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I am the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Resource Management, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, Parkville, University of Melbourne. I have 14 years experience within the amalgamated institution. I have both a teaching and research position within the Faculty; and more recently considerable administrative and managerial commitments. With a combined educational background in biophysical and social science, I have developed a multi-disciplinary approach to research theory and praxis. The focus of my work to-date is on everyday landscapes and 'ordinary' people. In this pursuit, I have grappled with policy frameworks, planning institutions, resource use and have located these in a landscape context centred on human interaction with 'place'. I research and write on catchment management, Landcare, rural women and landscape policy in particular. In 2004/5 I have become involved in research around risk management and risk assessment in resource management. As a social scientist working with ecologists, epidemiologists, hydrogeologists and other traditional science disciplines, I am particularly concerned to assure in that stakeholder issues, including their genuine participation in scientific risk assessment are part of our research design and modelling. Projects in this area include: Expert and Community Judgments of Health Risks from Recycled Water with Dr. Louisa Flander (School of Population Health); Hazard identification, risk assessment and decision analysis for conservation and management of Australian marine parks with Dr. Jan Carey, et al (School of Botany); and NPSI Ecological Risk Assessment for Irrigation with Dr. Terry Walshe (Univ. of WA), Dr. Barry Hart (Monash University), Dr. Mark Burgman (Univ. of Melbourne, School of Botany). In 2005/6 in conjunction with Dr. Sherie McClam in the Faculty of Education, I am involved in researching and analyzing how students from conventional undergraduate disciplines perceive 'nature' and 'the environment'. Our research in this area focuses on the importance of 'place' and 'landscape' in understanding where and how 'nature' and the 'environment' are located. Students involved in this project use reflexive journals and photography as part of their learning program. In addition, Dr. McClam and I are also involved in research that considers how understanding the barriers to multi-disciplinary learning processes can contribute to transforming environmental education. I am committed to building a research profile and this includes a significant commitment to my graduate students. Through the strategic efforts of myself and two other social science colleagues, the Institute is establishing a national and international reputation in social science. I have effectively managed both campus based and Institute committee memberships. My years in community development support my ability to network and plan for strategic change. My work record indicates my ability to meet deadlines and achieve targets across many tasks. I have over sixteen years experience working (including six years working in the Pacific and Africa) in community development, formal and non-formal education, gender and social analysis, natural resource management and environment issues, and in developing and implementing horticultural/agricultural extension programs. My Master of Science degree in Agriculture Extension and Rural Development linked agricultural policy to the household level by developing indicators accessible to family farmers. My PhD involved examining conservation on rural private land in Victoria. I utilized a farmer based photo-elicitation method as part of the research into the meanings and understanding of landscape that farmers evoke when considering and implementing conservation and production regimes. I have worked as both a short and long-term adviser on a range of AusAID-funded projects; and have researched and written extensively on issues relating to landscape, conservation and environment, community development programs, participatory research methods, gender analysis and women in development, and in agriculture extension. I am also the Deputy Director of the Office for Environmental Programs at the University of Melbourne. The OEP focuses on environmental education and research. It offers flexible interdisciplinary courses through the Graduate Environmental Program. As Deputy Director, I am involved with the 50-60 academics and 10 faculties that contribute to the program and provide academic advice and counseling to the students enrolled in the OEP. Ruth BeilinACADEMIC PROFILEInvited Participant in Workshop, Seminars and Symposia 2005 Participant, Melbourne Water Research Centre Policy& Institutions Workshop 2004 Uncertainty and Risk Workshop, sponsored by Biodiversitas, (EU), Montreal, Canada, July 2004 Resilient Communities Workshop, sponsored by AgResearch NZ, Wellington, NZ, September 2002 OECD Landscape and Practice Ballina, NSW Symposium November 1999 Land and Water Rural Research and Devt Corp, Native Vegetation Workshop Presentations. Brisbane. July 1994 Chair, Workshop on Women as Researchers and Researched, International Women in Agriculture Conference 1993 Presenter, University of Western Sydney, Hawksbury Campus, Residential Program for the M.Sc. in Agriculture Appropriation of Women's Labour in Agriculture and the Environment. July 13 1992 Chair, Workshop on Regional & Pacific Issues for the 6th National EcoPolitics Conference, RMIT, Melbourne
