My independent research brings together my knowledge gained from working in environmental design and human and health geographies areas with environmental and conservation management. 

I am exploring how native/endemic Tasmanian flora can form microforests ecosystems within domestic built environments of Tasmania/Lutruwita as a way to strengthen climate resistance, support social collective actions, and create subjective place-based histories.

Considerations of the legal, economic, political, and cultural elements of such interventions will be examined in this work. As will the roles of local governments, not-for-profit organisations, and community groups with the current support of such native microforests ecosystems, and possible future adaptations required to expand this type of green architecture. 

As part of this work, I am using my own domestic indoor and outdoor areas as experimental test spaces for the designing, growing, and recording of how to create a variety of Tasmanian microforests in an inner-city environment. 

Further information and findings will be added to this page as the research develops, and short summaries will be posted on my Bluesky page.

I am always interested to hear from people working in similar areas or would like to discuss this work and related topics. Please email me.