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Email

david.bissell@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor of Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Education
PhD
Durham University
Masters (Coursework & Research)
Durham University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Cambridge
ORCID

0000-0003-0964-186X

Prof David Bissell

Professor of Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

114 Scholarly works
6 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Mobile work
    DOI: 10.4337/9781800888180.00161
  • 2026

    Journal article

    The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism
    DOI: 10.1177/02637758231205105
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Microcultural Geographies: Navigating Awkwardness in the Postpandemic Workplace
    DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2025.2552944
  • 2026

    Journal article

    When heat distorts reality: sunstroke, hallucination and the affective politics of distortion
    DOI: 10.1177/14744740261460035
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Equitable Reskilling for the Future of Work
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Mobilities of Displacement in Australia's Private Rental Housing Crisis
  • 2017

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    How Digital on-Demand Mobile Work Is Transforming Australian Cities
David Bissell

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2023
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Scenes of detachment: Reconfiguring attachments to work
    DOI: 10.1177/23996544261459095
  • 2026

    Journal article

    The affects of pushing: Chronic illness, remote work, and crip epistemology
    DOI: 10.1177/02637758261455439
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Embodying non-places: The drag of the human in a time of cognitive convenience
    DOI: 10.1177/20438206261424529
  • 2025

    Journal article

    What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home
    DOI: 10.1111/tran.70000
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Feeling out of it: Displacement, disengagement and dispossession in experiences of brain fog
    DOI: 10.1177/20438206251321091
  • 2024

    Journal article

    What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses
    DOI: 10.1177/03091325231213513

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2022

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    How the Digital Remote Working Revolution Is Transforming Australian Homes
  • 2017

    Research grants (other domestic)

    How Digital on-Demand Mobile Work Is Transforming Australian Cities

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