Colin MacGregor

I completed a BA (Honours) in Geography at Curtin University, Perth in 1993 and I then joined JCU (Townsville) as an Associate Lecturer at which time I also embarked on my PhD in Sustainable Development. I stayed at JCU until 2000 when I moved to Canberra to take up a position with the Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS) (Commonwealth Government) where I was involved in developing NRM (natural resource management) socio-economic indicators and researching the adoption of sustainable land management practices. I completed my PhD in 2002 which was also about the time I left BRS and Australia to return to Scotland to take up a three-year post-doctoral research position at the University of St Andrews. When this finished I stayed on at St Andrews to establish their undergraduate degree program in Sustainable Development. I returned to Australia in 2006 and then spent nearly six years as a Lecturer of Environmental Social Science at the University of Western Australia before returning to JCU (Cairns) at the start of 2012 to establish and coordinate the Bachelor of Sustainability. My research uses a variety of social science methodologies to deliver sustainable outcomes – particularly at local and regional levels and in natural resource dependent communities. I have published widely in these fields and more broadly in geography and the environmental sciences.