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Professor, BA PhD W.Aust.
The University of Western Australia (M204,M208), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Roles:
- Regional Representative for Australasia, European Society for Environmental History
- Joint Convenor, The Beeliar Group of Professors for Environmental Responsibility
Expertise:
- Urban environmental history
- Water history
- Animals in history
- History of fish and fishing
- Agricultural history
- Western Australian environmental history
• Andrea Gaynor; Lionel Frost; Jenny Gregory; Ruth Morgan; Martin Shanahan; Peter Spearritt, ARC Discovery – Projects DP180100807 Water and the making of urban Australia since 1900
• Katie Holmes, Richard Broome, Andrea Gaynor, Charles Fahey, Ruth Ford, 2012 ARC Discovery – Projects Changing landscapes, changing people: Australia's southern mallee lands, 1830 - 2012, $613,000
• Jo Lindsay, Seamus O’Hanlon, Lionel Frost, Andrea Gaynor, Jenny Gregory, Peter Spearritt, Meredith Dobbie, Kelly Fielding. 2012 CRC for Water Sensitive Cities Project A2.2 Understanding social processes to achieve water sensitive futures, $100,000.
• Richard Hobbs, Andrea Gaynor, 2011 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-large scheme $17,500
• Joint Chief Investigator on ARC Linkage – Infrastructure, Equipment, Facilities Grant 2011: $600 000 for ‘Establishment of the Australian data archive: an integrated research facility for the social sciences and humanities’.
• Project team member on Australian Learning and Teaching Council Grant, 2010-2011: $135 000 for ‘Engineering Education for Social and Environmental Justice’.
• Lotterywest Gordon Reid Conservation of Natural Heritage Grant (through WWF) 2007, $31,695 for historical component of ‘Toward Woodland Recovery’
• UWA Research Grant Scheme 2006, with Assoc. Prof. Ian McLean (Fine Arts): $29 100 for a Pilot Ecological Art History of the Swan River Region, 1827-1950
• Co-recipient of grant from Humanities and Social Sciences Research Program 2003, with Prof. David Trigger and Dr. Jane Mulcock, Anthropology: $14 800 for a research project: ‘Nature, culture and belonging in regional Australia’.
• UWA Research Grant Scheme 2002: $14 630 for a research project entitled ‘Environmental history of suburban food production in Perth and Melbourne 1880-2000’.
2017-2019 Discipline Chair of History, UWA
2019 National Library of Australia Fellow
2017-2019 Convenor, Ecology, People, Place Research Group
2016 Visiting Fellow, School of History, ANU Canberra
2015 Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, LMU Munich
2010 Deputy Head of the School of Humanities (Research and Research Training), UWA
2007 Discipline Chair, History, UWA
2004 Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Teaching and Learning), UWA
• Wild cities: an environmental history of nature in urban modernity 1880-2010
• A history of community-led land management in Western Australia
• History of urban agriculture in Australia
• More-than-human histories
• Comparing historical approaches to nature's diversity in South Africa and Western Australia
• Understanding how human-environment relationships operate and change is essential for the creation of ecologically sustainable societies.
• History of urban agriculture informs current local government, community and NGO initiatives in this area.
• History of urban wild nature informs current urban greening and conservation initiatives
• History of community-led land management informs current renewal strategy
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Gaynor, A. (Investigator 01)
ARC Australian Research Council
12/08/21 → 20/08/25
Project: Research
Mazzarol, T. (Investigator 01), Gilchrist, D. (Investigator 02), Soutar, G. (Investigator 03), Gaynor, A. (Investigator 04), Mugera, A. (Investigator 05) & Wells, P. (Investigator 06)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/07/21 → 1/03/25
Project: Research
Gaynor, A. (Investigator 01)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/20 → 20/08/29
Project: Research
Gaynor, A. (Investigator 01) & Oliver, B. (Investigator 02)
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (Western Australia)
10/08/23 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
Gaynor, A. (Investigator 01), Christensen, J. (Investigator 02) & Martin, D. J. (Investigator 03)
The Nature Conservancy Australia
1/05/21 → 14/06/21
Project: Research
Gaynor, A. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Fellowship