Dr Rebecca M Ford
Position: |
Research Fellow |
| Location: | Burnley Campus |
Address: |
Burnley College, 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond 3121 |
Phone: |
+61 3 9250 6859 |
Fax: |
61 3 9250 6885 |
Email: |
fordr@unimelb.edu.au |
Research
Rebecca Ford became a Research Fellow in 2006 after completing a PhD titled Social acceptability of forest management systems. Rebecca’s research interests are in the underlying basis for public views about forest practices in people’s aesthetic responses and their more cognitive values, beliefs and decision-making processes. Prior to commencing the PhD, Rebecca worked for about thirteen years in policy implementation and development with the Victorian and Federal governments This experience sparked a broad interest in the ways the general public and interest group members value and perceive forests, and a corresponding interest in how social research can inform forest policy and management . Rebecca’s undergraduate qualifications are: a Bachelor of Arts (1994) at the University of Melbourne with a major in politics, a Graduate Diploma of Computing (1993) at Deakin University and a Bachelor of Forest Science (1985) at the University of Melbourne.
Teaching
As a Research Fellow, Rebecca provides occasional lectures in subjects such as 207-414 Social Research Methods and 207-205 Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management.
Recent projects
- Social Acceptability of Forest Management Systems
- Social Acceptability of Forest Management Options: Landscape Visualisations and Evaluation
Recent publications
Williams, K. J. H., Ford R. M., Bishop, I. D., Loiterton, D. & Hickey, J. E. (accepted for publication with minor revision), ‘Realism and selectivity in data-driven visualisations: a process for developing viewer-oriented landscape surrogates’, Landscape and Urban Planning.
Bishop, I. D., Ford, R. M., Loiterton, D., Williams, K. J. H. (2005). ‘Studying the acceptability of forest management practices using visual simulation of forest regrowth’, Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning. I. D. Bishop and E. Lange (Eds.) London, SPON.
Ford, R. M ., Williams, K. J. H., Bishop, I. D., Webb, T., (2005) Information effects on social acceptance of alternatives to clearfelling, The 22 nd Biennial Conference of the Institute of Foresters of Australia, Mount Gambier, SA, Australia.
Williams, K. J. H., Ford, R. M., Bishop, I. D., Webb, T., (2005) Understanding the acceptability of forest management options, The 22 nd Biennial Conference of the Institute of Foresters of Australia, Mount Gambier, SA, Australia.
Ford, R. M. , Flanagan, A. K., Williams, K. J. H., Webb, T. (2004), Measuring Beliefs About Clearfelling, in Proceedings of the 7th Annual Environmental Research Conference: Environmental Sustainability Through Multidisciplinary Integration, The Cumberland, Marysville, Victoria, Australia, M.J. Mowlaei, A. Rose, J. Lamborn (Eds.), Dec. 1-4 2003, pp.153-163.
Bishop, I. D., Fasken, G., Ford, R. M., Hickey, J. E., Loiterton, D., Williams, K. J. H. (2003). ‘ Visual simulation of forest regrowth under different harvest options’. Trends in Landscape Modelling, proceedings at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau, Germany, May 15-16, Herbert Wichmann Verlag, pp. 46-55.