Assoc Professor Anitra Nelson
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Position |
Senior Associate |
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School / |
Global, Urban and Social Studies |
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Contact Details |
+(61 3) 9925 2272 |
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Location |
Building: 15 |
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College/Portfolio |
Design & Social Context |
- Profile
- Research
- Publications
Key activities
Associate Professor Anitra Nelson is a researcher in the RMIT-AHURI Research Centre. Her research interests focus on community-based sustainability, sharing economies, marginal rental housing, mortgage default, housing affordability and environmental sustainability. Anitra teaches and evaluates community-based environmental programs, and is an editor, writer and filmmaker.
Anitra has over 100 works in academic, creative writing and journalistic publications. She edited Steering Sustainability: Policy, Practice and Performance in an Urbanizing World (2007, Ashgate, London); her doctoral thesis Marx’s Concept of Money: The God of Commodities was published by Routledge (London, 1999), and Pluto Press (London) published a collection she co-edited with Frans Timmerman, Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies late in 2011.
Qualifications
- PhD Humanities, La Trobe University, 1996
- BA (Hons, History), La Trobe University, 1979
- Advanced Dip of Professional Screen Writing (Film, TV and Digital Media), RMIT University, 2001
- Certificate IV Assessment and Workplace Training, 2005
Professional interests
- Housing experiences, provision and stakeholders, especially associated with marginal rental housing, mortgages, affordability and financial literacy.
- Evaluation of community-based environmental projects and programs. Clients have included Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and Village Well.
- Radical perspectives on money and credit: Full member of the International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE) and the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA).
- Academic editor: professional member of the Society of Editors (NSW).
- Full member of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP).
Accomplishments
Visiting Scholar (March – May 2012) at New School University (Economics Department, New School for Social Research).
Anitra’s short film Mercury Stole my Fire (2005) won an Honourable Mention at Canada’s international Picture This Film Festival (2006) and a Merit Award at the XXVII Superfest International Disability Film Festival (2007) and screened at London’s prestigious 8th International Disability Film Festival, 14–19 February 2008.
Anitra joined RMIT in 1998 on a special RMIT postdoctoral fellowship.
Media experience
Anitra is interviewed regularly and listed as an RMIT Media Expert.
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