The current research students and Post Docs being supervised

The following higher degree students have been researching in several areas which underpin community capacity building as a common research theme. The group will help create a common platform for research active staff and research students to come together to discuss and debate current theoretical and practical issues in community capacity building, test bold ideas, write further grant applications and to collaboratively write papers for refereed publications. The students and their fields of research are:

Bill Anscombe Social policy and rural communities

Rachael Williams Social capital and community capacity building for natural resource management

Andy Brown Development of sustainability in the rice industry: implications of community values and relations for agricultural extension

James Longworth Railway closures and community responses in rural New South Wales

Rol Mitchell The significance of the church in a rural community

Jonathon Howard Community equity and catchment management

Alison Kearns Social exclusion and rural communities

Margie Thomson Farming community values and policy change in a marginal area