BA (Hons) (Dublin), H.Dip.Edu (Dublin), PhD (Human Geography) (Dublin)
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Human geography
2016
My main interests are in the critical study of urban governance, its changing geographies, practices and politics. My work unpacks the emergence of new alliances, territories, sites and practices of urban governance over diverse domains (from private neighbourhoods, to urban regeneration, to carbon reduction and energy) and the differential implications for urban places, communities and power. I am increasingly interested in critically exploring the processes and practices involved in making 'smart cities' in Australia and how this might change cities and their governance.
Co-Editor, Progress in Human Geography (Sage) 2015-
Professor, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, The University of Wollongong (UOW), 2016
Professor (appointed), Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Newcastle, 2007
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Newcastle, 2005
Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, The University of Newcastle, 1999
Lecturer, Department of Geography, The University of Newcastle, 1993
Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers
Fellow, Geographical Society of NSW
Visiting Professor, Maynooth University 2014
Visiting Fellow, Durham University, 2003
McGuirk PM, Mee K, Ruming R, (2016) Assembling urban regeneration? Resourcing critical
generative accounts of urban regeneration through assemblage thinking, Geography
Compass 10, 3
McGuirk PM, Bulkeley H, Dowling R, (2015) Configuring carbon governance in the city: insights from
Sydney, Australia, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 106, 145-166
McGuirk PM, Dowling R and Bulkeley H, (2014) Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency
and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes, Urban Studies, 51, 2717-2734
McGuirk PM, Bulkeley H and Dowling R, (2014) Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon
governance: perspectives from the Australian city, Geoforum, 52, 137–147,
McGuirk PM, (2012) Geographies of urban politics:pathways, intersections, intentions, Geographical Research, 50, 256–268