BAgSci, MNatRes, PhD Catherine has held a teaching/ research position in Environmental Sociology and Planning at Charles Sturt University since 2004. Catherine has strong connections to rural landscapes and people, and her teaching and research have centred on predominantly social aspects of dynamic social-ecosystems. Catherine has research interests in adaptive management, especially of water, and in the processes of participatory research and action, and co-inquiry. Catherine’s work, while often in south-eastern Australia, is expanded by her current role as leader of Program 1 of the Soil CRC, and by involvement with groundwater and salinity projects in Pakistan. Catherine wrote, co-ordinated and taught a range of sociology/ human geography related undergraduate and post graduate subjects in Environmental studies between 2004 and 2018. She gained an Australian Learning & Teaching Council Citation in 2008 for outstanding contributions to student learning. Catherine has supervised 13 PhD students to completion, with another four in progress. I have also co-supervised one research masters and six completed Honours projects. Catherine has contributed to 30 CSU research projects. She has 62 peer reviewed publications comprising 37 journal papers and 25 book chapters/refereed conference proceedings. She is also senior co-editor of an internationally acclaimed peer reviewed handbook book, and author on 29 externally commissioned research reports.
Professoriate
Professor Catherine Allan
Associate Professor in Environment, Sociology and Planning
Albury / Wodonga