Dr Jacqui Russell
		Postdoctoral Fellow School of Politics & International Relations Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) College of Arts and Social Sciences H.C. Coombs Building (#9) Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 E: jacqui.russell@anu.edu.au P: +61 2 6125 1434

Profile

In her early career Jacqui gained qualifications as a registered nurse and teacher. She has worked in the critical care areas of intensive care, coronary care and emergency departments. She has also taught sculpting, drama, first aid and environmental education at the primary school and secondary school levels. Jacqui went on to complete her BSc in Resource and Environmental Management with First Class Honours at the Australian National University in 1996. She received an Australian Postgraduate Award to conduct her PhD research into the development of integrative methodologies for human ecology at the ANU. The conceptual framework she developed drew upon the philosophy of science, the history and sociology of science, critical theory and critical systems theory. She argued that conventional accounts of science are unable to deal with the social and biophysical complexity of the human-ecological problems confronting us. In place of these she put forward an account of inquiry that  not only remedies the difficulties she identifies, but also has the capacity to deal plausibly with both socio-cultural and biophysical dimensions of human-ecological problems. This work forms a centrepiece of a book arising from the Human Ecology Forum at the ANU, Tackling Wicked Problems through the Transdisciplinary Imagination to be published mid-2010.

Since completing her PhD in 2006 she has worked in the Social Sciences Program and the Climate Change Sciences Program of the Bureau of Rural Sciences of the Australian Federal Government. While with the Bureau Jacqui was involved in several major investigations into the social dimensions of natural resource management. In particular, she conducted research into rural people’s perceptions of climate change and adaptation; the negotiation of conflict over water resources; and the social impacts of drought on rural people which informed the National Review of Drought Policy 2008/09. While with the Climate Change Sciences Program of the Bureau she prepared regional reports on the biophysical impacts of the unprecedented drought conditions on agricultural production across Australia. In July 2009 Jacqui joined the research team of the Climate Change and the Public Sphere project in the Political Sciences Program of RSSS at the ANU, bringing with her a breadth of both social science and biophysical science research skills and experience.

Selected Publications

• Brown, V. A., Harris, J. A. and Russell, J. Y. (in press) Tackling Wicked Problems through the Transdisciplinary Imagination, Earthscan, London
• Brown, V. A., Deane, P. M., Harris, J. A., Russell, J. Y. (in press) ‘Towards a just and sustainable future’,  in V. A. Brown, J. A. Harris, J. Y. Russell (eds) Tackling Wicked Problems through the Transdisciplinary Imagination, Earthscan, London, Ch. 1
• Russell, J. (in press) ‘A philosophical framework for open and critical transdisciplinary inquiry’, in V. A. Brown, J. A. Harris, J. Y. Russell (eds) Tackling Wicked Problems through the Transdisciplinary Imagination, Earthscan, London, Ch. 3
• Aslin, H. and Russell, J. (2008) Social impacts of drought: Review of the literature. Report prepared for the Drought Review Branch, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.
• Hogan, A, Hanslip, M, Kancans, R., Russell, J. and Maguire, B. (2008) Climate risk and adaptation among primary producers: Topline results focusing on primary producers reporting the effects of adverse seasonal conditions. Report prepared for the Drought Review Branch, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Canberra: Bureau of Rural Sciences. Appendix 9 at: http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/836206/drought-pol-rep-app9-11.pdf
• Hogan, A, Maguire, B., Russell, J. And Stakelum, P. (2008) The social wellbeing of rural Australians: A comparative analysis of agricultural workers in drought-affected areas and the Australian population using the Deakin Personal Wellbeing Index. Report prepared for the Drought Review Branch, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Canberra: Bureau of Rural Sciences. Appendix 11 at: http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/836206/drought-pol-rep-app9-11.pdf
• Hogan, A, Polidano, C., Russell, J. and Stakelum, P. (2008) The social wellbeing of rural Australians: An analysis of the household, income and labour dynamics in Australia (HILDA) longitudinal dataset. Report prepared for the Drought Review Branch, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Canberra: Bureau of Rural Sciences. Appendix 10 at: http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/836206/drought-pol-rep-app9-11.pdf
• Stenekes, N, Russell, J., Tucker, C and Mooney (2008) Water for what? Productive and environmental values for water – Understanding social values. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra. http://adl.brs.gov.au/brsShop/data/water_values_final_report_brs_220708_parts1_2_notracks.pdf
• Milne, M, Stenekes, N. and Russell, J. (2007) Climate Risk and Industry Adaptation. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra. http://adl.brs.gov.au/brsShop/data/climateriskadapt.pdf
• Russell, J. (2006) Putting Rubber to the Road: Doing Transdisciplinary Science. Proceedings, The XIV Society for Human Ecology Conference, Interdisciplinary research and practice: Reconciling humans and nature, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA, 18-21 October.
• Russell, J. (2006) Human ecology: A proposal for a critical systems approach for a conceptual framework. PhD thesis,, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Dumaresq, D., Dyball, R. and Russell, J. (2005) A critical analysis of human ecology – researching, teaching and interacting. 20th Anniversary Conference, Society for Human Ecology, Marriott University Park Hotel, Salt Lake City, USA, 13‑16 October.

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