Kaya Barry

Kaya Barry is a cultural geographer and artist working in the areas of mobilities, migration, tourism, material cultures, and creative arts. Her research explores how mobility and migration experiences are conditioned through materiality, everyday routines, and visual aesthetics. Her creative practice informs both the methods and focus of research, with a keen interest in how mobilities and geography intersect with creative, participatory and community-oriented engagement. Kaya is a Research Fellow and Senior Leturer at Griffith University, Australia. She was awarded an Australian Research Council – Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2022-25) for a project exploring the experiences of seasonal migrants in horticulture in regional Australia. Prior to this, Kaya was an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark (2021-2022).