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Professor David John Conradson

Contact

Department: School of Earth and Environment

Email: david.conradson@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Beatrice Tinsley Rm 115

Language: English

About
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Fields of Research

  • Life in disrupted environments
  • Mobilities, migration and forced displacement
  • Post-disaster recovery
  • Social and community well-being
  • Enabling and therapeutic environments
  • Collective trauma and psychosocial distress

Researcher Summary

My research is concerned with the lived experience of disrupted environments, with a particular focus on issues of social and community wellbeing. I examine the processes that contribute to disruption and difficulty in particular places, and seek to identify the kinds of collaborations, policies, and practices able to facilitate wellbeing within them.    

My early work considered rural and urban places disrupted by economic restructuring and neoliberal welfare reform, while more recent projects have focused on disaster-affected places. In examining a range of disrupted environments, I have given close attention to the nature and relational constitution of spaces within these settings that some experience as supportive, enabling and even therapeutic. Empirical investigations in this regard have encompassed community drop-in centres, retreat centres, respite care agencies, residential care facilities, and urban community farms.  

I am currently the Managing Editor of the New Zealand Geographer, and a member of the editorial board for Social and Cultural Geography and the Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies.

Current and recent projects:

• The Post-Disaster City: Recovery and Transition in Christchurch, New Zealand

This co-authored book project examines processes of recovery and transition following the 2010-11 Canterbury earthquakes. We draw on empirical research from Christchurch to consider how cities and communities negotiate environmental disruption, whether slow or rapid onset.

• Fostering Community Well-Being through Urban Agriculture

Funded by the National Science Challenge, this project examines the efforts of an urban community farm in Christchurch to support youth well-being and creatively reinvest its economic surplus.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Human Geography: Human Geography
  • Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Social Science; Urban Studies
  • Resilience: Social: Health and Wellbeing; People and Community; Psychology and Relationships

