Donna James

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Dr Donna James is a Lecturer in Heritage and Tourism Studies and Co-Director of the Mobilities Research Cluster within the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. Her research explores precarious labour, temporary migration, tourism and digital technologies.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer Heritage and Tourism, Western Sydney University

Education

  • 2023 
    Western Sydney University, PhD
  • 2018 
    Western Sydney University, Master of Research

Publications

  • 2026
    James, D. (2026). Women working holiday makers and sexual harassment in Australia: accounting for spatially-embedded rural masculinities. Australian Geographer, 57(1), 97–112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2026.2655438,
  • 2026
    James, D., and A. Kamp. 2026. “ Intensified Manufactured Non-Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Australian Journal of Social Issues 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70127.,
  • 2026
    Kantek, J., James, D., Arachchi, T. M., & Goggin, G. (2026). ‘Getting by with AI’: international students’ everyday use of Generative Artificial Intelligence as shadow care. Communication Research and Practice, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2026.2721183,
  • 2025
    James, D., Kurniasari, K. K., & Condie, J. (2025). Tinder and tourist intimacy: women’s digital encounters with tourists in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Tourism Geographies, 27(8), 1680–1699. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2582657,
  • 2024
    James, D. (2024). Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability. Tourism Geographies, 26(7), 1053–1071. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2366488,

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