National Advisory Panel 2003/4 National Social Economic Indicator Group, Land & Water Resources Audit, Environment Australia
Conference Organisation Committees 2005 Member, Organising Committee International Landcare Conference October 2006 2005 Member, Organising Committee 2006 Australasian Pacific Extension Network International Conference 2004 Convenor, Landscape & Rurality Symposium, Day 1 Agri Food Conference XI, Canberra 2000 Australasian Pacific Extension Network Forum, Melbourne 1998-9 Member, Organising Committee International Landcare 2000 Conference. 1998 Convenor, Issues of Accountability, Evaluation and Planning 1996 Convenor, Lines on the Landscape-Images of the Western District-Symposium 1996 Curator, Images of the Western District Painting and Photograph Exhibit (Mar-May) loaned from Hamilton Gallery, Hamilton Victoria, funded by Landcare Foundation Australia. University and Faculty Activities and Committees 2005 - present Assoc. Dean & Chair of Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee 2005 - present Member, Faculty Executive 2005 - present Chair Faculty Postgraduate Coursework sub-Committee 2005 - present Faculty Academic for AUQA 2005 - present Deputy Director Office for Environmental Programs 2004 - present Member, University Landscape Advisory Sub-Committee 2003 - present Member, Benchmark Working Group 2003 Member, Selection Panel for Academic Appointment SAGES 2002 - 2005 Member, School of Graduate Studies Executive 2002 - 2004 Member, Research Higher Degrees Committee 2002 - 2004 Shepherd, Research Higher Degree Committee for Medicine & Dentistry 2002 - 2004 Member, Selection Procedures Committee
2002-2005 PG Coursework Programs Committee, Institute of Melbourne School of Land and Environment 2002-2005 Postgraduate, Research and Scholarships Committee, Institute of Melbourne School of Land and Environment 2002 - 2004 Member, Panel for Faculty Promotion of Academics from Level A to Level B 1999-2001 Faculty Coordinator, Diploma of Applied Science in Horticulture, 1998-1999 Member, Senior Academic Women in Leadership and Management Program 1996-- 2000 Chair, Faculty Equal Opportunity Committee
Service to the Community NATIONAL 2005 - present Director, Greenfleet NGO charity focused on converting carbon emissions to revegetation sites 2003 - 2004 Member, Community Advisory Panel PACIA (Plastics and Chemicals Industries Association) 1999 - present Member Victorian Executive, Australasian Pacific Extension Network 1993 - present Member (founding year) of the Australian Women in Agriculture Association, Victorian Branch STATE 1996 - 2000 Chair, RMIT Landscape Architecture Course Advisory Committee 1991 - 2000 Member, RMIT Landscape Architecture Course Advisory Committee. 1993-1999 Member, Women on Farms, W. Gippsland Branch, Victoria 1991-2000 Member, Ornamental Plant Collection Association, Royal Melbourne Botanic Garden, Victoria 1993-1996 Member, Farmcare Advisory Committee, Leongatha, Victoria PUBLICATIONS CONTRIBUTION TO BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Beilin, R., Pryor, R. and Paine, M. (2003) Social cohesion and civic space: underlining the social policy obligation in production landscapes. The Social Dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line in Rural Australia. The Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra. 2. Boxelaar, L., Warner, K., Beilin, R. & H. Shaw (2002). 'Through the Looking Glass: Organisational Alignment for Sustainable Communities', Imprint of the Fenner Conference on Sustainable Agriculture. Canberra, July 2002. Chapter. 3. Beilin, R. 2001 The Brave New Order: Power, Visibility and the Everyday Landscapes of Australian Farmers. In Environment, Society and Natural Resource Management: Theoretical Perspectives. (eds.) V. Higgins, S. Lockie & G. Lawrence. Edward Elgar U.K. Chapter 12. 4. Beilin, R. (2002) Landcare. In Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (eds.) R. Aitken & M. Looker. Oxford Press. Melbourne. 5. Beilin, R. (1997) The Construction of Woman in Landcare: does it make a difference? in Critical Landcare, S. Lockie & F. Vanclay (editors). Centre for Rural Social Research: Charles Sturt University: Wagga Wagga, NSW. pp.57-70. (Reprinted from Rural Society 1995.) 6. Beilin, R., Fleming, J. & Fleming, T. (1997) Reservations: Issues of Conservation Practise on Private Agricultural Land, Conservation Outside Nature Reserves, P.Hale & D. Lamb (editors) University of Queensland Press: St. Lucia.pp.206-212. 7. Beilin, R. (1996) Participatory Rural Appraisal: An Inclusive Methodology in Developing Alternatives: Community Development Strategies and Environmental Issues in the Pacific (ed.) H. Wallace. Chapter 4, pp.67-84. Victorian University Press: Melbourne.