Resources

  • School of Earth and Environment website

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles
  • Conradson D., Cloke P., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) The Post-Earthquake City. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562.
  • Best T., Visser R. and Conradson D. (2021) Stress, psychosocial factors and the new zealand forest industry workforce: seeing past the risk of harm to the potential for individual and organisational wellbeing. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 51 http://dx.doi.org/10.33494/NZJFS512021X93X.
  • Conradson D. (2021) Affective dimensions of pandemic life: The mediatised cultivation of outrage. New Zealand Geographer 77(3): 160-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12320.
  • Conradson D. (2021) Recognition and attunement in migration research. Dialogues in Human Geography 11(1): 73-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820620975963.
  • He L., Dominey-Howes D., Aitchison JC., Lau A. and Conradson D. (2021) How do post-disaster policies influence household-level recovery? A case study of the 2010-11 Canterbury earthquake sequence, New Zealand. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 60 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102274.
  • Cloke P. and Conradson D. (2018) Transitional organisations, affective atmospheres and new forms of being-in-common: Post-disaster recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 43(3): 360-376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12240.
  • Conradson D. (2016) Fostering student mental well-being through supportive learning communities. Canadian Geographer 60(2): 239-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cag.12276.
  • Davies TR., Beaven S., Conradson D., Densmore A., Gaillard JC., Johnston D., Milledge D., Oven K., Petley D. and Rigg J. (2015) Towards disaster resilience: A scenario-based approach to co-producing and integrating hazard and risk knowledge. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 13: 242-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.05.009.
  • Kearns RA., Collins D. and Conradson D. (2015) A healthy island blue space: From space of detention to site of sanctuary. Health and Place 35: 178-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.03.012.
  • Stevenson JR., Chang-Richards Y., Conradson D., Wilkinson S., Vargo J., Seville E. and Brunsdon D. (2014) Organizational Networks and Recovery Following the Canterbury Earthquakes. Earthquake Spectra 30(1): 555-575. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/022013EQS041MR.
  • Conradson D. and Pawson E. (2009) New cultural economies of marginality: Revisiting the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Rural Studies 25(1): 77-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2008.06.002.
  • Curtis S., Hoyez AC. and Conradson D. (2009) Health, Well-being and Immigrant Populations in France and Britain. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 5(4): 4-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5042/ijmhsc.2010.0228.
  • Conradson D. (2008) Expressions of charity and action towards justice: Faith-based welfare in urban New Zealand. Urban Studies 45(10): 2117-2141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098008094876.
  • Conradson D. and Latham A. (2007) The affective possibilities of London: Antipodean transnationals and the Overseas Experience. Mobilities 2(2): 231-254. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450100701381573.
  • Conradson D. and McKay D. (2007) Translocal subjectivities: Mobility, connection, emotion. Mobilities 2(2): 167-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450100701381524.
  • Conradson D. (2005) Landscape, care and the relational self: Therapeutic encounters in rural England. Health and Place 11(4): 337-348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2005.02.004.
  • Conradson D. and Latham A. (2005) Escalator London? A Case Study of New Zealand Tertiary Educated Migrants in a Global City. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 13(2): 159-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782800500212376.
  • Conradson D. and Latham A. (2005) Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city: Antipodean transmigrants in London. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(2): 287-305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183042000339936.
  • Conradson D. and Latham A. (2005) Transnational urbanism: Attending to everyday practices and mobilities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(2): 227-233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183042000339891.
  • Conradson D. (2003) Doing organisational space: practices of voluntary welfare in the city. Environment and Planning A 35(11): 1975-1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3584.
  • Conradson D. (2003) Geographies of care: spaces, practices, experiences. Social & Cultural Geography 4(4): 451-454. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1464936032000137894.
  • Conradson D. (2003) Spaces of care in the city: the place of a community drop-in centre. Social & Cultural Geography 4(4): 507-525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1464936032000137939.
  • Latham A. and Conradson D. (2003) The possibilities of performance. Environment and Planning A 35(11): 1901-1906.
  • Conradson D. and Pawson E. (1997) Reworking the geography of the long boom: the small town experience of restructuring in Reefton, New Zealand. Environment and Planning A 29(8): 1381-1397. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a291381.
Chapters
