Bill Skinner

Research Interests

Anthropology

Dr Bill Skinner

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr. Skinner is a social researcher with a doctorate in Anthropology. His PhD thesis engaged with themes of landscape, regional identity, space and place, dwelling, terroir, production and consumption in the McLaren Vale wine region of South Australia. He has also undertaken anthropological research on wine production in Hvar, Croatia.

Dr. Skinner is an early career researcher with a doctorate in Anthropology. His PhD thesis engaged with themes of landscape, regional identity, space and place, dwelling, terroir, production and consumption in the McLaren Vale wine region of South Australia. He has also undertaken anthropological research on wine production in Hvar, Croatia.

Presently, Dr Skinner is engaged as a postdoctoral researcher on the ARC Discovery project 'Hydrosocial Adapatations to Water Risk in Australian Agriculture'.

Date Position Institution name
2021 - ongoing Research Associate University of Adelaide
2013 - ongoing Sessional instructor University of Adelaide, Adelaide

Date Institution name Country Title
2011 - 2015 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia PhD (Anthropology)
2006 - 2007 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia Master of Arts (International Studies)

Year Citation
2024 Skinner, W., Bardsley, D., & Drew, G. (2024). Post-crisis risk management: water, community, and adaptation in a South Australian irrigation district. Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, 29(1), 10-1-10-12.
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2024 Bardsley, D. K., Winsborough, S., Skinner, W., & Drew, G. (2024). The governance of hydrosocial risk in peri‐urban South Australia. Geographical Research, 62(4), 553-568.
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2022 Skinner, W., Drew, G., & Bardsley, D. K. (2022). “Half a flood’s no good”: flooding, viticulture, and hydrosocial terroir in a South Australian wine region. Agriculture and Human Values, 40(2), 549-564.
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2022 Drew, G., Skinner, W., & Bardsley, D. K. (2022). The 'drive and talk' as ethnographic method. Anthropology Today, 38(3), 5-8.
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2022 Skinner, W., Bardsley, D., & Drew, G. (2022). Grape growers are adapting to climate shifts early - and their knowledge can help other farmers. The Conversation, (June 22), 1-4.
2021 Skinner, W. (2021). Making homemade wine, online. Ethnologie française, Vol. 51(3), 577-587.
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2020 Skinner, W. W. (2020). Wine, geology mapping and the value of place in McLaren Vale. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 31(1), 85-100.
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2020 Tually, S., Skinner, W., Faulkner, D., & Goodwin-Smith, I. (2020). (Re)building home and community within and through the social housing sector: lessons from a South Australian approach. Social Inclusion, 8(3), 88-101.
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2019 Skinner, W. W. (2019). ‘A gift from God’: autochthonous grapes and wine heritage on the island of Hvar, Croatia. Journal of Wine Research, 30(4), 294-311.
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2018 Skinner, W. (2018). Presence Through Absence: Phylloxera and the Viticultural Imagination in McLaren Vale, South Australia. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 19(3), 245-263.
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Year Citation
2022 Skinner, W. (2022). Making wine, making home. In S. Charters, M. Demossier, J. Dutton, G. Harding, J. Smith Maguire, D. Marks, & T. Unwin (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture (pp. 7 pages). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.
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2022 Skinner, W. (2022). Made to give away: Homemade wine and the gift. In P. Howland (Ed.), Wine and The Gift: From Production to Consumption (pp. 154-171). UK: Routledge.
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2020 Skinner, W. W. (2020). Liberty and order: wine and the South Australian project. In P. Howland, & J. Dutton (Eds.), Wine, Terroir, Utopia: Making New Worlds (pp. 58-74). Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2016 Skinner, W. (2016). Trust Your Senses: Growing wine and making place in McLaren Vale. In A. Dundon, & S. Hemer (Eds.), Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections (pp. 175-191). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
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Year Citation
2015 Skinner, W. W. (2015). Fermenting Place: wine production and terroir in McLaren Vale, South Australia. (PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide).

Dr. Skinner's PhD was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award. His work in Croatia was funded by a grant from Adelaide University's EU Centre for Global Affairs.

William is a sessional lecturer and academic tutor. He has taught a range of courses at undergraduate level, primarily in Anthropology but also in the disciplines of Geography, Sociology and Criminology.

Presently, he is course coordinator for ANTH 2057 - The Anthropology of Drinking: From Water To Wine, and ANTH 2042 - Consuming Passions.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 Co-Supervisor They Whine, I Wine - Identifying and Understanding a wine-mom habitus Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Janine Aujard

Date Role Membership Country
2016 - ongoing Member Australian Anthropological Society Australia

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