Rate My Professor Natalie Osborne

Natalie Osborne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University, specializing in urban and environmental planning. She teaches primarily in the Urban and Environmental Planning program at the Nathan Campus. Osborne holds a Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning (Honours), a PhD earned through the Urban Research Program at Griffith University, a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, and additional qualifications including a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Practice. Her academic career at Griffith University has progressed from PhD candidature to lecturer and now senior lecturer positions, with affiliations in the former School of Environment and Science before transitioning to the current school.

Osborne's research focuses on critical human geography, emotional geographies, radical spatial theory, social justice, spatial politics, urban planning, and environmental justice. Her work addresses pressing issues such as collective care and climate repair, water colonialism and Indigenous water justice in south-eastern Australia, intersectionality and power structures in planning, infrastructural frictions in multispecies smart cities, and the politics of failure for politically depressed urban contexts. Key publications include 'Intersectionality and kyriarchy: A framework for approaching power in planning and urban development' (2015, Planning Theory), 'In-depth interviewing' (2021, chapter with Deanna Grant-Smith), 'Water colonialism and Indigenous water justice in south-eastern Australia' (2022, International Journal of Water Resources Development), 'Collective care and climate repair' (2023, Dialogues in Human Geography), 'Against a nation state of emergency: how climate emergency politics can undermine climate justice' (2023, Urban History), and contributions to 'Stories of Place' (2024, Springer). She has co-authored works on the green ceiling for natural resource management careers, everyday sexism in universities, and housing adaptation in disasters. Osborne contributes to professional activities including podcast production on urban issues like 'The City Under COVID-19', symposium co-organization, media collaborations, and research networks on gender equality and disaster management. Her scholarship influences debates on multispecies sustainability, abolitionist geographical research, and feminist anti-colonial planning approaches.