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) City centre recovery and commercial property investment. The Post-Earthquake City: 90-107.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-8.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) Conclusion. The Post-Earthquake City: 216-219.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-16.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) From transitional activities to place-making. The Post-Earthquake City: 129-146.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-11.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) Governance and the cartographies of recovery. The Post-Earthquake City: 53-70.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-6.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) Housing recovery. The Post-Earthquake City: 71-89.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-7.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) Impacts on households and communities. The Post-Earthquake City: 33-49.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-4.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) Introduction. The Post-Earthquake City: 1-12.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-1.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) Landscapes of consumption. The Post-Earthquake City: 147-163.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-12.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) The eastern suburbs. The Post-Earthquake City: 164-180.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-13.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) The fracturing of a vulnerable city. The Post-Earthquake City: 15-32.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-3.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) The more-than-human city. The Post-Earthquake City: 181-198.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-14.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) The residential red zone. The Post-Earthquake City: 199-215.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-15.
  • Cloke P., Conradson D., Pawson E. and Perkins HC. (2022) Voluntary and community sector responses. The Post-Earthquake City: 108-125.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429275562-9.
  • Conradson D. (2021) Maintaining wellbeing during and after Covid-19. In Andrews G; Pearce J; Crooks V; Messina J (Ed.), COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Geographical perspectives, issues and agendas: 155-164.Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70179-6_20.
  • Conradson D. (2020) Psychotherapy/Psychotherapeutic Geographies. In Kobayashi A (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd ed.): 69-73.Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10859-5.
  • Conradson D. (2020) Welfare Reform. In Kobayashi A (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd ed.): 259-264.Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10879-0.
  • Conradson D. (2019) Supportive learning environments and the transition to university. Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Geography: 99-109.
  • Stevenson J. and Conradson DJ. (2017) Organizational Support Networks and Relational Resilience After the 2010-2011 Earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand. In Jones EC; Faas AJ (Ed.), Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation: 161-175. Oxford: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805196-2.00011-X.
  • Conradson D. and Moon G. (2016) On the street: Primary Health care for difficult to reach populations. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place: 237-257.
  • Conradson D. (2014) Health and Well-Being. In Cloke P; Crang P; Goodwin M (Ed.), Introducing Human Geographies (3rd ed.): 599-612. London: Routledge.
  • Conradson D., Connolly M. and Barnett R. (2014) Moving to Learn/Learning to Move: New School Environments after the Canterbury Earthquakes. In Roche M; Mansvelt J; Prince R; Gallagher A (Ed.), Engaging Geographies: Landscapes, Lifecourses and Mobilities: 175-190. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
  • Conradson D. (2013) Somewhere between religion and spirituality? Places of retreat in contemporary Britain. In Hopkins P; Kong L; Olson E (Ed.), Religion and Place: Landscape, Politics and Piety: 185-202. Dordrecht: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4685-5_11.
  • Conradson D. (2013) The orchestration of feeling: Stillness, spirituality and places of retreat. Stillness in a Mobile World: 71-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203855898-11.
  • Conradson D. (2012) Well-Being: Reflections on Geographical Engagements. In Atkinson S; Fuller S; Painter J (Ed.), Well-Being and Place: 15-34. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Conradson D. (2011) Care and caring. A Companion to Social Geography: 454-471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444395211.ch26.
  • Conradson D. (2011) Care and Caring. In Del Casino V; Thomas M; Cloke P; Panelli R (Ed.), A Companion to Social Geography: 454-471. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444395211.
  • Conradson D. (2010) The orchestration of feeling: Stillness, spirituality and places of retreat. In Bissell D; Fuller G (Ed.), Stillness in a Mobile World: 71-86. London: Routledge.
  • Conradson D. (2009) Welfare Reform. In Kitchin R; Thrift N (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography: 230-234. Oxford: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.01117-2.
