Lecturer in Creative Writing
Overview
Dr Tom Doig is an award-winning creative non-fiction author, investigative journalist and scholar. He has written two books about the unprecedented 2014 Hazelwood mine fire disaster: Hazelwood (Penguin Random House, 2020) and The Coal Face (Penguin Books Australia, 2015). Hazelwood was a finalist for the 2020 Walkley Book Award, Journalism and the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards, Best True Crime and Highly Commended in the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Non-Fiction. The Coal Face was joint winner of the 2015 Oral History Victoria Education Innovation Award. Dr Doig has also written a humorous travel memoir, Mörön to Mörön: Two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure (Allen & Unwin, 2013). He is the contributing editor of the interdisciplinary collection Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books, 2020).
Dr Doig teaches creative non-fiction and poetry.
As a scholar, Dr Doig is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the accelerating climate crisis, with a focus on the cultural, social and psychological aspects of climate breakdown. He is currently researching a new book: We Are All Preppers Now (forthcoming with Scribe Publications), documenting survivalists, doomsday preppers, climate activists and other subcultures of imminent collapse around the world.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
- Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing, University of Melbourne
- Bachelor of English Literature (Honours), University of Melbourne
- Master of Creative Writing, University of Melbourne
Publications
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Other Outputs: The preppers next door
Doig, Tom (2022). The preppers next door. New Zealand : New Zealand Geographic.
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Book: Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa
Doig, Tom ed. (2020). Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books. doi: 10.7810/9781988587530
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Other Outputs: Hazelwood
Doig, Tom (2019). Hazelwood. Melbourne, Australia: Penguin Random House Australia.
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Other Outputs: The coal face
Doig, Tom (2015). The coal face. North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Penguin Books Australia.
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Other Outputs: Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure
Doig, Tom (2013). Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure. Crow Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Supervision
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Chasing the Light
Doctor Philosophy
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Cognitive conversations between creative practitioners and the FND community
Doctor Philosophy
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"The Problem of Living"; and "Sense and Insensibility: Pain, Trauma and the Limits of First-Person Narrative in Creative Non-Fiction"
Master Philosophy
Publications
Featured Publications
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Doig, Tom (2022). The preppers next door. New Zealand : New Zealand Geographic.
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Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa
Doig, Tom ed. (2020). Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books. doi: 10.7810/9781988587530
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Doig, Tom (2019). Hazelwood. Melbourne, Australia: Penguin Random House Australia.
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Doig, Tom (2015). The coal face. North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Penguin Books Australia.
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Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure
Doig, Tom (2013). Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure. Crow Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Book
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Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa
Doig, Tom ed. (2020). Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books. doi: 10.7810/9781988587530
Book Chapter
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Horrocks, Ingrid and Doig, Tom (2022). Writing the climate crisis. Tū Rangaranga: rights, responsibilities and global citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 161-179) edited by Sharon McLennan, Margaret Forster, Rand Hazou, David Littlewood and Carol Neill. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.
Journal Article
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Doig, Tom (2017). 'Global Warming is a headf**k': using cultural journalism and oral history to engage with the lived experiences of climate change. Swamphen, 6, 39-50.
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Doig, Tom (2016). When Jobs Leave Town. Big Issue Australia, 521, 30-33. doi: 10.3316/ielapa.354975179665565
Conference Publication
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Murray, Linda, Breheny, Mary, Doig, Tom , Mooney, Maureen, Erueti, Bevan, Severinsen, Christina and Shanley, James (2022). Witnessing the climate crisis and children’s mental health: a framing analysis of international news media from 2019-2021. Population Health Congress, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 21-23 September 2022.
Other Outputs
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Doig, Tom (2022). 'Dear Valued Guest,'. Stride Magazine (http://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/): Stride Magazine (Rupert Loydell).
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Doig, Tom (2022). The preppers next door. New Zealand : New Zealand Geographic.
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Doomsday bunkers, Mars and ‘The Mindset’: the tech bros trying to outsmart the end of the world
Doig, Tom (2022, 10 04). Doomsday bunkers, Mars and ‘The Mindset’: the tech bros trying to outsmart the end of the world The Conversation
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Doig, Tom (2022). Living Underwater in Brisbane. Auckland, New Zealand: The Spinoff.
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John Summers: ink stained from the beginning
Doig, Tom (2021, 07 20). John Summers: ink stained from the beginning The Spinoff
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Castro, Isabel, Gibb, Gillian, Undin, Malin and Doig, Tom (2021, 05 13). Despite major conservation efforts, populations of New Zealand’s iconic kiwi are more vulnerable than people realise The Conversation
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Doig, Tom (2021). The Domestication of Disaster. Literary Journalism: The newsletter of the IALJS, 15 (1), 9-10.
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Tom Doig (2019). something very old. Cordite Poetry Journal: Cordite Poetry Journal.
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Tom Doig (2019). Sweet and Sour Pork Lover. Dear Canoe: The Slow Canoe Press.
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Doig, Tom (2019). Hazelwood. Melbourne, Australia: Penguin Random House Australia.
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The Animal Road: Ecotourism in Southwest Cambodia
Doig, Tom (2018). The Animal Road: Ecotourism in Southwest Cambodia. Perth, Scotland: Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
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Doig, Tom (2015). The coal face. North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Penguin Books Australia.
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Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure
Doig, Tom (2013). Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure. Crow Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
PhD and MPhil Supervision
Current Supervision
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Chasing the Light
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Cognitive conversations between creative practitioners and the FND community
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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"The Problem of Living"; and "Sense and Insensibility: Pain, Trauma and the Limits of First-Person Narrative in Creative Non-Fiction"
Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Metamorphosis: Where Fact Becomes Fiction
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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Narrative Techniques in Concept Albums
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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The Realness of Unreal Things
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
