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0000-0001-6759-6759
Current Organisation
University of Tasmania
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Environment Policy | Natural Resource Management | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology | Political Science | Policy and Administration | Comparative Government And Politics | Public Policy
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Hydrogen Production from Renewable Energy | Institutional arrangements | Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
Conceptualising `code complexes'?: a case study of harvesting-related codes applying to forest operations in Tasmania, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Governing the Governors: The Global Metagovernance of Fair Trade and Sustainable Forestry Production
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-05-2019
DOI: 10.1111/POLP.12300
Accounting for social impacts and costs in the forest industry, British Columbia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2006
Forest certification in developing and transitioning countries: part of a sustainable future?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2006
Models of Community Forestry
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2004
Place Branding as Participatory Governance? An Interdisciplinary Case Study of Tasmania, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2020
Abstract: Research in both public administration and place development has identified a need to develop more participatory approaches to governing cities and regions. Scholars have identified place branding as one of several potential policy instruments to enable more participatory place development. Recently, academics working in erse disciplines, including political studies, public administration, and regional development have suggested that an alternative, bottom-up, more participatory approach to place branding could be employed. Such an interdisciplinary approach would use iterative communication exchanges within a network of erse stakeholders including residents to better foster stakeholder participation, contribute to sustainable development, and deliver substantive social justice and increased citizen satisfaction. Building on this research and using an exploratory, qualitative, case-study methodology, our aim was to observe and analyze such interactions and communicative exchanges in practice. Drawing on the experience of the Australian state of Tasmania, we studied stakeholder reactions to the participatory place branding approach. We found that although participants were initially skeptical and identified many barriers to implementing participatory place branding, they simultaneously became excited by its possibilities and able to identify how many of the barriers could be transcended.
Cave 'Cave! Hic dragones': a neo-Gramscian deconstruction and reconstruction of international regime theory
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1998
Economic specialization versus ecological diversification: the trade policy implications of taking the ecosystem approach seriously
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2000
The legitimacy of private standards: lessons from fair trade and forestry for international tax governance
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-11-2018
The consultation dilemma in private regulatory regimes: negotiating FSC regional standards in the United States and Canada.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2004
Nurses as Stakeholders in the Adoption of Mobile Technology in Australian Health Care Environments: Interview Study
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 09-08-2019
DOI: 10.2196/14279
Abstract: The 2017 Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) Strategy is based on the underlying assumption that digital technology in health care environments is ubiquitous. The ADHA Strategy views health professionals, especially nurses, as grappling with the complexity of installing and using digital technologies to facilitate personalized and sustainable person-centered care. Yet, ironically, the 2018 debate over how to enroll Australians into the national electronic health record system and its alteration from an opt-in to an opt-out model heightened public and professional concern over what constituted a “safe, seamless and secure” health information system. What can be termed a digital technology paradox has emerged where, although it is widely acknowledged that there are benefits from deploying and using digital technology in the workplace, the perception of risk renders it unavailable or inaccessible at point of care. The inability of nurses to legitimately access and use mobile technology is impeding the diffusion of digital technology in Australian health care environments and undermining the 2017 ADHA Strategy. This study explored the nature and scope of usability of mobile technology at point of care, in order to understand how current governance structures impacted on access and use of digital technology from an organizational perspective. In idual semistructured interviews were conducted with 6 representatives from professional nursing organizations. A total of 10 interview questions focused on factors that impacted the use of mobile technology for learning at point of care. Seven national organizations and 52 members from the Coalition of National Nursing and Midwifery Organisations were invited to participate. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data analysis was systematic and organized, consisting of trial coding member checking was undertaken to ensure rigor. A codebook was developed to provide a framework for analysis to identify the themes latent in the transcribed data. Nurses as stakeholders emerged as a key theme. Out of 6 participants, 4 female (67%) and 2 male (33%) senior members of the nursing profession were interviewed. Each interview lasted between 17 and 54 minutes, which reflected the knowledge of participants regarding the topic of interest and their availability. Two subthemes, coded as ways of thinking and ways of acting, emerged from the open codes. Participants provided ex les of the factors that impacted the capacity of nurses to adopt digital technology from an emic perspective. There were contributing factors that related to actions, including work-arounds, attentiveness, and experiences. Nurses also indicated that there were attitudes and influences that impacted thinking regarding access and use of mobile technology at point of care. Nurses are inadequately prepared for the digital future that has now arrived in health care environments. Nurses do not perceive that they are leaders in decision making regarding digital technology adoption, nor are they able to facilitate digital literacy or model digital professionalism.
