Faculty of Science and Information Technology

A/Prof Glenn Albrecht

• BA (Curtin)
• PhD (Philosophy)

• Ethics and Australian wildlife
• Animal care and ethics
• Environmental ethics and policy
• Australian environmental history (with a particular focus on the Hunter Region of NSW)
• Ecologically sustainable development
• Transdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem health
• Complexity theory and its application to the environment

• 2004-5 ARC Discovery Project, Sociocultural Analysis of Rural Community Engagement with Large-Scale Industrial Development (L. Connor G. Albrecht N.Higginbotham) (C1) $122,000
• 2004-5 ARC LEIF Digitalising Global Memory
  (A. Wells, G. Albrecht et al) (C1) $146,672
• 2003-4 Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG), University of Newcastle, for the Transdisciplinary Ecosystem Health Group (peer reviewed) (G. Albrecht et al) (C1) $9,000 and $7,461
• 2004 Research Grants Committee (RGC), University of Newcastle for research on the psychological and social monitoring of Hunter environmental change (peer reviewed) (G. Albrecht, N. Higginbotham L. Connor W. Smith C. Dalton)(C1) $15,000
• 2003 IDRC (Canada) Conference Grant for the International Forum on Eco Health (Montreal) (Peer reviewed competitive funding) (G Albrecht) Aus$1000
• 2003 Research Management (RMC) Committee, Conference Travel Grant (Montreal) (G.Albrecht) $2,500
• 2003 Strategic Infrastructure Grant (SIG) The Hunter Cohort Study (peer reviewed) (W. Smith G. Albrecht et al) (C1 ongoing) $300,000+
• 2003 Research Management Committee, Relating Ecological and Human Distress Syndromes: a Pilot Investigation in Upper Hunter Communities Exposed to Large Scale Industrial and Mining Activity (p/r) (N. Higginbotham L. Connor G. Albrecht W. Smith C. Dalton)(C1) $14,000
• 2003 RIBG, Alathyria profuga (fresh water mussel) as an indicator of Ecosystem Health in the Upper Hunter Region of NSW (p/r) (G. Albrecht G.MacFarlane M. Shey)(C1) $11,281
• 2002 Research Visitor Grant for Prof. David Rapport $4,730
• 2002-3 Conference Establishment Grant: AWP Conference at Newcastle, April 2003. (G.Albrecht) $3,000
• 2002 (ARC (LIEF) Grant for Web Gateway to (Non-Government) Research Archives held in NSW (Pilot Stage 1) (peer reviewed) (J. Hagen et al)(C1) $100,000
• 2001 RMC Grant, Sustainability and the University of Newcastle Campus (G. Evans et al) (assoc.investigator) $30,000
• 2000 Research Travel Grant, University of Newcastle, International Conference on Ecosystem Health, Brisbane. $800

Consultancy:

• 2000 Fordcomm, Consultancy, Lake Macquarie Literature Survey (G. Albrecht S. Pearson K. Flint) (project leader) $4,000

• Environmental ethics and values;
• Sustainability;
• Environmental politics;
• Social development and the environment

• Alan Archer - PhD (Environmental Science)
  Social and Environmental Change and The Ecosystem Health of the Paterson Valley (NSW)
• Rodney Bennison - PhD (Environmental Science)
  Human-Non Human Animal Interactions
• Geoffrey Evans - PhD (Human Geography)
  Just Transitions to Sustainability in a Fossil Fuel Mining and Power Generation Region
• Kay Flint - PhD (Environmental Science)
  Sustaining Lake Macquarie - Application Of Complexity Theory To Environmental Management
• Alice Llewellyn - PhD (Design)
  The Development of an Innovative Field-Based Methodology that can be applied to Contemporary Natural Science Illustration