Rebecca Huntley

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Rebecca Huntley is an Australian author and researcher on social trends. She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in gender studies.

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For nearly nine years Huntley was the Director of The Mind & Mood Report, Australia's longest-running social trends report. She led research at Essential Media Communications and Vox Populi, part of the CIRCA research group, before starting her own research and consultancy business. She works closely with The Sunrise Movement on the Climate Compass Project as well as with many other climate and environment NGOs, and regularly features on radio and TV.

Early life and education

Huntley was born to her mother, schoolteacher Marisa Crawford, and her father, lawyer James Crawford, in Oxford, England. Until her early teenage years, she moved frequently between Adelaide, Sydney, Cambridge and Oxford.

Huntley attended secondary education at Sydney Girls High School, before studying law at the University of New South Wales, spending one year of her degree at the University of British Columbia. She also attained an honours degree in film studies, writing her thesis on the political debate around the un-banning of Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial film Salo .

From 1997 to 2002, Huntley studied at the University of Sydney to obtain a PhD in Gender Studies, exploring the campaign for the women’s vote and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) campaign in the 1983 and 1993 federal elections.

Career

Huntley worked briefly in legal publishing before she attended the University of Sydney to obtain her PhD. During this period, she worked with several federal politicians in the ALP, acting as an active member of the National Committee of EMILY’s List Australia and the ALP’s federal policy committee. Simultaneously, she worked as an academic, teaching public law, film studies, politics and communication part-time. Huntley left the ALP in 2006, saying that she wished to be politically neutral in her research. Huntley is a committed republican and worked for the YES campaign during the 1999 Australian republic referendum.

Under her own climate research and consultancy business, Huntley published a report for Aware Super in early 2021 outlining how Australia can recover from the COVID-19 pandemic by focussing on the intersections of climate action, health and wellbeing and thriving communities. Huntley is the author of numerous books including How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference (Murdoch books, 2020), Still Lucky: why you should feel optimistic about Australia and its people (Penguin, 2017) and Australia Fair: Listen to the Nation, the first Quarterly Essay for 2019. She authored her first book, The World According to Y: Inside the New Adult Generation (2006) while working in politics and publishing. She was the director of The Mind & Mood Report at Ipsos Australia, a market research firm, from 2006 to 2015. Huntley worked as the director of research at Essential Media and was a principal at Vox Populi Research.[ citation needed ].

In 2006, Huntley gave the National Republican Lecture in Canberra with a talk entitled Trust Matters: Politics, Trust and the Republican Cause. In 2013, she appeared at TEDxSydney, talking about truth in social research. She has delivered The John Button Oration (2015) at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and the MSSI Oration at the University of Melbourne (2019). In 2017, Huntley hosted a panel discussion on the present and future of the nation for the Brisbane Writers Festival at the State Library of Queensland.

Huntley writes occasionally for The Guardian and co-presented the Guardian’s podcast Common Ground with Lenore Taylor in 2017. She has also written for numerous other publications including The Australian , The Sydney Morning Herald , Marie Claire and Griffith Review . She has been a regular columnist for Business Review Weekly and ABC Life and was a feature writer for Australian Vogue from 2004 to 2012.

Huntley was a broadcaster with the ABC Radio National and presented The History Listen and Drive on a Friday. In 2015 she co-hosted a weekly podcast called Just Between Us with journalist Sarah Macdonald. In 2016 Huntley produced and presented a podcast series for the digital radio station Kinderling, called Where Parents Fear to Tread. She has a regular spot on James Valentine's show on ABC's 702 called Research or Rubbish.

Huntley co-hosts with Sarah Macdonald a comedy storytelling night and podcast called The Full Catastrophe.[ when? ]The Full Catastrophe is also a book (Hardie Grant, May 2019).

She has been a regular guest at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and numerous writers' festivals across Australia. She has also appeared as a guest on many television shows including Q&A, Gruen Planet, Media Circus, The Drum, Meet the Press, The Observer Effect, Paul Murray Live, ABC’s News 24 and One Plus One.[ citation needed ]

Huntley has researched the social and political dimensions of food and cooking throughout her career and has published on these topics in books and articles. She has written and presented two episodes of RN’s Future Tense, on climate change and food and ageing and food. She presented at MAD Syd in 2017 with Rene Redzepi and David Chang, and is on the Advisory Group of MAD Sydney. Huntley has also written a children’s book, Nonna’s Gnocchi, celebrating the joy of grandparents cooking with their children.

Huntley is on the board of the Bell Shakespeare Company and on the Executive Board of the NSW branch of the Australian Labor Party. She is the Chair of the Advisory Board of Australian Parents for Climate Action and has held board positions on the Whitlam Institute and Dusseldorp Forum. Huntley was a member of the UNSW Arts and Social Sciences Advisory Committee. In 2016 she was appointed as an adjunct senior lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at University of New South Wales.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Huntley, Rebecca (2006). The World According to Y: Inside the New Adult Generation. Allen & Unwin.
  2. ↑ Huntley, Rebecca (2008). Eating Between the Lines: Food and Equality in Australia. Black Inc.
  3. ↑ Huntley, Rebecca (2012). The Italian Girl. UQ Press.
  4. ↑ Huntley, Rebecca (2014). Nonna's Gnocchi. Little People Publishing.
  5. ↑ Huntley, Rebecca (17 September 2018). "Australia Fair". Quarterly Essay. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
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