Meg Mundell
Dr Meg Mundell is an interdisciplinary researcher, novelist and journalist based in Melbourne. She is a casual Research Fellow at the HOME Research Hub at Deakin University, a multidisciplinary team of researchers focused on housing, homelessness and social inclusion, and an independent research consultant to the tertiary, government and not-for-profit sectors.
Meg's research interests span place, urban space, homelessness, spatial justice, nature, human geography, narrative, tactical urbanism, industrial ruins, social history and environmental psychology.
Meg's research interests span place, urban space, homelessness, spatial justice, nature, human geography, narrative, tactical urbanism, industrial ruins, social history and environmental psychology.
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What's behind his sudden change of heart? Signs point to intense pressure from senior police, disgruntled city traders and tabloid media, who've been vocal about Melbourne's visible homelessness problem.
Sound raises questions about personal space, relative rights, and how we live with others. But the real discord stems from sound's rowdier cousin, noise. Tricky to define, ignore or regulate, noise is an emotionally charged topic. Add high-density apartment living, leaf blowers and Celine Dion ringtones, and it's no wonder noise has spawned lawsuits and murder trials.
More than half a century later, it is worth considering how Orwell's fictional prediction weighs up against reality. If Big Brother's gaze dominated that imagined future, who's watching over us now?
Opinion piece published in The Age (print and online) and Sydney Morning Herald (online only), 23/24 August 2016.
The Trespassers is a beguiling novel that explores the consequences of greed, the experiences of migration and exile, and the way strangers can become the ones we hold dear.
Winner, 2020 Davitt Award: Best Crime Novel
Shortlisted, 2020 Voss Literary Prize
Shortlisted, 2020 Australis Award: Best Science Fiction Novel
Shortlisted, 2020 Norma K Hemming Award: Long Work
The girls had always imagined that beyond the remote regions lay another, brighter world: glamorous, promising, full of luck. But as each soon discovers, if you arrive there broke, homeless, and alone, the city is a dangerous place — a place where commerce and surveillance rule, and undocumented people like themselves are confined to life’s shady margins. Now Tally and Grace must struggle to find each other — or just to survive.
Narrated by a cast of unforgettable characters, Black Glass is the work of an exceptional new talent.
A young woman with a grudge finds a discarded weapon...
A hunt for sunken treasure brings two scuba divers to the brink of tragedy.
Drawing us into worlds both surreal and familiar, Things I Did for Money comprises eight stories by Meg Mundell, author of the acclaimed novel Black Glass.
By turns unsettling, wry and moving, these stories explore the shadowy side of everyday life. The diverse characters in this collection share the struggles we must all confront: coming to terms with the past; reconciling our dreams with reality; and navigating the difficult, often murky terrain of human relationships.
Richly imagined and deeply empathetic, Things I Did for Money establishes Meg Mundell at the forefront of contemporary writing.
Citation: Mundell, Meg (2020). "The Burning World." In: "Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices From Aotearoa", editor Tom Doig, Bridget Williams Books.
Link: https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/living-climate-crisis/
Thomas, J, Barraket, J, Ewing, S, MacDonald, T, Mundell, M & Tucker, J 2016, Measuring Australia’s Digital Divide: The Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2016, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, for Telstra.