PROJECT NUMBER
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2023-022
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
KAL Analysis
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PROJECT NUMBER
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2021-137
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
KAL Analysis
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PROJECT NUMBER
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2021-121
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
KAL Analysis
What’s stopping you from protecting yourself and your mates? Identifying barriers to the adoption of safe work practises in the small-scale wild catch commercial fishing industry
Project number:
2017-046
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$321,720.00
Principal Investigator:
Kate J. Brooks
Organisation:
KAL Analysis
Project start/end date:
5 Oct 2017
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29 Sep 2020
Contact:
FRDC
High rates of work related injury and illness exist within Australia's commercial fishing industry, compared to other primary industries. A large proportion of current WHS approaches appear to be either underutilised or ineffective in reducing work related injury and illness frequency rates. The wild catch sector has identified a need to explore how to affect cultural shifts that increase the adoption of behaviours that create safe work environments and improve outcomes for the industry. Opportunities exist to learn from fisheries that are in the process of, or have adopted improved and positive WHS attitudes and behaviours, and to identify how they may be successfully shared with other fisheries.
Fishing industry representatives identify the desirability of simultaneously generating positive WHS outcomes while undertaking research. It is clearly recognised that the industry is averse to strengthening regulatory and compliance requirements, but seek the identification of behaviours and psychological factors that underpin established, or potential improvements in safety culture and behaviours, with a view to improving WHS outcomes. Given sensitivities to WHS regulatory recriminations, it is also a clear requirement and undertaking of this research to respect the anonymity of research participants in the data, and to protect them from any direct negative regulatory actions as a result of their participation in the research.
A need has also been identified to develop a set of principles, that may be promulgated nationally and utilised by industry to improve WHS outcomes, with the benefit of potentially minimising regulatory impositions.
It is also acknowledged that opportunities exit to improve WHS outcomes in the aquaculture and retail sectors. While the wild catch is the focus of this project, it will seek to identify any knowledge that may also by applicable to and utilised by these other sectors.
1. To generate knowledge to foster a stronger safety culture in the wild catch commercial fishing industry, and identify relevant recommendations also applicable to the aquaculture and retail sectors.
2. Identify the barriers (environmental, behavioural, psychological, regulatory, and market based) to adoption and implementation of safe work practises.
3. Identify the specific factors contributing to improvements in industry safety culture.
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Project products
PROJECT NUMBER
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2012-300
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Social Science Research Coordination Program (SSRCP) II
This report summarises the key activities of the Social Sciences and Research Coordination Program II (SSRCP II), which was implemented in 2012 and concluded in 2015. It focuses on the key objectives of the Program, achievements and recommendations for future iterations of this type of Program, or...
ORGANISATION:
KAL Analysis
Human wellbeing indicators for the FAO EAF- Nansen project
Project number:
2011-038
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$28,220.00
Principal Investigator:
Kate J. Brooks
Organisation:
KAL Analysis
Project start/end date:
7 Mar 2011
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29 Jun 2011
Contact:
FRDC
Currently there are fragmented standards and no agreement of the indicies that should be used for the social assessment of sustainable marine aquatic resources. This work, while ultimately for the Food and Agriculture Office of the UN, will provide a vehicle to feed previous Australian work into an international forum, to be assessed and potentially used as the international standard of approach to social assessments of ESD.
1. A discussion of role of human wellbeing objectives in guiding the development of specific indicators, reference points and performance measures.
2. A discussion of the different approaches to the development of a human wellbeing assessment framework, all within the context of the ESD Framework originally developed by Flether et.al (2002)
3. A literature review of the current work on indicators for human wellbeing in fisheries taking into account concurrent projects, and published work in the field, not restricted to international and developing world work.