REFEREED INDUSTRY REPORT 8. Beilin, R., Paine, M. & Pryor, R. (forthcoming), Reconceptualising Extension to Deliver Triple Bottom Line Outcomes. Cooperative Venture in Innovation and Human Capacity Building for Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. Canberra 2005.
MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED (all manuscripts are in refereed journals and the senior author is underlined; estimate of my contribution indicated as percentage) 9. Beilin, R. (2005) Photo elicitation and the agricultural landscape: 'seeing' and 'telling' about farming, community and place in a world of changing expectations about practice. Visual Studies 20 (1): 56-69. 10. Beilin, R. 2001 Underlying it All: Faceless Landscapes and Commodified Views, Rural Society. 11(3)147-162. (100%) 11. Beilin, R. and Andreata, S. ( 2001)After the Group: Extending the Farmer, in Journal of Agriculture Extension Education. Summer 2001. 8(2)43-52. (75%) 12. Beilin, R. (2001) Using Participatory Approaches in Extension Research: The Case for Photo Elicitation. In ExtensionNet Aug 2001. 9(1):3-5. (100%) 13. Beilin, R. (1999/2000) Cultivating the Global Garden, in South Atlantic Quarterly, December 1999 Issue. Duke University Press, N. Carolina, USA. (100%) 14. Beilin, R. (1998) Inside Out: Exploring the Connection Between Women's Life Stories and landscape. Rural Society. Vol.8, No.3. pp.165-181. 15. Beilin, R. (1995) The Construction of Woman in Landcare: does it make a difference? in Rural Society, Vol.5 (2/3), pp. 20-29. Dec. (100%) 16. Leonard, D., Beilin, R. & Moran, M. (1995) Which way kaikai blo umi?: Food and Nutrition in the Torres Strait in Australian Journal of Public Health. vol.19 (6), pp.589-595. (40%) 17. Stephenson, Bunce, Makowski* and Curry (1979) Structure-Activity Relationships for Antidotes to Thiocarbamate Herbicides in Corn., J. of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, Vol. 27( 3), May/June. (15%) 18. Stephenson, Phatak, Makowski* and Bouw (1979) Phytotoxic Interactions Involving Metribusin and other Pesticides in Tomatoes, Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 60: 167-175, Sept. (15%) 19. Stephenson, Bunce, Makowski* and Curry (1978) Structure-Activity Relationships for S-Ethyl N, N-Dipropylthiocarbamate (EPTC) Antidotes in Corn., J. of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, Vol. 26( 1).(15%) - (Makowski=Beilin)
MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED (these manuscripts are refereed and published as part of conference proceedings; senior author is underlined) 20. Beilin, R., Boxelaar, L., Shaw, H. and Warner, K. (2003) Capacity building, extension services and recognition of 'sliding doors'. Proceedings of the Association for International Agricultural Extension Education, North Carolina, April 2003. 21. Boxelaar, L., Beilin, R. and Paine, M. (2003), Social capability building approaches in rural innovation: A struggle to be different . OKLC Conference in Barcelona Spain. 22. Paine, M. and Beilin R. (2003) Changing practice or practicing change? Defining communities of practice in land management. OECD Ballina Conference November 2002. CD 2003 23. Paine, M. and Beilin R. (2003) Landscapes of Practice: Action Research in Resource Management. EGOS Copenhagen July 3-5. 24. Pryor, R., Beilin, R. and Paine, M. (2003) Re-examining an Extension Practice Case Study Using 'Triple Bottom Line' and 'Farming Systems' as Concepts of Sustainability. Australian Farming Systems Conference, Toowoomba, September 4-6. 25. Beilin, R. & Boxelaar, L. (2001) Rethinking Action Research: theory and practice. Paper presented to the International Australasian Pacific Extension Network Conference, October 3-5, 2001. Toowoomba, Qld. 26. Beilin, R. (2000) Sustaining a Vision: Recognising Landscape Futures. The International Landcare 2000 Conference Proceedings. Melbourne, March 2000. 27. Beilin, R. (1999) The Farmers' View: How Seeing the Local Defines On-Farm Conservation. Refereed paper accepted for the International Soil Conservation Organisation '99 Conference in Indiana, USA. Published as CD in 2001. 