Stuart Woodcock Stuart Woodcock ILWS Phd Candidate
ILWS PhD Candidate

Topic The influence of rural in-migration on woody plant encroachment in South Eastern Australia

INTERESTS

Stuart commenced his PhD in February 2011 with principal supervisor Dr Peter Spooner and co-supervisor A/Prof Ian Lunt.   He describes his research as “inter-disciplinary or trans-disciplinary”. It incorporates social research on people’s migratory patterns and encompasses the ecology of plants, in particular woody plants in the central Victorian region of Australia.  He will be examining rural in-migration, that is, the influence of people moving from the city to rural properties on the woody regrowth in rural areas.
He expects his research coalesce into a big body of research “which will increase biodiversity and help manage the ecology where people live.” His aim is to find out what drives tree establishment and growth in a multitude of different areas and how it can be encouraged. His long term goal is “to get more trees in the ground and to complete the research that will achieve this”.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science, University of Technology Sydney 1994.
Grad. Dip in Science, University of Western Sydney 1999
Grad. Cert in Physics, University of Canberra 2003
Masters in GeoScience, Macquarie University 2009

Strategic Research Areas

Campus Albury-Wodonga  Email S Woodcock