Iain Hay

Professor of Geography
Spaces of Oppression (exploitation, marginalisation, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, violence); Geographies of Social Regulation and Justice; Skills Development; Australia, New Zealand and the United States

Contact Details

• Office: Room 312 Social Sciences North
• Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
  Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
• Email: iain.hay@flinders.edu.au
• Phone: (08) 8201 2386 (in Australia); (618) 8201 2386 (outside Australia)
• Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia); (618) 8201 3521 (outside Australia)

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) (Cant), MA (Massey), PhD (Washington), GradCertTertEd (Flin)

Positions Held

• Head, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
• Co-Chair, Steering Committee, International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education (INLT)
• Chair, Australian Heads of Geography Committee
• Member, Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Geography
• Fellow, South Australian Governor's Leadership Foundation
• Trustee, South Australian Business Vision 2010

Finalist, 2001 Australian Awards for University Teaching (Social Sciences & Education)
Finalist, 2000 Australian Awards for University Teaching (Social Sciences & Education)
Winner of Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000.
Winner of Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995.

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Research Areas

'Regulating' Morality - Political Economy of Ethics?

• Produce a case-book of materials on professional ethics in geography to conclude work I have already commenced in this area.
• Explore the social creation of 'parochial' moral imaginations and the institutional regulation of those imaginations, beginning with empirical work on university approaches to ethics. Move from discussion of ethics as rules by which morally just outcomes are distributed, towards work that uses ethics as a means to examine relationships between the 'regulation' of moral behaviour and the bureaucratic, economic, intellectual, and socio-legal processes affecting that regulation in particular places. How are moral hazards distributed? How have ideological and socio-economic shifts penetrated understandings of, and approaches to, the regulation of moral conduct in particular places? Look for connections in the economic restructuring or 'regulation theory' area.

Insurers as Regulators

• Examine the role of insurers as 'rule-makers'. This work might look, for example, at [1] Landscapes of insurance . Is a combination of crime and insurer requirements changing urban landscapes (e.g. barred and screened windows, security fences). What are the various geographies of that form of regulation - in terms of regulatory process and physical outcomes? And [2] the justice implications of the globalisation (or 'dis-placing'?) of 'risk'. Insurers are one mechanism by which local risk-economies are connected with another. If insurers 'spread' risk, what are the geographies and justice implications of that risk-spreading? Who regulates the spread of risk? Is that spread exploitative? What too of issues of vulnerability? Is insurance a mechanism by which people in particular places are unwittingly made vulnerable to hazards elsewhere?
  

Communicating Geographical Imaginations

• In a practical way, this project aims to [a] build from the notion of geography as a poetics of the world - a writing of the world - and [b] move from deconstruction of social realities to their (re)construction by investigating and outlining ways in which the various products of geographical imagination can be effectively offered in the public domain. This will be done in the first instance by developing a post-graduate 'skills' topic exploring ways in which geographers present their imaginations through: [1] public consultation (e.g . setting up and conducting successful public gathering to discuss and act on research); [2] academic publishing (e.g. writing for journals, editing, book publishing); [3] negotiating the media (e.g. how do the media work; how to get your story reported the way you want it reported); [4] issues of policy and persuasion (e.g. communicating to influence policy formation). One outcome of this project will be a collaboratively written textbook to accompany the topic.
  

GEOImages: An Image Database for Learning, Teaching and Research

• This Project aims to extend the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management’s nascent WWW image database. The outcomes will be a searchable Web-based image database offering a vast range of well-described illustrative material for a variety of research, teaching, learning and applications.

Consultancy Capabilities

Qualitative surveys, general social research.

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Current and Recent Scholarly Activities

Advisory Positions

• Member, International Advisory Board. 'The Geography Faculty Development Alliance: Workshops and Seminars to Improve the Teaching and Learning of Geography in Higher Education' (United States, 2001-2005).
  
• Invited International Consultant for USA National Science Foundation project entitled GISources: Tools for Describing, Indexing, Cataloging, and Searching Educational Materials on the Worldwide Web (2000).
  
• Invited International Member of Steering/Advisory Panel for UK DfeEE Higher Education Employment Key Skills Project entitled 'Key Skills in Geography in Higher Education' (1997-1999). This 300,000 pounds project involves eight British universities and aims to develop and disseminate models of good practice for the embedding of key skills in the Higher Education curriculum, with specific reference to the discipline of geography, as a way of preparing students for the world of work and building a platform for lifelong learning.
  
