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Glenn Albrecht is now the Professor of Sustainability at the ISTP at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Previously, as Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle, he was the head of the transdisciplinary Ecosystem Health Research Group.
Glenn's research has led to the creation and development of the new concepts of Solastalgia, Psychoterratic and Somaterratic Illness, and Soliphilia.
Glenn undertakes internationally relevant transdisciplinary research in the domain of ecosystem health and has also produced research papers/publications in environmental history, transdisciplinarity, sustainability, environmental politics and environmental/animal ethics. Glenn has a number of publications in international refereed journals and book chapters where the focus of his work has been complexity in relation to ethics and human and ecosystem health. In 2001, with Nick Higginbotham and Linda Connor, he produced a major international publication: Health Social Science: A Transdisciplinary and Complexity Perspective with Oxford University Press.
Glenn's current research projects include a collaborative study on the lived experience of climate change in the Hunter Region of NSW. Glenn has been involved in over A$1.2 million of successful research grants as a Chief Investigator since 2000. View a full list of University of Newcastle administered research grants.