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Dr Jenny Cameron

Dip. Teaching (BCAE), B. Applied Sc.(Urb & Reg. Planning)(QUT), MA (Sydney), PhD (Monash), MPIA

Senior Lecturer
Environmental Planning
The Griffith School of Environment
Griffith University

Email: jenny.cameron@griffith.edu.au
Ph:   (07) 3735 7155 
Fax: (07) 3735 7459



| Courses Taught | Research Interests | Awards and Prizes | Current Research | Publications |


Courses Taught

2057EVP Urban Analysis
7077EVP Urban Analysis
2271AES Research Methods for Social Science
4047EVP Public Involvement & Community Development
7097EVPPublic Involvement & Community Development
3107EVP Environmental Management Studio
7047EVP Environmental Management Studio

Convenor         Master of Environmental Planning

Convenor         Graduate Diploma of Environmental Planning
Convenor         Graduate Certificate in Planning

Research Interests

  • Asset-Based Community and Economic Development
  • Community Economies
  • Participatory and Collaborative Planning Practices
  • Participatory Action Research
  • Awards and Prizes

    2003, Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching, Early Career Category.

    2002, Certificate of Merit, Brannock and Associates Planning Scholarship, Research or Teaching Category, Planning Institute of Australia Queensland Division Awards for Excellence in Planning, for Planning for Sustainability: A Transport Example (with Dr N. Beaumont).

    1998, Inaugural Mollie Holman Medal for the Most Outstanding PhD Thesis in the Arts Faculty, Monash University, Melbourne.

    1997, Institute of Australian Geographers, Award for Outstanding Conference Presentation.

    1993, Certificate of Recognition, Queensland Department of Housing, Local Government and Planning, for 'Queensland Project H.O.M.E. Client Research' & Certificate of Recognition for 'Area Office and Home Ownership Client Service Survey'.

    1990, Queensland University of Technology, Dean's Award for Excellence for highest GPA in BAS - Built Environment (Urban and Regional Planning).

    1990, Royal Australian Planning Institute, Certificate of Merit.

    1990, Neville Lund Memorial Prize for Integrated Environmental Design.

    Current Research Projects

    1. Community Economies
    2. Evaluating Community Consultation: Criteria and Tools for Assessing Processes and Outcomes

    Recent Publications

    Refereed Journal Articles

    J. Cameron, D. Grant-Smith & A. Johnson, 2005. ‘Formative Evaluation for Improving Collaborative Planning: A Case Study at the Regional Scale', Australian Planner , 42(3), 22-29.

    J. Cameron & K. Gibson, 2005. ‘Alternative Pathways to Community and Economic Development: The Latrobe Valley Community Partnering Project', Geographical Research , 43(3), 274-285.

    J. Cameron & D. Grant-Smith, 2005. ‘Building Citizens: Participatory Planning Practice and a Transformative Politics of Difference', Urban Policy and Research , 23(1), 25-40.

    J. Cameron & K. Gibson, 2005. ‘Participatory Action Research in a Poststructuralist Vein', Geoforum , 36(3), 315-331.

    J. Cameron, N. Odendaal & A. Todes, 2004. ‘Integrated Area Development Projects: Working Towards Innovation and Sustainability', Urban Forum , 15(4), 311-339.

    J. Cameron & A. Johnson, 2004. Evaluating for Development: Planning for Public Involvement in SEQ2021', Australian Planner , 41(1), 49-55.

    J. Cameron & J. K. Gibson-Graham, 2003. 'Feminising the Economy: Metaphors, Strategies, Politics', Gender, Place and Culture , 10(2), 145-57.

    The Community Economies Collective, 2001. 'Imagining and Enacting Non-Capitalist Futures', in Socialist Review 28(3/4), 93.135.

    K. Gibson & J. Cameron, 2001. 'Transforming Communities: A Research Agenda', Urban Policy and Research , 19(1), 7-24.

    J. Cameron, 1998. 'The Practice of Politics: Transforming Subjectivities in the Domestic Domain and the Public Sphere', Australian Geographer, Special Issue on Geographies of Gender, 29(3), 293-307.

    J. Cameron, 1996/1997. 'Throwing a Dishcloth into the Works: Troubling Theories of Domestic Labor', in Rethinking Marxism, Summer 9(2), 24-44.

    Refereed Book Chapters

    J. Cameron, 2005. ‘Focussing on the Focus Group', in Iain Hay (ed.), Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography – 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Chapter 9, pp. 156-182.

    J. Cameron & K. Gibson, 2005. ‘Building Community Economies in Marginalised Areas', in Smyth, P., Reddel, T. and Jones, A. (eds) Community and Local Governance in Australia , UNSW Press, Sydney, Chapter 8, 172-191.

    J. Cameron, 2000. 'Focussing on the Focus Group', in Qualitative Methods in Geography, ed. I. Hay, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Chapter 5, pp. 83-105.

