Associate Professor Ian Gray
Lecturer
Ph.D (Sociology) The Australian National University 1989
MA (Sociology) The Australian National University 1984
BA (Geography) Macquarie University 1977
Ian Gray
Bio
Ian teaches sociology and conducts research on rural communities and transport. He is a member of the Management Committee of the Institute for Land, Water and Society and served for seven years as Sub-Dean (Higher Degrees) for the Faculty of Arts. His undergraduate teaching covers community analysis, policy studies and environmental sociology, while he supervises ten PhD degree students conducting research on rural communities, transport and rural sustainability. His research projects have included a study of farm coping strategies and another on experience of drought funded by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, an ethnographic study of farming practice for the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation, a quantitative project on structural adjustment and catchment management for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, research on small town sustainability and community capacity for environmental management funded by the Australian Research Council and a national project on regionalism and federalism also funded by the Australian Research Council. He has conducted research on regional transport for the NSW Local Government and Shires Association and has spoken at many conferences in Australia and overseas on transport issues.
Teaching
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Membership of professional associations and groups
- The Australian Sociological Association
- The Institute of Australian Geographers
- The Railway Technical Society of Australia
- The Lachlan Regional Transport Committee
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