Amanda_Davies_(geographer)
Amanda Davies (geographer)
Australian geographer
Amanda Davies is a social scientist working in the field of demography, population geography and rural and regional development.[1]
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She is currently a professor and head of school at the University of Western Australia's School of Social Sciences,[1] and Adjunct Professor, at Curtin University's School of Molecular and Life Sciences.[2]
She also is one of Australia's leading public commentators on population and demographic issues and she also closely works with the Australian government and she is currently a principal investigator on 5 major projects, including:[1]
- 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 Senior Lecturer in the Department of Planning and Geography at Curtin University.[3] She is also the youngest person to be appointed as a full professor of Geography at UWA and the first female to be appointed as the head of the School of Social Sciences.[1]
Davies has a Bachelors of Science from UWA, a Doctor of Philosophy from New England.[1]
In 2016 she and Samantha Hall were part of a mission to Antarctica.[4][5][6]
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