  • Conradson D. and Moon G. (2009) On the street: Primary health care for difficult to reach populations. In Crooks V; Andrews G (Ed.), Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place: 237-260. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Conradson D. (2008) Experiential economies of stillness: the place of retreat in contemporary Britain. In Williams A (Ed.), Therapeutic Landscapes: 33-48. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Conradson D. (2006) Values, practices and strategic divestment: Christian social service organisations in New Zealand. In Milligan C; Conradson D (Ed.), Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance: 153-172. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Conradson D. and Milligan C. (2006) Reflections on landscapes of voluntarism. Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance: 285-293.
  • Milligan C. and Conradson D. (2006) Contemporary landscapes of welfare: the voluntary turn? In Milligan C; Conradson D (Ed.), Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance: 1-14. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Conradson D. (2005) Freedom, space and perspective: moving encounters with other ecologies. In Davidson J; Bondi L; Smith M (Ed.), Emotional Geographies: 103-116. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Conradson D. (1996) The small town experience of restructuring. In Le Heron R; Pawson E (Ed.), Changing Places: New Zealand in the Nineties: 116-118. Auckland: Longman Paul.
Edited Volumes
  • Milligan C. and Conradson D. (2006) Landscapes of Voluntarism: New Spaces of Health, Welfare and Governance. Bristol: Policy Press. 320pp.
Reports
  • Dombroski K., Diprose G., Conradson D., Healy S. and Watkins A. (2019) Delivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise. In Delivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise. [Final NSC11 Report for Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment].
  • Dombroski K., Diprose G., Conradson D., Healy S. and Watkins A. (2019) When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment. In When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment [NSC11 Milestone Report for Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment].
  • Vallance S., Edwards S., Conradson D. and Karaminejad Z. (2019) Soft Infrastructure for Hard Times: Collaborative Planning for the (Re)Building of Better Homes, Towns and Cities.National Science Challenge. Commissioned by Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. 57.
  • Conradson D. (2015) Assessing the Impact of SafeGrowth in Riccarton West: Baseline Report for Christchurch City Council.Commissioned by Community Safety Team, Christchurch City Council. 27pp.
  • Kingham S., Conradson D., Dombroski K., Watkins A. and Maurice R. (2015) Burwood Community Neighbourhood Assets Project 2015.Commissioned by Burwood Residents Group. 28pp.
  • Kingham S., Conradson D., Watkins A. and Martin A. (2014) Avondale Community Neighbourhood Assets Project 2014.Commissioned by Avondale Residents Association. 25.
  • Breetzke G., Pearson A. and Conradson D. (2013) Examining the relationship between recorded crime and the fear of crime in Christchurch, New Zealand.Commissioned by Christchurch City Council. 58pp.
  • Kingham S., Conradson D. and Schulman T. (2013) Parklands Community Neighbourhood Assets Project.Commissioned by Parklands Network. 24.
  • Britt E., Carter J., Conradson D., Scott A., Vargo J. and Moss H. (2012) Resilience framework and guidelines for practice.Commissioned by Ministry of Social Development. 46pp-46pp.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Conradson D. (2019) Recognition, attunement and well-being: observations from a post-disaster city. Washington DC, United States: Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 3-7 Apr 2019.
  • Conradson D. (2019) Settings for Life: the Significance of Recognition and Attunement for Emplaced Wellbeing [keynote address]. Queenstown, New Zealand: 18th International Medical Geography Symposium, 30 Jun-5 Jul 2019.
  • Conradson D. (2019) The Posthuman Turn in Health Geography: Lessons from the Gut Microbiome. Queenstown, New Zealand: 18th International Medical Geography Symposium, 30 Jun-5 Jul 2019.
  • Conradson DJ. (2018) On geographical education for life: learning for Earth futures. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society and Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, 11-14 Jul 2018.
  • Conradson DJ. (2018) The post-disaster politics of vacant urban space: contestation and conflict in Canterbury, New Zealand. New Orleans, United States,: Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, 10-14 Apr 2018.
  • Dombroski KF., Diprose G., Healy S. and Conradson D. (2018) Cultivating Commoners. University of Auckland: New Zealand Geographical Society and Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, 11-14 Jul 2018.
  • Conradson DJ. (2017) Finding and creating safe spaces: children's negotiations of a post-disaster school environment. California State University, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA: 6th International Emotional Geographies conference, 16 Jun 2017.
  • Conradson D. (2016) Hospitable spaces: environments that support life and wellbeing. Dunedin, New Zealand: Geographical Interactions, New Zealand Geographical Society conference, 1-4 Feb 2016.
  • Conradson D. (2016) Promoting mental health in the academy: the place of collective dialogue. San Francisco, CA, United States: Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, 29 Mar-2 Apr 2016.
  • Conradson D. and Cloke P. (2015) Hope, Despair, Courage and Frustration: Affect and Materiality in a Post-Disaster City. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK: Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 1-4 Sep 2015.
  • Conradson D. (2014) Cultivating sensing and feeling in geographical education: towards new forms of being-in-relation. Canberra, Australia: Cultures of Sense, Cultures of Movement, 3-4 Feb 2014.
