Robert Fagan

Biography

I am a human geographer researching in the areas of economic geography, urban and regional development and social theory. I was professor of human geography at Macquarie from 1994 and deputy director of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (CRSI) from its creation as a university centre at the end of 2005. I retired in January 2008 becoming emeritus professor of human geography. My research and teaching has focused on industrial, urban and regional change in developed countries including Australia, concentrating on regional and local impacts of globalisation. I am currently researching

Research Interest

I have worked as a consultant on regional and local impacts of global change for federal, state and local governments, trade unions, Australian Red Cross and various community groups. Growing up in Canberra I studied economics and geography at the Australian National University before undertaking doctoral research in their Research School of Pacific Studies on interactions between large corporations and governments in the first Australian mineral boom. I have worked on secondment for the NSW Department of Planning, as a research fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and as a visiting professor at the universities of Durham, Portsmouth, Sydney and the National University of Ireland, Galway. I currently hold an honorary professorial fellowship at the University of Western Sydney. I maintain an active involvement in the folk music scene and have presented concerts, workshops and radio programs on music dealing with mining and industrial change.