An ex medical practitioner, her research focuses on lifestyle media, culture and consumption and grassroots green movements. Tania is a member of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT and has conducted a wide range of research from video ethnographic studies of backyard permaculture, household hard rubbish reuse and community engagement in environmental pollution and equity issues (for the EPA) to qualitative research with TV audiences and industry in South and East Asia. She is currently a chief investigator (with Yolande Strengers) on the three-year project ‘Work-life ecologies: lifestyle, sustainability, practices’, funded by RMIT’s Sustainable Urban Precincts Project.