I Research People,
Places &
Everyday Life
Dr Amelia Green researches people,
places and everyday life.
Amelia recently established and led a major project investigating how local communities and tourists experience Australian silo art, and the impact of these experiences on the wellbeing of visitors and residents.
She is passionate about understanding, facilitating and improving the everyday lives of local communities.
Amelia also specialises in innovative and rigorous research methods, data management, analytical processes, research software and other knowledge solutions to support best practice community engagement, evidence-based strategies, decision-making and policy.
Expertise in:
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Writing
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Social research
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Capacity building
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Evidencing impact
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Academic publishing
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Arts + Cultural strategy
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Place branding strategy
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Empowering and facilitating
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Art-based research methods
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Analytical and critical thinkng
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Relationships between art + place
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Qualitative + Quantitative methods
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Community engagement strategies
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Individual and community wellbeing
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Art + Tourism audience development
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Storytelling + Story-listening methods
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Contemporary rural and regional tourism
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Research software e.g. LimeSurvey, NVivo
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Community engagement evidence and data
Adjunct Research Fellow
Department of Marketing, Griffth University
Gold Coast campus, Australia
Silo art in Brim, by Guido van Helten - Image Karen Simpson (2019)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Many small towns undertake silo art projects to attract visitors to places they have never heard of, to create a lifeline for struggling local businesses and to revive community pride. Public and media discussion often emphasise tourist attraction and immediate local business stimulation as the primary outcomes of these projects for rural and regional towns, many of which are home to several hundred residents or less.
This report represents the first step in providing much needed empirical and critical investigation into the social and economic impacts of Australian silo art. Specifically, the aim of this research is to explore (1) how visitors and local communities experience silo art and (2) the impacts of silo art experiences of the well-being of visitors and communities.
Membership and Associations
IAP2 Australasia (International Association for Public Participation)
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
International Place Branding Association
Institute of Place Management
