Nicholas GILL

Research Interests

Cultural and social aspects of land management

Land use and environmental conflict

Additional Information 

Representative Publications

Gill, N., Chisholm, L., Klepeis, P., Wickramasuriya Denagamage, R., Marthick, J. (2008) Land Management and Land Cover on Land owned by Amenity Oriented Rural Landowners in Jamberoo Valley, Report to the Southern Rivers Catchment Manamgement Authority, GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong (Pdf)

Klepeis, P., Gill, N. and Chisholm, L. (In Press) Emerging Amenity Landscapes: Invasive Weeds and Land Subdivision in Rural Australia, Land Use Policy.

Gill, N. and A. Paterson (2007). A Work in Progress: Aboriginal People and Pastoral Cultural Heritage in Australia. Geographies of Australian Heritages: Loving a Sunburnt Country? R. Jones and B.J. Shaw. Aldershot, Ashgate: 113-132.

Gill, N. (2006), What is the Problem: Usefulness, the Cultural Turn, and Social Research for Natural Resource Management, Australian Geographer, 37(1), 5-17.

Gill, N. (2005), Life and Death in Australian ‘Heartlands’: Pastoralism, Ecology and Rethinking the Outback. Journal of Rural Studies, 21(1), 39-53

Gill, N. (2005) Slag, Steel and Swamp: Perceptions of Restoration of an Urban Coastal Saltmarsh, Ecological Management and Restoration, 6(2), 85-93.

Gill, N. (2005) Aboriginal Pastoralism, Social Embeddedness and Cultural Continuity in Central Australia, Society and Natural Resources, 18, 1-16.

Gill, N., Paterson, A. & Kennedy, M. (2005). Murphy, do you want to delete this?’ Hidden histories and hidden landscapes in the Murchison and Davenport ranges, Northern Territory, Australia. Ward, G., Muckel, A. (eds). The Power of Knowledge, the Resonance of Tradition. Canberra. Aboriginal Studies Press. Available on Research Online

Gill, N. and Anderson, K. (2005) Improvement in the Inland: Culture and Nature in the Australian Rangelands, Australian Humanities Review, 34, http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/.

Gill, N. (2004), Politics Within and Without — The Origins and Development of a Rangelands Landcare Group, Australian Geographical Studies, 42(2), 135-151.

Gill, N. (2003), Environmental (Re)education and Local Environmental Knowledge: Statutory ground-based monitoring and pastoral culture in Central Australia, The Rangeland Journal, 25(1), 85-104.

Gill, N. (1997), The Contested Domain of Pastoralism: Landscape, Work and Outsiders in Central Australia, Rose, D.B. and Clarke, A. (eds.), Tracking Knowledge - Northern Landscapes, Past, Present, Future, North Australian Research Unit (ANU), Darwin, 50-67. Available on Research Online

Gill, N. (1994), The cultural politics of resource management: the case of bushfires in a conservation reserve, Australian Geographical Studies, 32(2), 224-240.

Searchable Publication List

Current Students

Christine Eriksen (PhD): Investigating the production of Local Environmental Knowledge (LEK) for bushfire management

Aree Suwanmanee (PhD): Development of Community Education Initiatives to Support Locally Based Nature Conservation Activities in Thailand

Suggested Topics for Future Students

I would welcome any students interested in applications of contemporary social theory to land use and environmental management policy and practice in both the institutional and landowner contexts. Without being prescriptive I would be interested in projects ranging over subjects such as rural culture and fire management, stewardship and land in ‘new rural landscapes’, the survival, demise or evolution of agrarianism in these landscapes, material engagement and relationships with ‘nature’ and land in urban and rural settings, critical analysis of primary industry enterprises on Northern Territory Aboriginal land prior to 1970, and citizen advocacy and planning in ‘seachange’ areas.

Abbreviated CV

Education

BA (Hons) in Geography and Development Studies, Flinders University of South Australia, 1988-1992. Honours supervised by Dr. Les Heathcote.

Thesis: Gill, N. J. 1992. Culture, Context and Conflict: A Case Study of Conflict Over Bushfire Management in Conservation Reserves on Kangaroo Island. B.A. (Honours) Thesis, Department of Geography, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide

PhD in Geography, University of NSW, 1996-2000. Supervised by Professor Kay Anderson and Dr. Richard Baker.

Thesis: Gill, N. J. 2000. Outback or At Home?: Environment, Social Change and Pastoralism in Central Australia. PhD, School of Geography and Oceanography, University of NSW, Canberra 

Employment

Campaigner, National Campaign Team, Wilderness Society, 1991-1993

Associate Lecturer, School of Geography and Oceanography, University College, ADFA, University of NSW, 1993-1995.

Assistant Curator, National Museum of Australia, 1999.

Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Wollongong, 2000-present.

Other

Member of NSW NPWS Sydney South Regional Advisory Committee from July 2004

Australian Canoeing Level Two Sea Kayak Instructor, 2001-present. Volunteer instructor for NSW Sea Kayak Club, NSWSKC Trips Convenor (2000) and Secretary (2001).