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Dr

Helena Bender

Lecturer (Environmental Social Sciences)
Ecosystem And Forest Sciences
Tertiary
Complexity science
Wildlife management
Secondary
Animal behaviour
Emergence
Sustainability
Sonic deterrence
Education in and for sustainability
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Dr

Helena Bender

 
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Science
 
Primary Interest
Education
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Helena's  Short Profile
 

Helena is a teaching specialist who is interested in the intersection between social and biophysical systems and the sustainability of the global ecosystem. She started her academic career as a behavioural ecologist interested in animal communication in marine contexts and in terrestrial environments, with an applied focus - how sound could be of use for managing over-abundant mammals like eastern grey kangaroos and grey headed flying foxes.

More recently, she has drawn on her experiences of working in an inter-disciplinary subject and team to reflect on the benefits and challenges of working across disciplinary divides. Helena draws on her teaching degree in primary and secondary education, and experience teaching environmental science, biology and mathematics at a secondary school in Gippsland in her teaching contributions in Reshaping Environments (ENVS10002), Contested Resources (EVSC20005), Human/Non-Human Encounters (SCIE20002), and Sustainability: Hope for the Earth?

Projects

Helena has led a successful grant to develop a database of sustainability-based experiences (SLED) which can be viewed on the Ecosystem and Forest Sciences tab at - https://fvas-ems.vet.unimelb.edu.au/index.html.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Helena Bender.

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Roadkill mitigation is paved with good intentions: a critique of Fox et al. (2019)

Graeme Coulson, Helena Bender

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Mammalogy

In a recent publication, Fox et al. (2019) described a three-year trial of a ‘virtual fence’ installed to reduce wildlife roadkill..

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Evaluation of a tertiary sustainability experiential learning program

Geoffrey R Browne, Helena Bender, James Bradley, Alexis Pang

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Purpose: This paper aims to describe the development, promotion and evaluation of sustainability learning experience database (SLE..

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Practices in social ecological research: Interdisciplinary collaboration in 'adaptive doing'

A Rawluk, R Beilin, H Bender, R Ford

Book  |  2019

Aimed at those at the forefront of social ecological thinking who are grappling with what this means in practice, this book presen..

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Caching or coating? An interesting behaviour by the Little Raven Corvus mellori in an urban setting

H Bender

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Victorian Naturalist

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Does sustainability emerge from between the scales?

Helena Bender, Kate Judith

Journal article  |  2015  |  Emergence: Complexity and Organization

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Working with complex issues in group situations

H BENDER, R Hadgraft

Book Chapter  |  2012

An interdisciplinary textbook that incorporates case material and theoretical tools for the Earth changers of today and tomorrow.

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Sustainability: a model for the future

Helena Bender, Kate Judith, Ruth Beilin

Book Chapter  |  2012

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Working with complex issues in group situations

Roger Hadgraft, Helena Bender

Book Chapter  |  2012

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Introduction: reshaping environments - an opportunity for envisioning the future

H Bender

Book Chapter  |  2012

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Interruption, interrogation, integration and interaction as process: How PNS informs interdisciplinary curriculum design

Ruth Beilin, Helena Bender

Journal article  |  2011  |  Futures

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Environmental Science and Management
Expanding Knowledge
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Non-Oriented Research
Other Environment
Ecology and Evolution
Learner and Learning
Computer Hardware and Electronic Equipment
Education Systems
Other Environmental Sciences

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2011

Citation for outstanding contributions to building graduate attributes: building knowledge across disciplines

Centre for the Study of Higher Education
2007

Citation for Gippsland Education Service

Australian Education College

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Positions

Lecturer (Environmental Social Sciences)

Ecosystem And Forest Sciences

Education

Education

ZOOLOGY

University of Melbourne

EDUCATION (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY)

Deakin University

SCIENCE

Trent University

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