    J. Cameron, 2000. 'Doing "Women's" Work: Domestic Labour Politics', in Class and Its Others, eds J.K. Gibson-Graham, S. Resnick & R. Wolff, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Chapter 2, pp. 47-68.

    J. Cameron & K. Gibson, 1998. 'Land and Place', in Australian Feminism: A Companion, eds B. Caine, M. Gatens, E. Grahame, J. Larbalestier, S. Watson & E. Webby, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 173-77.

    J. Cameron, 1998. 'Work: Homemaking and Housework', in Reader's Guide to Women's Studies, ed. E. Amico, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago.

    Other Publications

    A. Johnson & J. Cameron, 2006. Planning for Public Involvement: A Step-by-Step Guide, Practice and Policy Paper 1, Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane. ISBN 1 920952 72 1 Available online at http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/urp/urp_publications/prac_and_policy/URP_PPP1_ConsultnGuide_Cameron.pdf

    N. Beaumont & J. Cameron, 2004. Planning for Sustainability: Managing Waste, School of Environmental Planning, Griffith University , Nathan, Brisbane . Available online at http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/evp/content11.html .

    It's in our Hands: Shaping Community and Economic Futures (documentary), 2003 School of Environmental Planning, Griffith University, Nathan, Production by Jenny Cameron, with Samantha La Rocca and David Monson, 20 mins.

    N. Beaumont & J. Cameron, 2001. Planning for Sustainability: A Transport Example, School of Environmental Planning, Griffith University , Nathan, Brisbane . Available On-line at http://www .gu.edu.au/school/evp/content11.html .

    J. Cameron & K. Gibson, 2001. Shifting Focus: Pathways to Community and Economic Development: A Resource Kit, Latrobe City Council & Monash University , Victoria . Available on-line at http://www.communityeconomies.org/action.php .

    K. Gibson, J. Cameron & A. Veno, 1999. Negotiating Restructuring: A Study of Regional Communities Experiencing Rapid Social and Economic Change, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Working Paper 11, AHURI, Brisbane, Qld. Available on-line at http://www.ahuri.edu.au/global/docs/wkpap_11.pdf .

    Published Conference Papers

    Cameron, J. & Gibson, K. 2006. ‘Representing Marginalisation: Finding New Avenues for Economic and Social Intervention’, in Proceedings of the State of the Australian Cities Conference. 30 November – 1 December, 2005, http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/soac2005/published_papers/governance/gov11a.pdf

    J. Cameron, 2003. 'Collaborating with Communities: An Assets-Based Approach to Community and Economic Development', in Proceedings of the Planning Institute of Australia 's National Planning Congress 2003, Adelaide .

    A. Johnson & J. Cameron, 2003. 'A framework for evaluating public involvement in a regional planning context', in Proceedings of the Planning Institute of Australia 's National Planning Congress 2003, Adelaide .

    J. Cameron & K. Gibson, 2001.'Regional Communities Reinvent Economy', in, All Change!: Gippsland Perspectives on Regional Australia in Transition, eds J. Dibden, M. Fletcher & C. Cocklin, Monash Regional Australia Project Occasional Paper, Monash University, Melbourne pp133-43.

    Other Selected Presentations

    J. Cameron (with A. Cahill), 2006. ‘Shifting focus: a resident approach to making a difference’, Invited workshop presented for the Department of Housing (Community Renewal), Townsville.

    J. Cameron, 2005. ‘Building community economies: alternative economic development in marginalised areas', Invited seminar presented at

    J. Cameron (with L. McNeilly), 2003. 'Building community and economic futures with participatory action research', presented at the InsideOut Conference, University of Queensland .

    J. Cameron, 2002. 'Feminist elaborations of 'the economy': alternative or capitalist?', presented at the Institute of Australian Geographers Annual Conference , Canberra .

    J. Cameron, 2000. 'Asset-based community and economic development: implications for the social capital debate', Alison Burton Memorial Lecture, Royal Australian Planning Institute, Canberra .

    J. Cameron, 2000. 'Community Partnering: an exercise in reimagining a regional economy', Presented at the Rethinking Marxism, 4th Internataional Gala Conference, University of Massachusetts – Amherst .

    J. Cameron, 2000. 'Capitalising on and creating social capital', Opening Address Presented at the Community and Social Planners Network, Social Capital Conference, Melbourne.

    J. Cameron, 2000. 'Creating economic communities', Presented at the Activism and Academic Geography: Turning Academic Research into Action Research panel, David.Harvey@Geography.Melbourne Series, University of Melbourne . Melbourne .

    J. Cameron, 1999. 'Domesticating the postmodern: feminism, domestic labour and the politics of representation', Public Lecture Presented at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne.

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    Last updated: 10 November 2006