Practice Change Research - Staff

Roger Wilkinson - Bendigo Qualifications Woolclassing Certificate, Melbourne College of Textiles, 1984 Bachelor of Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, 1985 Master of Agricultural Science (Rural Sociology), University of Melbourne, 1989 Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy major), University of Melbourne, 1993 Postgraduate Diploma of Agricultural Engineering, Lincoln University, New Zealand, 1997

Current Position

• Senior Social Researcher, Department of Primary Industries, Bendigo Centre

• 1994–2001: Social Scientist, Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
• 1991–1994: Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
• July 1992: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo
• 1989–1991: Social Research Officer, Department of Agriculture, Victoria
• 1987–1989: Research Assistant, University of Melbourne
• 1986: Self-employed agricultural contractor

• Social change in rural areas
• Adoption of new technology
• Perceptions of risk
• Social aspects of biotechnology
• Community involvement and consultation
• Scientific and local knowledge
• Philosophy of science
• Social research methodologies (quantitative and qualitative)

• Understanding farm adjustment
  Funded by the Department of Primary Industries
  
  
• Victorians' attitudes to farming
  Funded by the Department of Primary Industries
  
  
• Lucerne adoption pathways
  Funded by Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre

• Wilkinson RL (2007) Social issues in asset-based management of dryland salinity: Case studies of commercial and lifestyle landholders in North Central Victoria and the South Coast of Western Australia. SIF3 Working Paper 0704, Future Farm Industries CRC, Perth. URL: <http://cyllene.uwa.edu.au/~dpannell/sif30704.pdf>
  
  
• Barr NF, Wilkinson RL (2005) Social persistence of plant-based management of dryland salinity. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 45, 1495–1501.
  
  
• Barr NF, Wilkinson RL, Karunaratne K (2005) Australia’s farmers: past, present and future. Land & Water Australia, Canberra, 56pp.
  URL: <http://www.lwa.gov.au/library/scripts/objectifyMedia.aspx?file=pdf/29/98.pdf&str_title=Australias_Farmers_-_Past_Present_and_Future.pdf>
  
  
• Parbery P, Wilkinson RL, Klugman M (2005) Urban-Rural: Not Such a divide? Producers, consumers and agriculture. Department of Primary Industries, Melbourne, Victoria, 93pp.
  
  
• Wilkinson RL, Barr NF Karunaratne K (2002) “The kids don’t want to take over the farm”: What’s happening to the demographics of Victoria’s wool industry? Wool Technology and Sheep Breeding 50, 295–301.

• Wilkinson RL, Roche MM, Krausse MK, Smith W (2001) Food or forest? Contested land use in Wairoa district, New Zealand. In ‘Consuming foods, sustaining environments’. (Eds S Lockie, W Pritchard) pp.110–124. (Australian Academic Press, Brisbane)
  
  
• Wilkinson RL, Jarvis PJ (2000) National survey of New Zealand agricultural sector debt 1998. MAF Technical Paper 2000/16. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand, 41pp.

• Burnett VF, Norng S, Wilkinson RL (2008) Perennial pastures on certified organic properties in south east Australia – a survey of farmer practices and awareness. Journal of Organic Systems 3 (1): 57–67. URL: <http://www.organic-systems.org/journal/Vol%203(1)/pdf/57-67%20Burnett%20et%20al.pdf>
  
  
• Pannell DJ, Marshall GR, Barr NF, Curtis A, Vanclay FM, Wilkinson RL (2006) Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation technologies by rural landholders. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46: 1407–1424

• Wilkinson RL (2005) Diffusion of innovations: a critical examination (external link). Presented to the Industry Development and Practice Change Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, 4 October 2005. AgResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand.

• Cary JW, Wilkinson RL (1997) Perceived profitability and farmers' conservation behaviour. Journal of Agricultural Economics 48 (1) 13–21.

• Wilkinson RL (1996) Resource monitoring by Hawke's Bay farmers, Landcare Research Science Series report no. 16, Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand, 43pp.

• Wilkinson RL, Fitzgerald GP (2006). Public attitudes toward possum fertility control and genetic engineering in New Zealand. Landcare Research Science Series report 29 50pp. (Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand). URL: <http://www.mwpress.co.nz/store/downloads/LCRscienceseries29_4web.pdf>

• Fitzgerald GP, Fitzgerald N, Wilkinson RL (2005). Social acceptability of stoats and stoat control methods: a survey of the New Zealand public. Science for Conservation 253 40pp (Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand). URL: <http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/SFC253.pdf>

• Fitzgerald GP, Wilkinson RL (1999) Doing good, doing harm? Public debate about Rabbit Calicivirus Disease in New Zealand. In ‘Restructuring global and regional agricultures: transformations in Australasian agri-food economies and spaces’. (Eds D Burch, J Goss, G Lawrence) pp. 221–235. (Ashgate, Aldershot, England)

• Wilkinson RL, Fitzgerald GP (1997) Public perceptions of biological control of rabbits in New Zealand: some ethical and practical issues. Agriculture and Human Values 14, 273–282.

• Carr AJL, Wilkinson RL (2005) Beyond participation: boundary organizations as a new space for farmers and scientists to interact. Society and Natural Resources 18, 255–265

• Wilkinson RL, Barr NF (1993) ‘Community involvement in catchment management: an evaluation of community planning and consultation in the Victorian Salinity Program.’ Department of Agriculture, Victoria. 197pp.

• Wilkinson RL, Cary JW (2002) Sustainability as an evolutionary process. International Journal of Sustainable Development 5, 381–391.