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Dr. Siwan Lovett
Siwan enjoys working with people and the environment in which they live, and for the past eleven years has focused her energies on understanding rivers and the people that live and work along them. She is a social scientist by training, but works with biophysical scientists to help make their science accessible and user-friendly for a range of different audiences.
Siwan loves to travel, hear and tell stories, and has been able to do this through her work with Land & Water Australia and other government and non-government organisations. She is an independent consultant based in Canberra.
Siwan was a recipient of an ACT Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to examine the feasibility of establishing an Australian Centre for River Restoration. There are several of these Centres operating in Europe and following her visit, Siwan has gone on to establish the Australian River Restoration Centre.
Dr. Phil Price
Phil has worked in different aspects of science and research for more than 40 years, over 20 of them focused on sustainable management of land, water and vegetation. He has moved between research, policy, project and program management, and communication, working with governments, most rural industries, regional organizations and communities, and individual landholders. He has been responsible for the on-ground management of several rural properties. His particular interest is helping land managers to decode science so that they can use the best knowledge available to improve their land use and management practices.
Phil trained as a plant scientist, but through his work with the Land and Water Resources R&D Corporation over nine years and then his consultancy business, has worked on many aspects of NRM. He believes that a sound understanding of the biophysical condition and functional processes of ecosystems are an essential prerequisite to their good management, but also that the impediments to management are most often economic, social and cultural.
Phil owns and manages an independent consultancy business based in Canberra, and travels whenever possible to Australia’s many different natural and agricultural environments. Deserts are his favourites, where he has tried different modes of transport.
Ms. Nerida Hart
Nerida is an information management professional by training, and enjoys working with all sectors to empower organisations and individuals to manage their information effectively so they can find, use, manage and share information. She is passionate about the people side of knowledge sharing for effective organisational outcomes. Her specialisation is in taking knowledge management theory and putting it into practice. In particular, the use of narrative techniques in qualitative evaluation. She also sees the critical side of empowering people to make a difference and facilitates this process in all her projects.
Her career highlights include managing Knowledge and Information Services in the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) from 1991-2006 and managing the Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program from 2006-2009. The FaHCSIA Knowledge & Information Services team won a Gold Award for cultural knowedge management initiatives in the 2003 actKM Forum Knowledge Management Awards and a Gold Award for technical initiatives in the 2005 actKM Forum awards. The Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program won a Platinum Award in the 2008 actKM Forum awards. In 2005 Nerida was awarded the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Australia New Zealand Information Professional of the Year, and during 2009 was Chair of the SLA Knowledge Management Division.
Nerida is now an independant consultant. For further information visit Nerida’s profile on LinkedIn.
Mr. Bruce Boyes
Bruce enjoys managing projects, turning new approaches and ideas into reality, developing community capability and capacity, and facilitating information and knowledge sharing. Career highlights include advancing new multi-species and ecosystem approaches to threatened species conservation, pioneering innovative local government biodiversity and natural resource management (NRM) approaches, and leading the development of the ARRC Information and Knowledge Resource Kit.
In his 18 years in the environment and NRM fields Bruce has worked with a wide range of organisations on a wide range of issues including land and catchment planning and management, biodiversity and native vegetation science and management, communications, community development, knowledge management, research, fire management planning, water and river science and management, and urban NRM.
Bruce is currently Program Manager for the $77.4 million Hawkesbury-Nepean River Recovery Project. In his spare time he enjoys travel, in particular to China, and dabbling in website and blog creation (including the creation of this ARRC website). To find out more visit bruceboyes.info and to read the stories and see the pictures of Bruce’s travels to China visit discoverchina.info.
Matt Moore
Matt is a knowledge management professional with a desire to leave the world better than he found it. He has worked with Communities of Practice in all levels of government, multinational corporates, NGOs and small businesses.
Matt is Chair of the New South Wales KM Forum in Australia and lectures in eLearning Design at University of Technology Sydney. His previous roles have covered knowledge management, training & development and corporate communications at organizations such as PwC, IBM, Oracle and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Matt works with the ARRC on select projects as a knowledge management consultant.
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