Dr Wendy Russell
Visiting Principal Fellow
Email: wendyr@uow.edu.au
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Winner of VC's OCTAL award for 2006
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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 Students
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
Future Topics for 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
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
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