• Invited Australasian Advisor for Higher Education Funding Council for England Project entitled 'Disseminating Good Teaching, Learning and Assessment Practices in Geography' (1996-1999). This 250,000 pounds project involves nine British universities and aims to disseminate good teaching, learning and assessment practice in England and Northern Ireland through production of ten manuals, national conference, WWW page, and 50 department-based workshops.
  
• Member of Advisory Committee for the Institute of Australian Geographers' 'Millennium Project on Australian Geography and Geographers' (1998-present).
  
• Discipline Expert, Geography Subject Advisory Committee, Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia (SSABSA) (1997-2000).
  

Journal Editorial Roles

• Editor for Asia and the Pacific, Ethics, Place and Environment.
• Australasian Commissioning Editor for Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
• Member of Editorial Board and immediate past Editor,  South Australian Geographical Journal.
• Member of Editorial Board, New Zealand Geographer.

Current Post-graduate Students

• Donna Ferretti (PhD, Geography) 'From rational planning to risky business: notions of sustainability in the Adelaide Metropolitan Planning Review'
• Tom Jenkin (PhD, Geography) 'Reconciliation and the settler spaces, from colonisation to co-existence? Transitions in "land" management in Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia'
• Azizan Marzuki (PhD, Cultural Tourism) 'Sustainable cultural tourism: A study on Langkawi Island, Malaysia'
• Charlotte Morgan (MA, Geography) 'Spatio-temporal analysis of South Australian campylobacter surveillance data''
• Susanne Wood (PhD, Environmental Management) 'Water, wine and olives in South Australia: the growers' persepctive'
• Michiyo Yoshida (PhD, Geography) 'Citizenship and migrant resettlement: case studies from Japanese women in Australia and Japan'

Selected Publications

• McFarlane, T. & Hay, I. (in press) 'The Battle for Seattle: protest and popular geopolitics in The Australian newspaper', Political Geography.
• Hay, I. & Bass, D. 2002, 'Making news in geography and environmental management', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 129-142.
• Hay, I., 2002, Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences, 2^nd edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Hay, I., Bochner, D. & Dungey, C. 2002, Making the Grade. A Guide to Successful Communication and Study. 2^nd edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Hay, I. 2001, ‘Editorial. Critical geography and activism in higher education’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 141-146.
• Hay, I. 2001, ‘Engaging lessons. Classrooms as sites of engagement in activist critical geography’, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 55-60.
• Hay, I. & Israel, M. 2001, 'From research to report: communicating geography through the media', Applied Geography, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 107-125.
• Hay, I. (ed.) 2000,  Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Hay, I. & Cutler, C. 2000, 'Club Dread.' Using an issues-based role play on environment, economy, politics and culture', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 211-229.
• Hay, I., Foote, K. & Healey, M. 2000, 'From Cheltenham to Honolulu - the purposes and projects of the International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT) Geography in Higher Education', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 253-259.
• Hay, I. 1998, 'Making moral imaginations. Research ethics, pedagogy and professional human geography', Ethics, Place and Environment, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 55-76.
• Hay, I. & Foley, P. 1998, 'Ethics, geography and responsible citizenship', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 169-183.
• Hay, I. 1997 'Medical liability and the influence of remote reinsurers over U.S. tort law reform', Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-25.
• Kirby, S. & Hay, S. 1997, '(Hetero)sexing space. Gay men and 'straight' space in Adelaide, South Australia' Professional Geographer, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 295-305.
• Delaney, E. & Hay, I. 1997, 'Worlds in our words. Geography as a second language', International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, vol. 6, no. 2., pp. 1-11.
• Hay, I. 1996, 'Neoliberalism and criticisms of earthquake insurance arrangements in New Zealand', Disasters. The Journal of Disaster Studies and Management, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 34-48.
• Hay, I. (ed.) 1996, Gender and Environments. Proceedings of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Gender and Geography Study Group Conference held in Adelaide, South Australia, 19-21 April 1996, Institute of Australian Geographers, Adelaide.

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Personal Interests Rogaining (i.e. overnight orienteering in teams) Lying on beaches Swimming Cycling Drinking whatever is cool and alcoholic Going to the movies Travel Gardening Scuba diving (PADI Rescue Diver)