  • Conradson D. (2014) Towards health-promoting and life-sustaining forms of learning community. Tampa, FL, USA: Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, 8-12 Apr 2014.
  • Conradson D., Winstanley A., Hepi M. and Quigley M. (2014) Moving towards safety: children's negotiations of a post-disaster landscape. Melbourne, Australia: Institute of Australian Geographers / New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2014 (IAG/NZGS), 30 Jun-2 Jul 2014.
  • Frater J., Kingham S., Kuijer R. and Conradson D. (2014) Why don't teenagers cycle to school in car-centric countries like New Zealand? Adelaide, Australia: Velo-city Global 2014, 27-30 May 2014.
  • Conradson D. (2013) Moving for life: sensing and feeling as capacities for wayfinding. Christchurch, New Zealand: 4th New Zealand Mobilities Research Symposium, 13-15 Jun 2013.
  • Conradson D. (2013) SPRAHWELL: a new conceptual framework for analyzing landscapes of healthcare provision. East Lansing, MI, USA: XVth International Symposium in Medical/Health Geography (IMGS 2013), 7-12 Jul 2013.
  • Conradson D. (2013) Subjective well-being and place attachment: finding a new (sense of) home in a post-disaster city. East Lansing, MI, USA: XVth International Symposium in Medical/Health Geography (IMGS 2013), 7-12 Jul 2013.
  • Conradson D. (2013) Well-being and place: losing and finding hope in a post-disaster city. Los Angeles, CA, USA: Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, 8-13 Apr 2013.
  • Conradson D. (2012) Affective Choreography: Orchestrating Feeling in a Post-Disaster City. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Institute of Australian Geographers Annual Conference, 2-4 Jul 2012.
  • Conradson D. (2012) Leaving, waiting, staying: household mobilities after the Christchurch earthquakes. Napier, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, 3-6 Dec 2012.
  • Conradson D. (2012) Stories of movement: experiences of disruption and adjustment in a post-quake city. Auckland, New Zealand: 3rd New Zealand Mobilities Research Symposium, 14-15 Jun 2012.
  • Stevenson J., Conradson D. and Vargo J. (2012) Context and networks in organisational resilience: Case studies from the Christchurch Central Business District. Christchurch, New Zealand: 6th Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference, 21-22 Aug 2012.
  • Conradson D. (2011) City of Flows: Household Water Practices in Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Wollongong, Australia: Institute of Australian Geographers Annual Conference, 3-6 Jul 2011.
  • Conradson D. (2011) Inhabiting the world in new ways: mindfulness, affect and well-being. Durham, UK: International Medical Geography Symposium, 10-15 Jul 2011.
  • Conradson D. (2011) Somewhere between Religion and Spirituality: Places of Retreat in Contemporary Britain. Seattle, WA, USA: Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, 12-16 Apr 2011.
  • Conradson D. (2010) Calming the storm: A consideration of therapeutic practices for affective modulation. London, UK: Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), 1-3 Sep 2010.
  • Conradson D. (2010) Discourses and Conceptions Of Well-Being: A Consideration of Disciplinary Perspectives. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2010 (NZGS), 5-8 Jul 2010.
  • Conradson D. (2010) Making Space for Stillness: Experiencing Places of Retreat in Contemporary Britain. Adelaide, Australia: 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, 6-8 Apr 2010.
  • Conradson D. (2009) Thinking geographically about well-being: Relational and ecological perspectives. Durham, UK: Well-being and Place: An International Conference, 7-9 Apr 2009.
  • Conradson D. (2008) Places of Retreat: The Experiential Possibilities of Dwelling Elsewhere. Boston, MA, USA: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG 2008), 15-19 Apr 2008.
  • Conradson D. (2007) Faith-based welfare and expressions of justice: organisational theologies and practices in New Zealand. San Francisco, CA, USA: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG 2007), 17-21 Apr 2007.
  • Conradson D. (2007) Relations between stakeholders and shareholders: Processes of financialisation in the New Zealand residential aged care sector. London, UK: Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), 29-31 Aug 2007.
  • Conradson D. (2007) Shifting landscapes of residential aged care: Privatisation and internationalisation in New Zealand. Bonn, Germany: XIIth International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS), 9-13 Jul 2007.
  • Conradson D. (2007) The therapeutic value of stillness: Places of retreat in contemporary Britain. Bonn, Germany: XIIth International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS), 9-13 Jul 2007.
  • Conradson D. (2006) Making space for stillness: Contemporary work-life balance and productive non-activity. London, UK: Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), 29 Aug-1 Sep 2006.
  • Conradson D. (2006) Tensions in the business of care: Faith-based welfare provision in neoliberal times. Exeter, UK: Emerging Geographies of Belief, 14-15 Sep 2006.
  • Conradson D. (2006) The affective economy of stillness: Mobility, emotion and rest. Queen's University, Ontario, Canada: 2nd International Emotional Geographies Conference, 25-27 May 2006.
  • Conradson D. (2005) Embodied encounters with the natural world: Affect, resonance and recollection. London, UK: Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), 1 Sep 2005.
  • Conradson D. (2005) Friendship, mobility and feeling: transnational networks of connection. Denver, CO, USA: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG 2005), 5 Apr 2005.
