Tom Doig
School of Communication and Arts
Areas of research & interest:
- Behaviour change
- Climate change
- Communications
- Communities & society
- Education
- Environment
- Agriculture & environment
- Communities in transition
- Nature based solutions
BIO
Dr Tom Doig is a creative nonfiction author, investigative journalist and scholar. Dr Doig teaches creative non-fiction and poetry. Tom was the recipient of the 2023 CLNZ-NZSA Writer's Award for his work on prepper subcultures in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has written two books about the unprecedented 2014 Hazelwood mine fire disaster: Hazelwood (Penguin Random House, 2020) and The Coal Face (Penguin Books Australia, 2015). He is the contributing editor of the interdisciplinary collection Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books, 2020).
As a scholar, Dr Doig is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the accelerating climate crisis, with a focus on the cultural, social and psychological aspects of climate breakdown. He is currently researching a new book: We Are All Preppers Now (forthcoming with Scribe Publications), documenting survivalists, doomsday preppers, climate activists and other subcultures of imminent collapse around the world.
