The lead investigator on the project is Dr Tom Doig, working alongside AustLit Content Manager Dr Catriona Mills, and Director of AustLit Associate Professor Maggie Nolan. University of Queensland student Andrew Millar provided research assistance on the project as an AustLit summer intern.
Dr Tom Doig: Lead Investigator
Dr Tom Doig is a creative nonfiction author, investigative journalist and scholar. Tom was the recipient of the 2023 CLNZ-NZSA Writer's Award for his work on prepper subcultures in Aotearoa New Zealand. 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.
Andrew Millar: Research Assistant
Andrew Millar is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts at The University of Queensland with an extended major in English Literature and a minor in Philosophy. He has worked with AustLit previously on the Australian Writing and Rock Music project as an intern. He is also an aspiring writer whose poetry and essays can be found in Meanjin, Jacaranda Journal, and Exordium.
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