Enhancing farm dams to conserve biodiversity: a guide to best practice
Farmers and government staff have a new resource to help them change a common feature of the rural landscape – the farm dam – into a major centre on a...
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When scifi becomes scifact: Seven insights from the pandemic
Science fiction, or scifi, can be prescient, and scifi writers can become as ‘prophets’. Pandemics - and wars – have been used in scifi to hold a mirror to humankind...
Read MoreFarmers pivotal for biodiversity conservation on agricultural lands
Farmers and land managers can play a pivotal role in conserving biodiversity in the Murray-Darling Basin as pressure continues to grow on Australia’s plants and animals. The 2021 national State...
Read MoreSo what’s your story?
Today, the Comms Doctor launches a new series of podcasts about the stories of six researchers and some of their latest research - in their words. What's Your Story, available...
Read MoreEndangered Regent Honeyeater explained online
Learn more about Australia’s most endangered songbird in three podcasts available online that were produced by The Comms Doctor®. The three stories describe: the Regent Honeyeater; how it is being...
Read More2020 – the year people re-discovered the value of Science
Widespread droughts, catastrophic bushfires, floods and typhoons, topped with a global pandemic and subsequent economic downturns: the world has endured a year of challenges, both natural and arguably man-made. These...
Read MoreLand and water episodes in Charles Sturt Stories
The latest series of podcasts at Charles Sturt Stories (on Soundcloud) includes interviews I recorded in 2019 with leading ecological researchers from Charles Sturt University. This included Professor Lee Baumgartner...
Read MoreCollaboration is vital for research in regional Australia
As a social researcher, I investigate the barriers to collaborative research in regional Australia between landholders, government agents, researchers and their institutions. Collaboration really is vital for natural resource management...
Read MoreResearchers should have opinions – and let others know them
2020 is proving to be a busy year for epidemiologists. In the current global pandemic, media are daily seeking the wisdom and expertise of these scientific research specialists to help...
Read MoreProviding professional development for Charles Sturt University
The Comms Doctor® has developed and delivered the first of two sets of online workshops for 2020 custom tailored for early and mid-career researchers at Charles Sturt University to help...
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