  • Conradson D. and Latham A. (2005) Professionals and backpackers in a global city. King's College, London, UK: The Australian Diaspora in Britain since 1901: An Exploration, 29 Sep 2005.
  • Conradson D. (2004) Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city: Antipodean transmigrants in London. Adelaide, Australia: Annual Conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers, 1 Apr 2004.
  • Conradson D. (2004) Landscape, care and emergent selfhood: experiences of a therapeutic environment. Adelaide, Australia: Annual Conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers, 1 Apr 2004.
  • Conradson D. and Cronje F. (2004) Globalising South Africa: transnational mobility, social networks and cultural identity. Bloemfontein, South Africa: Annual Conference of the South African Sociological Association, 18 Jun 2004.
  • Conradson D. (2003) Being moved to think and feel differently: the case of a residential retreat centre. Manchester, UK: International Medical Geography Symposium, 14 Jul 2003.
  • Conradson D. and Latham A. (2003) Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city: antipodean transmigrants in London. London, UK: Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, 1 Sep 2003.
  • Conradson D. (2002) Spaces of respite: the place of retreat centres. Lancaster, UK: 1st Emotional Geographies conference, 23 Sep 2002.
  • Conradson D. (2002) Theorising middling transnationalism: global cities, international migration and performing national identity. Los Angeles, CA, USA: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 20 Mar 2002.
  • Conradson D. (2001) Performing the contours of voluntary welfare space. Southampton, UK: Making Place: Performance, Practice, Space research symposium, 21 Sep 2001.
  • Conradson D. (2000) Producing voluntary welfare spaces: deformation, resistance and distinctiveness. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 4 Apr 2000.
Oral Presentations
  • Dombroski K., Conradson D., Diprose G., Healy S. and Watkins A. (2018) Cultivating Urban Commons for Youth Wellbeing. Jahngirnagar University, Bangladesh: Jahangirnagar University Department of Planning Seminar Series, 18 Apr 2018.
  • Dombroski KF., Healy S., Diprose G. and Conradson D. (2018) From Homo Economicus to Homines Curans: Cultivating Commoners in an Urban Farm. Royal Society Te Aparangi, Wellington: Towards Sustainability Transitions in the Anthropocene: beyond behaviour change, 06 Aug 2018.
  • Conradson DJ. (2017) Envisioning geographical education as transformative practice: reflections from a post-disaster city. School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK: 11 Oct 2017.
  • Conradson DJ. (2017) Geographical education in the present moment: what space should we give to the cultivation of relational intelligence? School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle on Tyne, UK: 19 Oct 2017.
  • Conradson DJ. (2017) Geographical education: what place might we give to the cultivation of ethical-relational intelligence? Geography, University of Exeter, UK: 26 Oct 2017.
  • Conradson DJ. (2017) Reflections on contemporary geographical education. Department of Geography, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT: 03 Oct 2017.
  • Conradson DJ. (2017) The uneasy co-existence of hope and despair: affect and materiality in a post-disaster city. Geography, University of Exeter, UK: 26 Oct 2017.
  • Britt E., Carter J., Conradson D., Scott A., Vargo J. and Moss H. (2013) Resilience Framework and Guidelines for Practice. Christchurch, New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development Launch of the Resilience Framework, Ministry of Social Development and NGO meeting - Family and Community Services, Southern Team.
  • Britt E., Carter J., Conradson D., Scott A., Vargo J. and Moss H. (2013) Resilience Framework and Guidelines for Practice. Christchurch, New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development Launch of the Resilience Framework.
  • Conradson D. (2012) Moving stories: disruption and relocation in a post-quake city. Web-based seminar: NZ Geographical Society Postgraduate Network Seminar series.
  • Conradson D. (2012) Stories of Movement: Experiences of Disruption and Adjustment after the Christchurch earthquakes. University of Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne Natural Disaster Management Research Initiative seminar series.
Other
  • Conradson D. (2012) Smith, M., Davidson, J., Cameron, L. and Bondi, L. (eds) Emotion, Place, Culture. Social and Cultural Geography 13(7): 845-846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2012.728308. [Book review].
  • Conradson D. (2011) Review of Anderson, B. and Harrison, P. (eds) Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography. New Zealand Geographer 67(3): 229-231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.2011.01215_5.x.
  • Conradson D. (2009) "Non-representational theory. Space politics affect" by Nigel Thrift. Routledge, London, 2008. 325 pp. New Zealand Geographer 65(3): 238-240. [Book Review].
  • Conradson D. (2007) Thompson-Fawcett and Claire Freeman (eds), Living together: Towards inclusive communities. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2006; 240pp. New Zealand Geographer 63(2): 157-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.2007.00105.x. [Book Review].
  • Conradson D. (2004) Review of Dear, M. and Flusty, S. (eds) The Spaces of Postmodernity: Readings in Human Geography. Progress in Human Geography 28(4): 938-939.
  • Conradson D. (2000) Conradson, D. (2000) Review of Anderson, I. and Sim, D. (eds) Social Exclusion and Housing: Context and Challenges, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 27(6): 939-940. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 27(6): 939-940.

