Associate ProfessorTanya King

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Associate Professor, Anthropology
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 72149 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

anthropology; political ecology; practice theory; corporeal knowledge /
embodiment; marine environments, commercial wild-catch fishing; NRM conflict,
gender, pedagogy, science communication, potable water.

Knowledge Areas
anthropology; political ecology; practice theory; corporeal knowledge /
embodiment; marine environments, commercial wild-catch fishing; NRM conflict,
gender, pedagogy, science communication, potable water.

Projects
Principal Investigator:

2019 - Corangamite Catchment Management Authority. Analysis of Existing Survey
Data. Principal Investigator. $3,000.

2017 - Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. Social Matters
Principal Investigator. $10,003 (adding to $10,000 internal Deakin funding
from Arts/Ed Research).

2016 - Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. Sustainable Fishing
Families - Developing industry human capital through health, wellbeing, safety
and resilience. Principal Investigator. With scholars from the National Centre
of Farmer Health, University of Tasmania and University of Exeter, UK -
$131,951

2012 - Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. Staying Healthy -
Industry organisations' influence on behaviours and services used by fishers.
Principal Investigator. With scholars from University of Tasmania and
University of Sydney (Sue Kilpatrick and Karen Wallis) - $102,000

2010 - National Centre of Excellence in Desalination. Public perceptions of,
and responses to, desalination in Australia. Principal Investigator. With
scholars from Victoria University and Murdoch University (John Cary, Renato
Shibeci, Kristina Murphy, Kevin O'Toole, Adrian Fisher, Geoff Syme [Edith
Cowan University]) - $375,000 ($70,000 industry contribution) ($158,293 cash
to Deakin).

Co-Investigator:

2020 - Our Marine Parks. HASS lead on interdisciplinary and multi-industry-
partnered grant, Transforming Our Connection, Understanding and Value of
Marine Parks through Immersive Virtual Experiences. $345,000.

2012 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Too Big To
Ignore - Global Partnership for the Future of Small-Scale Fisheries, With
dozens of scholars from around the world (Principal Investigator is Ratana
Chuenpagdee, Memorial University, Newfoundland). - CAN$2.5 million

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Connecting Communities to Better Understand and Support Management of MPAS.
    26 Nov 2020 - 30 Apr 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Agriculture and Water Resources - $345,131.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Corangamite Catchment Management Authority Survey Analysis.
    21 Jun 2019 - 31 Oct 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tanya King
    Corangamite Catchment Management Authority - CONTR2019/01100 - $3,000.00
  • GRANT
    Investigating community attitudes to direct and indirect potable reuse.
    27 Feb 2019 - 26 Feb 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tanya King
    Water Research Australia Limited - CONTR2019/01665 - $15,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Social Matters - Social science and the Australian seafood industry: Our past, our future.
    29 Jan 2018 - 30 May 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tanya King
    FRDC Grant - Research - Fisheries Research & Development Corporation - $10,003.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Developing industry human capital through health, wellbeing, safety and resilience
    1 Jul 2016 - 29 Sep 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    FRDC Grant - Research - Fisheries Research & Development Corporation - 2016-400 - $131,951.40
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Staying healthy: Industry organisations' influence on behaviours and services used by fishers
    1 Aug 2012 - 5 May 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tanya King
    FRDC Grant - Research - Fisheries Research & Development Corporation - 2012/402 - $77,908.00
  • GRANT
    Understanding public perceptions of desalination in Victoria
    25 Oct 2011 - 30 Nov 2011
    People funded by this grant:
    • King T,
    • Donaldson J
    DEWHA - National Centre of Excellence in Desalination - Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - $9,500.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Public Perception of, and response to, desalination in Australia
    1 Sep 2010 - 31 May 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tanya King
    DEWHA - National Centre of Excellence in Desalination - Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - RU16/0052 Box 1 - $148,293.00