Dr. Wendy Russell Position:   Visiting Principal Fellow Room:     Phone No:     Email:   wendyr@uow.edu.au
Winner of VC's OCTAL award for 2006

Research Interests

Technology Assessment: Assessment of the social implications of emerging technologies.

Agricultural Biotechnology: ethical, legal and social aspects.

Transdisciplinarity: Research and teaching across disciplinary (and institutional) boundaries.

Representative Publications

A.W. Russell, F. Wickson and A.L Carew (2008) Transdisciplinarity: context, contradictions and capacity. Futures 40 (5): 460-472.

A. W. Russell, S. Dolnicar and M. Ayoub (2008) Double degrees: double the trouble or twice the return? Higher Education 55 (5): 575–591

A. W. Russell and Robert Sparrow, The case for regulating intragenic GMOs. (2008) Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (2): 153-181

A.W. Russell (2008) GMOs and their contexts: a comparison of potential and actual performance of GM crops in a local agricultural setting. Geoforum 39 (1): 213-222

F. Wickson, A.L Carew and A.W. Russell (2006) Transdisciplinary Research: characteristics, quandaries and quality. Futures 38 (9): 1046-1059

A. W. Russell, Netherwood, G.M.A. and Robinson, S.A. (2004) Photosynthesis in silico. Overcoming the challenges of photosynthesis education using a multimedia CD-ROM. Bioscience Education E-Journal 3, 3-8 (http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/journal/vol3/beej-3-8.htm)

A.W. Russell (2003) Use of the Triple Bottom Line Framework in Evaluating Social Changes Associated with the Adoption of Genetically Modified Crops in Australia. In: Pritchard, B., Curtis, A., Spriggs, J. & Le Heron, R. Social Dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line in Rural Australia. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, pp 195-208

Searchable Publication List

 

Recent PhD Graduates

Dr Fern Wickson (2006)

From Risk to Uncertainty: Australia’s Environmental Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops

Current position: Researcher, The Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Norway,

Current Students

PhD

Julie Kimber (co-supervisor to Julie who is a UTas student)

Assessing the social consequences of food technologies

 

Suggested Topics for Future Students

Agro-biotechnology, commercialisation and Intellectual Property - freedom to operate on the path to market.

The building of Biotechnology policy and regulations in Australia

Technology Assessment - developing a framework for Australia to assess and manage new technology

See Also the Honours Topics Page

 

Abbreviated CV

Academic Degrees

PhD, Department of Botany, University of Queensland, 1997

BSc (Hons I) Department of Botany, University of Queensland, 1991

Employment History

2008 - Visiting Principal Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong

Jan 2007 - 2008: Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong

Jan 2000 - Dec 2006: Lecturer, Biological Sciences Department, University of Wollongong

 Jan 1996 - Dec 1999: Associate Lecturer, Biological Sciences Department, University of Wollongong

Awards

Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, 2006

UoW award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (OCTAL), 2006

Science and Innovation Award for Young People, Commonwealth Dep't of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, 2003

Award for Outstanding Acheivement in Education, Australian College of Education, 2001

Young Investigator Award, Australian Society for Biophysics, 1995

Young Endeavour Science Award, 1992

Current Externally Funded Research Projects:

Managing innovation with a policy-relevant framework to assess the social consequences of technological developments.

A collaboration with Prof. Frank Vanclay (Uni of Tasmania) and Dr Heather Aslin (Bureau of Rural Sciences) - funded by ARC Discovery.
http://www.utas.edu.au/ruralcommunities/TASC/