Research Fellow,

"Sustainable Farms"

Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 7156
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0757
E-mail: Kate.Sherren@anu.edu.au

Web Site: http://people.anu.edu.au/kate.sherren

Kate Sherren grew up in pulp mill towns across Canada, and completed a BEnvStud (Hons) focussed on spatial science at the University of Waterloo in 1996. Her Honours thesis developed a vector-based fire threat model to mesh with a corporate forest inventory, and was tested using data from the 1995 Mariana Lakes fire of Northern Alberta. She spent 3.5 years in federal sustainable forestry research, with the McGregor Model Forest Association of Prince George, British Columbia. Recruited in 2000 to lecture in spatial science at the Bathurst, and later, Wagga Wagga, campuses of Charles Sturt University, her teaching role continued until early 2007. A year spent undertaking watershed research at the University of New Orleans on the Pontchartrain Basin inspired doctoral studies at the Centre for Resources and Environmental Studies on tertiary sustainability research and teaching. The thesis, “Sustainability bound: a study of interdisciplinarity and values in universities”, was submitted in August 2007.

Professional Activities

At the beginning of February, 2008, I began a research fellowship at the Fenner School on the CERF Significant Project, " Sustainable farms: future pathways for rural landscapes", 2008-2010, which will involve visualisation and decision analysis for balancing the management of grazing landscapes around Cowra, NSW.

Selected Publications

Sherren, K. in press. The entropy of sustainability: Observed tensions in Canadian tertiary innovations, Canadian Journal of Higher Education.

Sherren, K. in press. Higher environmental education: Core disciplines and the transition to sustainability, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management.

Sherren, K. 2008. A history of the future of higher education for sustainable development, Environmental Education Research, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 238-56.

Sherren, K. 2006. Core issues: Reflections on sustainability in Australian university coursework programs.  International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 400-13.

Sherren, K. 2006. ‘Mapping an interdiscipline: Collaborations around sustainability in the tertiary sector’. The Australian Sociological Association conference proceedings, UWA, 4-7 Dec. 2006.

Sherren, K. 2004. 'Overconsultation breeds contempt: Lessons in participatory watershed planning from the restoration of the Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, USA. in Planning Metropolitan Landscapes - Demands, Approaches, Solutions, G. Tress, B. Tress, B. Harms, P. Smeets & A. van der Valk (Eds), DELTA Series 4, Wageningen University, Netherlands.

Adlong, W., K. Sherren and R. Dehaan,  2004. ‘The use of peer assessment in online forums to enrich cartography education by distance’, in Doing Thinking Activity Learning, Proceedings of the 12^th Annual International Conference of Post-compulsory Education and Training, held 6-8 December, 2004, Surfers Paradise, Australia. Centre for Learning Research, Griffith University. J. Searle, C. McKavanaugh and D. Robuck (Eds). Vol 1, pp. 9-17.

Lockwood,C., K. Sherren, T. Moore, & D. Morgan, 2000. 'Landscape level forest management planning case studies', ESRI Map Book, Vol. 15. ESRI Press: New York, NY.