ILWS - Institute of Land, Water and Society
Associate Professor Ian Gray
Social Scientist
Adjunct Research Fellow
INTERESTS
A/Prof Ian Gray's current research focuses on regional governance and the relationship between community sustainability and transport. His research projects include 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 Authority; research on small town sustainability and community capacity for environmental management funded by the Australian Research Council; research on regional transport with the Local Government and Shires Associations of New South Wales and a national project on regionalism also funded by the Australian Research Council.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Geography), Macquarie University, 1977
Graduate Diploma in Recreation Planning, Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1979
Master of Arts (Sociology) ,The Australian National University, 1984
PhD (Sociology), The Australian National University, 1989
Strategic Research Areas
- Innovative perspectives on energy and climate change from socio-historical analysis (IPE)
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Membership of Advisory Boards
Prof Gray is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility and a member of the Lachlan Regional Transport Committee.