Research Output per year
Personal profile
Personal profile
I began my professional career helping farmers reclaim drifting sand dunes in the South Australian Mallee, then moved to supporting groups in Victoria with activities as diverse as managing their creek frontages to maintain populations of Trout Cod, to fostering group management skills to maintain Landcare groups. A common thread throughout my agency employment was working with, and learning from, the people who manage the land. Indeed, as I learned more about environmental management I came to appreciate that humans are part of a complex, dynamic social-ecosystem.
Since commencing employment at CSU in 2004 both my teaching and research have centred on predominantly social aspects of this social-ecosystem. My research interests include regional scale adaptive management, and the related topics of participatory approaches and social learning. I am particularly interested in qualitative research approaches, including participatory and collaborative research which empowers communities. I also employ analysis of social discourse to better understand the rural societies in which we live.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Charles Sturt University
Master of Natural Resources, University of New England
Bachelor of Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne
External positions
Program Leader (Investing in High Performance Soils), High Performance Soils CRC
2018 → …Board member, Albury Conservation Company
2010 → …Fingerprint Fingerprint is based on mining the text of the person's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms, which defines the key subjects of each individual researcher.
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Research Output 2002 2019
Consequences of changed water management for Aboriginal Australians in the Murrumbidgee catchment, NSW
Conroy, C., Knight, A. R., Wassens, S. & Allan, C., 01 Jan 2019, In : Australian Geographer.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
water management
catchment
water
indigenous population
river
Adaptive Management of Environmental Flows
Webb, J. A., Watts, R. J., Allan, C. & Conallin, J. C., Mar 2018, In : Environmental Management. 61, 3, p. 339-346 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
adaptive management
Managers
decision making
Decision making
Environmental management
An ambivalent landscape: the return of nature to post-agricultural land in South-eastern Australia
Stelling, F., Allan, C. & Thwaites, R., 03 Apr 2018, In : Landscape Research. 43, 3, p. 329-344 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
agricultural landscape
regrowth
ambivalence
agricultural land
stakeholder
Automated process to create snapshot reports based on the 2016 Murray community-based groups capacity survey: User guide
Vella, S., Fuller, G., Mitchell, M., Allan, C. & Burmeister, O., 2018, Albury, NSW, Australia: Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University. 21 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Open Access
File
community
Group
Murray Region community-based groups capacity needs assessment: Results of the 2016-2017 baseline survey for Murray Local Land Services
Mitchell, M. & Allan, C., 2018, Albury, NSW: Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University. 94 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Open Access
File
baseline survey
social capital
nut
bolt
questionnaire survey
Prizes
2015 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence (Research Excellence)
Robyn Watts (Recipient), James Abell (Recipient), Catherine Allan (Recipient), Carmen Amos (Recipient), Mariagrazia Bellio (Recipient), Bradley K. Clarke-Wood (Recipient), Colin Finlayson (Recipient), Tamsin Greenwood (Recipient), Andrew Hall (Recipient), Julia Howitt (Recipient), Paul Humphries (Recipient), Kim Jenkins (Recipient), Richard Kopf (Recipient), Nicole McCasker (Recipient), Wayne Robinson (Recipient), Veronique Janel (Recipient), Skye Wassens (Recipient), Benjamin Wolfenden (Recipient) & Alek Zander (Recipient), 05 Aug 2015
Prize/Award: Award
water
Group
Press / Media
Managing groundwater for farmers in Pakistan
C. Max Finlayson, Catherine Allan & Michael Mitchell
14/02/17
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Award for water researchers
Robyn Watts, James Abell, Catherine Allan, Carmen Amos, Mariagrazia Bellio, Bradley K. Clarke-Wood, Colin Finlayson, Tamsin Greenwood, Andrew Hall, Julia Howitt, Paul Humphries, Kim Jenkins, Richard Kopf, Nicole McCasker, Wayne Robinson, Skye Wassens, Benjamin Wolfenden & Alek Zander
10/08/15
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media