Amanda Davies is a social scientist working in the field of demography, population geography and rural and regional development.
Career
she is a professor and head of school at the University of Western Australia's School of Social Sciences, and adjunct professor, at Curtin University's School of Molecular and Life Sciences.
She works closely with the Australian government, and is a principal investigator on five major projects, including:
- Rural volunteering (ARC Linkage; Volunteering Australia)
- Economic development pathways and responsiveness in mining transition
- Population mobility in the digital economy
- Counterurbanisation and COVID (ARC)
Davies began her position at UWA in 2020, prior to which she was a senior lecturer in the Department of Planning and Geography at Curtin University.
Davies has a Bachelor of Science from UWA.
In 2016 she and Samantha Hall were part of a mission to Antarctica.
Honours and awards
- Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers
Selected bibliography
- Geographies of Aging: Social Processes and the Spatial Unevenness of Population Aging, with A. James (October 2016)
- Geography, Place and International Development Volunteering (2021)
- Pandemic Cities: The Covid-19 and Australian Urban Regions, with E. Baker, S. Baum, J. Stone and E. Taylor (September 2023)
- Through an Australian Lens: Exploring the Impact of Body-Worn Cameras on Police-Community Relations (2023)
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