When interests trump institutions: Tasmania's forest policy network and the Bell Bay pulp mill
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Media representations of seafood certification in Australia: Mobilising sustainability standards to attack or defend the value of an industry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-0006
Advancing mobile learning in Australian healthcare environments: nursing profession organisation perspectives and leadership challenges
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-11-2018
On the Deep Unsustainability of Actually Existing Liberal Democracy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2440366
Four Models of Interest Mediation in Global Environmental Governance
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-12-2014
Nurses as Stakeholders in the Adoption of Mobile Technology in Australian Health Care Environments: Interview Study (Preprint)
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 05-04-2019
Abstract: he 2017 Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) Strategy is based on the underlying assumption that digital technology in health care environments is ubiquitous. The ADHA Strategy views health professionals, especially nurses, as grappling with the complexity of installing and using digital technologies to facilitate personalized and sustainable person-centered care. Yet, ironically, the 2018 debate over how to enroll Australians into the national electronic health record system and its alteration from an opt-in to an opt-out model heightened public and professional concern over what constituted a “safe, seamless and secure” health information system. What can be termed a digital technology paradox has emerged where, although it is widely acknowledged that there are benefits from deploying and using digital technology in the workplace, the perception of risk renders it unavailable or inaccessible at point of care. The inability of nurses to legitimately access and use mobile technology is impeding the diffusion of digital technology in Australian health care environments and undermining the 2017 ADHA Strategy. his study explored the nature and scope of usability of mobile technology at point of care, in order to understand how current governance structures impacted on access and use of digital technology from an organizational perspective. n idual semistructured interviews were conducted with 6 representatives from professional nursing organizations. A total of 10 interview questions focused on factors that impacted the use of mobile technology for learning at point of care. Seven national organizations and 52 members from the Coalition of National Nursing and Midwifery Organisations were invited to participate. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data analysis was systematic and organized, consisting of trial coding member checking was undertaken to ensure rigor. A codebook was developed to provide a framework for analysis to identify the themes latent in the transcribed data. Nurses as stakeholders emerged as a key theme. ut of 6 participants, 4 female (67%) and 2 male (33%) senior members of the nursing profession were interviewed. Each interview lasted between 17 and 54 minutes, which reflected the knowledge of participants regarding the topic of interest and their availability. Two subthemes, coded as ways of thinking and ways of acting, emerged from the open codes. Participants provided ex les of the factors that impacted the capacity of nurses to adopt digital technology from an emic perspective. There were contributing factors that related to actions, including work-arounds, attentiveness, and experiences. Nurses also indicated that there were attitudes and influences that impacted thinking regarding access and use of mobile technology at point of care. urses are inadequately prepared for the digital future that has now arrived in health care environments. Nurses do not perceive that they are leaders in decision making regarding digital technology adoption, nor are they able to facilitate digital literacy or model digital professionalism.
Celebrity chefs, consumption politics and food labelling: Exploring the contradictions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-05-2018
Abstract: The mainstreaming of ethical consumption over the past two decades has attuned citizen-consumers to their power to shape food production practices through their consumption choices. To navigate the complexity inherent in contemporary food supply chains, ethical consumers often turn to certification and labelling schemes to identify which products to purchase. However, the existence of competing supply chain interests, coupled with the myriad different ways production factors and processes can be combined, has constructed certification and labelling as a highly contested space. Within this context, celebrity chefs have taken on a significant role in influencing food cultures, consumption practices and public policy. As a group of powerful cultural and political intermediaries, celebrity chefs have used their public profile to address causes related to food ethics and sustainability, and to shape consumer ‘choice’ by advocating for the consumption of labelled and certified food products. This article analyses the media c aigns of British celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to promote ‘free range’ chicken and eggs. It reveals how the celebrity chefs’ interventions into consumption politics often occurs without sufficient sensitivity to the specificities of the particular labelling and certification systems they are promoting, with very different systems often presented as achieving identical ends. In presenting ‘free range’ as a single, idealised and uncontested standard, they (perhaps unwittingly) expose themselves to the range of contradictions involved in the need to present complex information on animal friendly and sustainably produced food in simple, unambiguous and entertaining formats.