28. Beilin, R. (1998) The Captured Land: Farmer-based Photo-elicitation Linking Conservation Knowledge to Production Practice, in The Proceedings of the Association of International Agricultural and Extension Education: Collaboration for Sustainable Environments, Tuscon Arizona, April 13-15, 1998. 29. Beilin, R. (1996) Adam's Rib: The Construction of the Woman Farmer in Agriculture Extension. Paper to the Conference Building Linkages for the Association of International Agriculture Extension Education, Washington D.C., March 28-30, 1996. Proceedings as above. 30. Beilin, R. (1994) Rethinking the Landscape: Catchments, Communities and the 'Third World Model' of Extension in Victoria, Australia in Proceedings of the Association of International Agriculture Extension Education, Arlington, Virginia. March 1994. 31. Beilin, R. (1994)'There is always another mat to weave': Invisible Women Farmers in Western Samoa. in Proceedings of the Association of International Agriculture Extension Education, Arlington, Virginia. March 1994 32. Beilin, R. (1993) Synopsis of Workshop on Regional and Pacific Issues, in Interactions and Actions, Proceedings of the EcoPolitics VI, Melbourne: RMIT Press, pp. N001-N003.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (POSTERS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, ETC.) 33. Beilin, R. & Paine, M. (2003) 'Don't fence me in': Integrating Food Systems by Co-Constructing Landscapes at the Agri Food Conference in Akaroa New Zealand, April 21-24. 34. Beilin, R. (1995) Voluntary Labour: Issues of Gender & Community. A transcription Hansard of the Submission to The Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee: A review of Landcare policies and programs in Australia. Melbourne. April 11, 1995. Official Hansard Report. GOA: Canberra. pp.2066-2069. 35. Beilin, R. (1995) Context, Meaning and Methodology: Women as Researchers and Researched in Women in Agriculture: Farming for our Future. 1994 International Post-Conference Proceedings. Women in Agriculture. 36. Beilin, R. (1994) Invisibility, Equity and Appropriation: Women as Changelings or Changers? Presented to the Australian Women's Studies Association at the annual conference, Women and the Politics of Change, 1994 International Conference Committee Inc., Australia. pp.183-187.December 4-6, 1994, at Deakin University, Geelong. 37. Beilin, R. & Ewing, S. (1994) Landcare: What's Missing? in Proceedings of the National Landcare Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, September 1994. 38. Beilin, R. & Ewing, S. (1994) Landcare: What's Missing? A poster presentation to the National Landcare Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, September 1994. 39. Leonard, D., Beilin, R., Moran, M. (1994) Kai Kai Blo Umi: A Report on the Food Supply to the People of the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area. Queensland Department of Health. Report presented to the Federal Minister of Health. May 1994. 40. Beilin, R. (1994)Women as Researchers: Women and the Landscape Poster paper for Women on Farms Gathering, at VCAH Glenormiston. 41. Beilin, R. (1993)Women in Research: Exploring Research Agendas: Rural Women Workshop auspiced by the Geography Dept., Univ. of Melbourne Publication: Geography and Environmental Studies Research Paper # 1 Exploring Research Agendas: Rural Women. ed. Jane M. Jacobs & Ruth Liepins. June 1994. 42. Beilin, R.(1987) Anthropometric Measurements and Consumption. Part I. Results and Analysis of Survey Material in February 1987. Gov't of Moçambique: Morrumbene, Moçambique. 43. Beilin, R. (1986) Agriculture and Nutrition Survey: History and Discussion. Research document and baseline data for AusAID Project in Inhambane Province, Moçambique. Gov't. of Mocambique: Morrumbene, Moçambique. April 1986.
TEACHING MANUALS 44. Beilin, R. (1988) Boas Machambas Boa Comida. A teaching manual in Portuguese for nutrition gardening and agriculture in community schools. 45. Sumner, J., Beilin, R, and Stephenson, G. (1986) Weed Science Correspondence Course University of Guelph: Guelph, Canada. 46. Beilin, R., Stephenson, G, and Sumner, J. (1983) Weed Science, Lab Text and Manual: University of Guelph: Guelph, Canada (Revised 1985).
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