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Chris Gibson (Researcher)

Chris Gibson is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Wollongong, and the inaugural Director of the Global Challenges Program. . His research interests and expertise are: cultural economy, critical research on creative industries, manufacturing futures, festivals and regional development, and cultural economic research on climate, crisis, and everyday household life. = Early Life and Education= Gibson was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. His family shortly moved to Sydney where Gibson attended primary school and high school. Gibson was awarded his PhD, Decentred sounds: systems of provision for popular music and a regional music industry in 2000 from the University of Sydney. = Career and Impact = Gibson is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Wollongong. He has held lecturing positions at both the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Sydney. Gibson is the inaugural Director of the Global Challenges Program since 2013 and the Leader of the Overarching Global Challenges Program Challenge, Transforming Lives and Regions. Gibson is also the Editor for Australian Geographer since 2015. Gibson's most notable work is Sound tracks: Popular music identity and place.

Global Challenges Program
Gibson is the inaugural Director of the Global Challenges Program since 2013. He is also the Challenge Leader for the overarching Challenge, Transforming Lives and Regions. UOW's Global Challenges Program is a strategic research initiative that is focused on transformative interdisciplinary research that touches people's lives and changes worlds. This program is designed to harness the expertise of world-class researchers to address complex, real-world problems – to transform lives and regions. . The Global Challenges Program has three accompanying Challenges: Living Well, Longer, Manufacturing Innovation, and Sustaining Coastal Marine Zones. Gibson co-authored the first White Paper for this Program which reflects on the experience of funding interdisciplinary research, and the successes and challenges

AUSCCER
Gibson was actively involved in the creation of the University of Wollongong's Research Strength, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER). AUSCCER is a research group within the School of Geography and Sustaining Communities focusing on cultural and social aspects of environmental issues. The School of Geography and Sustaining Communities teaches human geography at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as Indigenous studies and environmental and heritage management.