Student Supervision

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    Current
  • PhD - Best TF: Under Pressure: The Construction of Stress in Machine Operators in the Forest Industry of Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Completed
  • PhD - Banwell KA: Planning for resilient communities (and every other day): learning from the Canterbury 2010-2012 earthquake sequence (2017)
  • PhD - Buckingham H: Accommodating change? : an investigation of the impacts of government contracting processes on third sector providers of homelessness services in South East England (2010)
  • PhD - Doughty KSER: Walking and Well-being: Landscape, affect, rhythm (2011)
  • PhD - Fitt HM: The influences of social meanings on everyday transport practices (2016)
  • PhD - Frater J: Influences on cycling to school among teenagers: An investigation using the theory of planned behaviour and the prototype willingness model in Christchurch, New Zealand (2015)
  • PhD - Frater JM: Influences on Cycling to School Among Teenagers: An investigation using the theory of planned behaviour and the prototype willingness model in Christchurch, New Zealand (2016)
  • PhD - Frater JM: Influences on Cycling to School Among Teenagers: An investigation using the theory of planned behaviour and the prototype willingness model in Christchurch, New Zealand (2016)
  • PhD - Henley L: The Quantification and Visualisation of Human Flourishing (2015)
  • PhD - Sepie A: Tracing the Motherline: Earth Elders, Decolonising Worldview, and Planetary Futurity (2018)
  • PhD - Stevenson JR: Organisational Resilience after the Canterbury Earthquakes: A contextual approach (2014)
  • Masters - Abbari JA: Defending Starlight as a Cultural Resource: The use of environmental legislation in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2013)
  • Masters - Blackney R: Men's Experiences of Outdoor Recreation in New Zealand (2017)
  • Masters - Bosma KA: Young People's Emotional Experiences of Kaiapoi (2014)
  • Masters - Campbell KT: The Shaken Suburbs: The changing sense of home and creating a new home after a disaster (2014)
  • Masters - Connolly MJ: The Impacts of the Canterbury Earthquakes on Educational Inequalities and Achievement in Christchurch Secondary Schools (2013)
  • Masters - Dickinson SB: Post-disaster Mobilities: Exploring household relocation after the Canterbury earthquakes (2013)
  • Masters - Habte B: "Once You Move it's a Different Story": The Meaning of Home for 1.5 Generation Afghan Women of Refugee Background Living in Christchurch, New Zealand (2017)
  • Masters - Valentine SM: Public Health Service Rationing For Elective Surgery In New Zealand: 2004 -2007 (2011)
  • Honours - Bosma KA: Disruption to home, community and ontological security (2012)
  • Honours - Dickinson SB: Social Connectedness and Community Well-Being (2012)
  • Honours - Fong S: Assessing Greenspace and Mental Health in Hagley Park, Christchurch (2016)
  • Honours - Nash DAS: Water-Use Awareness among Christchurch Residents (2012)
  • Honours - Quaid L: Lived experience in greenfield developments: place attachment and well-being in residential suburbs (2016)
  • Honours - Worthington SL: Business relocation after the Canterbury earthquakes (2013)

Editorial Work

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  • New Zealand Geographer Managing Editor ( 2021 - 2023)
  • Social and Cultural Geography Editor ( 2013 - 2016)
  • Social and Cultural Geography Editorial Board Member ( 2009 - 2012)
  • Social and Cultural Geography Editorial Board Member ( 2017 - 2023)
  • Social Science and Medicine Editorial Board Member ( 2009 - 2017)

Research Projects

  • City of Flows: Household Water Practices in Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Stories of Movement: Experiences of disruption and adjustment in post quake city

Key Methodologies

  • Interviews and focus groups
  • Social surveys/questionnaires
  • Participant observation
  • Ethnography
  • Use of secondary data (e.g. census information)
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