Luca Mclean

I am a doctoral university student with extensive work experience across multiple jobs. As a scholar of agricultural anthropology, I have spent my full-time occupation reading, writing, and recently conducting qualitative interview research. However, my part-time work has always tended towards being practical, in-the-soil, or interacting directly with people. This work harmonises with years of full-time academic study, as it is the concrete and everyday arena where many of the ideas I study are manifest. In particular, I have spent over eight years employed at Auckland Firewood, working alongside high school and university and exhibiting my capacity for long-term commitment and dedication to my place of work. Alongside part-time work and academia, I practice syntropic and organic agriculture at my family farm in Northland to feed the local community.