Elaine Stratford

Elaine Stratford is an Australian cultural and political geographer, academic, and author. She is a professor of geography in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences in the College of Sciences and Engineering at the University of Tasmania. Stratford's work has focused on how people think about flourishing and languishing in place and on the move over the life-course in both historical and contemporary settings. Stratford is a Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers from whom, in 2021, she received the highest award, the Griffith Taylor Medal, for her contributions to geography in Australia. She is also a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers. Education Stratford completed her undergraduate education at Flinders University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Visual Arts in 1984, followed by a Degree in Geography in 1986. She pursued her doctoral research in Environmental Studies at the Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies at The University of Adelaide from 1992 to 1995. In 2010, she completed a Master of Tertiary Education Management at the LH Martin Institute at The University of Melbourne, and her minor dissertation was on the role of university heads of departments.