Rate My Professor Aneta Podkalicka

Aneta has collaborated with scholars and partners from not-for-profit, government, and commercial sectors on projects related to media and everyday life, social inclusion, consumption, and environmental sustainability. Her current research focuses on digital and automated technologies and work futures; thrift, secondhand, and circular economies; and environmental media. She serves as a chief investigator on the project 'Workers in transition through automation, digitalisation and robotisation of work' (2020–2025), involving international collaborators including Sarah Pink, Mark Andrejevic, and others. Aneta is co-author of the books Using Media for Social Innovation (Intellect, 2018, with Ellie Rennie) and Grand Designs: Consumer Markets and Home-Making (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, with Esther Milne and Jenny Kennedy). She also co-edited a cultural history of skiing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, with Philipp Strobl). Selected recent publications include: 'Communication and interaction in digitised workplaces: experiences of Australian retail workers' (Communication Research and Practice, 2025); 'Workers in transition: automating retail' (Monash University commissioned report, 2025, with Mark Andrejevic); 'House-sharing as a staged and mediated practice: representing self and home in Melbourne share-houses' (International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2024, with Meg Mundell); 'The craft of reuse: Making communities at charity second-hand shops' (chapter in Craft Communities, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, with Melisa Duque); and 'Popular Environmental Media in Australia: Reflections on Audience Engagement and Impact' (Media International Australia, 2024, with Daniel Nilsson and Simon Troon). Aneta has 45 research outputs listed on her Monash profile.