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Assoc Prof Celmara Pocock

Assoc Prof Celmara Pocock
Name Celmara Pocock
Position Associate Professor (Anthropology and Australian Indigenous Studies) and Director (Centre for Herita
Section School of Arts & Communication
Office Q233
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1008
Extension 1008
Email
Qualifications BA(Hons) UWA , GCertEd JCU , PhD JCU
Homepage https://usq.academia.edu/CelmaraPocock
The views expressed on staff homepages may not reflect the views of the University.

Fields of Research (FoR)

  • Tourism not elsewhere classified ( 150699 )
  • Anthropology not elsewhere classified ( 160199 )
  • Historical Studies ( 210300 )
  • Heritage and Cultural Conservation ( 210202 )
  • Curatorial and Related Studies ( 210200 )
  • History and Archaeology ( 210000 )
  • Social and Cultural Anthropology ( 160104 )
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History ( 210301 )
  • Museum Studies ( 210204 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 200200 )

Research interests
cultural heritage, environment, anthropology, conservation, museum studies, Australian history, memory, Great Barrier Reef, heritage tourism, tourism, Aboriginal history, Aboriginal heritage, Indigenous studies,

Professional memberships
Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society
Member of the Australian Historical Association
Member, Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Full Member, Australia ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)

Industry affiliations
Executive Committee Member, Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Chair, Communications Subcommittee, Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Member, Ipswich City Council Heritage Advisory Committee

USQ Research affiliations

  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)

Currently teaching courses/programs
Anthropology
ANT1001 Introductory Anthropology
ANT2009 Heritage and Museum Studies
ANT3008 Food and Culture
HMT4001 - Honours Dissertation A
HMT4002 - Honours Dissertation B
Research Supervision - Honours and PhD

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
8 Years

Teaching experience(Other)
3 Years

Administrative responsibilities
ReDTrain Management Committee
Deputy Leader, Community Futures, Institute for Resilient Regions
eLearning Design Reference Group Faculty Representative

Research most recent
Mate, G., & Pocock, C. (2017). A disconnected journey. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 1-16. doi:10.1080/13527258.2017.1378902

Palmer, J., Pocock, C., & Burton, L. (2017). Waiting, power and time in ethnographic and community-based research. Qualitative Research, 1468794117728413.

Pocock, C 2017, 'Reading Indigeneity Without Race: Colour, Representation and Uncertainty in Photographic Evidence', in C Hillerdal, et al. (eds), Archaeologies of ‘us’ and ‘them’ - debating the ethics and politics of ethnicity and indigeneity in archaeology and heritage discourse, Routledge, ch 10, pp. 140-58.


Research most notable
ARC Discovery Project 2014-2017: What could world heritage listing deliver for Indigenous people? The Australian experience in global context

USQ Strategic Research Fund: Transforming Regional Communities: Projetcs - Stanthorpe Wine and Heritage Tourism; Migrant Workers and Belonging; the Transformative Role of Farming; South West Indigenous Cultural Trail

Mulcock, Jane, Celmara Pocock and Yann Toussaint (eds) 2005. Special Issue 17: Australian Anthropologies of the Environment. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 16 (3).


Publications in ePrints

Mate, Geraldine and Pocock, Celmara (2018) A disconnected journey. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 24 (4). pp. 374-389. ISSN 1352-7258

Stell, Marion and Mate, Geraldine and Pocock, Celmara (2018) Better ways of seeing landscapes: the Queensland Historical Atlas. Queensland Review, 25 (2). pp. 267-285. ISSN 1321-8166

Pocock, Celmara and Jones, Sian (2018) Contesting the center. Heritage and Society, 10 (2). pp. 99-108. ISSN 2159-032X

Pocock, Celmara and Stell, Marion and Mate, Geraldine (2018) Raw emotion: the Living Memory module at three sites of practice. In: Emotion, affective practices, and the past in the present. Key Issues in Cultural Heritage. Taylor & Francis (Routledge), Abingdon, Oxon and New York, pp. 281-303. ISBN 978-0-815-37002-4

Palmer, Jane and Pocock, Celmara and Burton, Lorelle (2018) Waiting, power and time in ethnographic and community-based research. Qualitative Research, 18 (4). pp. 416-432. ISSN 1468-7941

View full listing in ePrints

Approved research supervisor in the area of:

  • Tourism not elsewhere classified ( 150699 )
  • Anthropology not elsewhere classified ( 160199 )
  • Heritage and Cultural Conservation ( 210202 )
  • Social and Cultural Anthropology ( 160104 )
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History ( 210301 )
  • Museum Studies ( 210204 )


Research topics