Fair trade and staple foods: A systematic review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Trading in the future: British Columbia's forest products compromise
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1998
Four impediments to embedding education for sustainability in higher education
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2015.36
Abstract: Higher education institutions have an unavoidable responsibility to address the looming economic, environmental and social crises imperilling humans and ecosystems by placing ‘education for sustainability’ at the heart of their concerns. Yet, for over three decades, the practice of ‘higher education for sustainability’ (HEfS) has encountered significant barriers to implementation, begging the question as to why. Drawing on a erse, interdisciplinary literature, we identify four structural impediments to implementing HEfS: (1) disciplinary contestation, which creates confusion over what ‘sustainability’ means (2) institutional fragmentation, which prevents the interdisciplinary dialogue that sustainability demands (3) economic globalisation, which transforms higher education into just another market opportunity and (4) ‘fast and frugal’ habits of reasoning, which steer time-pressed academics towards poorly integrated decisions and unsustainable positions. Our analysis highlights that wider structural change within and beyond the academy will be required if higher education institutions are to meet their responsibilities and drive the necessary social transformation.
Australian Forest governance: a comparison of two certification schemes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-08-2014
Governing mobile technology use for continuing professional development in the Australian nursing profession
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-04-2017
Whose Norms Prevail? Policy Networks, International Organizations and Sustainable Forest Management
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-11-2014
Disrupting the Status-Quo of Organisational Board Composition to Improve Sustainability Outcomes: Reviewing the Evidence
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 18-02-2020
DOI: 10.3390/SU12041505
Abstract: Sustainability, conceptualised as the integration of economic, social and environmental values, is the 21st century imperative that demands that governments, business and civil society actors improve their existing performance, yet improvement has been highly fragmented and unacceptably slow. One explanation for this is the lack of ersity on the boards of organisations that perpetuates a narrow business, economic and legal mindset rather than the broader integrated values approach that sustainability requires. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature investigating how board ersity affects the sustainability performance of organisations. Our review uncovers evidence of relationships between various attributes of the ersity of board members and sustainability performance, though over-reliance on quantitative methodologies of studies reviewed means explanations for the observed associations are largely absent. Limited measures of sustainability performance and narrow definitions of ersity, focused predominantly on gender, were also found. Important implications from the study include the need for policy responses that ensure boards are ersely composed. We identify that more qualitative investigations into the influence of a broader range of types of board ersity on sustainability performance is needed, along with studies that focus on public sector boards, and research that takes an intersectional understanding of ersity.
Comparing sustainability claims with assurance in organic agriculture standards
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-11-2019
Tasmania's Tamar Valley pulp mill: A comparison of planning processes using a good environmental governance framework
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-08-2008
Trading in the future: British Columbia's forest products compromise
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1998
The ethics of industry sponsorship of charities
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 08-2012
DOI: 10.5694/MJA11.10929
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Location: Canada
Related Funding Activities
Sense-T Stage 2: Sensing Natural Capital - The Role Of Environmental Sensor Data Within New Financial Markets
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 2015
Funder: National Australia Bank Limited
View Funded ActivityTaxing Campaigns: A Comparative Study Study Of Global Civil Society Activism Targeting Tax Avoidance By High Net Worth Individuals And Multinational Corporations
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 2017
Funder: University of Tasmania
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP200301578
Start Date: 04-2022
End Date: 03-2025
Amount: $242,783.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0452259
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 12-2007
Amount: $145,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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