Elephant in the Room ’ for Instagranimal: Symposium on the Animal Ethics and Welfare Challenges in Animal-Based Tourism. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Division of Environmental Communication and the Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare (SCAW), both at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Upsalla, Sweden, 26-28 August 2019.
‘Anti-Museums and the Continuing Crisis of Art Exhibition’ for ‘Perspectives’ Series in Allan Scott Auditorium, University of South Australia, Adelaide: Tuesday 16 July 2019,
Where “Art Meets Life”: Assessing the Impact of Dark Mofo, A New Mid-Winter Festival in Australia, Insititute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University June 6 2019; South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival, Nexus, Lion Arts Centre Adelaide, 16 August 2019
Sir William Dobell Annual Lecture 2020, 'Upping the Anti-museum: Cov􏰻id-19 and its Aftermath', Presented by Centre for Art History & Art Theory, School of Art and Design, Australian National University
Television and Media
Television
2004 -2011 ABC 1 Collectors, Co-host and Presenter, Series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. (total of 256 Episodes).
Collectors Vol 1, ABC Productions DVD, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sydney.
Collectors Vol II, ABC Productions DVD, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sydney.
Taboo, National Geographic/Discovery Documentary. A documentary on human-animal relations in modernity. 2007
‘Why MONA Rocked the Art World’, The Mix, ABC TV November 6 2014.
‘The Loneliness Crisis’ Television Documentary film on the crisis of loneliness in contemporary Australia for the SBS TV series The Feed (aired on 28 February 2019 at 2130 – 2210).
Radio
‘The burning bush is talking" - Bush fires and human relations with Eucalypts. Recorded interview for ABC Radio National’s Off Track show. Aired 25 Jan, 2020. Also broadcast by News Radio and local radio in Queensland. Podcast version also via broadcasts by Radio Australia and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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‘Education on emotions and a more communal society: how to ease male loneliness’, ABC Radio National Life Matters, broadcast Monday 17 September 2018 at 9:26AM.
‘Why are Australian Men so Prone to Loneliness? And what we are going to do about it?’, for Social Science Week 2018, UniSA 12 September – Recorded for ABC Radio Nation Big Ideas, broadcast on 11 December 2018 [with Prof. Peter Beilharz, Prof. Bruce Tranter and Dr Katrina Jaworski. Online availability as ABC Podcast.
Regular ABC Radio National By Design (Host, Alan Saunders 2005-2011).
Regular commentator for: ABC North Coast, ABC Riverina, ABC Perth, ABC Hobart, ABC Melbourne, ABC Sydney, Radio National Arts Programme, Radio National Sports Factor, Radio National Drive
Print Journalism
The Collector, half-page weekly column. The Mercury 2006-2014.
Collectors Magazine (2005-2011 (Sydney: ABC Publications) Two features and one column in every issue since 2005.
Recent Opinion
Talking Point: ‘The art of spreading the benefit’, The Mercury, 9 July 2018
‘The Making of the MONA Effect’, The Mercury 12 September 2014.
‘Hatred of feral cats hides a sinister truth’, The Age - The Debate, opinion page, Melbourne, January 8, 2013, p. 9. (2013)
‘Myth thing in action, the buzz that gives a city its X appeal’, The Saturday Age, Forum, Fairfax Media, Melbourne, 30-31 December 2012, pp. 16-17.
‘Dingoes in the Dock’, New Scientist, 2852: 28-29. 15 February 2012
‘Retro revival’, Powerline: the Magazine of the Powerhouse Museum, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Summer 11/12, pp. 16-17. (2011)

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Ecole Normale Suprieure	FRANCE
Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation	AUSTRALIA
Manchester Metropolitan University	UNITED KINGDOM
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Private Individual	AUSTRALIA
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Surrey	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Tasmania	AUSTRALIA
University of Wollongong	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Editorial Board Member Animal Publics	2018
Engagement and Impact Assessment EI 2018 Panel Member (Creative Arts and Humanities) Australian Research Council (ARC)	2018
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2018
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2017
Editorial Advisory Board Member Animal Studies Journal	2017
Editorial Board Member Aesthetics	2017
Editorial Board Member Animal Publics	2017
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2017
Member Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth	2017
Member Australian Sociological Association (TASA)	2017
Member British Sociological Association	2017
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2016
Editorial Advisory Board Member Animal Studies Journal	2016
Editorial Board Member Aesthetics	2016
Editorial Board Member Animal Publics	2016
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2016
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2015
Best illustrated book award Australian Book Design Awards, Penguin	2015
Editorial Advisory Board Member Animal Studies Journal	2015
Editorial Board Member Aesthetics	2015
Editorial Board Member Animal Publics	2015
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2015
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2014
Editorial Advisory Board Member Animal Studies Journal	2014
Editorial Board Member Aesthetics	2014
Editorial Board Member Animal Publics	2014
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2014
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2013
Editorial Board Member Aesthetics	2013
Editorial Board Member Animal Publics	2013
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2013
Keynote Speaker Employee Assistance Professional Association of Australasia	2013
Keynote Speaker Life in the Anthropocene, 5th Annual Australian Animal Studies Association Conference	2013
Keynote Speaker Reconnexion - 7th National Anxiety and Depression Conference: The Art and Science of Therapy: Innovations in Clinical Practice and Research Anxiety and Depression	2013
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2012
Editorial Consultant Sage Publications	2012
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2012
Keynote Speaker Employee Assistance Professional Association of Australasia	2012
Keynote Speaker Francis Bacon: Five Decades, Art Gallery of New South Wales	2012
Keynote Speaker Things: Photographing the Constructed World, Exhibition at the National Library of Australia	2012
Keynote Speaker International Australian Studies Association Conference	2012
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2011
Editorial Consultant Sage Publications	2011
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2011
Keynote Speaker Alison Burton Memorial Lecture, University House, Australian National University	2011
Visiting professor University of Exeter	2011
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2010
Editorial Consultant Sage Publications	2010
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2010
Advisory Board Member Island Magazine	2009
Editorial Consultant Sage Publications	2009
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2009
Keynote Speaker Australian Sociological Association Conference, Canberra	2009
Visiting professor University of Auckland	2009
Editorial Consultant Sage Publications	2008
Founding Editor Tourist Studies	2008

Other

Member of ARC College of Experts 2023-2025

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Calaveras: ADL LAX MEX: interpreting the cross-cultural experience of Día de los Muertos	Completed

Professor Adrian Franklin

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