My current research is with the Integrated Forest Ecosystem Research Program (IFER) project: “Assessing and incorporating social, economic, ecological and community safety values of forests in bushfire risk decision-making” with Associate Professor Kathryn Williams and Dr. Rebecca Ford. We are identifying a range of values at risk of bushfire and planned burning, studying public perceptions and acceptability of bushfire risk management strategies, and analysing of bushfire risk planning.
In my PhD research, I examined rural landscape transition in the Ovens catchment in northeast Victoria (Southeastern Australia). In particular, I studied: the application of a Bricolage research approach to landscape change; the adaptation of a heuristic called the Adaptive Cycle as a tool for comparing different stakeholder perceptions of a social-ecological system; and discourse and social memory as vehicles for expressing relationships of power over the trajectory of a region in the process of transition. My background is in environmental sociology and social research in natural resource management. In particular, I have expertise in rural transition research in academic and private sectors. Over the past decade, I have been researching with and studying: stakeholder engagement; social theory and policy; environmental management; participatory decision making processes; community resilience.
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Applying social research: How research knowledge is shaped and changed for use in a bushfire management organisation
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Positions
Lecturer Enviro Social Science
Ecosystem And Forest Sciences
Member
Australian Entomological Society
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Natural Resource Management
Charles Sturt University
PhD
Charles Sturt University
Masters of Science, Environmental Sociology
University of Alberta
Bachelor of Science, Renewable Resource Management
McGill University