ARC Research Grants
Gibson has been involved the following ARC Research Grants: =Awards and Honours= Gibson has been awarded the following awards and honours: = Selected Biography= Books Journal Articles
 * 2017 - 2019: Urban cultural policy and the changing dynamics of cultural production (ARC Discovery Grant DP170104255)
 * 2010 - 2013: Crisis and change: cultural‑economic research on the adaptability and sustainability of Australian households (ARC Future Fellowship FT0991193)
 * 2009 - 2011: Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life (ARC Discovery Grant DP0984223)
 * 2009 - 2012: Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation (ARC Discovery Grant DP0986041)
 * 2008 - 2012: Cultural Asset Mapping for Planning and Development in Regional Australia (ARC Linkage Grant LP0882238)
 * 2006 - 2008: Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative Industries (ARC Linkage Grant LP0667445)
 * 2005 - 2009: Reinventing rural places? The extent and impact of festivals as regeneration strategies (ARC Discovery Grant DP0560032) . This project led to the publication of a full length report 'Reinventing rural places: The extent and impact of festivals in rural and regional Australia'
 * 2016: Geographical Society of NSW Fellowship – for ‘outstanding contributions to geography, the University of Wollongong, the Geographical Society of NSW and to the Society’s journal, Australian Geographer’.
 * 2015: Winner of the Australian Society for Sport History (ASSH) Book Award for Gibson's co-authored book Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: Craft, Creativity and Cultural Heritage in Hawai’i, California and Australia with Dr Andrew Warren. Finalist Ka Palapala Po`okela Awards (Hawai`i Book of the Year, ‘Excellence in Nonfiction’ category)
 * 2012: Fellowship of the Institute of Australian Geographers - for sustained contributions to the discipline of Geography.
 * 2010-2013: Inaugural ARC Future Fellowship
 * 2003: UNSW Anthony Mason Fellowship
 * Connell, J and Gibson, C (2017) Outback Elvis: The story of a festival, its fans & a town called Parkes. Sydney: NewSouth. ISBN: 978172235295
 * Warren, A and Gibson, C (2014) Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: Craft, Creativity and Cultural Heritage in Hawai’i, California and Australia, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3943-7 (Pbk); 978-0-8248-3828-7 (Hbk)
 * Gibson, C, Farbotko, C, Gill, N, Head, L and Waitt, G (2013) Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 978-1-78100-20-7
 * Gibson, C (ed) (2012) Creativity in Peripheral Places: Redefining the Creative Industries, Routledge, London and New York. ISBN: 978-0-415-69668-5
 * Gibson, C and Connell, J (2012) Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia, Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN: 978-0-7546-7526-6
 * Gibson, C and Connell, J (eds) (2011) Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, Channel View, Bristol. ISBN: 978-1-84541-166-4 (Pbk); 978-1-84541-167-1 (Hbk)
 * Gibson, C and Connell, J (2005) Music and Tourism, Channel View Press, Clevedon and Buffalo, NY. ISBN: 1-873150-93-8 (Hbk); 1-873150-92-x (Pbk); 1-873150-94-6 (Elec.)
 * Dunbar-Hall, P and Gibson, C (2004) Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney.
 * Connell, J and Gibson, C (2003) Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place, Routledge, London and New York ISBN: 9780415170277 (HBK); 9780415170284 (PBK)
 * Gibson, C and Warren, A (2016) Resource-Sensitive Global Production Networks: reconfigured geographies of timber and acoustic guitar manufacturing. Economic Geography, online early DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2016.1178569.
 * Gibson, C (2016) 'Material inheritances: how place, materiality and labor process underpin the path-dependent evolution of contemporary craft production’, Economic Geography. 92, 1, 61-86. DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2015.1092211.
 * Gibson, C (2016) How clothing design and cultural industries refashioned frontier masculinities: a historical geography of Western wear, Gender, Place & Culture (online first): 10.1080/0966369X.2015.1058758.
 * Head, L, Gibson, C, Gill, N, Carr, C and Waitt, G, (2016) A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response. Local Environment. 10.1080/13549839.2016.1139560.
 * Stanes, E, Klocker, N and Gibson, C (2016) ‘Young adult households and environmental sustainability: beyond generalisations about generational cohorts’, Geoforum 65, 46-58.
 * Gibson, C, Head, L and Carr, C (2015) ‘From incremental change to radical disjuncture: rethinking household sustainability practices as survival skills’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105, 2, 416-424. 10.1080/00045608.2014.973008.
 * Gibson, C (2015) ‘Negotiating regional creative economies: academics as expert intermediaries advocating progressive alternatives’, Regional Studies, 49, 3, 476-479 10.1080/00343404.2014.945249.
 * Carr, C and Gibson, C (2015) ‘Geographies of making: rethinking materials and skills for volatile futures’, Progress in Human Geography, DOI: 10.1177/0309132515578775.
 * Gibson, C and Connell, J (2015) The role of festivals in drought-affected Australian communities. Event Management, 19, 4, 445-459.
 * Gill, N, Osman, P, Head, L, Moyer, M, Harada, T, Waitt, G and Gibson, C (2015) ‘Looking beyond installation: why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems’, Energy Policy, 87, 83-94.
 * Gibson, C (2014) ‘Souvenirs, materialities and animal encounters: following Texas cowboy boots’, Tourist Studies, 14, 3, 286–301.>
 * Gibson, C and Warren, A (2014) ‘Making surfboards: emergence of a trans-Pacific cultural industry’, Journal of Pacific History, 49, 1, 1-25.
 * Gibson, C (2013) ‘Welcome to Bogan-ville: reframing class and place through humour, Journal of Australian Studies, 37, 1, 62-75.
 * Head, L, Farbotko, C, Gibson, C, Gill, N and Waitt, G (2013) ‘Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy’, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 20, 4, 351-362.
 * Warren, A and Gibson, C (2013) ‘Making things in a high-dollar Australia: the case of the surfboard industry’, Journal of Australian Political Economy, 71, 26-50.
 * Gibson, C (2012) ‘Cultural Economy: Achievements, Divergences, Future Prospects’, Geographical Research, 50, 3, 282–290.
 * Gibson, C, Carr, C and Warren, A (2012) ‘A country that makes things?’, Australian Geographer, 43, 2, 109-113.
 * Head, L and Gibson, C (2012) ‘Becoming differently modern: geographic contributions to a generative climate politics’, Progress in Human Geography, 36, 6, 699-714.
 * Klocker, N, Gibson, C and Borger, E (2012) ‘Living together, but apart: Material geographies of everyday sustainability in extended family households’, Environment and Planning A, 44, 2240-2259.
 * Gibson, C, Head, L, Gill, N and Waitt, G (2011) ‘Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36, 1, 3-8.
 * Gibson, C (2010) ‘Geographies of tourism: (un)ethical encounters’, Progress in Human Geography, 34, 4, 521-527.
 * Gibson, C, Waitt, G, Walmsley, J and Connell, J (2010) ‘Cultural festivals and economic development in regional Australia’, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 29, 3, 280-293.
 * Gibson, C (2009) ‘Geographies of tourism: critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods’, Progress in Human Geography, 33, 4, 527-534.