4. Identify recommended objectives and indicators for Human Wellbeing Assessment under EAF for both industry, dependent and national communities
5. Discussion of indicator evaluation for the major components – including reference points and performance measures
and, where possible, discussion of decision triggers and appropriate management responses
6. Discussion of indicator use, interpretation and aggregation options
7. Conclusions and limitations
8. Provision of boxed examples for at least of the indicators identified for each component, with associated reference points and performance measures
Final report
Author:
Kate Brooks
PROJECT NUMBER
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2009-041.20
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
KAL Analysis
Fisheries Social Sciences Research Coordination Program
Project number:
2009-041
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$313,917.35
Principal Investigator:
Kate J. Brooks
Organisation:
KAL Analysis
Project start/end date:
15 Jan 2009
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27 Feb 2012
Contact:
FRDC
The need for this coordination program arises from the limited understanding that we have of the social aspect of fishing at the individual, business/group or sectoral levels, and the ways in which this activity interacts with the broader community. It has become increasingly clear that the management of fisheries (commercial, recreational or traditional) has profound social implications for fishers, their families and the communities they support. Equally, the co-management of the fisheries resource is unlikely to be comprehensively achieved without awareness of the different drivers for decision making by both fishers and management agencies. These decisions, while related to economics are not necessarily solely driven by economics, but also by the social dimension. The current lack of information in this area inhibits effective engagement on issues affecting fishers and fishing, and the facilitation and development of leadership, communication and adaptation capacity within and across the different sectors.
Through a range of different techniques, social science research can address these issues and complement biological and economic research, to support practice and community perception change. While previous investment into the social aspects of fisheries has (due to circumstance) been opportunitistic and uncoordinated, this coordination program will provide a strategic approach to the social aspects of sector issues and operations. Specifically, the program will seek to leverage research from past projects, and build synergies between current projects in both the social and other discipline research areas, across all sectors. In this way, it is envisaged that funds invested by FRDC will be more efficiently used, with project outcomes that have a greater reach than if they were implemented in isolation.
1. Establish a social research coordination program to facilitate the leverage of effort between projects
assess the synergy of project proposals, and optimise beneficial resource allocation and opportunities for all fishery activities.
2. Identify social research and development priorities affecting the wild harvest, aquaculture, post harvest,recreational and indigenous fishing sectors.
3. Address research needs arising from FRDC's existing programs and ensure the quality and relevance of proposed social research projects.
4. Coordinate and undertake the communication of key social research priorities to the research community, and research outcomes to fishers.
5. Provide program management for social projects including, evaluation, commisioning of projects, review and provision of advice on projects.
Final report
PROJECT NUMBER
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2008-340
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
KAL Analysis
People Development Program: 2014 International Travel Award - Kate Brooks
Project number:
2008-314.41
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$6,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Kate J. Brooks
Organisation:
KAL Analysis
Project start/end date:
29 May 2014
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30 Dec 2014
Contact:
FRDC
The practical integration of social and economic elements in assessments is important in Australia, and is also an international challenge. Recent research in Australia (2010/040 and the Integrated EBFM workshop held in March 2014) which contributes to developing this field should be shared internationally and used to leverage further knowledge. To this end, the applicant is recognised as one of the leads in this field in Australia and accordingly can bring benefit from developing further aligned international connections. There are events occurring in September and October 2014, being two sessions at the ICES conference and a workshop in Canada with the CFRN that provide unique opportunities to progress the development of integrated EBFM methodologies.
To maximise progress in this domain, it is necessary to draw together as many sources of knowledge and experience as possible. Consequently, participation in the activities proposed here and through the development of the Community Of Practice by the CFRN, FRDC and Australia's exposure will be increased to new and emerging approaches that can address the current integration challenge, while also profiling the already significant progress we have made in Australia.
1. To present Australia's activities and developments in the areas of social and economic assessment and integration into ecosystem (based fisheries management ) assessments in Europe (ICES) and Canada (CFRN)
2. To participate in the development of an international Community of Practice on the integration of applied social science and natural science methods for fisheries and integrated coastal marine planning.
3. To develop additional international collaborations with other researchers in the area of social and economic assessment integration into ecological management systems.
4. Review the Canadian Fisheries Research Network framework for its applicability to the Australian context.
