PROJECT NUMBER
•
2022-108
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Savoir Consulting
TAGS
9 results
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2023-067
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Austral Fisheries Pty Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2023-162
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Commonwealth Fisheries Association Inc (CFA)
TAGS
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2022-107
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
True South Seafood
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-109
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Western Abalone Divers Association (WADA)
SPECIES
Human Dimensions Research Coordination Program 2021-24
Project number:
2020-122
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$440,705.00
Principal Investigator:
Emily Ogier
Organisation:
University of Tasmania
Project start/end date:
30 Sep 2021
-
29 Jan 2026
Contact:
FRDC
The operating environment within which Australian fisheries and aquaculture are positioned is complex, comprising economic, social and political institutions and organisations that are continuously being re-shaped by multiple external and internal drivers.
Addressing these specific drivers requires understanding of the human dimensions of fisheries and aquaculture, along with the biophysical. Human dimensions refers to the social, economic and cultural factors that affect outcomes for both the seafood community and in terms of public good. This includes the attitudes, processes and behaviours of individual people, companies, management agencies, communities, organisations, consumers, and markets. Human dimensions research has been successfully applied to understand how to enable better outcomes for Australia's fisheries and aquaculture (e.g. improved social acceptability, resilience through shocks, inclusive growth, economic productivity), and what are the effective strategies to achieve this (e.g. market based mechanisms, behavioural approaches). It brings together research capability from a broad range of disciplines.
Historically, achieving the level of coordinated investment required to effectively deliver against this need has been hampered by a range of factors, which have included:
• effective integration of human dimensions RD&E with biophysical sciences; and
• research capability and expertise capable of undertaking such research to ensure end user needs are met.
The FRDC has invested substantively in human dimensions R&D capability in recognition of this need. Ongoing coordination and strategic development of human dimensions R&D activities will support the FRDC to deliver its Fish Forever 2030 vision: Collaborative, vibrant fishing and aquaculture, creating diverse benefits from aquatic resources, and celebrated by the community.
The FRDC considers Coordination Programs as critical to delivering relevant outcomes of the R&D Plan. With respect to Human Dimensions, it is evident that a planned R&D outcome can be achieved more successfully if expertise and related activities are developed and managed in a coordinated manner.
1. Identify and coordinate the development of human dimensions R&D priorities through review and consultation with key stakeholders, and assist to develop scopes to address those priorities
2. Ensure quality and relevance of human dimensions R&D through technical and extension advice and support for FRDC management and project teams
3. Support management of external partnerships delivering human dimensions R&D across FRDC
4. Support development of FRDC human dimensions data and analytics
5. Inform FRDC and stakeholders of state of knowledge and capability, and emerging needs, in key human dimensions R&D areas relevant to the FRDC's R&D Plan outcome and enabling strategy areas
6. Support extension and adoption of R&D in key human dimensions R&D areas relevant to the FRDC R&D Plan outcome and enabling strategy areas
7. Develop and foster R&D collaboration on international initiatives in human dimensions research of relevance to Australian fisheries and aquaculture
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2022-094
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Dr DM Stafford Smith (sole trader)
TAGS
Social Matters Workshop
Project number:
2017-152
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$5,213.75
Principal Investigator:
Tanya King
Organisation:
Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
Project start/end date:
4 Feb 2018
-
30 Mar 2018
Contact:
FRDC
Given the growing importance of social science research in the seafood industry – or recognition of its relevance – there’s a need to consolidate what we have done in the past, and to look to the future. The workshop will do both. In the past, there has been a tendency for social science to be reactive – to ‘autopsy’ – a crisis in the industry after it has happened (or to be invited to autopsy the crisis by the industry). One of the key gaps in the design of social science research is the capacity to anticipate issues and design responses that can enhance the adaptability of the industry, both socially and economically. In order to do so the discipline needs to be communicating effectively with each other in regards to best-practice methodologies for working effectively with industry. We also need to situate our research within a global context that anticipates and speaks to international imperatives, challenges and frameworks (e.g. FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication. In the Australian context the potential issues to be engaged with at the workshop may include; sharing the fish (resource sharing, property rights, global food security); adaptability (fishing as livelihood, practice, culture, in a climate of rapid change and need for adaptation and innovation); research practice, data and decision support (how can social dimensions be monitored and incorporated more formally into decision making?; what innovations in social science practise are needed?).
1. To workshop and build upon the thematically documented FRDC audit of Social Science research (FRDC2009/317)
2. To workshop and thematically document current and ongoing research activities and drivers of participants. They key to this objective is the identification of research-setting processes, and the ways in which social scientists perceive gaps in knowledge and how this might be better aligned with the voices of industry
3. Updated themes, key gaps and emerging issues (from 2009/317) that can be drawn upon by RACs in the immediate future
4. Sharing of knowledge regarding emerging methodologies to maximise contributions of the social scientists to the investigations of identified challenges and research pathways
5. Improved connections between social scientists and a fostering of a coherent voice for social science research in Australia which can be drawn upon to respond collectively to the industry's needs to address emerging issues
Final report
ISBN:
978-0-646-98508-4
Author:
Tanya J King & Kate J. Brooks
Final Report
•
2019-06-06
•
3.43 MB
2017-152-DLD.pdf
The project brought together Australian seafood industry social scientists for the first time ever in a specific and dedicated meeting, to discuss our identity, our role in governance, our past and our future. The Social Matters workshop ran over two days and involved 20 scholars, researchers and practitioners from around the country. The workshop also included one prominent international network actor and scholar who provided expert global perspective and strategic network-building advice.
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2017-065
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Disseminating existing bycatch reduction and fuel efficiency technologies throughout Australia's prawn fisheries
Prawn trawling is among the world's least selective fishing methods, the unintended consequence being large quantities of bycatch. It is also a method that can disturb benthic habitats and use large quantities of fuel—a significant running cost for many fisheries. Issues of bycatch and fuel...
ORGANISATION:
IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd
View Filter
