Rate My Professor Kaya Barry

Barry leads the Confronting Crisis program within the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and serves on the steering committee of the Australian Mobilities Network. Her ARC DECRA project (DE220100394) investigates the effects of unseasonable weather on migrant farm workers and produce in Queensland, informing public exhibitions such as Snapshots and Smiles: Queensland's Migrant Farm Workers in 2024 and a submission to the Australian Government's Review of Regional Migration Settings. Notable publications encompass Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and produce (2025, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers), The tourism-migration nexus: working holiday visa politics and repurposing tourists as temporary agricultural workers (2025, Tourism Geographies), Deep Weathered Jam: Creative Conversations with Geologic Time (2024), From tourists to essential workers: The multifaceted experiences of Pacific migrant farm workers in Australia (2024, Journal of Rural Studies), Challenges of creative collaboration in geographical research (2020, cultural geographies), and contributions to Creative Measures of the Anthropocene: Art, Mobilities, and the Anthropocene (2020). Her research influences discussions on policy, agriculture, and cultural geography through media contributions in The Conversation and South China Morning Post, alongside artistic practices in photography and participatory workshops.