Bhavna Middha

Bhavna is an environmental sociologist and a social practice theorist. Her main research area is sustainable consumption, which she has investigated through topics such as food, energy and waste.

Bhavna is an ARC DECRA fellow and as an environmental sociologist focuses her work on sustainable consumption in the context of food and waste using social practice theories. As a trained architect and urban and environmental planner, spatialities and just transitions have been important lenses and motivations in her work on sustainable consumption and most of her work is situated in and developed for urban contexts. Her DECRA project titled, “Tackling food-related single-use plastics in diverse consumption contexts” aims to investigate the uneven impacts of interventions that target consumers’ engagement with single-use food plastics by utilising critical social science approaches.

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Projects

Café Lab

2023 (ongoing)

Cafe Lab is a zero-waste food justice cafe that aims to support insecure Melburnians and contribute to building a sustainable and low carbon hospitality sector.

Publications

E-gentrification: Digital Community Engagement, Urban Change and Digital Rights to the City

In Citizen Participation in the Information Society Comparing Participatory Channels in Urban Development

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Participation and Influence in Urban Development: Does City E-Participation Strategy Matter?

Sissel Hovik, Sveinung Legard, Ian McShane, Bhavna Middha, Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud, José M. Ruano

In Citizen Participation in the Information Society Comparing Participatory Channels in Urban Development

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Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia

Nicola Willand, Bhavna Middha, Gordon Walker

Local Environment The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability

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