A bit about me
I’m Timothy Neale, a pakeha (settler) academic from Aotearoa New Zealand living and working in Melbourne (Narrm), Australia. I am Associate Professor in Anthropology at Deakin University and a member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. I am also an Editor (2022-2028) of the journal Science, Technology, & Human Values. I was a Research Fellow at Western Sydney University’s Institute for Culture & Society from 2014 to 2016.
My current primary research projects examine landscape fires and their management in the context of climate change. Recently, this has included the Australian Research Council DECRA project Pyrosecurity: understanding and managing bushfires in a changing climate (2019-2022) and other projects funded by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre and Natural Hazards Research Australia that seek to support First Nations peoples’ engagements with natural hazards management.
I also have a few other roles apart from those mentioned above. From 2020-2023, I was the Convener of the Deakin Science and Society Network, an interdisciplinary initiative that supports science-literate social research and socially-engaged science. In 2018, I chaired the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne and have contributed to several committees including the Society for Social Studies of Science‘s council and conference committees. I also co-produce the podcasts Conversations in Anthropology and Technoscience.