Andrew Gorman-Murray is Professor of Geography and Discipline Leader of Geography. He is a social and cultural geographer and planner.

Andrew was named as Australia's leading researcher in Gender Studies in The Australian's Top 250 Researchers 2021.

Andrew is interested in how place shapes wellbeing, and thus in understanding and improving people's experiences of the spaces in which they live, work, play and navigate, including public spaces and facilities, residential environments, neighbourhoods, workplaces and transit routes. His research agenda is geographies of justice, encompassing two main areas: (1) gender, sexuality and space; and (2) home, work and mobility. Within these areas he has investigated the spatial experiences of LGBTQIA+ people, men, women, workers and their families, and other groups at the various intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, disability, age and religion. Their work has traversed a wide range of spatial contexts, including houses, suburbs, inner cities, country towns, national imaginaries and disasterscapes. They use qualitative, quantitative and visual approaches.

Andrew has been a Chief Investigator on multiple Australian Research Council Discovery Projects: 

• Men on the home front: spatialities of domesticity and masculinity (DP0986666, 2009-2011)
• Queering disasters in the Antipodes: investigating the experiences of LGBTI people in natural disasters (DP130102658, 2013-15, with Professor Dale Dominey-Howes, University of Sydney)
• Living apart together: how mobile work is transforming Australian homes (DP160103771, 2016-18, with Professor David Bissell, Dr Elizabeth Straughan, University of Melbourne)
• How the digital remote working revolution is transforming Australian homes (DP220102908, 2022-24, with Professor David Bissell, Dr Elizabeth Straughan, University of Melbourne)
• Addressing the opportunities and risks of HIV elimination in Australia (DP250100183, 2025-2027, with Dr Dean Murphy, La Trobe University; Professor Kane Race, University of Sydney; A/Professor Edwina Wright, Burnet Institute; Dr John Rule, NAPWHA)

Andrew has published several edited collections:

• Material Geographies of Household Sustainability (2011, Ashgate, with A/Professor Ruth Lane, Monash University)
• Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography (2013, Lexington, with Professor Barbara Pini, Griffith University, and A/Professor Lia Bryant, University of South Australia)
• Masculinities and Place (2014, Ashgate, with Professor Peter Hopkins, University of Newcastle, UK)
• Queering the Interior (2018, Bloomsbury, with Professor Matt Cook, Birkbeck College London)
• The Geographies of Digital Sexuality (2019, Palgrave Macmillan, with Professor Catherine J Nash, Brock University)

Andrew's international editorial roles include:

• Editorial Board, Sustainability
• Editorial Board, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
• International Advisory Board, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies
• Editorial Board, Writing from Below
• Editorial Board, Revista Latinoamericana de Geografia e Gênero