Helping to build the research capacity of others is one great pleasures of my work. To date, I have been part of the supervisory team for 14 PhD students who have graduated as Doctors, with another three with theses under examination. I have also co-supervised one research Masters, and six completed Honours projects. In the summary below [P] denotes principal supervisor.

PhD students

Linda Wirf (under examination). Beyond Adoption: gendered knowledges in agriculture practice change in Australia [P]

Melissa Wales (under examination). Social norms of soil management [P]

Louise Hunt (under examination). Negotiating the complexities of farming in the 21st century [SCU student]

Ghulam Zakir Hassan (2024). Evaluating the impact of artificial recharge on aquifer sustainability for improved livelihood in Lower Bari Doab Canal Command Area – Punjab, Pakistan [P]

Moragh Mackay (2018). Transforming governance together: A co-inquiry into practices for co-designing adaptive governance [P]

Jessica Schoeman (2017). Optimising Water Management in the Anthropocene? A case study of adaptive management in the Lachlan Catchment, inland New South Wales, Australia [P]

Cecile van der Burgh (2017). Connectivity in Southern NSW landscapes

Samantha Strong (2017). Exploring paradoxes of native vegetation management in south east Australia in the 21st Century [P]

Alexandra Knight (2015). The case for Sloane’s Froglet: informing purposeful conservation through ecological enquiry and an examination of policy paradigms

Fleur Stelling (2014). Living in regenerating agricultural landscapes [P]

Greg Windsor (2014). Developing efficient techniques to derive regions for a community geography in NSW

Wendy Minato (2012). Exploring possible links between policy interventions and changes in native vegetation conditions

Penny Cooke (2012). The Social Construction of Informal Adult Education in Community-Based Natural Resource Management Group [P]

Gillian Earl (2012). Developing a framework for duty of care for biodiversity at a local catchment scale

Eloise Seymour (2010). Community values for wetlands, forests and a river reach: a study of assigned values to inform regional natural resource management (NRM) decision-making

Prue Laidlaw (2009). A passing occupation: An exploration of the History and heritage of Itinerant workers in rural New South Wales, 1850-1914

Imogen Fullager (2007). Translating conjunctive water management from concept to practice in mature irrigation systems for productive and environmental outcomes

Research Masters

Warren Keedle (2021). Exploring how resilience thinking is embedded within regional natural resource management organisations

Honours projects

Catherine Conroy (2016). Indigenous Australians, plants and cultural water

Candice Dent (2014). Understanding social and ecological aspects in a changing rural landscape: the southern Strathbogie Ranges, Victoria [P]

Sinclair Croft (2010). Towards standard heritage incentives for NSW Councils

Brendan Kelly (2007). An investigation of farmers’ choice of soil indicators for farm management

Stuart Roberton (2005). Exploring the delivery of the North East CMA River Tender Project

Prue Laidlaw (2004). Fire management planning and cultural heritage in New South Wales: a survey of current Bush Fire Risk Management Plans developed by the Rural Fire Service