7.1: Knowledge and adoption

Outcomes

The Knowledge and Adoption team aims to maximize local ownership of TRaCK among the key end users.  It is doing this by ensuring that land-holders and managers, natural resource management groups and local communities have opportunities to provide input to and to participate in the research.

The team also aims to ensure that research outputs feed directly into the broader initiatives, and policy and decision making processes of regional natural resource management bodies and state and Commonwealth natural resource management and conservation agencies.

Where is the research happening?

Knowledge and Adoption activity mirrors the total area covered by TRaCK projects i.e. the whole tropical north of Australia.  The team also needs to involve and inform Federal decision makers in Canberra.

Who's involved

All of the TRaCK researchers involved in the synthesis and adoption year are responsible for making sure that the research outcomes are used.

The Knowledge and Adoption team currently includes:

• Amy Kimber, our Knowledge and Adoption Coordinator based in Darwin at Charles Darwin University.
• Kathy Carter, our administrative officer based in Brisbane at Griffith University.

The team also receive specialist input from a range of consultants including Kate Andrews (Australian National University) and John Brisbin (BoaB Interactive), and is working closely with jurisdictional representatives from:

• Department of Environment and Resource Management in Queensland: Nancy Esler and Craig Walton
• Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport in the Northern Territory: Simon Townsend
• Department of Water in Western Australia: Rob Cossart
• Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities in Canberra: Douglas Wright

Locations